Tonight is Halloween! One of the funniest holidays in the calendar. Many of us were awaiting for this day to have a chance to put on a scary costume and attend parties or visit mysterious attractions. Children love Halloween most of all as in this day they dress up to go from house to house for trick-or-treating and getting loads of sweets and chocolates. It is also enjoyable to decorate our own house by combining the autumn themes with Halloween attributes, such as very popular carved pumpkins, lighting lanterns, creepy insects, spiders on the nets, skeletons and spooky ghosts.

Nowadays Halloween takes its origins form the Christian holiday called All Hallows’ Eve, the night when all faithful believers, saints are being remembered and honored. And all scary costumes, lightning candles and lanterns are supposed to frighten and keep the evil spirits away this evening.

London can offer you many interesting and spooky events and activities for everyone to every taste. There are variety of terrifying tours to experience hasty moments of your life. Go for Jack the Ripper walking tour in order to track the dark sites of the East End, where the serial killer murdered his victims. Another horrifying Victorian period places to visit are the Dungeon and the Tower Bridge tunnels. The ghost bus may take you for thrilling journey around the evening capital. Also the good idea is to go to the cinema and watch some classic horror film. Londoners usually like to go to the parties and nightclubs wearing their best fancy Halloween outfit and face-paint. Whatever you are doing this hallow night, have a pleasant time! Short Let London is wishing you a Happy Spooky Halloween! 

Sweet and Sinister London, it’s Halloween time!

Halloween is approaching London soon. Many of us want to experience frightening and chilling moments during the All Saints’ night. Previous year we wrote about many interesting things you can do in the capital, starting from visiting theatre and finishing with wandering along creepy Victorian places in Dungeon or the Bridge tunnels. London is constantly growing city and quite often new events and attractions are happening here. So why not to continue the topic of what spooky times one can have during the Halloween celebration.

If you want to be involved in horrific adventure, go for the ghost bus tour. The bus conductor will entertain and frighten you on the way from the Trafalgar Square, through Whitehall and the Tower Bridge, up to Fleet Street. Listening to scary stories as well as watching terrifying things around, makes you to shiver, scream and maybe cry from fear in this ghost bus. Wishing you to survive this extraordinary journey.

Probably everyone heard about Jack the Ripper, a cruel serial murderer. This Halloween you can take a late evening tour around Spitalfields to the ghastly sites where the killer’s victims were found. The walk promises to refresh your memory about poor and terrifying old Victorian period in the East End part of London. Also dreadful feelings you may experience in the Hunterian Museum, where the collection of anatomical, pathological and zoological specimens are exhibited. British surgeon and anatomist John Hunter made a big collection of conserved human and animal organs and skeletons two centuries ago. The old basic surgical instruments give you fearsome imagination of how they were used in practise and how painful it was when that terrible blunt scalper cut the flesh. The stuff displayed there is real and not the Halloween decoration. Brrrr. Have you thought of sending your precious child to the Witch Academy? It must be very interesting for a kid to take an exciting ride on the London Eye capsule with witch Priscilla, especially in Halloween day. She will teach spells, tell horrid stories and mysteries of London. Fun is guaranteed. A quality family time you should have at London Zoo. This time they organize a thrilling event – Boo at the Zoo. Frightful but nice creatures (owls, bats, vultures, meerkats, coatis, etc) would like perform for visitors the Animals in Action Spooktacular. Sounds more fun than scary, right? Another thing to do this Halloween is to go for a traditional trick-or-treat. In best place to do it in London is at St John’s Wood and Maida Vale (North West London). Most of the houses are decorated with carved pumpkins, sticky nets, ghost and skeletons in the front garden. Local schoolchildren dress up, take their special bags for sweets and go trick or treating from one house to another. At the end they have plenty of sweets which may last till Christmas. By the way, Short Let London has a big choice of holiday rental flats nearby this area.

Whatever activity you choose to do this Halloween, come back safely to your London accommodation provided by Short Let London. All our apartments are located close to London landmarks and tourists attractions with good transport connection. If you need a place for a short term stay in London, we will be more than happy to accommodate you in one of our budget holiday rent properties.