Halloween: Tropical Parc is betting on this autumn party

All Saints’ Day parties are an opportunity to take your children or grandchildren for a walk, to distract and occupy them. In the west there are many theme parks, and they offer you fun “Halloween“, is the case of Terra Botanica near Angers, Planète Sauvage in Port-Saint-Père in the Loire-Atlantique, or Tropical Parc in Saint-Jacut-les-Pins in Morbihan. For almost everyone, the season is over.

The number of visitors increases by 15%

For the Tropical Parc, unlike in previous years, the season was full and without constraints related to Covid-19, with opening from April 2022. The site was able to find schoolchildren and foreign tourists, enough to satisfy the co-director Erven Gicquel joined by Dolores Charles. “on me ismany visitors during the April holidays, we found our school groups also in June: more than 10,000 children visited the park, kindergartens and primary schools, and then in this sunny summer many people came to shade and find refreshment in the park ( …) We did not have great peaks in attendance but good averages every day and above all we had the return of foreigners and vacationers on the Morbihan coast. In normal years we have had rain, so very heavy days and the next day, if it’s rainy, we can go very low and go up and so on … It’s a bit of a roller coaster! We need to increase the number of visitors by around 15% in the summer. “

Among these foreign tourists, many Belgians, Dutch, Spanish or Italians. The Tropical Parc proposes the figure of 100,000 visitors in total, of which 60,000 only in the months of July / August.

“Halloween works well”

The Tropical Parc will close its doors after All Saints’ Day to protect the plants in winter. But meanwhile the Halloween activities are proposed according to Erven Gicquel: “we recreated the “Halloween of the world”: Halloween in Mexico with the Day of the Dead, all our characters and skeletons have very cute Mexican masks or feathers, all kinds of parrot feathers. It is very very colorful! Then go to Asia, to the Indonesian garden, and all our little characters are personalized in an Asian key … Halloween in Africa, Halloween in Australia, China, Thailand. Let’s try to make a fun Halloween in the park, decorating our skeletons, our little zombies, our little witches depending on the themes, and children can also find a school: the Brousse school which was then the school of witches (…)

It’s been six years since we embarked on this theme of decorating our park for Halloween. And from year to year, we feel that there is a craze on the part of our visitors to come and have fun, have little fears through our articulated automatons. In fact, it takes more and more and that is why we have developed an entertainment program with artists around this time.

The 2023 season

The season for the Tropical Parc is about to end but the co-director is already thinking about next season, 2023 with new creations that required an investment of 800,000 euros. “We will make a path of nets and trampolines among the trees so that our visitors can access the canopy of our plants and our big trees … while having a view of the Chinese garden, the garden of the three dreams. There will be an entertainment section for children, with giant trampolines in huge nets, slides of all kinds … It will be a village atmosphere and relaxation, and for adults there will be other surprises as it will certainly start the creation of a new garden , an Indonesian themed garden. “

The Tropical Parc will close its doors on November 6, 2022.

The other outputs to offer during these holidays: They Utopials starts this weekend in Nantes (a science fiction festival), “Park en Folie” at the Rennes exhibition center open until 4 November with Hit West. For boat lovers, you also have the Mille Sabords lounge at the port of Crouesty or the village of the Route du Rhum in Saint-Malo. Finally in Lorient is the Insolents festival, again with Hit West.