Halloween is creeping around the corner, and that means it’s time to trade your usual date for something a little more spooktacular. Austin has plenty of spots to make your spooky season date frightfully fun. So, grab your favorite ghost or ghoul and get ready for a hauntingly good time at these romantic spots.
1) Fear Fair at Sign Bar– Prepare for a Scare
Think you and your sweetheart can handle a little clowning around? Head to Sign Bar for Fear Fair, a completely rebuilt haunted maze running September 16 through November 1. The revamped experience features new sets, new scares, live scare actors, creepy photo ops, and Halloween cocktails. If you’re not quite ready to be chased by clowns, you can opt for the actor free daytime walkthrough and explore the spooky sets without the jump scares. With a $6.50 daytime admission or $14.50 live-actor maze, it’s an easy way to add some fright to your night without scaring your wallet.
2) Frankenstein’s Mad Scientist Cocktail Lab at Wanderlust Wine Co.~ Experimental Excitement
Get ready to put your love to the test at Frankenstein’s Mad Scientist Cocktail Lab at Wanderlust Wine Co. This adult only Halloween experience transforms the wine bar into a mad scientist’s laboratory where sweethearts can mix, experiment, and help create an interactive cocktail. The 90-minute experience includes an interactive welcome cocktail or mocktail, spooky photo ops, and the opportunity to purchase additional interactive drinks, with tarot readings also available for an extra dose of mystery. It’s the perfect date for boos who like their romance shaken, stirred, and just a little bit spooky.
3) Haunted Shores at Volente Beach~ Beachside Boos
Who says the beach is only for summertime? This October, Volente Beach gets a haunting makeover with Haunted Shores, a family-friendly Halloween walkthrough running October 1–31. Explore the abandoned waterpark setting as creepy characters, haunted scenes, ghostly encounters, and unexpected scares turn the lakeside destination into a spooky playground. You can grab dinner and themed cocktails at Beachside Billy’s before your haunt. Nothing says “we’re in this together” quite like holding hands while wondering what’s lurking around the next corner.
4) Drafthouse of Horrors at Alamo Drafthouse~ Spooktacular Horror Films
If your idea of a scary date involves staying firmly planted in a comfy theater seat, make your way to an Alamo Drafthouse for some spooky movie magic. The Drafthouse of Horrors series traditionally brings together terrifying new releases, horror classics, special screenings, and Halloween-themed movie events, making it a natural fit for sweethearts who prefer their scares on the big screen. With food and drinks delivered right to your seats, you can snuggle up with your sweetheart, order some dinner, and see who jumps first when the creepy music starts.
5) Dome of the Dead at ConcertDome~ Eerily Epic
5) For a Halloween date that is seriously out of this world, head to ConcertDome for Dome of the Dead on October 31. The experience combines live strings and drums performing spooky classical pieces and iconic horror themes with immersive 360-degree visuals projected throughout the geodesic dome. With every seat being a recliner, you and your date can kick back beneath the giant screen while music from movies like Halloween, The Exorcist, Psycho, Beetlejuice, The Shining, and Stranger Things surrounds you. Add drinks from Austin BeerWorks before or after the show, and you’ve got a Halloween date that’s more mesmerizing than macabre.
6) Spooky Crafts at Feats of Clay~ Play in Creepy Clay
Not every Halloween date has to be about getting scared silly. Sometimes the best way to celebrate spooky season is to make something together, and Feats of Clay Pottery has plenty of ways to get your hands dirty. This studio is offering several Halloween-inspired workshops in October, including pumpkin sculpting, a Halloween woodcut workshop, a Xoloitzcuintli candle holder workshop, witches hat incense burners, little ghost luminaries, and an all-ages spooky mask workshop. Whether you’re crafting a creepy keepsake or creating something cute enough to keep year round, it’s a hands on date where the sparks are creative rather than scary.
7) Tours with Haunted ATX~ Haunt Hunting
For couples who like their Halloween dates with a serious dose of history, mystery, and mayhem, Haunted ATX is ready to take you on a spooky ride through Austin. Hop aboard a haunted tour and explore some of the city’s darker stories and supposedly haunted locations while your guide dishes out tales of ghosts, legends, and unexplained happenings. The hearse tour (yes, you ride in a hearse) really takes the spooky vibes to the next level.
This spooky season, don’t settle for a date that’s just another night out. From haunted mazes and mad-scientist cocktails to spooky movies, immersive music, lakeside scares, and creepy-cute crafts, Austin gives you plenty of ways to make memories with your favorite person. So pick your poison, grab your boo, and make a date with a little Halloween magic. After all, the only thing scarier than a haunted house is spending Halloween at home with nothing fun planned!
