Keeping up with the Halloween posts, A visit to the Potters House of Horrors in Surrey, BC. This house of horrors has become another one of Vancouver’s must-do Halloween attractions, and features a maze-like walk-through haunt of just under 9000 sq feet! Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Potters House of Horrors – which is a private effort by the owners of the plant nursery in which it’s housed- has gone all out, promising the best haunted house they’ve ever hosted.
This was my first ever visit to the Potters House of Horrors and I really enjoyed it. I think of all the Halloween haunts I went to this year this was by far the scariest… Walking through the hallways, full of scary Halloween displays (including animatronics as well as live actors scaring visitors in often dimly-lit areas, almost got the best of me and had me rushing through one of the emergency exits!
The giant talking pumpkin outside of Potters House of Horrors
I think one of the scariest parts of this haunted house is its length. While most haunted houses guarantee maybe five to six different themed rooms from beginning to end, it seemed that Potters went on and on…. and then on some more. The house of horrors takes visitors from room to room, going though all sorts of scary environments (animal-testing lab, bloody hospital room, alien ship, dark alley teeming with giant barking dogs, among many others), with each room connected though dark hallways (all loaded with creepy crawlers, scary music and, at one point, severed heads hanging from the ceiling).
After what felt like an agonizing (in a fun way…. is there such a thing?) eternity of going through the house of horrors, and, in my case, jumping and screaming at everything that moved, it feels like a relief to finally be out of the horror and into the cold Autumn air.
You can visit the Potters House of Horrors this season at: 12530 72nd Ave Surrey, BC up until the 31st of October. There are public transit buses stopping nearby, but the haunted house is most easily reached by car. Free parking is available.
General admission is CDN$15 – $18 depending on the day, for a one-time pass. a ‘Front of the line” ticket can be purchased for $25 – $28, for those too cool to way in the line up. For those not eager to pay an extra $10, the line can be lengthy (ours was 90 minutes long, on a Thursday), but you’ll keep entertained by watching classic horror movies from the 70s in the giant screen placed in the waiting room. Refreshments are also available to make the wait feel a little less painful.
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