2019 Count Spooktacular 2019

[Nicole]

HALLOWEEN FUN FOR THE KIDS COMES TO
BUSCH GARDENS® DURING THE COUNT’S SPOOKTACULAR


WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Sept. 17, 2019) – It’s time to celebrate silly, not-too-spooky family fun at The Count’s Spooktacular at Busch Gardens® Williamsburg Oct. 5 – 27.

Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., children 9 years of age and under can dress up in their favorite Halloween costume, experience a newly-themed hay maze and see their favorite Sesame Street® characters decked out in their new Halloween-inspired costumes. In addition, kids can participate in a costumed dance party, visit trick-or-treat stations and get into the Halloween spirit at the Countdown to Halloween show, an interactive performance featuring the Count and all his friends.

Families also will have the opportunity to participate in themed Halloween fun with their favorite Sesame Street characters that will include:

• Oct. 5 – 6, Monsters and Fairies join Elmo and Abby Cadabby for a monstrous good time filled with activities including creating an Elmo Halloween mask, coloring, a costume dance party and searching for monsters and fairies in a hay maze.
• Oct 12 – 13, Super Grover is ready to take flight with fun activities including dancing, coloring and a search for ghosts and capes in the hay maze.
• Oct. 19 – 20, Pirate Party- it’s a party with Bert and Ernie as they join the Halloween fun dressed as pirates where kids can dance, take photos and visit a hay maze in search of trick-or-treat surprises and pirate fun.
• Oct. 26 – 27, Rosita’s Halloween Fiesta – Rosita shows off her new fiesta Halloween costume as kids enjoy the activities like creating masks, coloring and searching for Mardi Gras fun in a hay maze.

For more information about The Count’s Spooktacular, please visit https://buschgardens.com/williamsburg/events/halloween-spooktacular/.

 

[Applesauce]

I feel like somebody should tell the park that Mardi Gras is like in the Feburary/March time frame, and not in October. Particularly not the weekend before Halloween.

 

[Jonesta6]

I feel like somebody should tell the park that Mardi Gras is like in the Feburary/March time frame, and not in October. Particularly not the weekend before Halloween.

They're searching for Mardi Gras fun, nothing says they'll find it

 

[tursiops]

I also thought that was bizarre. And she's Spanish speaking, Mardi Gras is really more French Cajun

 

[Beachokie]

I feel like somebody should tell the park that Mardi Gras is like in the Feburary/March time frame, and not in October. Particularly not the weekend before Halloween.

I'm sure the 5 year olds care

 

[Applesauce]

No they won't, but considering Sesame Street is a program that teaches children to celebrate all walks of life and to be respectful of them, mixing Rosita, a Spanish speaking character with Mardi Gras, a name written in French for an event that happens before lent, doesn't make for a good teaching moment. Considering there's a perfectly good holiday right there (day of the dead) to teach young children about, that would also fit the character the weekend is supposed to be based on.

But sure, the 5 year olds won't care so why should they bother. ??

 

[Jonesta6]

Maybe they're just playing off of New France's theme, though then again Canada isn't as known for their Mardi Gras celebration..