Travel test

WHAT: Scarefest, 2025 WHERE: Alton Towers Resort, Staffordshire. Tickets from £34, children under 90cm go free. Scare maze tickets are an extra cost from £10. It runs until November 2. altontowers.com.

- BY STEVE WOLLASTON

EXPERIENCE: The annual Halloween event returns and this year, two new scare attractions are on offer. The first is the extracharge Edge of the Forest, which takes you into the heart of the resort's Dark Forest area.

Here, you enter a mysterious woodland cabin to be told of the awakening of an ancient force, The Leshwall, that twists the trees and infiltrates your mind.