Why it’s better to stay in on Halloween

Town is a scary place


With Halloween only a few days away, many students will have probably already paid a fortune to get into a club for a pretty average night out. If so, sell your ticket fast.

It’s totally overrated and it’s about time people realised.

Expense

Leading up to Halloween clubs like Digi, House of Smith and Tiger Tiger all compete with each other to host the best night out. But this comes at a price. In order to get into these places, they release tickets weeks before at a rate of £5 each and as the event approaches, ticket prices go up to £8 advance and then £10 for final release.

I don’t know about you but parting with £10 just to get into a club is pretty painful, when we all know that could buy you four £2.50 double vodkas inside or your own bottle of savers vodka.

The prices are just terrifying

Exclusivity

So once you’ve paid an arm and a leg for a ticket to get into a certain club, you could end up completely hating it, sobering up waiting at the bar for a drink or losing your friends so your only option is to go home.
The demand on these clubs on Halloween means that if you’re not enjoying yourself at one place and you can’t get in anywhere else because you would have to pay more again for entry, your only option is home.

Leopard can’t afford to spend anymore

It’s on a Saturday

When you think about a normal Saturday night in town, that’s already busy enough, but on Halloween, an influx of middle aged men and women and teeny boppers all head to town to enjoy a night of freedom before the 9-5 and school days call them again on Monday. Students will find themselves queuing for hours outside these clubs they have bought tickets for and competing for a space at the bar.

Halloween is bad enough, but on a Saturday? Stay the hell away friends.

It’s too Busy

Halloween is notoriously packed every year. Think Waikiki on a Tuesday but a million times worse.

Venture out and prepare to be squashed against  thousands of other people dressed as The Joker, slutty Disney Princesses and Zombie Cheerleaders. Not ideal.

Zoe Taylor, a third year at Northumbria, said “Halloween is far too busy in town. Last time I went out I spent half of my night queuing and fighting through people to get from one end of the bar to another, it’s 100% not worth it.”

Does this look like fun? (Photo credit: Max Cooper Photography & Floritas)

The Alternative:

Going out isn’t the only option on Halloween, and hosting a house party is definitely the best way to spend it.

They are so much better: you’ll never lose your friends whilst they go to the loo or for a smoke, and you won’t spend half your night waiting at the bar for a drink.

All your friends will be there, alcohol is already at your disposal and it will bring you back to your year ten days of drinking too much and being sick in someone’s toilet. What’s not to love?

If you stayed in, you could be this drunk

And what’s more, decorating your house Halloween style is so much fun.  You can carve pumpkins and make Halloween punch and buy jelly spiders and eyeball cupcakes.

Poundland and Wilko have the best selection of naff spiders webs and tacky banners which will make your house look as fab as this:

You won’t find this artwork in House of Smith

Shoutout to treacle the hamster

And if you don’t fancy a house party or heading into town, a scary movie and masses of sweets and chocolate is also a good alternative.

Halloween in town is horrific. You could go out and live out a crowded, expensive and sweaty nightmare on Collingwood Street, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.