{"id":5373312,"date":"2012-10-12T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/family-travel-fall-family-fun-in-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:51:01","slug":"family-travel-fall-family-fun-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/family-travel-fall-family-fun-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Travel: Fall Family Fun in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/10\/FallFamilyFuninVancouver.jpg\" alt=\"Family Travel: Fall Family Fun in Vancouver, Flickr: somebox\" title=\"Family Travel: Fall Family Fun in Vancouver, Flickr: somebox\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Pumpkin Time!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nCanada&rsquo;s Thanksgiving just wrapped this past weekend in October leaving the rest of the month focused on Halloween fun and festivities.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s a handy guide to kid-friendly, non-scary harvest and Halloween fun in beautiful <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/vancouver\/default\">Vancouver<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Halloween Activities and Festivals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Vancouver&rsquo;s most popular and anticipated kid-friendly Halloween attractions is the Halloween Ghost Train in <strong><a href=\"\/news\/stanley-park-in-vancouver\">Stanley Park<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp; The ghosts that &ldquo;haunt&rdquo; this section of the park are kid-friendly; this year&rsquo;s theme is Scary Fairy Tales and will feature characters from familiar fairy tale lore such as Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the Pied Piper.&nbsp; Your $5 train ticket also grants access to a pumpkin carving station, haunted castle, and a costume contest (October 30th only).&nbsp; On Thursday and Sunday evenings, your family can enjoy free movies in the park &#8211; this year&rsquo;s lineup is &ldquo;Mirror, Mirror&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Princess Bride.&rdquo;&nbsp; For an additional fee, you can take a candle lit walk through the park in search of &ldquo;Creatures of the Night,&rdquo; tours last 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Burnaby Village Museum, an old fashion outdoor recreation of life in the 1900s, will host a weekend-long haunted village with old fashion carousel rides and a Witches&rsquo; Ball.&nbsp; Granville Island&rsquo;s Kids Market will host a free event for the little ones on Sunday, the 28th. Kids can enjoy a Halloween balloon hunt, crafts, games and even free food!&nbsp; All little ones dressed in costume will receive a free hotdog and beverage.&nbsp; The same day, head over to the VanDusen Botanical Garden for more games, crafts, and a display of some fantastic carved pumpkins. Local community centers are also featuring a lineup of weekend fun for the littlest members of your family.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Harvest Farms<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You should head out this weekend to the UBC Botanical Gardens Apple Festival.&nbsp; Fresh ciders, butters, pies, and candied versions of over 70 varieties of apples will be featured at this yummy event.&nbsp; Adult admission is just $4 and kids 12 and under are completely free.&nbsp; If you are looking for more than just apples, head on down to the Applebarn Pumpkin farm featuring the best of both the apple and pumpkin worlds.&nbsp; Kids can jump on a giant pillow bouncer, ride a train, pet tons of bunnies at Bunnytown, watch bees in action, and of course sample some of their tasty cider. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richmond Country Farm features a ton of family-friendly attractions including a massive pumpkin patch, live music, hayrides, petting zoo animals, and a fun corn maze.&nbsp; North Arm Farm in Pemberton offers horse-drawn wagon rides to the pumpkin patch on their working farm.&nbsp; Aldor Acres and Laity Pumpkin Patch are also family favorites.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nBook your <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/travel\/travel_resources\/family-travel.asp\">Vancouver family vacation<\/a><\/strong> today and embrace the fall fun!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n<em>Don&#39;t forget to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cheapoair\" target=\"_blank\">&#39;Like us&#39; on Facebook<\/a><\/strong> for exclusive travel deals! <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nphoto: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/somebox\/4052136643\/sizes\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">somebox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pumpkin Time! Canada&rsquo;s Thanksgiving just wrapped this past weekend in October leaving the rest of the month focused on Halloween fun and festivities.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s a handy guide to kid-friendly, non-scary harvest and Halloween fun in beautiful Vancouver. Halloween Activities and Festivals One of Vancouver&rsquo;s most popular and anticipated kid-friendly Halloween attractions is the Halloween Ghost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5373312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97169051,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373312\/revisions\/97169051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}