Halloween Is a Scream in Scottsdale
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, September 29, 2008. Those looking for a good time over Halloween should look no further than spooktacular Scottsdale. Located in the magnificent Sonoran Desert, the city is a premier holiday destination where visitors can get spooked with ghosts, goblins, 'spirited' cocktails and perfect pumpkins this Halloween. Haunted asylums and creepy crypts make the top of the to-do list while friendly spirits make special appearances, walking hotel halls and welcoming guests.
FRIGHTFULLY FUN AT THE WESTIN KIERLAND RESORT & SPA
Stay at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa (www.kierlandresort.com) this Halloween from $299 a night starting on October 31 for a weekend filled of tricks and treats. Halloween at the Kierland Resort offers a host of FUN and fright for all ages! Kids can join the FUN Team for frightfully FUN games and activities including a costume relay race, pass the pumpkin activity, a mummy relay, spooky s'mores, trick-or-treating, a Monster Bash, fun with caramel apples and much more. Families can enjoy Kierland "Klue" a family FUN game to figure out just how the Halloween crime took place, or take part in the annual pumpkin decorating contest and see them on display in the Kierland Mining Co.
STRIKE A HALLOWEEN POSE AT CANAL
On Halloween Old Town Scottsdale's hottest restaurant, CANAL (www.canalaz.com), hosts a Halloween Costume event. The restaurant is a fusion of food, fashion and entertainment, playing host to acclaimed DJs and dazzling on a regular basis with fashion shows on the illuminated runway. In typical "fashion" there is a stylish "costume walk-off" competition on the runway, with a cash prize for the best costume! In addition, the restaurant will be decorated in chic festive d'ecor while Chef Justin Beckett prepares a specialty-themed menu. The 30-inch projection screens also will broadcast the 1970's Addam's Family favorite television show.
PERFECT PUMPKINS AT THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN
The search for the perfect pumpkin will be at The Great Pumpkin Festival on October 24 - 26, 2008. Visit the Desert Botanical Garden's (www.dbg.org) very own pumpkin patch, where each day children aged 12 and under can choose their own free pumpkin. Children also can enjoy face painting, the Amazing Bale Maze, balloon artistry, pumpkin decorating and carving demonstrations.
DASH OF WITCHES BREW AT SANCTUARY ON CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN RESORT AND SPA
The Sanctuary Resort's (www.sanctuaryaz.com) jade bar has a "spirited" group of special Halloween cocktails that also will be available at the new edge bar, making its formal debut in October. Some top, ghoulish recipes are as follows:
ghostini
1 oz. Godiva White Chocolate
1 oz. White Cream de Cocoa
1 oz. Stoli Vanilla Vodka
witch's brew
2 oz. Kettle One Citron Vodka
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
1 oz. Cranberry Juice
Garnish Dry Ice
pumpkin-tini
2 oz. Pumpkin Infused Vodka
1 oz. Cream
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
Garnish Allspice Sugar
ANNUAL DOOM, GOBLINS AND GOO AT RAWHIDE
Rawhide's (www.rawhide.com) annual Doomtown event returns this year, adding extra goblins and goo to compliment the already haunting experience. The Halloween season brings a new saga for Digger Payne and the other residents of Doomtown. The Rawhide Roughriders brings you the ultimate Halloween show with fantastic stunts and bone rattling explosions, while Doomtown's mortician, Dr. Mortimer Morbius, shares his passion for the human body with unsettling experiments and preservations of the dead. All aboard for the spine-chilling Train of Terror where passengers can view the resting place of the dead. Rawhide will be decorated in a Halloween theme with glowing Jack-O-Lanterns and spider webbing, while headless horsemen and other creepy western characters will be disbursed throughout the eerie town. Children and adults alike are invited to experience the two spine-chilling haunted houses this year, brought together by Cryptic Illusions. Look out for the patients who have escaped from the confines of the asylum and are running free, plus one never knows when they may run into the Crypt Keeper himself.
Scottsdale has more than 60 world-class resorts and hotels, nearly 200 championship golf courses, luxurious resort and day spas, and mouth-watering restaurants that include both award-winning eateries and off-the-beaten-track gems. In addition, Scottsdale is home to an internationally renowned arts and culture scene with more than 125 art galleries and museums. Visitors to Scottsdale also can enjoy premier shopping, special events, beautiful year-round weather, and a multitude of outdoor adventures and activities including hot air balloon rides, off-road desert tours, horseback riding, rafting, hiking and more.
For further travel related information on Scottsdale please visit www.experiencescottsdale.com or www.scottsdalepressroom.com.
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