Halloween in Paris: spooky cruises and legends for the All Saints' Day holidays
This year, Halloween in Paris falls on a Saturday, right in the middle of the All Saints' Day holidays. It's the perfect excuse to see the city differently, from the water. From 17 October to 1 November, the boats of the Canal Saint-Martin put on their Halloween finery. On a Halloween cruise on the Canal Saint-Martin, you slip into the dark vault beneath Bastille, rise through the old locks and pass under the iron footbridges of a secret Paris. For a taste of everything, the Halloween cruise from the Canal Saint-Martin to the Seine carries on to Notre-Dame and the Eiffel Tower. Every little ghost on board leaves with a mask to colour in.
On the night of 31 October, the Lutécia of the Vedettes du Pont Neuf turns into a haunted ship for a Halloween cruise on the Seine. In the afternoon, children in costume board for a Halloween snack, shivery tales told by a costumed guide, riddles and a parade on deck. After dark, the grown-ups raise a witch's potion as the monuments light up one by one.
And for those who like their legends on dry land, our guided tour of Père-Lachaise cemetery follows the trail of its ghost stories and paranormal mysteries.
