Suggestions for a memorable Halloween night.

a Halloween at home

With the pandemic still raging, recreational activities are restricted. This is essential for everyone's health and safety. If you think Halloween at home is boring, Travellive can suggest some at-home activities to keep the holiday fun and memorable.

Organize a horror-themed party at home.

This Halloween, instead of limiting yourself to activities that require traveling, you can absolutely choose to have a party at home. Organize a small, cozy party with family or close friends and make dishes like "bloody" pumpkin soup, spooky face cakes, skull candy, and more.

Making pumpkin soup is incredibly simple; you can find instructions on many food blogs on Google. For the "blood splatter," you can cleverly mix red food coloring with light cream and sprinkle it over the soup. For the ghost cake, feel free to make any cake you like and use the topping to create bizarre faces. The skull candy requires a bit more skill. If you have skull-shaped candy, jelly, or ice cream molds, everything will be much easier.

Make your own drinks at home.

Black Martini, or Death in the Afternoon – the haunting favorite drink of writer Ernest Hemingway… there are many delicious and visually appealing drinks for you to showcase your creativity on this occasion. You can refer to the list below.Halloween drinks at homeAs suggested by Travellive, there are plenty of options for both wine lovers and children with a sweet tooth.

Design your own costumes and makeup for your friends.

If you have a knack for design, creating your own Halloween costume is simple and easy. With hundreds of options and suggestions for dark, spooky outfits, plus your own creativity, you're sure to achieve surprising results.

Additionally, you can get a makeup kit with dark and eerie tones to freely transform yourself and your friends. A suggestion for this type of costume is to go a little bolder, choosing unconventional colors and the most terrifying styles possible: a mouth full of fresh blood, or a face that frightens everyone...

Playing Halloween games

One of the traditional games of Halloween is the gamedunking, also known asapple boilingIn Dunking, players must use their mouths to lift the apple out of the water or snatch it from a rope. In some spooky and dangerous versions, players even have to hold a sharp fork in their mouths and try to stab it into the apple.

Milk cakeIt's also a very familiar Halloween game. Players write words on white paper with milk, fold it, and put it inside a walnut shell. After baking, the writing turns brown, and each player participates in writing their own fate for the coming year: rich, poor, hungry, single, married…

If playing at home, you should choose games that are both spooky and safe. Don't be tempted to choose games that are too far removed from reality just for fun.

Watch a movie

If you're an introvert and don't like too much physical activity during a holiday, choose some really spooky movies to watch this Halloween season.

This year, instead of revisiting familiar titles like The Shining (1980), The Witch (2015), Get Out (2017)..., try exploring films with slightly different themes – life and death, humans and souls – as suggested by Travellive.this article.

Well, a lively Halloween!

Of course, Halloween is still an ideal occasion to gather with friends, enjoy the street atmosphere, and indulge ourselves with special services from restaurants, bars, and more.

First, start with a lavish Halloween-themed meal at a restaurant that has a special event. You can check out restaurants like [restaurant name].JW CaféLocated within the 5-star JW Marriott hotel, this restaurant will be offering a Halloween-themed buffet on October 31st. If you have young children, you can also let them play in the restaurant's Halloween-themed decorated grounds.

After enjoying a satisfying meal, your entertainment options become more diverse, as many bars are currently offering special Halloween events. Si Cuisine & Mixology (18 Hang Bai Street) offers a lively costume party and music (along with many games and big prizes), The6 Cocktail Bar (6 Trang Tien Street) has many special offers for Halloween, and Ne Boong-ke (12 Cua Dong Street) is a great option if you prefer a tranquil Halloween atmosphere with exquisite cocktails.

Or, a traditional yet timeless option – instead of attending lively parties, you could take a Halloween tour along Hang Ma Street in the Old Quarter. Perhaps nowhere embodies the spirit of Halloween more vividly than Hang Ma – a street covered in orange, red, and black, displaying pumpkins carved with spooky faces, and toys featuring zombies… You don't necessarily need to shop when visiting this street; simply rediscovering the capital after lockdown is entirely worthwhile, isn't it?

But if possible, buy some really cute gifts for... someone else. A box of skull-printed cookies, a witch's cloak—whatever the gift, the recipient will surely be happier remembering this year's Halloween. Who says Halloween is only about horror?

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