Halloween Ball on Saturday Night 24th October
Fancy Dress Ball
Music by the Unusual Suspects
Prizes for "best costume"
Desperado Promotion
Door open at 10pm
Free admission before 11pm
€5.00 after 11pm
'Tramore FrightFest'
Too much negativity, too much doom and gloom. We need something to lift the spirits and deliver some good thrills and enjoyment. If you've found yourself sharing these sentiments lately, then perhaps you should pack yourself and your family off to Tramore for the October Bank Holiday Weekend where the inaugural 'Tramore FrightFest' will be taking place. The best thing about it is that almost everything is either completely free, or at a freakishly low price.
The centrepiece of the weekend will see the phenomenal Thundercat powerboats in full national championship racing right on the shoreline on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. These tiny 2-person inflatable raceboats will be pulling up to 3G in turns, hitting speeds in excess of 80km/h and jumping up to 5 metres in the air off the Tramore waves. They've entertained over 50,000 people already this season and now's your chance to see them in their natural habitat ....surf!! While this is their first time racing in Tramore, the hope is that they'll return in the future and bring a European or World Championships with them, which would see teams traveling from all over the world to race and provide an unforgettable sight. This is a completely free spectacle that'll take place right on the shoreline, not way out in the bay, and will run regardless of the weather (in many ways the worse the weather gets, the better the action becomes). This exciting activity is being supported by Waterford County Council and 'Waterford - It's a feeling'.
Continuing the great entertainment on the beach and promenade sees the funky Tramore Tourism Caravan with face painters for the kiddies all weekend, Land Yacht exhibition and beginners taster sessions plus half-price surf lessons from Freedom Surf School, free spooky antics throughout the town and general good-natured Halloween mayhem all around.
Once darkness falls, things will get a whole lot creepier. An exciting outdoor cinema will be showing movies such as 'Ghostbusters' at 7pm each evening in the promenade car-park, and the hotels, bars and restaurants will be brimming with special Halloween themes, special offers, music, fancy-dress and fun.
Don’t’ forget that at O’Shea’s Hotel we will be hosting a Halloween Ball in the Venue
where there is FREE entry before 11pm and only €5 after
