Escape Halloween — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

30–31 Oct 2026 (2 days)

Location

Escape Halloween, San Bernardino, United States

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€55 – €184 · 6 tiers tracked

The story

Escape Halloween is a festival that takes place in San Bernardino, United States, focused on providing a unique Halloween experience. The event features over 85 artists performing across 6 stages. It combines music with a Halloween theme, creating an immersive atmosphere for attendees. Escape Halloween is recognized as one of the largest music festivals celebrating Halloween, making it a significant event in the festival calendar.

Escape Halloween is a 2-day electronic festival at Escape Halloween in San Bernardino, United States. The October 2026 edition runs 30–31 Oct 2026.

Everything happens at Escape Halloween, in San Bernardino. San Bernardino is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

Escape Halloween keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in San Bernardino are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• 6 stages
• Over 85 artists
• Immersive Halloween experience

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Escape Halloween works out at roughly €1,483 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 4% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 16h 3m each way, at €1,098 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Escape Halloween are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Escape Halloween on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  30–31 Oct 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  30–31 Oct 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  30–31 Oct 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Escape Halloween, in San Bernardino.
• Book a bed in San Bernardino early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air16h 3m · €1,098