VANCOUVER’S FAVOURITE HALLOWEEN EVENT RETURNS WITH LIVE SHOWS, HAUNTED HOUSES AND THRILLING RIDES Fright Nights runs from October 5th to October 31st on select nights Vancouver, B.C. – Scaredy-cats beware! Western Canada’s most highly anticipated Halloween event, Fright Nights at Playland, is back this autumn on select nights from October 5th to October 31st. It’s […]
Playland’s Wooden Coaster Celebrates 60th Anniversary
PLAYLAND WOODEN COASTER TURNS 60 THIS YEAR THE LEGEND OF PLAYLAND’S MOST ICONIC RIDE Sixty years ago, as the legend goes, a group of engineers from the province of British Columbia came out to inspect the nearly complete Playland Wooden Coaster. According to the story, the “experts” laughingly told the men who designed and built […]
Playland 2018 Is Open
Playland gates opened at 10:00 am on May 5th, 2018 for the season and just like every year, we head on down for opening weekend. We did not get to Playland on May 5th, but we got there the second day of the opening weekend and it was great. One of my favorite things about […]
Playland 2018
SPRING IS IN THE AIR, SO IS THE SMELL OF MINI DONUTS PLAYLAND RETURNS TO HASTINGS PARK ON WEEKENDS FOR THE SUMMER Gates open to the public at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 5th Vancouver, BC – With the return of Vancouver’s most thrilling rides, the sweet smell of mini donuts, and a summer’s worth […]
Fright Nights 2017
Halloween’s most anticipated event runs from October 6th to October 31st at Playland Vancouver, BC – Fright Nights at Playland is set to unveil an all-new haunted house, raising the total number of houses onsite to eight, giving attendees even more ways to get scared, as “The Bloodshed” will make its Fright Nights debut on […]