Pre-Halloween Friday
A week early on the same King West strip, and the easiest tickets of the whole run. First costumes of the season.
- 8 PMIsabelle's
- 9 PMGreta
- 10 PM44 Toronto
- 11 PMCentury
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The Halloween 2026 party guide
Halloween Crawls & Party Tickets 2026
▸ See the Trick or Drink crawlsHalloween lands on a Saturday this year, the first since 2020, and Toronto is going to treat it like New Year's Eve in costume. Here's the whole weekend: the club takeovers, the crawls, the free street party, the guestlists, and the door rules nobody tells you about.
Saturday, October 31 · the big one
Some years Halloween falls on a Tuesday and the city smears the party across two half-hearted weekends. Not this year. October 31, 2026 is a Saturday, costumes, a full night out, and Sunday to recover. That combination hasn't happened in six years, and every promoter in the city knows it. Expect the biggest single club night of 2026, tiered ticket prices that climb all October, and sold-out signs on the good rooms before the week-of.
This guide covers the parties. For haunted attractions, the street festival and everything else around the night, see the full Toronto Halloween events guide, and for which rooms run it best, our ranked best Halloween clubs.
The shape of itHalloween weekend 2026, night by night
Oct 23, 24 & 29Trick or Drink warm-up crawls
Friday, October 30Warm-up parties & four Trick or Drink crawls
Saturday, October 31Halloween proper, the main event
Sunday, November 1Last-lap parties & day events
Costume prizesMost big rooms, biggest pots Saturday
Friday is the smart-money night: the same rooms, slightly easier doors, and the crowd that treats Halloween as a two-night sport. Saturday is the once-in-six-years night, every major room in costume, prize money on the line, and the entire city out at once. Sunday catches the day-party crowd and everyone whose costume deserved a second wear. If you're doing one night, it's Saturday and you plan ahead; if you're doing the weekend, Friday's the better value and Saturday's the story you tell.
One wristband, many roomsThe Halloween crawls
On a night when single-room tickets spike, the crawl format is the cheat code: one pass, multiple venues, and a built-in crowd moving with you. For 2026 there is one that matters:
Trick or Drink is the one we would pick, and it is not close. It runs October 23 to 31: a pre-Halloween weekend on the 23rd and 24th, a Thursday kickoff on the 29th, four routes on Friday the 30th, and on Halloween Saturday the King West, King Street and Queen West crawls plus a 41-bar day crawl that wraps right as the night routes open. One wristband gets you every room on your route, no cover, and the whole crowd moves together, so every room you walk into is already full. Wristbands get picked up wherever the crawl is at that hour, VIP gets an extra hour at pickup, and Ultra VIP gets a Golden Ticket honoured at every crawl venue in the city that night, during each venue's crawl window.
Tickets climb tier by tier, and the early ones go first every year. Every route, venue and price is on trickordrink.ca.
Toronto's Halloween club crawls · October 23 to 31
24 crawls. 5 nights. One wristband each.
If you only lock in one thing this Halloween, make it this. Trick or Drink takes over King West, Queen West and downtown with hosted club crawls: one wristband gets you every room on your route, no cover at any of them, and the whole crowd moves together, so every room you walk into is already full. Pick a route, grab your crew, show up in costume. That is the whole plan.
1,200 people crawled King West with Trick or Drink last Halloween night, and every early tier sold out. This year Halloween is a Saturday.
24crawls
5nights
28clubs on the night routes
42bars on the day crawl
Friday, October 23
Saturday, October 24
Pre-Halloween Bar Crawl
Saturday, the bar route
- 9 PMPetty Cash
- 10 PMLost & Found
- 11 PMBar Karma
- 12 AMFuture
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Pre-Halloween Saturday
The Saturday before Halloween, when the costumes come out for real. Treat it like the dress rehearsal.
- 8 PMIsabelle's
- 9 PMGreta
- 10 PM44 Toronto
- 11 PMCentury
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Thursday, October 29
Crawlsession
Thursday opens Halloween weekend. Queen West lounges into King West rooms, for the crews doing the whole run.
- 8 PMBar Karma
- 9 PMPetty Cash
- 10 PMGreta
- 11 PMIsabelle's
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Friday, October 30
King West Halloween Crawl Fri
The flagship route, one night early. The biggest rooms on the strip without the Saturday crush.
- 8 PMIsabelle's
- 9 PMCentury
- 10 PM44 Toronto
- 11 PMNational at The Well
- 11 PMLavelle
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Crawloween Friday
Friday, downtown
- 9 PMCharlie Social House
- 10 PMDeer Lady
- 10 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 11 PMNational at The Well
- 12 AMEveryside
- 12 AMRec Room
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Fright Night Fri
Queen West's horror show. A lounge, a bar that dances, a room on the strip and one massive final party.
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King Street Club Crawl Fri
Cocktails to a proper nightclub finish. Five King West rooms, every one a short walk from the last.
- 9 PMParis Texas
- 10 PMDND Toronto
- 10 PMGreta
- 11 PMSPIN Toronto
- 12 AMHunters Landing
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Nightmare on King Street Friday
Friday Edition
- 8 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 9 PMPetty Cash
- 10 PMDND Toronto
- 11 PMSPIN Toronto
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Queen St Friday Club Crawl
Three Queen West rooms with real character. The dance floor without the velvet rope.
- 8:30 PMApt 200
- 10 PMUltraviolet
- 11 PMDock Ellis
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Toronto Club Crawl Fri
Friday downtown
- 8 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 9 PMOria on King
- 10 PMNational at The Well
- 11:30 PMFox on John
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Saturday, October 31 · Halloween
The Odyssey Bar Crawl
The biggest Halloween day crawl this city has seen. 41 bars, any order, costumes in daylight, then straight into the night.
42 bars across the city, King West to the Danforth, in any order, 1 PM to 8 PM. Pick up your wristband at the check-in bar on the crawl map.
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King West Halloween Crawl Sat
The flagship. Halloween night on King West, five clubs, four sounds, and the one that sells out first every year.
- 8 PMIsabelle's
- 9 PM44 Toronto
- 10 PMCentury
- 10 PMLavelle
- 11 PMNational at The Well
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Crawloween Saturday
Halloween night, downtown
- 8 PMCharlie Social House
- 9 PMDeer Lady
- 10 PMNational at The Well
- 10 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 12 AMPortland Square
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Fright Night Sat
Fright Night on Halloween itself. Queen West, three rooms, one massive final party.
- 8 PMBar Karma
- 9 PMFuture
- 10 PMDND Toronto
- 11 PMDesi Bar and Grill
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King Street Club Crawl Sat
Halloween night on King West, the second route. Cocktails to ping pong to a nightclub, the whole strip is yours.
- 9 PMParis Texas
- 10 PMDND Toronto
- 10 PMGreta
- 11 PMSPIN Toronto
- 12 AMHunters Landing
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Nightmare on King Street Saturday
Saturday night on King
- 8 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 9 PMPetty Cash
- 10 PMDND Toronto
- 11 PMSPIN Toronto
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Queen St Saturday Club Crawl
Halloween night on Queen West. Three rooms, one wristband, a DJ-led late room to finish.
- 8:30 PMApt 200
- 10 PMUltraviolet
- 11 PMDock Ellis
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Toronto Club Crawl Sat
Halloween night downtown
- 8 PMParlay Sports Bar
- 9 PMOria on King
- 10 PMNational at The Well
- 11:30 PMFox on John
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The rooms on the routes
Every club below is a stop on at least one crawl. Tap one for the full TTC rundown: dress code, music, the crowd.
Isabelle's TorontoKing West · Above Belfast Love · Top 40, R&BOn: Pre-Halloween Friday · Pre-Halloween Saturday · Crawlsession · King West Halloween Crawl Fri · King West Halloween Crawl Sat
GretaKing West · Fashion District · Top 40, Hip-HopOn: Pre-Halloween Friday · Pre-Halloween Saturday · Crawlsession · King Street Club Crawl Fri · King Street Club Crawl Sat
44 TorontoKing West · Fashion District · Hip-Hop, EDMOn: Pre-Halloween Friday · Pre-Halloween Saturday · King West Halloween Crawl Fri · King West Halloween Crawl Sat
Century TorontoKing West · Fashion District · Hip-Hop, TrapOn: Pre-Halloween Friday · Pre-Halloween Saturday · King West Halloween Crawl Fri · King West Halloween Crawl Sat
Petty CashKing West · Adelaide W · Hip-Hop, R&BOn: Pre-Halloween Bar Crawl · Crawlsession · Nightmare on King Street Friday · Nightmare on King Street SaturdayLLost & FoundOn: Pre-Halloween Bar Crawl
BBar KarmaOn: Pre-Halloween Bar Crawl · Crawlsession · Fright Night Fri · Fright Night Sat
Future TorontoQueen West · EDM, HouseOn: Pre-Halloween Bar Crawl · Fright Night Fri · Fright Night SatNNational at The WellOn: King West Halloween Crawl Fri · Crawloween Friday · Toronto Club Crawl Fri · King West Halloween Crawl Sat · Crawloween Saturday · Toronto Club Crawl Sat
LavelleFashion District · King West · Hip-Hop, R&BOn: King West Halloween Crawl Fri · King West Halloween Crawl SatCCharlie Social HouseOn: Crawloween Friday · Crawloween Saturday
DDeer LadyOn: Crawloween Friday · Crawloween Saturday
PParlay Sports BarOn: Crawloween Friday · Nightmare on King Street Friday · Toronto Club Crawl Fri · Crawloween Saturday · Nightmare on King Street Saturday · Toronto Club Crawl Sat
EEverysideOn: Crawloween Friday · The Blood Moon Ball
RRec RoomOn: Crawloween Friday
HHyveOn: Fright Night Fri
DDesi Bar and GrillOn: Fright Night Fri · Fright Night Sat
Paris Texas TorontoKing West · Country, Top 40On: King Street Club Crawl Fri · King Street Club Crawl Sat
DND TorontoQueen West · R&B, Hip-HopOn: King Street Club Crawl Fri · Nightmare on King Street Friday · Fright Night Sat · King Street Club Crawl Sat · Nightmare on King Street Saturday
SPIN TorontoKing West · Ping Pong Social Club, BarOn: King Street Club Crawl Fri · Nightmare on King Street Friday · King Street Club Crawl Sat · Nightmare on King Street SaturdayHHunters LandingOn: King Street Club Crawl Fri · King Street Club Crawl Sat · Midnight Mass · The Haunting of King West
Apt 200 TorontoQueen West · Ossington · Hip-Hop, R&BOn: Queen St Friday Club Crawl · Queen St Saturday Club Crawl
Ultraviolet TorontoWest Queen West · Hip-Hop, RapOn: Queen St Friday Club Crawl · Queen St Saturday Club CrawlDDock EllisOn: Queen St Friday Club Crawl · Queen St Saturday Club Crawl
OOria on KingOn: Toronto Club Crawl Fri · Toronto Club Crawl Sat
FFox on JohnOn: Toronto Club Crawl Fri · Toronto Club Crawl SatPPortland SquareOn: Crawloween Saturday
SSecret venue, revealed the night beforeOn: Secret Society · Club Hell
VIP and Ultra VIP
Same wristband, same route, more night.
VIP
- Wristband pickup until 11:30 PM, an hour after general admission closes
- A collectible Trick or Drink tarot card and the Halloween scavenger hunt
- The cocktails and games books for the pre-drinks
- The VIP-only Tarot, Ouija and Haunted Mirror on your page
Ultra VIP
- Everything in VIP
- The Golden Ticket: an animated pass on your phone, honoured at every Trick or Drink crawl venue in the city on your date, during each venue's window
- An Ultra VIP wristband and a personalised Certified Crawl Legend certificate
- Your name on the Wall of Fame at trickordrink.ca
How the night works
- Pick your night and route. Every crawl above is its own ticket. The early tiers go first.
- Grab your wristband where the crawl is. Pickup moves with the crowd. General admission until 10:30 PM, VIP until 11:30 PM. Bring photo ID, 19+.
- Move with the crowd. Hosts call every move, the live crawl map has every stop, backup venues are on it if a room fills.
- Finish together. Everyone lands in the final room, until close. Costumes on the whole way.
Crawls sell in waves and the cheap tiers genuinely disappear, if a crawl is your plan, lock it before October does its thing to prices.
The big roomsClub takeovers on Halloween Saturday
Every major room in the city programs Halloween Saturday like a season finale: full production, costume contests with real prize money, and doors that stop being casual. The heavy hitters, the King West and Entertainment District rooms like Rebel, 44, DPRTMNT, AMPM and Cube, all run themed nights, and our ranked Halloween club guide breaks down which room fits which crowd.
Two practical notes. First, guestlists behave differently on Halloween: some rooms suspend them entirely for ticketed events, others close the list hours earlier than a normal Saturday. Where we run lists, they'll be live on each club's page, get your name down early and treat the confirmation as gold. Second, lineups for specific parties drop through September and October, we track every room's Halloween programming on What's On as it's announced, so you don't have to refresh ten Instagram accounts.
The free oneHalloween on Church Street
Toronto's most famous Halloween tradition costs nothing: Church Street's Halloween street party closes the street in the Village and fills it with the best costumes in the city. It's the ideal first act, do the street early for the spectacle, then peel off to a club or crawl for the night's second half. On a Saturday Halloween expect it packed; transit in, and plan your exit route before the crowd makes the decision for you.
Read before you dressCostume and door rules at Toronto clubs
Halloween is the one weekend dress codes bend, but doors still have rules, and they're stricter on a sold-out Saturday:
Masks come off at the door. Security matches faces to ID, no exceptions. Wear it in the line, lift it at the front, party as you like inside.
Props get judged like props. Anything that reads as a weapon, even obviously fake, is at the doorman's discretion, and on the busiest night of the year discretion runs conservative. Soft props or none.
Full-body and oversized builds can be refused in packed rooms for sightline and safety reasons. If your costume is architectural, it belongs at the street party, not the club floor.
Shoes still count. The costume can be anything; the footwear rules mostly survive. Plan a costume you can dance in until 2am, you'll outlast half the room.
The money partTickets, pricing and when to buy
Saturday Halloweens compress a year of demand into one night, and pricing responds: most big-room events and crawls sell in tiers that step up through October, with the final week costing the most and selling out anyway. The pattern to beat is simple, buy in the earliest tier you see. A crawl pass or club ticket bought in summer is routinely half the week-of price, and refund-hunting a sold-out Halloween Saturday is not a place you want to be. We list every party we track, with tickets, on What's On as lineups drop.
Keep readingPlan the rest of the weekend
All Toronto Halloween events 2026 Best clubs for Halloween What’s on this week The full club list