The Sands hotel – No 1 in Margate and No2 for the whole of Kent on TripAdvisor – has teamed up with recently re-opened, ultra-cool Dreamland retro heritage theme park to offer its guests a special 'Sands in Screamland' package October 16-31 priced from £165.90 on Friday and Saturday nights.

The price is inclusive of a double room with breakfast plus two tickets for entry to Screamland  - this represents a substantial discount on both room rates and entry tickets to the theme park for the special event.

Over Halloween Dreamland Margate - the UK's original pleasure park - will be transformed into a world of nightmares as it launches its first ever major scare festival 'Screamland'. Working with AtmosFear! Scare Entertainment -  the winners of multiple awards, including the only European attraction to win Excellence in Design award in 2013 – Dreamland will  produce the ultimate actor-led, theatrical festival of fear.

As night falls the site will be transformed into six fully themed interactive and immersive scare attractions, which cleverly play on the history of different elements of Dreamland. From 'Festino's Forgotten Fun House' based on an old style travelling freak show by a crazed showman (echoing the site's days as Hall By the Sea prior to becoming Dreamland in 1919) through to 'The Final Cut' which travels back in time to 1950's B horror movies.

There will also be sideshows with new frightening seaside characters such as 'Punchello' - a twisted version of the original Mr Punch -  and 'Ice Scream Man' Margate's darkest and grungiest ice scream vendor.

Further information: The Sands Hotel:  01843 228228; www.sandshotelmargate.co.uk

Media information from Paul Gogarty: paul.gogarty@pgcomms.co.uk / 020 8883 3985 / 0781 8067906.