🚨Tickets are now on sale and selling fast! Be among the first to step into the Forbidden Forest🚨
✨Back in the UK! And this time, the forest is bigger, brighter, and more enchanting than ever 🪄
The wait is officially over! Harry Potter™: A Forbidden Forest Experience makes its triumphant return to the UK, packed with familiar faces from the movies. Step into the depths of a dark woodland illuminated like never before. Follow the mist, brave the shadows, and celebrate the iconic moments from the world of Harry Potter that defined a generation.
Experience the Magic by the Numbers:
💡Over 4,000 individual lights transform the trail into a glowing wonderland
🐾 Over 20 life-sized magical creatures lurking within the trees
🪄 6 interactive spell moments to test your wandwork
🎬 Over 15 iconic film recreations brought vividly to life
🍺 Over 50 F&B options (including wizarding treats & themed drinks!)
🛍 Over 100 items of exclusive merch to take the magic home
Highlights
🏞 Follow a woodland trail through a spellbinding forest full of interactive moments and spectacular lighting and sound effects
🐴 Venture further along the illuminated trail and uncover magical creatures from the Harry Potter™ and the Fantastic Beasts™ films, such as a Hippogriff, unicorns, Nifflers, and more
✨ Ready your wand as you cast spells and even conjure a Patronus
🍽 Enjoy a selection of delicious food and drink inspired by the world of Harry Potter™
📸 Take plenty of fun photos to capture magical memories from the evening's adventure
General Info
⏳ Duration: approx. 60–90 minutes (the walking trail will take approx. 45–75 minutes)
📍 Location: Bolesworth Castle, Tattenhall, Chester, CH3 9JJ
👤 Age requirement: all ages are welcome!
♿ Accessibility: please be aware that this is a woodland walk. Please see the FAQs below for more information.
🚐 For large group bookings or private events, please visit here
🚨Parking is available for £9.50 if booked ahead online, £12.50 onsite
❓ Please consult the FAQs of this experience here
Description
Ready your wand and cast spells, come face-to-face with magical creatures and scenes from the movies, and enjoy a spellbinding Forbidden Forest experience based on the Harry Potter™ and Fantastic Beasts™ films. Celebrate the wizarding world and explore breathtaking moments in an unforgettable experience. With 3 million visitors across 16 cities worldwide, don't miss this opportunity and get your tickets today for Harry Potter™: A Forbidden Forest Experience in Chester!
All characters and elements are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. Anglia is a trademark owned and licensed by Ford Motor Company.
Check out what others have said about this experience in other cities around the world!
- Amazing. Superbly organised. Not over crowded. Well thought out, with lots to see and well positioned rest and refreshment areas. Would highly recommend!
- Amazing use of the lights, the interactive parts. Friendly staff throughout. Easy to navigate. Loved the whole experience in relation to Harry Potter
- Amazing Experience and Set up , One of the best HP experiences we have been too . Highly Recommended
- Brilliant evening, full of magic. We enjoyed ourselves immensely, casting spells and generally completely immersing ourselves in the world of Harry Potter!
- It was such a magical experience. I loved every moment of it. Thank you.
- Was absolutely amazing, the interaction with the surroundings and the displays were stunning, staff are super friendly and supportive. Loved every minute.
- Great experience, really well set up and spaced out, very immersive and atmospheric. Would be great to find the gift shop on the website more easily?
- Loved this for the second year running. The interactive bits are a fantastic edition. Having toilets mid way through as well as at the beginning/end is much better. I love the extensions/extras to Hagrid’s scene. My only criticisms would be - please bring back the hologram centaurs as they were so good last year, can Grawps eyes not open? - it would be more fun if he woke up when people ring the bicycle bell and the food/drink/shop village was better last year - bigger, more choice, felt more like a village, much prettier.
- Absolutely brilliant, very unique experience and definitely worth the money.
- Really well set up, lots to see and interact with. Our 2 year old also had a great time :)
- amazing experience, the lights, sounds and props were extraordinary. the interactive parts were an added bonus.definitely a must for any witch wizard or muggle
- I liked it very much, the staff were very welcoming and helpful in helping me during my tour. I thank all the staff for making this event special.
- Fantastic evening, so much work has gone into this experience.
- It was beautiful and of course, magical. Staff were enthusiastic and added to the experience. It was beautifully organised !
- We had an absolutely fantastic night, from start to finish it was truly magical. We had my grandson with us who is 5 and he loved it. The staff were so friendly and polite and there was nothing that was to much trouble, from taking photos to having full conversations with the 5 year old. Would highly recommend and will hopefully be back next year.
Bolesworth Castle
Bolesworth Castle is a striking Gothic Revival country house set in the heart of the Cheshire countryside, just outside the village of Tattenhall. Surrounded by lush parkland, lakes, and panoramic vie...
