When do Easter event tickets go on sale near Manchester?
Easter event tickets near Manchester usually go on sale in late February. For a good choice of dates, book by 28 February.
Bookable farm Easter events (egg hunts, Easter bunny barns) open in February, usually five to eight weeks before the hunt starts; smaller farms such as Magical Malpas say they always sell out, and Kenyon Hall sells to its newsletter list first on the same day. Why then: the farm Easter events we could date all opened in February, and small ones sell out.
From 8 booking launches we dated across 5 outings, 2024 to 2026, 4 to the day or week (earliest February, latest March); the rest show when tickets were already on sale. Research checked Wednesday 28 October; booking states updated Wednesday 28 October.
Easter events: the booking year
| Outing | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easter events | January: nothing | February: booking opens | March: booking opens, on | April: bookable, on | May: nothing | June: nothing | July: nothing | August: nothing | September: nothing | October: nothing | November: nothing | December: nothing |
A reminder on Saturday 20 February, just before booking usually opens, and every year after.
Right now
Today, of the 22 we list that need booking, 18 are on sale and 2 not on sale yet.
Not on sale yet
- Easter Egg Hunt at Kenyon Hall Farm Kenyon Hall Farm
- Farmer Ted's Easter Eggstravaganza Farmer Ted's Adventure Farm
Getting the dates you want
- Join the farm's newsletter: Kenyon Hall released its 2026 tickets to subscribers hours before general sale.
- Easter moves each year (28 Mar in 2027), so expect booking to open around six weeks before the start of the Easter holidays rather than on a fixed date.
- Small, timed-session events (Magical Malpas, two sessions a day) fill fastest; big farms with daily hunts over three or four weeks have more room.
- Many big attractions' Easter trails (Chester Zoo's egg trail, Knowsley Safari, National Trust trails such as Dunham Massey's) come with the normal day ticket, so there's no separate Easter on-sale date; Chester Zoo still needs a dated ticket booked ahead.
- Egg hunt tickets are often non-refundable and non-transferable (Kenyon Hall, Smithills), so check the date before you book.
When booking opened, year by year
Each date as exactly as its source shows it. Follow the source to check.
Easter Egg Hunt at Kenyon Hall Farm Kenyon Hall Farm, Croft, Warrington · 20 min
- 2026 Booking opened Sun 22 Feb 2026; members from Sun 22 Feb 2026. The farm's egg hunt page says tickets went to newsletter subscribers on the morning of Sun 22 Feb 2026 and to everyone else after 5pm the same day, for a hunt running daily 21 Mar to 19 Apr. The live page now thanks 16,000 egg hunters and says the next hunt is in March 2027, with ticket news going to subscribers first. web.archive.org (saved copy)
Easter Egg Hunt at Smithills Open Farm Smithills Open Farm, Bolton · 30 min
- 2025 Booking opened week of 4 Mar 2025. The same post, updated and dated 4 Mar 2025, announces the hunt for 12 to 21 Apr at £4.50 a child on top of admission; Easter tickets can't be transferred. Date is the announcement. web.archive.org (saved copy)
- 2024 Booking opened week of 26 Feb 2024. The farm's Easter news post is dated 26 Feb 2024 and announces the egg hunt (23 to 24 Mar and 29 Mar to 1 Apr) on top of farm admission, with tickets to be booked online. Date is the announcement; booking may have opened the same day or soon after. web.archive.org (saved copy)
Easter Eggstravaganza at Farmer Ted's Farmer Ted's, Downholland, Ormskirk · 45 min
- 2026 On sale by 11 Feb 2026. On sale by 11 Feb 2026 at the latest: the saved page that day says Easter tickets are available for 28 Mar to 12 Apr. The copy before that is from Nov 2024, so the opening date can't be pinned closer. web.archive.org (saved copy)
- 2024 On sale by 27 Feb 2024. On sale by 27 Feb 2024 at the latest: the saved page that day already says Easter tickets are available for 29 Mar to 14 Apr. No earlier copy, so the real opening date may be earlier. web.archive.org (saved copy)
Easter Egg-sperience at The Ice Cream Farm The Ice Cream Farm, Tattenhall, Cheshire · 50 min
- 2026 Booking opened week of 27 Feb 2026. The farm's events calendar shows its 2026 Easter scavenger hunt listing (from 27 Mar) was published on 27 Feb 2026, pointing to its Easter booking shop; the SEN-friendly hunt was added on 7 Mar. This is when the listing went up, taken as the on-sale week. theicecreamfarm.co.uk
Magical Easter Experience at Magical Malpas PYO Farm Agden, Malpas, Cheshire · 55 min
- 2026 On sale by 15 Feb 2026. Again described by the farm as always selling out; limited numbers, two sessions a day.. On sale by 15 Feb 2026 at the latest: the saved home page says booking is open for 3, 5 and 6 Apr 2026. The previous copy (Nov 2025) was still about Christmas. web.archive.org (saved copy)
- 2025 On sale by 11 Feb 2025. The farm says the event always sells out quickly; no sell-out date given.. The home page saved on 22 Jan 2025 has nothing about Easter; the copy of 11 Feb 2025 says Easter booking is open (18 to 21 Apr, bookings only, £10 a child, £5 an adult). So booking opened between 22 Jan and 11 Feb. web.archive.org (saved copy)
Most farm dates are 'on sale by' dates from Wayback copies, so the true opening could be earlier; Smithills' dates are announcement dates. The two theatre listings and the Ice Cream Farm date are the date the organiser published the listing, not a stated on-sale date. No source gave a dated sell-out. Couldn't date Gulliver's World, Knowsley Safari, Chester Zoo, Reaseheath, Blakemere or Stockley Farm Easter booking: either their Easter events come with normal admission or no dated copy was found. The 2025 seasons for Kenyon Hall and Farmer Ted's had no copy from before booking opened.
Questions parents ask
When do Easter event tickets go on sale?
Easter event tickets near Manchester usually go on sale in late February. Bookable farm Easter events (egg hunts, Easter bunny barns) open in February, usually five to eight weeks before the hunt starts; smaller farms such as Magical Malpas say they always sell out, and Kenyon Hall sells to its newsletter list first on the same day. For a good choice of dates, book by 28 February: the farm Easter events we could date all opened in February, and small ones sell out. From 8 booking launches we dated across 5 outings, 2024 to 2026, 4 to the day or week (earliest February, latest March); the rest show when tickets were already on sale.
When do Easter event tickets sell out?
Bookable farm Easter events (egg hunts, Easter bunny barns) open in February, usually five to eight weeks before the hunt starts; smaller farms such as Magical Malpas say they always sell out, and Kenyon Hall sells to its newsletter list first on the same day.
When should I book Easter event tickets?
By 28 February: the farm Easter events we could date all opened in February, and small ones sell out. Join the farm's newsletter: Kenyon Hall released its 2026 tickets to subscribers hours before general sale.
Is there a pre-sale or early-bird price for Easter event tickets?
Sometimes. Easter Egg Hunt at Kenyon Hall Farm opened to members first (2026: Sun 22 Feb 2026).
Can I still book Easter event tickets now?
Today, of the 22 we list that need booking, 18 are on sale and 2 not on sale yet. See them all.
How we worked it out
We dated when booking opened for 5 of the most popular easter events within about an hour of Timperley, 2024 to 2026, from the organisers' own announcements, saved copies of their booking pages on the Internet Archive, local news and ticketing sites. "Usually" and "typical" mean the median date, ignoring the year. Today's booking states come from our own checks of each booking page, rebuilt every night. Something wrong or missing? [email protected].