Tulley’s Farm in Sussex are host to several popular attractions throughout the year. There’s a Tulip Festival, a Christmas Experience and Light show, the infamous Shockterber Fest and their autumnal Pumpkin Festival. The pumpkin festival is split into two different experiences: Tulley’s Pumpkin Days and Tulley’s Pumpkin Nights. I attended the latter on a chilly October evening with a group of friends.

What’s the difference?

Tulley’s Pumpkin Day and Night events are very similar with a few notable differences. Both events are held in the same location and use the same general area for a variety of pumpkin shopping, food & drink options, bars and live music. The day event runs from the morning until 17:30 and allows guests to visit the main field for pumpkin picking of your traditional orange pumpkins for carving. Pumpkin Days costs £8-10 for adults & children (under 2s are free).

The Pumpkin Nights even runs from 17:30 until they close at 22:00 and includes a spooky woodland walk over to the Pumpkin Nights field and show area. This second field is smaller than the main pumpkin picking field (Nights guests cannot access the main field after 17:30) but it still has plenty of carving pumpkins to choose from, in addition to a bar and outdoor seating area to enjoy acoustic music performances. Pumpkin Nights costs £11.95 – £16.95 for adults & children (under 2s are free).

My experience 🎃

I choose to attend the Pumpkin Nights event with my friends as we wanted to check out the woodland walk and take spooky photos in the evening light. We booked our entry slot at 17:30 so we would have maximum time to experience all the event had to offer. We were not disappointed. We started the evening checking out the main area and the 200+ varieties of small pumpkins available in large garden baskets before queuing for Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Bailey’s Hot Chocolates.

Throughout the farm were some super cute autumnal themed photo opportunities, we made sure to grab a few cute (and silly) memories.

After taking some photos and enjoying our drinks, we decided to check out the woodland walk. For next year we’ll definitely hold off on doing this until it gets a little darker. The sun had set when we went through it but just barely, so there was still quite a bit of light in the sky. It was still very cool but we could’ve had a spookier experience if we had just waited for it to be night time.

The woodland walk led us to the Pumpkin Nights field. We must’ve spent over an hour trying to find funky looking pumpkins, taking more photos and overall, just having fun. While we were there, a singer/guitarist performed a brilliant acoustic set. The bar area had these coffins out for photo ops so of course I pretended to be a vampire having a snooze… and then immediately felt embarrassed.

After chilling out to the music we decided to pay for our pumpkins and put them in our cars, instead of carrying around these giant pumpkins.

We grabbed some food from the burger van in the main area. I thought the prices was super reasonable to an event like this (£8.50 for a huge burger with cheese and grilled onions) and barely had to wait any time at all for it.

There was plenty of seating available at Tulley’s in all of the areas. We made our way back in the direction of the Pumpkin Nights field, stopping at the ferris wheel and saloon area. A couple of us went on the ferris wheel (for an additional £8!) while the others hung out, drank hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows. The view from the top was amazing, though perhaps a little high for me! I was glad to come back down and toast some marshmallows too.

As 10pm approached we made our way back to the car park to head home. For under £18 its definitely a fantastic evening out with friends and family. We’ve already begun making plans to attend next year!

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