Are your kids massive Doctor Who fans? Are they begging to go to Doctor Who Experience but the ticket price is making you think twice? Well great news – Doctor Who Experience is having a fun Halloween promotion. On Friday 28th October children dressed as Doctor Who characters go free!

We took DSD on Saturday so I could honestly recommend the show to you – and I think it’s pretty cool. But I think the most important opinion is DSD’s. I asked her to type up a few sentences about her favourite parts so here you go:

I liked the bit when the wall opened and it was 3D. I liked the bit when the floor moved. I liked the bit when Doctor said to hold your adult’s hand because he said that they might be scared. I liked the exhibition bit and I liked being a Dalek.

She was pretty excited to go and even more excited to recount the experience – she’s a huge Doctor Who fan so this was a VERY BIG DEAL! I’m glad she’ll remember it so fondly. The Experience includes a fantastic exhibition with costumes, props and characters throughout the show’s history and an interactive journey that makes you feel like you’re part of the show!

The floor moves in this room!

So anyway, back to the promotion! Doctor Who Experience has a whole host of Monster-themed activities planned for October half term.  On Friday 28^th October children aged 5 – 16 dressed head-to-toe as Doctor Who characters and monsters will be given free entry to the Experience when accompanied by a full-paying adult. To get ready for Halloween, Doctor Who choreographer Ailsa Berk will be at the Doctor Who Experience in person on Friday 28^th October giving visitors a chance to perfect their monster impersonation skills with special lessons on how to walk like real Doctor Who monsters.

If you can’t go Friday 28th, you won’t be able to take advantage of the kids-go-free promotion, but there are still loads of extra-special activities. On Saturday 29^th face painters will be onsite to give visitors Doctor Who makeovers so kids can be turned into their favourite scary monster! On Sunday 30^th October live monsters will enter the Doctor Who Experience for the first time. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to come face- to -face with the Doctor’s terrifying adversaries the Cybermen and the Scarecrows.

To buy tickets (you need to get them in advance) or for more information, go to www.doctorwhoexperience.com.

Westfield London Shopping Centre has launched a ‘Kids Eat for FREE’ offer as part of its Summer 2011 campaign. I think this is brilliant news – often the most expensive part of the day when we go to Westfield is lunch. Although the voucher doesn’t include our usual stop – Pho – several other great restaurants are taking part, including Benugo, Caffe Concerto, Ciao Baby Cucina, Comptoir Libanis, CrepeAffaire, Fire & Stone, Isola Bella, Jom Makan, Le Pain Quotidien, Mandaloun, Shawa, The Meat & Wine Company and The Real Greek.

The Kids Eat Free vouchers can only be redeemed in Westfield London at the restaurants specified from 23rd July – 4th September 2011. Westfield’s Summer campaign also includes kids’ events, shows and other entertainment activities, most of which are free.

Download your Kids Eat Free voucher here: http://uk.westfield.com/london/.

UPDATE 8.8.11 – We used our voucher on Saturday and it was as easy as pie. At CrepeAffair DSD’s crepe was free – no rules or restrictions from what I could tell.

This amazing news just in! Trafalgar Square will be painted red tomorrow (not literally) and renamed Tomato Square as 100,000 free tomato plants are given away to the public. The Tomato Flash Grow is part of the Capital Growth project which supports community food growing projects in London. Plus one lucky plant will be hiding a ticket to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The giveaway starts at 6.30am so swing by on your way to work to bag yourself a very special green shoot to start your veg patch.

Massive thanks to Time Out for the scoop and @tbex for bringing it to my attention. For more info, see capitalgrowth.org.

What’s not to love about Free Cone Day? This year, Ben & Jerry’s will be giving away free scoops TODAY from 6-9 p.m. at shops across the UK. The one exception is the Leicester Square scoop shop which will start handing out free cones at 3 p.m. Find your nearest Ben & Jerry’s here.

No voucher necessary this time around. Get in!

Getting married…? Hehe! Daily Candy has wedding sample sales this week. Here they are. For more, go to the source!

What: Ana Cristache
Why: Wedding dresses from £500.
When: Today-14 Jan. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Where: 48 Beauchamp Pl., 2nd flr., SW3 1NX (020 7584 8322).

What: Phillipa Lepley
Why: Evening wear, bridal gowns, veils and accessories from £250.
When: 8-22 Jan. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where: 48 Fulham Rd., SW3 6HH (020 7590 9771).

What: Sassi Holford
Why: Up to 75 per cent off bridal gowns and veils.
When: 8-22 Jan. Mon. & Thurs.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tues. & Wed., noon-8 p.m.
Where: 74 Fulham Rd., SW3 6HH (020 7584 1532).

What: Browns Bride
Why: Up to 70 per cent off designer wedding dresses from Oscar de la Renta, Angel Sanchez, Carolina Herrera and more.
When: 23 Jan. Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: 12 Hinde St., W1U 3BE (020 7514 0056).

Daily Candy sent out part one of the December Sample Sale calendar last week.

Here are a few not to miss and you can get the full list here!

La Perla
Tomorrow, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Hornvale Ltd, 22 Newman St., W1T 1PH.

Sara Berman
Thurs., 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
James Cameron House, Studio 3, 12 Castlehaven Rd., NW1 8QW.

American Retro & Zoe Tee’s
Until Friday, noon-7 p.m.
Brand Apart, 5a Noel St., W1F 8GE (020 3230 1050).

Issey Miyake
Fri., noon-7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Music Room, 26 S. Molton Ln., W1K 5LF.

An organisation I’m quite fond of, the Junior League of London, is hosting their annual Boutique de Noel fundraiser tomorrow and Thursday. This is a really fun event with shopping, cocktails, music and live and silent auctions for the grown ups, plus a Winter Wonderland and photos with Santa for the kids. There are loads of stalls for shopping in the Christmas market (see snap), with great unique gift ideas in all price ranges for everyone on your list. You can find a list of participating vendors here.

Tickets for Thursday’s shopping day and Jingle Bells Happy Hour are only £5 and kids under 10 years old are free. If you’d like to attend Wednesday evening’s Gala Shopping Evening tickets are £35 and £20 for each additional ticket when purchased in advance. Patron tickets which include a private wine tasting are £100.

The entire event will be held on 10 November 6 – 10 p.m. and 11 November 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. at  Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX. All tickets can be purchased via JLL’s website.

Loads of sample sales on in London this month!

Reiss are having a sale until 6 November (started Weds) with clothing and accessories for men and women from £10. The sale is held at The Music Room, 26 S. Molton Ln., W1K 5AB.

I love red-cup season at Starbucks. Eggnog lattes make me sooooooo happy.

Weird that today is sunny in London and it doesn’t feel a bit like Christmas!

It’s probably way to late to tell you this but if you are one of the first 20 customers to go to a participating Starbucks and say “the red cups have arrived!” you’ll get a free (STARBUCKS)^RED to-go tumbler.

Centrale Shopping Centre in Croydon is throwing a free four-day Spooky Extravaganza that started on Thursday. Activities will run from 11.00 a.m. to 3.45 p.m. each day until Sunday, 31 October.

Here are some of the highlights:

Mr. Tricks - Centrale’s very own master of magic presenting a box of tricks

Spooky Sing Along and Scary Story Time – Songs and books linking in with the Halloween theme providing an interactive event that all ages enjoy.

Halloween Mask Making – Craftwork sessions for children to decorate their very own Halloween masks.

Treats – Specially made Centrale Tricks and Treats bookmarks will be given away during the event.

Wacky Wizard Shows – See the magical puppet show about a small boy who goes to a magical land to find work. While there he meets a wicked Witch who only the good wizard can save him from.

Halloween Parade – At the end of each day children and parents are invited to join in the Halloween parade in fancy dress with the best  effort winning  a goodie bag of treats!

A full events list can be found here.