Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday, and that single fact decides where you should rent. CCM Costume Rental prices every costume on its site at the same-day return rate, but its weekend doors shut at 3pm, so a Saturday-night party cannot use that rate at all. Awesome Costumes collects a returnable deposit equal to the full rental fee, so a $80 costume needs $160 at the counter. Costumes 'N' Parties works on a flat three-day period instead, which is the cleanest fit for a 31 October Saturday. On the buying side, Absolute Costumez in Ubi has 64 lines marked down right now, including a Scary Clown Mask at $15 from $35.90, and Pan-In-The-Box has quietly moved out of The Central to Geylang East, where 315 of its 743 online products already show as sold out. Every price, address, opening hour and rental term below was read off each shop's own website on 19 September 2026 and re-checked on 20 September and 3 October 2026.
Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, which is good news for the party and bad news for the way most costume shops price a rental.
> Quick view: cheapest rental is CCM at $15.90 for a kids cape, with most adult sets $39 on that same-day rate; cheapest buy is Absolute Costumez from $5. Deposits can double what you pay at the counter.
How this list was checked
Every price, address, opening hour, rental period and deposit clause above was read on 19 September 2026 and re-checked on 20 September and again on 3 October 2026 from each shop's own website, rental policy page or product listing, not from a directory or a listicle. Where a shop publishes no price, the entry says so rather than repeating a figure from somewhere else, which is why Global Costume and Ministry of Costumes have "quotation only" in the table instead of the numbers that aggregator pages still carry for them.
One thing changed between the two checks. Awesome Costumes renamed its Scary collection to Not-So-Scary and emptied it, so the $60 to $100 horror rack quoted here on 19 September is gone; its Halloween-usable costumes now sit in the Holiday & Festival and Movie & TV collections instead, from $40 for a one-day rental. Every other shop read the same on both days. A third check on 3 October 2026 found every rental price, address and opening hour unchanged, with two small moves: Absolute Costumez now has 64 marked-down lines (its Toddler Dino Skeleton markdown has ended), and Pan-In-The-Box shows 315 of 743 products sold out.
Two of those aggregator facts turned out to be wrong. Pan-In-The-Box has moved from The Central at 6 Eu Tong Sen Street to 1015 Geylang East Avenue 3, and CCM Costume Rental is no longer at the Kelantan Lane address that older guides list. Both moves are confirmed on the shops' own contact pages.
The deposit is the number that actually decides your budget
The rental price on a product page is rarely what leaves your wallet on collection day. At CCM Costume Rental it is the rental fee plus a refundable $100 per costume set, or $200 per mascot set, and advance bookings also need a non-refundable booking deposit equal to the full rental rate. At Awesome Costumes the returnable deposit is the same amount as the rental fee, so an $80 costume means $160 at the counter, with $80 coming back after the return. Costumes 'N' Parties does not publish a deposit figure, but bills every late day at the full rental rate, which does the same job.
A useful rule: work out the worst case, which is the rental fee plus the deposit plus one late day, and decide on that number rather than the one in the photo caption.
Saturday 31 October changes which shop is cheapest
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and the same-day rates that make rental look cheap are built around weekday office hours.
- CCM Costume Rental closes at 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Its Day-Time Special needs a same-day return before closing, so a Saturday-night party pushes you onto the extended rate, priced by choosing dates on the product calendar.
- Awesome Costumes defines a one-day rental as 10am to 7pm the same day, and counts weekends and public holidays as rental days, so the three-day tier is the realistic one for a Saturday. It is also the cheapest upgrade on this page: Festival Of the Dead, Man goes $40 for one day and $60 for three, and Chinese Ghost Buster goes $60 for one day and $70 for three.
- Costumes 'N' Parties charges a flat three-day period from the day the costume leaves the shop, which covers a Friday collection, a Saturday party and a Monday return at one price.
If your event is a weekday office party instead, the order flips and CCM is comfortably the cheapest way to dress up in Singapore.
Rent or buy
Rent when the costume is elaborate, adult-sized, or will never be worn again: a $39 to $75 rental beats buying the same piece outright, and you are not the one laundering a Pocong. Buy when it is for a child, when it will be worn more than once, or when the deposit maths turns a $40 rental into $80 at the counter. Absolute Costumez sits at the bottom of this list on price for exactly that reason, and with 64 lines marked down it is currently the cheapest route to a whole costume.
One timing note for anything custom. Ministry of Costumes quotes a one-month wait on its special-order IT costume and a three-day turnaround just for a mascot quotation, so late September is already inside the window where custom work is a next-year project rather than this one.
Related reads
*Sourcing: CCM Costume Rental's own Halloween and Halloween (Kids) collections, FAQ, contact page, product pages and rental terms; Costumes 'N' Parties' own rental policy, about page and adult Halloween rental listing; Awesome Costumes' own rental policy, contact page, collections index and product pages; Global Costume's own contact page and Halloween categories; Ministry of Costumes' own home page and contact block; Absolute Costumez's own store catalogue and discounted lines; Pan-In-The-Box's own contact page and product catalogue. All read on 19 September 2026 and re-checked on 20 September and 3 October 2026. Prices, stock and terms are set by the shops and change without notice, so confirm before you travel. Cover photo: Ministry of Costumes official.*