Get Out of Town

Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christmas Town is Virginia's Biggest Holiday Light Display

Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

Laurita and Lauren experience the magic of the holiday season at Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christma

Aired 04/29/2024

Get Out of Town

Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christmas Town is Virginia's Biggest Holiday Light Display

Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

Laurita and Lauren experience the magic of the holiday season at Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christma

Laurita and Lauren experience the magic of the holiday season at Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christmas Town. With over 10 million dazzling lights, the annual event is the largest holiday light display in Virginia and has evolved into a beloved tradition in Williamsburg.

Aired 04/29/2024

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♪ I can't wait to see how it looks this time of year.

LAUREN: I know.

LAURITA: Because I know they decorate like crazy.

So if we don't feel Christmassy after this, I don't know what to say.

LAUREN: There are so many lights, they said there's, what, over 10 million lights?

And it shows.

It totally shows.

It's so pretty!

JONATHAN: It's the most magical time of the year here at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, it's our Christmas Town event.

And that takes place every year, November through December.

Right behind me, we're at our Polar Pathway.

On this building alone there's one million lights, and for the first time this year, this light show every 30 minutes is choreographed with music and a light spectacle.

Around 2009 Christmas Town came to be, and what started out as, like, a concept of getting people to come to the park and enjoy holiday lights, turned into this behemoth of an amazing holiday light display.

LAUREN: We are in front of this huge lit-up tree!

LAURITA: If you didn't know what time of year it is... LAUREN: Now you do.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: Now you know.

Okay, we are about to get on the DarKoaster!

Let's do it!

(grunting).

JONATHAN: We now have 10 world-class roller coasters.

(cheering).

JONATHAN: One of them being our all-new, uh, North America's first all-indoor straddle coaster, DarKoaster, over in our Oktoberfest Village.

(screaming).

(laughing).

LAUREN: It was whipping me so fast, I was crying, like, tears streaming down my face, but such a good time.

LAURITA: We're getting ready to do a throwback ride, when the kids were tiny, tiny this was one of the first rides they got on here at Busch Gardens.

And so... LAUREN: Full circle moment.

(cheering).

(screaming).

CHILD: Higher, lower.

LAURITA: There you go!

(cheering).

LAURITA: Yeah, hot chocolate.

LAUREN: Mmm.

JONATHAN: There's nothing like being a part of the team here during Christmas Town, to witness that, and to be a part of people's memories and traditions, there's nothing like it.

That's a gift in itself.

(camera shutter).

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