In 2015 for the first time the stage of the Royal
Palace Theater in the France Village of Busch Gardens
was converted to a magical frozen pond to bring guests an ice skating show.
This year the ice skating experience with headliner 2 time
Olympic silver medalist champion Elvis Stojko is back and is called T’was that Night. The show is about 30 minutes in length,
features music and original songs, some small fireworks, and of course Santa ice
skating.
Some of the highlights are the dancing/skating reindeer, and
Santa skating in his sleigh. The scenes
retell the famous poem “A Visit from
Saint Nicholas” by Clement Moore 1823 which most people refer to as T'was
the night before Christmas with sugar plums dancing, Santa arriving and taking
off as he tells you “Happy Christmas”.
The set is beautiful, colorful and the skaters do a wonderful
job. This is the only theme park on the east coast (besides their sister park Sea
World in Orlando) who offers an ice skating show and brings it to their guests
for no additional charge. (Knott’s berry Farm in California puts on a Snoopy on
Ice show). Other parks like Six Flags are following Busch’s lead and opening
for Holiday magic with lights, hot chocolate and keeping a few rides open.
Besides the ice skating show, guests can take in Miracles in
the other open air theater San Marco in the Italy village (you can also eat
here, all the seating are tables with chairs). If it’s too cold for you, there
are 3 indoor shows with heat such as Scrooge No More (a retelling of the
classic Dickens tale) in the Globe theater in Englad (Pictured above); Deck the Halls a music review in Fest Haus the restaurant of Oktoberfest; and Gloria in the Abbystone Theater in Ireland which is a retelling of the first
Christian Christmas. This in total gives guests 5 shows to enjoy.
Christmas Town at Busch Gardens Williamsburg glows with over 8.2
million lights and is open now through January 2, 2017 from 2-10 pm daily except for
Christmas Day. On New Year’s Day there will be bonus fireworks at 9:30 PM.
Ticket prices vary and are no higher than $38.
For a full review on the Christmas Town Experience click here
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