This past Friday I got to head up to Busch Gardens Williamsburg and get a sneak peak behind the scenes at Christmas Town 2018!
What’s New at Busch Gardens Christmas Town 2018
Christmas Town Express: The Busch Gardens Railway has been turned into the Christmas Town Express! Park guests can sing along to their favorite holiday songs while enjoying the lighted decorations along the route! It’s over two million lights in the 1.5-mile tour.
New Wilkommenhaus: In the German Village, the Wilkommenhaus has beautiful projections on the outside of the building every 15 minutes once it gets dark outside. And don’t forget the Cookies and Cocoa Shop inside- I checked this out for you personally last year and all the cookies are good!
New Sesame Street Holiday Show- Elmo’s Christmas Wish: This new show debuts in the Sesame Street Forest of Fun. Rosita, Grover, Zoe and Cookie Monster work with Elmo to help him find his Christmas Wish!
New Ride Open: Battle for Eire will be open along with Verbolten and InvadR.
Tastes of Christmas Town: Inside Das Festhaus there is a buffet this year which also gives you reserved seating for “Deck The Halls.” The Menu includes: Carved roasted sirloin and turkey, apricot glazed ham, shrimp alfredo, bratwurst, pasta with marinara sauce, baked potato bar, macaroni & cheese, chicken tenders, a variety of Christmas Town soups and sides, tossed salad, dinner rolls, fresh fruit, assorted desserts and Coca-Cola® beverages. It’s an extra $36 for adults but if you will eat your weight in food it might be the frugal option!
New Food: We have some new menu options this year as well! A Roasted Sirloin Sandwich (beef sirloin with fried onion strings on sourdough sub roll), a Christmas Town Club (on cranberry apple and raisin bread), a Peppermint Freak Shake (freakishly large chocolate milkshake with peppermint candy, chocolate drizzle and over sized mint chocolate chip cookie) and a Beignet Sundae (which I am going to be nice and try for you in person to be sure it’s good).
Current Busch Gardens Christmas Town prices for Christmas 2018:
Christmas Town Fun Card: $49 and available now. We don’t usually see a discount on the Fun Cards. Last year they didn’t even do a discount if you had a Season Pass.
Christmas Town Single Day Ticket: The Busch Gardens Christmas Town Tickets for 2018 are live now! As in previous years you must choose your date ahead of time to see the pricing for tickets. The more expensive the tickets the busier to expect the park to be. Prices are from $30 to $49.
Membership Members: Remember Christmas Town is now included in your pass so you don’t need to buy tickets!
Want To Win TWO Insulated Mugs?
Every year Busch Gardens Williamsburg they have an insulated mug you can purchase to get discounted hot chocolate. You can win the VERY mugs those two adorable elves are holding from me!
All you have to do is leave a comment below letting me know what you are excited about at Busch Gardens Williamsburg Christmas Town this year! On Friday, November 16th the computer will pick a winner. I will send them an e-mail and they will have 24 hours to get back to me with their address! The park opens the 17th so hopefully you will have them in plenty of time to enjoy them on your visit!
A winner has been e-mailed! As soon as I confirm I will announce!
I will be there too!
Going to the member preview tonight!! Soooooo excited! Merry Christmas to all!!
So excited to go with my family!! My 4 year old loves Christmas and I’m so exited to see his reaction to it all!! Looking forward to the train ride, so excited!
The Christmas Towne Express!!! I love walking around enjoying all the lights with my kids with their delicious hot chocolate! Can’t wait!
I am excited about the new train ride. I am also excited to try the yummy sounding new foods, especially the Beignet Sundae!!
I’ve never been to Christmas Toen before and each year we say we’re going to go. So this year I picked a date and bought tickets.
I’m looking forward to my first time actually going!!
The train! And just the fact that Christmas Town marks the start of the Christmas season for me and my family. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
We are excited to surprise the kids with Santa’s Fireside Dinner this year. I can’t wait to see Christmas Town!
I’m so excited this year to spend, what is becoming an annual tradition, time with my family making memories getting into the Christmas spirit, Enjoying all the Park has to offer & enjoying & experiencing Christmas through the eyes of my children!
I’m also excited about the Christmas CArol production this year and Das Festhaus buffet & Busch Gardens DELICIOUS ☕️ hot cocoa!!
Can’t wait!!
I’m excited to see my Aunt there this year. She travels from NC to visit Christmas Town with my family. It’s become an annual tradition.
Singing with my sweet daughter on the train!
Looking forward to the new train ride.
We’re looking forward to this being our family’s first time going to Busch Gardens during the Christmas season. We bought memberships this year and get to enjoy the event for the first time! So excited! We’ve heard the shows are really good and now the train ride! Fun!
I am going to Disney next year for the first time in over twenty years. I am SUPER excited. Let us know what they think!
I haven’t been to Christmas Town since the first year they opened but, because of what you have written, I have purchased tickets for my son, his girlfriend and me. I should tell you that they work for Walt Disney World in Orlando so the bar is pretty high.
Can’t wait for my little one to see all the lights he’s going to love it.
Can’t wait to ride the train with my kids and grandkids and see all the lights!
I look forward to seeing the Sesame Street show with my kids!
I am just excited to go to Christmas Town because I’ve never been!! ❄☃️☕
Cocoa for the win
We love visiting Busch Gardens for Christmas Town as it just puts you in the Christmas spirit!. It doesn’t matter if it is freezing cold, we love it.
Singin’ on the Christmas Town Express
I want to see my son’s reactions to the sites at his first trip.
Thank you for all the great information you provide us. We’re excited to go this year because my family will be here at Christmas for the first time and finally get to experience Christmas Town with us. I know they’re going to be blown away by it all.
Can’t wait! We love to go every year especially on Christmas Eve ❤️
Excited for Christmas Town Express and Hot Chocolate!
I am looking forward to seeing all of the beautiful lights and the train ride this year.
The lights. The millions and millions of lights.
More lights! I just love all the pretty colors.
looking forward to the shows and new Christmas Town Express
I’m excited about the lights and the great price I got on the one-day ticket!
Hot cocoa and cookies! And most importantly FAMILY TIME!!!!
Looking forward to my first time! Thanks for keeping us informed about tickets! Going on Christmas Eve!
I love the warm fuzzy feel Christmas Town gives you. So many memories are made there. I love it and the hot chocolate
Bought flash sale tickets (thanks Frugal Chick!) and love light displays!
My toddler is obsessed with all things Christmas so I can’t wait to see him experience Christmas town for the first time!
The lights and Christmas songs outside Das Festhaus gives me the best holiday vibes every year!
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS TOWN! Can’t wait to sing on the train! Looking forward to many magical evenings at Christmas Town 2018!
The train ride
Always my favorite tradition with our kids! But we’re looking forward to the train “ride” this year! Christmastown is everything I think of “Christmas”. So magical!!
I get most excited to see my kids faces in all of the lights and shows. Super excited for the Sesame gang show this year!
So excited for year 10 of Christmas town! It’s a family tradition, and now that we have kids I love seeing the looks on thier faces. I know the train will be a big hit this year!
Looking forward to the Railway Express. Glad the is back up and running! Taking the little ones and excited to see their faces!
I’m excited for the new shows and to be with friends and family!
Our first year attending next week for my daughter’s sweet 17 party with friends and family. #superexcited. #cantwait
This will be our first visit to Christmas Town. My family will be going on Saturday which also happens to be my sons 7th birthday!!! What better way to celebrate
This is our new family tradition! Fun times ahead!
The christmas town express and new food, both were always great to begin with!
We always love the train ride so we’re excited to check out the new version, and Gloria is always a favorite!
The new food and Christmas town train ride! Always loved it and can’t wait to see what they do with it this year!
Love going to Christmas Town with my college aged daughter. Spending quality time together.
I am excited to enjoy all of Christmas town but my favorite is the train ride while enjoying a mug of peppermint hot cocoa!
My hubby & I have tickets for this Saturday! I am looking forward to everything but especially the Christmas Town Express and the shows
Looking forward to train ride for relaxing
Looking forward to the train ride to relax a bit between all the other features of Christmas Town!
We are excited for Christmas Town!
I love everything about Christmas Town, but I’ve got to admit… What I’m most excited about, is the look of awe on my kids faces, when we watch the light & music shows. I’m sure their reactions will be pretty magical on the train ride this year, too. I can’t wait.
My family is excited for the new Christmas Town Express.
I cant wait to just enjoy time with my family and best friend and her kids while we wander through the park
Visiting with family while enjoying the park and shows
I’m sooooooo excited to bring my kids as many times possible to see the gorgeous light displays and obviously see santa! By the way..BG Hot cocoa is Life!
The train ride is what I’m most interested in.
So excited for the train this year!
The train ride
We visit every year – can’t wait to ride the “new” train ride!
My kids can’t wait to see SANTA!
Definitely the train ride.
Can’t wait for the train!
I’m excited for the train ride
I am excited for the new train ride this year!
I look forward to all the Christmas shows and the train!
The lights and the food!
The train and the new battle of eerie ride and that shake!?! Oh it is going down!
OMG! The Peppermint Freak Shake sounds awesome! Can’t wait to try it!
I am looking forward to the train and lights.
The train, the lights, and my son is super excited for the new sesame show
Super excited for the new train ride this year!
Excited to go to Christmas Town! I have never been, but I’m anticipating a majical experience.
I cant wait for the train! It sounds awesome!!!! And everything else as well but the train would be my favorite! Its been a family tradition to go ever sunce the first year.
The lights and hot chocolate get you in the holiday spirit
They have the best hot chocolate and of course the Christmas tree scent everywhere!
I’m excited that Christmas Town is included with annual membership! And of course all the beautiful lights.
The smell of all the Christmas trees !!!
Excited for my grandchildren to ride the train!! Love how this puts you in the Christmas mood ☃️
Can’t wait to see all the lights through my sweet grand babies eyes! And Hot Chocolate is a bonus!!! <3
The train! Finally!
I am excited about the train ride and spending time with part of my family and it looks like the hot coco mugs are bigger this year
So excited to enjoy this special tradition with our whole family! Seeing Santa and all the lights is the best!❤️
Elmo show and train ride.
I’m excited to see the new ride. Battle of Erie
Taking our 2.5yr old son for the first time. I know he will love the train and lights.
Excited for the new Elmo show and seeing my littles faces when they meet Santa!
We have been dining with Santa every year since Christmas Town started. It’s our tradition and we look forward to it every year.
The hot chocolate is so good!! I bet the train ride will be a nice touch.
I’m excited about the train ride, the projection show and Battle for Eire.
Just the absolute beauty of it all to get into the spirit….but very excited to ride the train!!!!
I just love the lights but most excited about the train
This is our FIRST time going to Christmas Town! Headed there after Christmas with lots of family!! Boys will be able to enjoy some rides and I am looking forward to enjoying the shows 🙂
Great family tradition since it has opened!! Our favorite thing is to ride the train right before we leave and enjoy and reflect
I can’t wait to see everything. We haven’t been in years.
Excited to ride the train and drink hot chocolate!
I am looking forward to the lighted train ride.
This is our first year living in Virginia for the Christmas season and so excited to visit Christmas Town to see all of the lights and take a ride on the train!
I look for seeing all the lights, riding the train and drinking hot chocolate.
the train!!!!!!!!
The train ride. This had become a mother daughter tradition for us. ❤️
Excited to take a romantic stroll thru the park with my sweetie.
I’m excited to try the peppermint milkshake-even if it’s freezing outside 🙂
So excited about the lights and the opportunity to take my kids for the first time!!
I’m excited about everything. Christmas Town is the best time of the year. And the new cups are awesome I’ve been waiting for a new one to add to my Christmas Town collection. The countdown begins 5 more days and counting.
The sing-a-long train ride!
I love spending time with my boys there!
The train!!
Santa and the new Christmas train!!!!!
Love all of the lights and can’t wait for the train ride!!
I can’t wait to go we are going for my birthday this weekend for the first time
Love the lights, music and snow!
Love to see the Christmas lights and eating the food.
10 years straight and counting! So excited!
The train! My little guy LOVES trains and I can’t wait for him to ride it this year and see all the lights!
i just love EVERYTHING about Christmas Town…….such a wonderful experience!! can’t wait to go!!!!
I’m excited to take my son to see Santa at Christmas Town! Its such a nicer space than a mall Santa, and when we went last year there wasn’t a line and the pictures were so beautiful (because Santa’s room is so wonderfully decorated!)
I’m looking forward to taking my goddaughter so she can experience the Christmas spirit and joy just like I did when I was a kid.
I’m excited for my son to see the Sesame Street show and to ride the train!
I am excited to have family time and hot chocolate, train rides and snow….
Can’t wait to take my family!
The new train ride.
I love just walking around and enjoying the beautiful scenery and drinking hot cocoa. It is just nice to spend time with my family and get into the Christmas mood.
I love walking around with all the beautiful lights listening to Christmas music!
Yay! Mugs, love them, want them!
Going to membership preview. Can’t await
This is my first time for Christmastown! I bought my tickets last night. I am excited for the train and the lights.
We love Christmas Town and go every year. It is my absolute favorite thing to do during the Holidays. I enjoy bring family from out of town too. I love that each area has a different theme, the food and the all around atmosphere.
I am so excited about the train! My kids are going to Love it!!
We love Christmas Town! We bought the Fun Card this year and are looking forward to going several times! Can’t wait for a ride on the Christmas Town Express!
We are excited for the train this year! Sometimes walking with the kids gets to be too much!
I’ve never been to Christmas town, but hoping to get there this year with my family! I’m excited for the lights and, of course, all the yummy food!!!
This is our first year with a kiddo, so I’m excited to experience Christmas Town as parents! I think the Christmas Town Express will be a great option to let her look at lights and ride along, but not be too adventurous.
I can’t wait to see the lights. I bought our tickets last night.
The lights and my son is going to love the new Sesame Street show
I’m so excited for the lights! I just love walking around and seeing them all!
My family is so excited to ride the train. My kids love the train ride on a normal day so add Christmas music and all the lights we can’t wait!
I’m excited for all the sweets! The deck the halls show and all the lights with my son this year!
This year will be the first year we go. Excited about all of it and how my kids will react.
Love the train
Love, love, LOVE the lights and watching the kids faces as you walk through the park! 🙂
The lights! Just a fun night with family checking out the decorations.
I’m excited to see all the lights again. It’s our family’s tradition to go every year we even continued the tradition even when we lived on the other side of the country- my favorite part is the Rudolph section
We are looking forward to taking a ride on the Christmas Town Express.
I’m excited to see all the lights by train. I feel like we miss some sections each year.
I love visiting Santa, and seeing the penguins. I haven’t been the last two years but am looking foward to going again this yearto see all the gorgeous lights.
My granddaughter will see it for the first time. She is only 10 months old and gets excited when she sees blinky lights.
The hot chocolate!!
This is the first year for us! My husband and I are taking our 2 girls and we are excited to have the meal with Santa! 🙂
Always the train. It’s my boys’ favorite every year!
We are excited about everything Christmas Town has to offer! We missed it the past two years due to living out of the country. Really looking forward to the shows and riding the train with a nice Hot Cocoa in hand. I think I’m more excited than Buddy the Elf! LOL
This year will be our fist year attending! I can not wait to see the lights, hear the Christmas sounds, and enjoy the magic & fun.
So excited to take our kids this year! We went once, back in 2012 and it was beautiful! We’re really looking fwd to taking our kids. this year!!
The atmosphere of the holiday! Love the lighting and decorations combined with the holiday music. So excited to attend this year!
I am excited to see all the lights this year, and the train ride. It’s been 5 years since I have been, so really looking forward to it this year.
I’m excited about the Christmas Town Express!
I can’t wait to take a ride on the Christmas town express! And of course the hot cocoa every year is the best!
Hi!! I am SO excited to experience Christmas Town at Busch Gardens!! All the lights, festivities, singing and feeling of Christmas…I would love to win the two mugs to add to our experience. Sipping on Warm hot chocolate walking around the park just puts the finishing touch on the whole Christmas town experience!! Thank for this chance to win these and I hope you pick me!! Merry Christmas!!
I got a discounted day ticket for my 9 year old and I. It’s our first time I can’t wait.
We have never been to Christmas Town and would LOVE to try it this year with the two adorable mugs for our hot chocolate. Your description of the lights and food sound great! We won’t be at Disney this year and think we may check out Busch Gardens’ Christmas!
We are so excited to continue this tradition we started last year with our littles. They cannot stop talking about the awesome Santa.