One of the best draws to a trip to Orlando at Christmas time is going to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. So, since I was going to be there this season, I just knew I had to go. The first thing you notice as soon as you walk into the park is the decor, Disney did the best Christmas decorations and had the best snow out of every park we went to, hands down, without question. It was like standing in the middle of a magical Christmas town with big fluffy snow that didn’t stick and turn to gray mush. It was outstanding!
As soon as you walk through the park a bit and start to absorb the holiday grandeur, Cinderella’s castle will catch your eye. There must have been thousands if not millions of lights on the castle going all the way up the spindle on top which did make me very curious as to how they did that, because there’s no way a person could reach. I have never seen anything like it, it was blue and icy and pure perfection. Once the park started to fill up a bit they turned the lights off, projected a Christmasy scene in its place and started a show which ended with the characters from Frozen begging for Elsa to turn the castle into a winter wonderland and her fulfilling their wish with a magical projection of snow and ice circling the castle till it brought it back to the stunning view it had been when we first walked in.
Following this they had a few more small shows but we wanted to get the full experience of the park, getting cookies and snow cones, hitting up a few rides, and going to dinner at Be Our Guest. This being a life goal for me, well almost, having my wedding there so I could dance in the middle of the ballroom in a gown that’s the life goal, but I can settle for dinner. It was perfect the ceiling, the decor, the windows, everything about it was like a dream, with a Christmas tree as the cherry on top. The food was amazing, I have heard mixed reviews, I don’t know why. I got french onion soup, steak and potatoes, and the mini dessert platter. The soup was good, I am partial to my own which is Geoffrey Zakarian’s recipe, but the steak entree and desserts were amazing and totally worth the cost. Though I would have paid it just to be able to walk in the door. The details are spectacular, I 100% recommend especially if you’re a fan of the film, as I am!
Following dinner we headed straight to the parade, which was filled with elaborate decorations, characters, and dance and band performances. As cool as it was to see the character’s I was most impressed with the dancers and band members, they had a full band performing inside full body plastic toy solider costumes, moving their arms playing instruments and still moving around in sync. It was very impressive. The floats were absolutely beautiful and the parade ended with an appearance by Santa!
After the parade we tried to see as much of the park as we could since we hadn’t spent any time in Magic Kingdom prior to this night and weren’t going to make it back. If you go to the Christmas Party, it starts at 7, but you are able to enter the park with your tickets a few hours earlier. We should have done this but this was our first day not going to a park first thing in the morning and we needed to rest and we took full advantage, by this day I had a very sore back and was having a bit of a difficult go of it.
We saw about a third of the park before we came back to the castle and noticed the end of the night performance getting started, with guest singers and characters putting on the show! It was a lot of fun and a nice way to end the night! The whole event was a magical experience, I can’t wait to go again, maybe with my future children one day!