Enchanted Christmas Village 2017

Enchanted Christmas Village has been our most fun Christmas experience in Jacksonville this year. There was a lot to do and see - a huge and beautiful Christmas tree with lights that perform to music, cards for the troops, cookie decorating, gingerbread house decorating, bounce houses, and beautiful lights everywhere. I loved the Spanish food truck and my parents went crazy over the local barbecue food truck, everyone said the barbecue was really good. We got some amazing photos of the kids because of all the lights. My son loved the talking reindeer and dancing to the Christmas performer singing. My daughter loved all of the crafts and seeing Santa. We went on a Sunday and didn’t wait long at all to see Santa. Someone that came up in the line had a reservation but the reservation time hasn’t come yet so we still got to go before them. The whole experience reminded me of a more beautiful version of Adventure Landings Winter Fest with higher quality crafts and added entertainment.

We went last year and it was amazing! Santa and his elves were so fun and energetic and we received high quality photos-- buying the package was worth every penny! The kids loved the ride to see all the lights and enjoyed doing some crafts. We are so excited it will be closer to us and we will get to spend more time there this year. They did an awesome job-- especially with it being their first year-- and we can't wait to visit this coming year!

We attended the enchanted Christmas village last year during the day and had a great time but due to the distance and ages of our kids we were unable to see the lights at night. The new venue is just around the corner from us so we took the opportunity to go see the lights. They are amazing! We loved singing Christmas Carols on the tractor ride, making gingerbread houses, eating dinner by the fire and walking down the lighted paths. The Santa set up is top notch and there’s plenty of things to see and do. My four year old keeps asking when we can go back. Definitely something we’ll continue to do year after year.

From the very drive in the Enchanted Christmas Village is beautifully decorated and such a fun experience. They have tons and tons of amazing lights, Santa, a live nativity scene, vendors and yummy food trucks! Fun events with a live DJ like a lip syncing contest and tons of cool vendors. We had so much fun and we would definitely recommend this experience to others.

My husband and I volunteered our time last year and also took our daughter as guests and we had a blast! Our daughter was 2 years old at the time and had a ton of energy. It was nice to be in a place where we could let her run around and be a kid. When we take her to most events we have her glued to our side, but we didn't need to do that there. She loved the hayride through the woods to see the lights and she loved the cookie decorating the most. Plus we can never get her to sit still for a photo and she actually took photos with Santa which was impressive, even for us and my husband is a photographer haha! :) While we were working we had so many people come up and tell us how much they loved it. I even had strangers giving me hugs, which was kind of awesome. It was nice to see that our hard work had paid off. Reading the negative reviews is frustrating because there will always be people who you can't please and people who are unhappy seem to get behind a keyboard to write a negative review, but when people are happy they move on with their lives. However, that doesn't mean there weren't thousands of happy people who came through. I would know, they all hugged me! ;)