The Holidays have arrived at ICON Park! Yesterday we were invited to check out all the offerings from decorated attractions, fun food, and meeting Old St. Nick himself. Read on for all the details of these limited time offerings….
The Santa Workshop Experience at Icon Park
The Details
Booking advanced reservations is highly recommended.
SANTA’S SCHEDULE:
November 5th: 5pm – 8pm
Monday – Thursday: 11am – 8pm
Friday – Sunday: 10am – 8pm
Thanksgiving week: 10am – 8pm
Thanksgiving Day: CLOSED
December 3rd – December 24th: 10am – 8pm
Various photo packages can be purchased
If you bring a personalized gift, wrapped and tagged with your child’s first and last name, delivered to Check In between 24-48 hours prior to your scheduled visit, Santa will have it waiting under his tree and present it to your child at the conclusion of their photo session.
Free ride on The Wheel in private holiday capsule for all children with photo purchase + discounted admission for all additional riders
Our Thoughts
While we don’t have kids, we still wanted to say hi to man in the suit. And we have to say this was quite the impressive set up. Leading up to meeting Santa, you can explore the workshop with plenty of “selfie stations” for fun holiday themed pics. And the photo with Santa is not your average grab a pick and go. Santa was amazing, taking time to get multiple, authentic photos. Santa was great and we highly recommend this experience for all our friends with kiddos.
A peek into Santa’s Workshop.
There are plenty of holiday selfie stations.
Doesn’t Santa look picture perfect?
The Santa Workshop Experience Photo Package Pricing.
All Aboard The Pearl Express Train
The Details
Child Ticket: $6
Adult Ticket $4
Photos available for purchase
The Pearl Express Train, decked out in its holiday best, will be offering 50% off rides with your gold Santa coin!
Our Thoughts
The Pearl Express makes a loop around the grounds at ICON Park with fun train noises throughout the trip. Our nieces have loved riding this in the past and we have even squeezed onboard for a quick little trip. For the holiday season the train is decked out with some extra holiday flair. It’s a fun add on to a visit with kids in tow.
The Pearl Express all decked out for the holiday season.
SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium's "Deck the Seas"
The Details
Starts November 26th
Experience holiday additions such as festive decorations, a wintery scavenger hunt, write letters to your favorite sea creatures, and on Thursdays in December, hear a special FISHmas story with Scuba Claus!
Book tickets here. (Packages will offer the best pricing.)
Our Thoughts
This part of our visit was super fun. We had never been to SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium before and this visit included islandy holiday music and festive decorations. The added holiday lights offered a great ambiance and the activities for kids seemed really fun. We see this as a place we will certainly need to bring the nieces and nephews sometime soon.
The entrance to SEA LIFE Aquarium.
Some holiday decor.
Julie enjoying a view of the fishes.
We enjoyed all the added lights.
Holiday Rides On The Wheel At ICON Park
The Details
The Wheel is Dressed up with Holiday Decor
Connect your own device and jam to Holiday tunes
Check out all the details on riding The Wheel in our full review here
Our Thoughts
We had been on The Wheel previously and enjoyed seeing Orlando from the sky. There was also one update we loved: being able to play your own music while aboard. We enjoyed a couple drinks while jamming to Holiday Tunes and enjoying the skyline. We did go during the day but could imagine at night could be pretty viewing holiday lights across the land below.
A view of The Wheel at night.
The holiday decor was a nice touch.
A view of the Christmas tree below.
We love taking a cocktail aboard.
Bites from The Wheelhouse Market
During our visit to ICON Park we were able to enjoy some samples of food from The Wheelhouse Market Food Hall. This spot is located right below the wheel and has recently redone some of the concepts (to include a couple that are well loved around Orlando). We tried some tasty options from a variety of restaurants:
Sandwich Station
Chicken on Fire
Let’s Jess Bake Sweet Shop
A look at The Wheelhouse Market Food Hall.
Tin & Taco
Brick & Fire
Chicken on Fire
Let’s Jess Bake
Thanks for having us out ICON Park. It was great to check out all the limited time offerings and get in the Holiday spirit. This is a great spot to add to your holiday activity list as you can do so many things in one spot. Have you ever been to ICON Park? Make sure to check out our other articles about this great Orlando spot!
