Christmas Decoration?

[DISNEYNV]

We are debating to go to Disney this year in early November or wait until early December. We all decided that we would love to visit the parks and resorts again when the Christmas decorations are up. My question is when do they start decorating for the Christmas season? Would they decor be starting to go up by early November or not until after Thanksgiving? We went two years ago from December 8-17th and of course they were up then...and beautiful!!!! THanks for answering my question! We want to book soon!!!!!!!!!

 

[patman2011]

We went the week before thanksgiving back in '08 and while there was some stuff up to me it did not seem to have much of a christmas feel to it. My job at the time would not allow me to take vacation between Thanksgiving and new years so we had no choice but to take vacation during that time but we knew that most of the stuff that happens that is christmas related happens after Thanksgiving i.e. (osborne lights, Santas from different counties at epcot, Gingerbread houses at diffrent resorts). We are going Dec. 4th through 11th this year and I know it will definately be better this time. Good Luck.

 

[Donald_Duck_Rules]

I've been trying to find anything I can about the Christmas decorations at Disney World. We are going Thanksgiving week (we normally go in March) and hope to see Christmas already up. From what I have read, the Mickey's Christmas Party will have already started by Thanksgiving week, so something must be up and decorated. Hope that helps

 

[BradyBz12]

MK will be all decorated in time for the first MVMCP (last 2 years this was 11/10) - exception is the big tree which in recent years hasn't been going up until after the Christmas parade taping.

This year HS was also decorated in time for the 11/10 opening of Osborne light - however this was earlier than the previous year when they didn't start until the day after Thanksgiving. No word yet on what 2010 will bring.

Everything else generally goes up at varying rates throughout November, with it all being in place for the big holiday kickoff the day after Thanksgiving.

This past year AK and EP were decorated about a week after MK and HS (around the 14th-ish). DTD was done fairly early in November. We left on 11/20 and saw hardly anything in the resorts. From what I gather, those decorations started going up the weekend before Thanksgiving - although not sure about GF, as the gingerbread house as open sometime mid-Nov.