Holiday decoration schedule

[drcmk]

Sigh. We will be in WDW beginning November 15. I hate to break the news to DH that there will be Christmas decorations up already. I have read many posts about how lovely and inspiring the holiday decorations are at WDW, but I don't think they will be a big hit with DH. He hates when businesses rush the season and I am afraid that being surrounded by Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving will put him in a sour mood. I almost wish I could change our travel dates to something earlier.

 

[jordanyosh]

You may want to verify this with someone else or do a search on holiday decorations. I believe they don't go up until the week of Thanksgiving or even the day after........I am sure someone will post with a definitive answer.

 

[FloridaCat]

The schedule is at the bottom of the main DIS page.

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

I think I remember someone posted the decoration schedule, and it did start in mid November for the resorts, I don't know about the parks though

 

[mrsltg]

They definitely start going up somewhere between the first 2 weeks of November.

Erin

 

[PammyK]

Unfortunately, will all the resorts and the 4 parks and all the other guest areas, WDW HAS to begin decorating early in order for everything to be up on time. For example, they build a full sized gingerbread house (one that an adult can stand upright in) in the lobby of the GF. In order to have that completed by the day after Thanksgiving, they need to start construction several days, even a couple of weeks, beforehand.

While they do have an entire team devoted to Christmas, it would just be impossible to get everything done if they waited until after Thanksgiving to start decorating.