Hi Christine,
If you love both Christmas and Disney,
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is a MUST-DO! It's my very
favorite special event of the entire year! With a variety of complimentary snacks and treats located at different points around Magic Kingdom Park, special holiday shows, unique character greeting opportunities, the ability to ride some of your favorite attractions with very little wait time due to a limited number of tickets sold, snow on Main Street U.S.A., spectacular holiday-themed fireworks, and my
very favorite
part of the entire evening, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmastime Parade, the entire evening is packed FULL of magic and fun! If you have the opportunity to go, I would in a heartbeat!
My favorite memory from this past year's visit was while we were waiting for the parade. We noticed a Disney PhotoPass photographer nearby who didn't have anyone waiting for photos. When we asked him to take our picture, we discovered that he was doing a shot with the gorgeous Main Street U.S.A. Christmas tree in the background. Now that would make for a cool photo by itself, but he had a special lens on his camera that turned all of the tree's lights into twinkling Mickey Mouse heads for our photo. How magical is that!? After we took the photo, we danced along to the Christmas music, enjoyed our complimentary Christmas cookies, and waited with anticipation for the wooden soldiers to trumpet down Main Street U.S.A. My heart was bursting with Christmas joy. To me, the magic of this event is in those kinds of special details.
Thanks so much for visiting us at the Disney Parks Moms Panel, Christine, and please let us know if you have any other questions as you're planning your trip. I hope that you have a truly magical vacation, FULL of Christmas joy!
Missy