HOLIDAY GLITTER: MONUMENT AVENUE AFTER DARK WALKING TOUR

12/26/2010 6:00:00 PM - 12/26/2010 7:30:00 PM

Don't miss this popular walking tour! Enjoy the lights and glitter of Monument Avenue while it’s decked out for the holidays. This early evening stroll combines history with a touch of glitz! Remember to dress for the weather, and bring a flashlight.

Reservations are required: (804) 649-0711 x 301. Meet at the Lee Monument at Allen Street and Monument Avenue. Tickets are $10 ($5 for History Center members).

Holidays At City Center

City Center at Oyster Point

Saturdays & Sundays, December 18 - 19

Come experience the Holidays at City Center. Shop for your perfect holiday gifts in the unique and elegant stores while enjoying outdoor performances from holiday carolers and musicians on Market Stage. Take a magical tour of the Fountain with our Holiday Carriage Rides.

And be sure to visit the big man himself for your photos with Santa in his enchanted workshop.

Photos with Santa
Holiday packages available ($)
11am-7pm

Market Stage Holiday Music
12pm-5pm

Carriage Rides
Saturdays 12pm-5pm 
Sundays 2pm-7pm

McDonald's Holidays Lights in Virginia Beach

With the holidays fast approaching, everyone is scurrying to decorate their houses for the best lighting or reindeer-on-the-roof displays. Interestingly, this annual lighting competition has traveled from the house to the beach, with one of the largest lighting displays in the U.S. happening right here in Virginia Beach! McDonald's Holiday Lights on the Beach brings over 100,000 visitors to the ride along the boardwalk, taking in all the neat, fascinating light displays that the oceanfront has to offer.

From towering Christmas trees to bright, colorful exhibits of nautical animals and other holiday lighting, this event will surely entertain and awe your friends and family! Making a trip to Virginia Beach? Hotels offer a free ticket to the lighting show for the holiday travelers, a great way to spend the holidays. Also, during the event, a free CD of holiday music will be provided to each vehicle entering McDonald's Holiday Lights at the Beach, presented by nTelos Wireless. So start or end the holiday season right will this amazing event!

Holidays At City Center

City Center at Oyster Point

Saturdays & Sundays, December 4 - 5 Saturdays & Sundays, December 11 - 12 Saturdays & Sundays, December 18 - 19

Come experience the Holidays at City Center. Shop for your perfect holiday gifts in the unique and elegant stores while enjoying outdoor performances from holiday carolers and musicians on Market Stage. Take a magical tour of the Fountain with our Holiday Carriage Rides.

And be sure to visit the big man himself for your photos with Santa in his enchanted workshop.

Photos with Santa
Holiday packages available ($)
11am-7pm

Market Stage Holiday Music
12pm-5pm

Saturday, December 4

12pm - 2:30pm - Holiday Jazz with Trumpeter Jon Greenberg and Pianist/ Vocalist Skip Hancock

2:30 - 5:00pm - Virginia Symphony Cellist Charlotte Detwiller with Jazz Guitar Great Michael Durig

Sunday, December 5

2:00pm - 5:00pm - Local Jazz Vocal and Sax Legend Charles Darden with his Trio

Carriage Rides
Saturdays 12pm-5pm 
Sundays 2pm-7pm

Friday, December 4, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

City Center at Oyster Point

NEW: See “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on our Giant Screen

Newport News Parks, Recreation & Tourism will present Hollydazzle , Hampton Roads' most unique holiday event, on Friday, December 4, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at City Center at Oyster Point. Hollydazzle is a free family event with activities and entertainment leading up to the spectacular BayPort Credit Union “Fountains of Light Show” with fireworks and special effects and the lighting of the 45'BayPort Credit Union Tree on the Fountain Plaza.

The December Scentsy Warmer of the Month

Pinecone Full-Size Scentsy Warmer