Many thanks for all the replies it's been really useful. After one visit the Florida bug has well and truly bitten. I only wish I knew about this site before I booked the villa. Any other tips about Christmas? We have three girls who will be under 12 when we next travel.
Thanks again Teresa
Do take them to Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party. Mine are now 16 and 13 and still enjoy it as much as they did at 14 and 11!
And do go the whole hog and decorate your house the american way - we did and it's not expensive compared with home.
Celebration has "snow" each night just before christmas along with father christmas and enjoy it for how good the whole town looks rather than whether or not the snow is real!
Fiona
And don't forget Disney MGM and the Osborne Family Lights which start around the end of November until the end of the first week in January. They'll love them!
Blott
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And do go the whole hog and decorate your house the american way - we did and it's not expensive compared with home.
I love Christmas, but have never been at this time of year. In what ways do the Americans decorate their houses that differ to us?
Lights absolutely everywhere - at $5 a bunch it's not too expensive to do.
We leave our lights out for our guests to decorate the villa if they wish - no-one has so far, but we always go mad - my daughters insist. After being brought up on Sleepless in Seattle etc. they expect us to go the whole hog! 2 trees - 1 inside, 1 out, FC outside, decorated trees, icicles the FULL WORKS (I was going to say monty but that doesn't seem appropriate as we're talking about over-dressing your houses rather than the other way round!!)
Have to say the Americans on our estate still do more than us.
Fiona
The American idea of home Christmas decorations seems to be to more is better than less! We have seen homes which are unrecognisable under all the lights, reindeer, FCs, etc and nearly everyone decorates around their roof, plants, trees (in fact, everything you can think of and then some more!). One home is our road even dresses up their front door in wrapping paper with ribbon ties so that it looks like a Christmas parcel (and looks very effective too) and lots of homes have Christmas wreaths on the doors or huge red bows.
Blott
It all sounds fantastic! I will have to go at Christmas as well now!
Debbie
If you do go at Xmas be sure to go to Celebration to see the decorated houses there-as it definitly is an art form. They really go over the top. Some of those houses are monsters-3 storeys and every straight line had a row of lights on it. Plus singing and rocking lifesize santas in the porch.
We went to the Christmas Eve service in the church there and it was unforgettable. A very nice way to start Xmas. We were made to be so welcome and the solo singing was marvelous.
Orlandobabe
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