Christmas at Gaylord Opryland
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The Christmas season is upon us. For our crew, it’s one of our most favorite times of the year! Visiting Gaylord Opryland & Convention Center in Nashville, TN has become a tradition of ours for Christmas.
This year is better than ever and a must do for Family-friendly Nashville Christmas events. There is over 17 hours of holiday entertainment to do resort wide. During your Christmas time stay at Gaylord Opryland you will find it full of - So Much Christmas. So Many Surprises.
A Country Christmas at Gaylord Opryland:
You can experience the magic of the season at Gaylord Opryland, where Christmas comes to life with a festive array of delights.
There are so many stunning ice sculptures to see in ICE! featuring A Charlie Brown Christmas™. Create cherished memories at Gingerbread Decorating Corner, visits with Santa and outdoor fun at Pinetop including ice tubing, bumper cars, ice skating and more. The resort is transformed into a winter wonderland, adorned with 5 million twinkling lights, breathtaking holiday décor, and captivating seasonal displays.
Activities to explore during your stay:
- ICE! featuring A Charlie Brown Christmas™
- POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance
- Breakfast with Charlie Brown & Friends
- Ice Tubing
- Bumper Cars
- Ice Skating
- Merry Snoopy Christmas Scavenger Hunt
- Gingerbread Decorating Corner
- Delta Riverboat Christmas Cruise
- Build-A-Bear Workshop®
- Photos with Santa
- Carriage Rides
- Delta Atrium Light & Fountain Shows
- General Jackson Showboat Holiday Cruises
- Nightly Lighting Ceremony
- Outdoor Nativity
- Holiday Horticulture Trek
- Holiday Selfie Spots
- Wildlife Rescue – An Augmented Reality Experience presented by bubly™
ICE! featuring A Charlie Brown Christmas™:
One of our favorite things to do at Christmas the last several years is visit ICE! at Gaylord Opryland. Every year is a different theme based on a holiday classic. This year, ICE!, a beloved 23-year holiday tradition, returns to Gaylord Opryland Resort from Nov. 7, 2025, to Jan. 3, 2026. Back by popular demand “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the ICE! theme this year, last featured at the resort in 2017.
Carved from 2 million pounds of ice, the iconic holiday special—based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year—is brought to life in frozen form. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the beloved television debut of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which first aired on CBS on December 9, 1965. When entering the resort’s signature attraction, ICE! featuring “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” overnight and local day guests will embark on a charming journey learning about the true meaning of Christmas, alongside the Peanuts gang.
The attraction includes:
- Ice-sculpted, iconic characters like Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus
- 12 immersive walk- through scenes
- 5 thrilling two-story ice slides (including a slide for walking toddlers)
- Photo-worthy moments the entire family can enjoy
- Up-close look at the carving process during live carving demonstrations
The experience concludes in a separate area dedicated to the Nativity scene, meticulously carved, and shaped into a dramatic display of crystal-clear ice.
ICE! is kept at a chilly 9 degrees Fahrenheit to preserve the intricate, frozen detail! It may be chilly but you and your crew are given a signature blue parka to brave the temperature! Tip: Stay extra warm with personal hats and mittens.
The carvers responsible for creating the extravagant attraction travel more than 6,400 miles from their homes in Harbin, China, to Nashville, TN. Known as the “Ice City,” Harbin is home to the world’s largest annual ice and snow sculpting festival in the world. Starting with more than 6,000 massive ice blocks, they work approximately six weeks, more than 12,000 man-hours, to create the 17,000 square foot frozen attraction. Using skills passed down through generations, the carvers follow a 300-page design book to create the ice display with the help of tools like chisels, chippers, tongs, handsaws, grinders, and chainsaws.
POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance:
The resort’s 42nd Annual A Country Christmas will also feature the amazing debut of POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance! This family friendly new holiday show is where the razzle-dazzle of Broadway meets the magic and spectacle of cirque. The show will host its exclusive residency in Nashville inside the resort’s Tennessee Ballroom Theater from November 25 through December 31, 2025.
This once-in-a-lifetime immersive cirque holiday show and experience was created by acclaimed Broadway Director and Cirque Dreams founder, Neil Goldberg, and is based on the popular “POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance” storybook series and television special. Audiences of all ages will be transported into a magical world where three best friends study music, magic, and circus arts at a secret university. The experience features an extraordinary cast of 26 performers including acrobats, magicians, singers and dancers in over 100 breathtaking costumes performing gravity-defying circus feats, spellbinding magic and Broadway theatrics, with an exciting grand appearance by Santa. Before the show begins, ticket holders can stroll through the POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance Immersive Universe, an interactive holiday wonderland filled with sparkling lights, remarkable decorations, story characters, and pop-up magical performances. You will find glistening reindeer, colossal candy canes, towering nutcrackers, an 18-foot Gingerbread man, and more are surrounded by holiday trees and imaginative Christmas displays, creating unforgettable family memories.
Don’t miss this discount!
50% OFF DISCOUNT CODE! Experience the magic of the holiday season at @GaylordOprylandResort where you can experience up to 50% off on select dates with my discount code for ICE! featuring A Charlie Brown Christmas or the new music, magic and cirque holiday show POMP, SNOW & CIRQUEumstance.
Book online by December 18 via my exclusive link at bit.ly/SS-SOCIAL50. Terms and conditions apply.
Let us know in the comments below which Christmas activity you and your crew would love?