IT ISN’T even summer yet but we wouldn’t blame you if you are already excited about Christmas – and there’s good reason to be with some changes coming to LaplandUK.
LaplandUK – the huge family-friendly Christmas attraction – will be dropping tickets for both the Ascot and Manchester experiences this week,
Ahead of the drop on March 27 (this Friday) at 10am, the attraction has also revealed some big changes to the experience this year.
One of the biggest changes is that guests will get more time in the Elven Village.
This means guests will have more time to go ice skating, letter writing and enjoying the magical atmosphere of the Elven World.
Whilst LaplandUK hasn’t yet confirmed how long visitors will now have in the Elven Village, in previous years visitors had 90 minutes to enjoy the area.
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Another change for this year is that every child will now have the opportunity – included in their ticket – to create their own reindeer food with the Elves, ready to lay out on Christmas Eve for Father Christmas’ reindeer.
There is also a new invitation box this year, meaning that anyone who books a LaplandUK experience for 2026 will receive their invitations by the end of summer.
Returning this year will also be Mother Christmas’s Kitchen where kids will get more time to decorate gingerbread before meeting with Mother Christmas and the Elves for traditional story time.
LaplandUK is also bringing back the portal that takes humans ‘back to the UK’, but making it bigger for this year.
This year, LaplandUK will run from November 7 to December 24, with tickets costing between £60 and £195.
Last year, 350,000 tickets were available and before the tickets were released, over 750,000 people were waiting in the virtual queue online.
On March 27, when tickets go on sale, there will be a virtual queue online from 9am.
Guests will need to select their preferred venue – either Ascot or Manchester, – and then at 10am when tickets are released, each guest will automatically be allocated a random place in the queue for the venue they selected.
Once they reach position one in the queue, they will be able to select the number of tickets they want and the date they wish to visit.
After purchasing their tickets, in the following months guests will be sent a personalised invitation.
On the day of visiting, guests will venture through “secret portals in the Whispering Woods of the UK and follow magical pathways to arrive in Lapland”.
And throughout the day there will be performances and interactive activities such as helping out the Elves in the Toy Factory to make a toy to pop in Father Christmas’ Sleigh.
Kids will get a special moment with Santa as well, where they get a gift to take home and their parents are handed the toy they created in the Lapland Toy Factory to be given on Christmas Day.
To find out what it is like to visit LaplandUK, one Sun reporter visited the new experience in Manchester last year.
Plus, a mum has shared her top Lapland UK tips, including how to save money and the best areas to go to.