Our Family’s Experience and Review of this Great New Event

Most theme parks in moderate climates have some sort of holiday event whether that “Smokey Mountain Christmas” at Dollywood or “Holiday in the Park” at Six Flags. New for 2023 at Wild Adventures is their Christmas event “Wild & Bright”. We had a chance to experience Wild & Bright the Saturday after Thanksgiving and absolutely loved the abundant and varied activities throughout the park. This event has so many things happening that it’s ridiculous, much of it geared toward families, kids and the young at heart. We went on a Saturday and there were 45 events (some duplicates) on the schedule! There were literally several Christmas somethings going every hour all day, so much so that we didn’t even come close to seeing everything. Here’s our family’s review and experiences of our spectacular day that really got us into the holiday spirit.

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Howl-O-Scream is going on now and runs from September 8th to October 31st this year. Halloween is big business at theme parks with a chance to earn lots of extra revenue from haunted houses and other events. This year’s events features several new haunted houses, scare zones, shows, food options and even behind the scenes tours. The super cool Christmas themed haunted house is back along with the Cirque X-Scream show. New this year are Las Vegas and demolition derby themed scare zones, a circus themed haunted house, a new musical show and the “Raveyard” with cocktails and music.

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Busch Gardens has a bunch of neat little areas that people may miss the first or second time around. I know this personally as we were still discovering new places on our 3rd and 4th trip. Your first time you can be understandingly distracted by the roller coasters and trying to cross marque attractions off your list. Most of these are animal attractions as the big fast rides are hard to miss for the most part. The park is essentially a circle, but it has some “nooks” that you might miss if you make the tightest circle and take the path of least resistance. Here are 4 places that you might otherwise just walk by your first time or two that you should check out:

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Busch Gardens has launched a couple of podcast/web series recently starting with “The First Drop” which is mostly about event happenings at the park and pass member perks. They’ve now followed up on that with “Wild Encounters” which gives an inside look at animal care from the professionals who work with the animals every day.

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Busch Gardens starts its Summer Nights this week with events running May 26th through August 6th. Events include extended hours, fireworks and lots of great entertainment. The two gems of Summer Nights are the fireworks and the Cirque Electric show, however the addition of several party zones and other entertainment really amp up the energy in the park making for lots of fun.

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Iron Gwazi is dressed for the holidays. Three kings sang their hearts out. Tunnel of lights. trees decorated and Sesame Street a glow. Wishing you and your family a safe and Merry Christmas!