2024 Holidays at Universal Orlando

[Jake S]

Both last year and this year it opens the Friday before Thanksgiving. The calendar just jumped this year with the 1st falling on a Friday.

Good point. Since 2017, when the holiday celebrations began starting before Thanksgiving, we've seen the following gaps:

2017: 5 days before Thanksgiving
2018: 5
2019: 12
2020: 12
2021: 12
2022: 12
2023: 6
2024: 6

 

[Nick]

Wonder if there's any chance of a Holiday version of CineSational? If not, a Holiday version & an updated parade would be nice in the coming years.

 

[UNIrd]

Smart move announcing it early since guests would have certainly made plans to arrive a week earlier fully expecting it to be holiday time and now they can move accordingly if needed.

Now we just need Mannheim Steamroller dates and a few more details about offerings but I still think it's one of the best holiday events in Orlando, especially without an additional cost.

 

[IzzyB]

for what it's worth, here are some numbers. the gap between the last night of horror nights (11/3) and the first night of the holidays (11/22) is 19 days. that's about a week longer than the past few years, which have ranged from 12-14 days (so, two weeks) since Universal moved the holidays up in 2017.

I'm hesitant to assign a why to this because, well, I don't know why. but if they're communicating the dates this far in advance, I'm inclined to lean toward a "who cares."View attachment 22511

Agreed, I have no clue why and since they announced it now I don't think it matters. I was more curious as to why so late when they could clearly do a week earlier.

Wonder if there's any chance of a Holiday version of CineSational? If not, a Holiday version & an updated parade would be nice in the coming years.

I am just hoping they run CineSational to be honest with you, they need more shows/offerings in such a busy time.

Smart move announcing it early since guests would have certainly made plans to arrive a week earlier fully expecting it to be holiday time and now they can move accordingly if needed.

Now we just need Mannheim Steamroller dates and a few more details about offerings but I still think it's one of the best holiday events in Orlando, especially without an additional cost.

I have to disagree. I think it is near the bottom for offerings. SW blows it away in offerings and Disney decorations along with Candlelight processional with santas around the world in Epcot are better. I get that their other parks don't do much, so I give Disney and Uni a tie. But I would also say that capacity is less of an issue at MK so they can handle the holiday crowds better than IOA and Studios. Disney also runs their normal day/nighttime stuff during the holidays where Universal tends to not do their normal parade/fireworks. If they offer Cinesational it will be a little better this year.

But I can't believe anyone thinks Universal is better than SW. That is the one and only advantage SW has in Orlando is its free holiday offerings both Halloween and Christmas. I put SW dead dead dead last on everything else.

 

[Tori]

Compared to Mardi Gras and HHN The holiday season is so short. They could extend it into January if they wanted.