What's On - Christmas Experience

Book Tickets

The safety of our visitors and staff is our number one priority, to help keep everyone safe there are a number of measures we have implemented you need to know before booking:

Numbers are limited to control capacity, all visitors (including Lotherton members and any other free entries) must have a pre-booked ticket before visiting.
All tickets will have a 1 hour arrival time window, starting from 9am:
If visiting Santa you are only allowed 2 adults accompanying up to 4 children. Each family group will visit Santa separately.
All child Santa tickets require a Christmas Experience Entry ticket too.
Once selecting a Santa child ticket please ensure you select a Christmas Experience Entry for everyone including children tickets for all other visitors (including members) and note your arrival time. We advise booking your entry time for at least 40 minutes before your Santa ticket time.
Last entry to the Wildlife World is at 3.15pm

How to book as a Lotherton member

You must book an entry slot if you are a member as the estate will be at a limited capacity until 3 January 2021.

Choose your selected entry date on the ‘Tickets & Times’ tab
Choose your entry time slot
Select Adult General Christmas Experience Entry and enter the quantity of adult members
Select Child General Christmas Experience Entry and enter the quantity of child members
Continue to checkout where you will be required to log in, once you have logged in and your membership has been verified you will not need to pay for tickets.
Please remember to bring your membership card and email confirmation of this booking

Santa's Elf Village-Under The Wishing Tree

A 30-35 minute Santa experience that includes meeting our elves under the magical wishing tree for stories and activities. Then finally meeting the main man himself for a special Santa one to one, and a little present.

Running from 3pm weekdays and all day on the weekends and school holidays from 27 November to 2 January.

Booking is required. Adults and children will be required to book a timed Christmas Experience Entry ticket.

Santa's Cabin

For the smallest of little people, we are offering an opportunity to say hello with Santa outside his cabin and receive a special Christmas gift. This is a great opportunity for little people’s first visit to Santa, who may struggle engaging in the full 30-35 minute ‘Under the Wishing Tree’ experience.

Running Monday to Friday from 9.30am – 2pm from 29 November to 17 December.

Booking is required. Adults will be required to book a timed Christmas Experience Entry ticket.

The Christmas Experience Entry

This ticket gives you entry to the Christmas Experience including the Festive Woodland Walk, house, gardens, Wildlife World and Yuletide Yurt.

Everyone attending The Christmas Experience must have one of these tickets (including members and children).

Last entry to Wildlife World is at 3.15pm

Running from 27 November to 2 January

Booking is required. Santa experience tickets to be booked separately