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Gaylord Texan Back again and better than ever, Gaylord Texan’s third-annual LONE STAR CHRISTMAS event, featuring the awe-inspiring ICE! exhibit, provides a winter wonderland full of festive holiday events, activities, and displays for those of all ages to enjoy. Through January 5, 2008, Lone Star Christmas at Gaylord Texan will dazzle visitors with decorated resort atriums featuring over 1.2 million holiday lights, magnificent electric train displays, a giant 40-foot tall Christmas tree, life-size Gingerbread House, and 15,000 sparkling holiday ornaments, just to name a few. Special guests of Lone Star Christmas will include Santa in his workshop, Mrs. Claus with live reindeer, and a variety of strolling holiday entertainers. The resort’s popular ICE! exhibit will return this year with a variety of new ice sculptures including a train depot, igloo, gingerbread family, and walk-through Nativity scene. Most exciting will be this year’s bigger and better three-level ICE! slide! An impressive additional third slide, measuring 5 feet taller and 15 feet longer than last year’s slides, will curve around the interior of the exhibit to provide visitors with an even more exhilarating sliding experience.  All sculptures inside of the 14,000-square-foot ICE! exhibits are hand-carved from two million pounds of ice by visiting artisans from Harbin, China. To keep visitors warm and cozy in the exhibit, which is maintained at a wintry 9 degrees, oversized parkas will be provided. Following a stroll through ICE!, guests are invited to shop in the unique ICE! retail store and enjoy a complimentary cookie in the resort’s Java Coast coffee shop. ICE! Guests are invited to stroll through the resort atriums to enjoy the extraordinary holiday decorations; a variety of strolling entertainment including Santa, Mrs. Claus, live reindeer, toy soldiers, sugar plum fairies, and more; a life-size gingerbread house; and magical train sets. The event is complimentary to the public and those who spend $25 or more in a resort restaurant or resort retail store or purchase tickets to the resort’s ICE! exhibit while there will receive validated self-parking. Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine offers world-class facilities, 400,000 square feet of convention space and four-and-a-half acres of Texas vistas under signature atriums. Ideally situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Grapevine, Gaylord Texan is only six minutes from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Gaylord Texan is a Gaylord Hotels-branded property owned by Gaylord Entertainment, a Nashville-based hospitality and entertainment company that also owns and operates Resort Quest International and the Grand Ole Opry.  There is so much to see and do this Christmas, Gaylord invites you to stay and experience it all with our special holiday offerings! Available through January 5, 2008, the Lone Star Christmas Room Package offers overnight luxury room accommodations for two adults and two children; breakfast in the resort’s Riverwalk Café for two adults and two children; complimentary use of the Relache Spa fitness center for adults; complimentary self-parking; resort fees and taxes. Pricing begins at $216 per room, per night and is subject to change and availability. Special add-ons to the Lone Star Christmas package include:
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TICKET PRICING - WEEKDAY PRICING is available Monday to Friday. WEEKEND PRICING is available Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices include validated self-parking. Ticket prices purchased at the exhibit include a $3 transaction fee. Tickets purchased online at the Gaylord Website do not include a transaction fee. ICE! is open from 10:00am – 9:00pm Sundays – Thursdays and 10:00am – 10:00pm on Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, visit the Gaylord Website. |
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