Gaylord Palms Ice Show featuring Frosty!
*Disclosure: I received tickets to the Gaylord Palms ICE Show. All opinions are my own.
Besides being able to see the holiday show Gaylord Palms ICE, the Holiday Displays themselves are a fantastic sight to see in it itself at Gaylord Palms.
One of the best events during the holidays is at Gaylord Palms ICE! This year, the artisans created Frosty the Snowman and friends. It’s amazing to see the spectacular displays and it was an even bigger deal, to actually see them in action, carving and shaping the ice pieces.
We were able to attend the Gaylord Palms ICE show in Central Florida this year, thanks to Destinations in Florida. It was a pleasure. The Gaylord Palms ICE show officially opened Nov. 23rd and will run through Jan. 5th, 2014.
What is the Gaylord Palms ICE Show featuring Frosty!
Join Frosty, everyone’s favorite snowman, and his friends on their quest to the North Pole in a colorfully frozen retelling of this original Christmas classic! More than two million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures featuring Frosty the Snowman, presented by Pepsi, including four ICE! slides.
NEW in 2013, you’ll enjoy a bonus area featuring “Artisans in Action” – a LIVE ice carving zone! Take a fun journey through the Frostbite Factory and watch a masterful ice carver from Harbin, China up close as he creates amazing sculptures before your eyes. Your awe-inspiring experience concludes with the wonder and majesty of the Nativity scene in ice. It’s all part of Christmas at Gaylord Palms!
The award-winning ICE! attraction is carved by a team of 40 artisans from Harbin, China. The talented artisans spend more than a month in Kissimmee/Orlando creating this one-of-a-kind attraction. Harbin is best known for its annual International Ice and Snow Festival, where more than 2,000 sculptors annually carve a 100-acre walk-through ice park, using ice from the nearby Songhua River.
Additionally, Christmas at Gaylord Palms will provide dozens of lavish holiday displays with more than two million twinkling lights, an amazing 54-foot-tall Christmas tree, and exclusive holiday events and attractions for you and your entire family.
- More than 2 million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures
- 40 talented artisans
- 6,000 blocks of colored and clear ice
- 400 pounds each
- Over the course of the event 60% of it will be replaced
- The tallest sculpture is 21 feet
- The slide is 2 stories tall
- Gaylord ice shows tart freezing 1 year in advance.
- Total Carving time: 11,160 hours
- On Site Gear: 1500 coats, 1,000 boxes of Kleenex
Gaylord Palms ICE Show featuring Frosty! Overall
Once we arrived, we were invited into the Gaylord Palms atrium for the musical portion of the show. It was amazing with singers, music, musical light show and aerial act. It lasted approximately 30 – 45 minutes and was very beautiful and put you in the holiday spirit.
After that, we headed over to see the Frosty and the rest of the Ice Sculptures. They gave us heavy, long coats with a hood to put on. I was a little prepared, because I did bring my gloves I had hiding at the back of the closet.
I knew it was going to be cold, so I wore the warmest thing I had, which is cropped pants. I still wore my flip flops, because that’s what I always wear. I wore them at the Grand Canyon when it was 19 degrees and was just fine. However, upon entering, I was informed that it was 9 degrees….yes, not a typo…9 degrees and within a matter of 10 minutes, my toes would get frostbite. I thought…great. How long does it take to go through? Depends on how long you stop to check it out.
So, we had to basically run through. We got to see everything and I did get to snap pictures. I didn’t really get to enjoy it as much as I would have liked to though. Another thing I didn’t know about was about half way through, my iPhone decided to shut off. The cold got to it. My camera did fine and I did have backup batteries for that. Once we got out, the camera lens fogged up, and the phone turned back on once it warmed up.
Gaylord Palms ICE Show featuring Frosty! Locations
It is located at Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, 6000 West Osceola Parkway , Kissimmee, Florida 34746. The ICE show runs through Jan. 5, 2014. They have different pricing packages available for you to choose from.
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