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Tickets for UK’s most popular Christmas event go on sale next week – with online queues that ‘rival Glastonbury’

Published on March 24, 2025 at 04:15 PM

Inside Lapland UK - we review Britain's poshest grotto

TICKETS will go on sale next week for LaplandUK – here's everything you need to know.

The queues are not for the faint-hearted, with more than 300,000 people vying for tickets in 2024.

Three women in whimsical costumes in a snowy forest.
Tickets to LaplandUK will go on sale next week – here's everything you need to know
Girl in a colorful dress reaching up in a snowy forest.
More than 300,000 attempted to buy tickets to LaplandUK last year

Last year, the attraction's 160,000 tickets sold out in less than three hours in a ticket drop that rivaled the likes of Glastonbury (albeit which has around 2.5million people trying to get tickets last year).

However, families on the hunt for LaplandUK tickets for 2025 are in luck, with LaplandUK Ascot expanding for the first time in its 18-year history.

The popular attraction in Whitmoor Forest, near Ascot in Berkshire, is opening a sister site called LaplandUK Manchester, doubling the opportunity for families to experience this magical event.

Tickets to both sites will go on sale on March 31 at 10am.

There will be more than 350,000 tickets up for grabs in next week's sale.

Those who want to buy the tickets, which sell out fast, will be able to enter a virtual waiting room from 10am on LaplandUK’s own ticketing platform.

Each visitor will then get the opportunity to select the show they'd like to attend before being randomly allocated a space in the queue at midday.

Once at the front of the queue, potential visitors will get the chance to purchase tickets on their preferred date.

After tickets have been successfully purchased, guests will receive a confirmation email followed by personalised postal invitations.

This means potential visitors should make sure to consult their calendars before next Monday.

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Both attractions will run from November 8 until December 24, with ticket prices ranging from £60 to £195 per person.

The four-and-a-half-hour immersive theatre experience is based on six best-selling books, written by founders Mike and Alison Battle.

Both LaplandUK Ascot and LaplandUK Manchester will feature performances, interactive activities and an encounter with the big man himself.

Visitors to LaplandUK are welcomed into a snowy Lapland by a group of cheerful elves.

Children are then set a series of tasks to complete, such as toy building and gingerbread decorating.

The attraction is hugely popular and sells out quickly each year, but it is also a big hit with celebrities and royals.

Famous visitors include the Prince and Princess of Wales, Sir Elton John and The Beckhams, Peter Andre and Cheryl Cole.

You can read more about what to expect from Lapland Manchester, here.

What is it like to visit LaplandUK?

THE Sun's Associate Editor Caroline Iggulden visit Lapland UK last year, here's what she thought…

LaplandUK promises to transport children on a magical Christmas adventure without need of a plane or even flying sleigh.

Beloved by celebs like Holly Willoughby and Elton John, and with the very cheapest ticket prices starting at a whopping £59 per person (with adults also paying for a ticket), LaplandUK is perhaps Britain’s poshest Christmas grotto.

Intrigued by the hype and took my kids Henry, 11, Nicholas,7 and Estella, 3 along to see what the fuss was about.

Whilst I can’t dispute that this is pricey, this Elven world certainly delivers in spades when it comes to Christmas memory making magic.

The adventure starts before you even arrive as children are sent delightful letters inviting them to Lapland complete with wax seal.

And when my three ‘small folk’- as they are dubbed at LaplandUK-arrived they were utterly enchanted.

t is the fine details which really set this woodland wonderland apart.

From the miniature doorways, just for ‘small folk’ to use, to the beautifully fashioned individualised costumes worn by all the elves- and the big man himself-details are styled to perfection.

Elves even have a customised greeting for their young visitors, a simple ‘hello’ won’t do, instead they put their thumb up to their nose and waggle their fingers

The experience and storytelling is more akin to something you might expect from a Disney park, rather than a traditional visit to Santa.

You can read Caroline's full review, here.

Elsewhere in the UK, LaplandUK isn't the first attraction to put Christmas tickets on sale.

Tickets for Christmas at Kew went on sale in January.

Family portrait at LaplandUK.
The Christmas attraction is popular with celebrities
Group of people in elf and Santa costumes posing in snowy setting.
Families on the hunt for LaplandUK tickets for 2025 are in luck, with LaplandUK Ascot expanding for the first time in its 18-year history
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