Holiday Lights at the Beach

It's kinda a VB tradition for many families, but ours prefers Norfolk Botanical Gardens. It's pricey, but kids like that you can drive on the boardwalk and see lights. It took our family over an hour one night and around 45 another arriving at dusk. Honestly I don't recommend if you gone before. It's always the same. However we had guest in town and it's something to do. 2.5 and I guess rounding up.

A very fun experience.Tickets:Tickets were 25 dollars for our vehicle and after taxes, etc it ended up being $32.05. You can only purchase them online through ticket master. No cash, and you can't pay there. You will have to scan your tickets once you get on the boardwalk.Experience:We were the second car in line there so it took about 25 minutes to drive through. They offer treats for sale at the beginning and they provide you with the radio station that you can tune in to listen to the Christmas music as you drive.The lights were very cool and I loved the variety. My kids loved this experience.I will come back next year.

Christmas with a nautical themeWhile I thought this was a nice way to get into the Christmas mood, I'm not sure if the $25 (Sunday to Thursday) + ~$7 service fees price tag is worth it. It's a bit annoying because there is no option to pay cash so you are bound to Ticketmaster's unnecessary (IMO) fees - not really cool to charge close to 15% in processing fees. Let correct myself, I think $25 would have been fine if there were more and brighter lights.The tour of the lights takes about 30-45 minutes depending on how fast the queue moves. The organizers have a nice variety of light arrangements, and I loved the multiple nautical motifs. I will say that there were several dark patches along the route, which I wasn't expecting. To be perfectly honest, I've seen neighborhood houses with more extravagant lighting displays. While there were signs to listen to holiday music on 103.5, there was way too much static and interference. This was minor issue bc I'd imagine that most folks could listen to holiday music on Spotify, another streaming platform, or a different radio station. Some ideas for important if possible-Add more lights-Try to stagger vehicles a bit more. It seemed like a few cars ahead of me were trying to rush though the lights.-Add the option to pay cash on site.

We loaded up on snacks and hot chocolates and took our whole family to the drive through nautical-themed Christmas lights display in Virginia Beach. This was our first time seeing Holiday Lights at the Beach, and we all enjoyed it! The only thing that was disappointing was the holiday music that we played on the radio. It was supposed to go with the lights, but it was really staticky and we ended up turning it off. Overall, a fun night.

What a joke! Took almost two hours from getting in line and riding down the boardwalk. I have a better light display in my front yard. Don't waste your time or money. $100 down the drain. Almost $50 for the very poor light display and another $50 for two bags of popcorn and 2 cups of hot cocoa.

False advertisement!!! We paid 35.00 and was lied to by your staff. We questioned staff after passing street after street, realizing it didn't start till about 12th street. Staff also lied in front of children stating the show was actually longer this year? FYI, if you have a seizure condition, do not attend! I do not appreciate that my kids were lied to. Train your staff better. Tell people the truth, this show doesn't start till about 12th and be honest.

Staying at a hotel on the boardwalk and took my grandkids for a walk down the sidewalk and a police car drove down the side walk and told us we could not walk through???The hotel is on a beach for a reason!!You should be able to prove you are supporting a business and staying for a week and be able to walk it. Talk about greed .....And police on a Monday night when there were hardly any cars driving through it anyway. I understand not on the line of cars but the sidewalk ????I see they were able to relocate the homeless for this but not during the rest of the year. Police should be arresting the drug dealers and criminals and leaving families alone. And stay off the sidewalk with your white police car which startled my wife and grandkids. Hmmm public safety????I am a supporter of the thin blue line and always will be but this needs to be addressed.

I don't know what the rest of the new reviews are talking about. Went at 9pm, line was short. Tons of lights. Felt it was a good 20 minute drive down the board walk. I personally felt like it might even be too long. Family loved it. Will be coming back next year!

This is the 1st time I've posted a negative review about this light show. I've a senior citizen, and a very active one. I've never missed a single year, starting with my son,next my grandson, and currently my great grandson. I can't put my finger on it , I was just so bored. But most of all so was my great grandson and his friends. They just wanted to leave to go somewhere where where it was fun. My question is are they putting up more lights? Did I just happen to go too early before they displayed the light show in its entirety? I absolutely LOVE,LOVE,LOVE, the previous shows. VA BEACH,I'm so disappointed. Anyway Merry Christmas

$35 during the week and they stretched it out to appear bigger than it is. So totally not worth it at all. They charge over $4 for "Hot" chocolate and over $5 for 2 cookies cash only. Then they say tune into certain radio channel for the music and mostly static...so very disappointing.