Hey - any mamas been to the Polar Express in Williams?
I'd love to hear about your experiences. I think we're going to go for the kids for our vacation this year. I know its only an overnight, but its been a tough year financially for us and $309 for the 4 of us to ride the train, spend the night in the hotel, dinner and breakfast? and see Santa? I think we're going to go for it and do a weekend camping trip this year since we can't pull off Disney or anything big like this.
Anyway, it looks really really cool and my kids adore the movie.
If you went, I'd love to hear about it
and if you have no idea what I'm talking about - here ya go:
We went the year before last. It was ok. A little bit hokey. The train ride is fairly quick. You are on the train for a bit, you go into this tiny wooden cut out village - really tiny - like 3 cut outs of a village and then you head home. On the way home, "Santa" makes his way through the cars and hands out bells to all the kids.
On the ride up you get some cookies and hot cocoa and they sing Christmas carols.
Other than the train, there isn't a whole lot to do. A few little shops, a room with some santa and Mrs. Clause type crafts, some light displays - other than that, not much to do.
The price includes meals and the food was pretty good. It's a buffet style restaurant.
All in all, it was fun but I think it's much more geared towards very young children.
We went last year, and we all had so much fun. If you kids love the movie, they will love riding on the train. They play so many songs from the movie (which even got my DH singing along and getting excited). They serve you hot chocolate and a cookie, they tell tell the story of the polar express, and repeat a lot of things from the movie. A matter of fact, I'm pregnant and due in Christmas, but we are still going to push going this year again, becuase we had so much fun from last year. But purchase your tickets soon! They sell out quickly and we had to buy it from someone off of craigslist and paid double the price.
yeah, the actual North pole stunk - should mention that. It was really lame and was basically just some christmas lights, but the train ride , story, singing, hot chocolate, was all fun. The activities up there and the snow were fun too. Santa time was too fast - we actually could come up with a dozen ways it could've been a better experience, but the kids loved it.
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