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Detailed Information
- Place Types Tourist attraction
- Address 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806, USA
- Coordinate 35.497852,-82.60824
- Website https://www.ncarboretum.org/winter-lights/
- Rating 3.3
- Compound Code F9XR+4P Asheville, NC, USA
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Final Christmas lights of the season! Just beautiful. All lights were wonderful. It's all drive through. The cost: 25 entrance per car and I think it should be less to be honest. Also I wish they had Chrismas music but overall It was a beautiful experience. So I still give 5 stars.
This is such a waste of money! SO disappointing! The Nativity nor Santa Claus were even featured!!! For 30.00 gate fee! You got us NC Arboretum! I want my money back! It would've been better spent on a meal! $30.00 for 10 minutes?! I wish I had read the reviews, I would not have come. Huntsville, AL Botanical Gardens does it MUCH better and for a cheaper price that makes the spending acceptable! Wow! Reviews are something I don't do, but this made me mad. AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT! Man, I want my money back!!!
Me and my husband went in 2016 right before we got married. It was magical, beautiful, peaceful and so romantic to walk thru. There were lots of families and couples like ourselves walking thru. We visit the gift shop before going out and walk around the garden with the lights. We also stop by the little coffee shop to grab some coffee and hot cocoa as well as we got 3 gingerbread man cookies for our 3 girls back at home. We made it a kids free just us spending time together. Will definitely go back. And do recommend this to families and couples.
It saddens me to write such a horrible review, but as another review stated, I would give this a 0 rating if possible. We drove over an hour away to see this display and were so disappointed. Not only did the display have nothing to do with Christmas, it had nothing to do with Winter Lights as advertised. Mushrooms? Daisies? Butterflies? Unicorns? Nothing made sense. Of course, nothing in 2020 seems to make sense. Please, do not waste your time or money. I honestly would not go through this again if they offered it for free. I know this took a tremendous effort, which made the review that much more difficult to write.
We love visiting the NC Arboretum. Unfortunately the Winter Lights experience was extremely disappointing. It is only drive through due to COVID, which would be fine if they had put more thought into the execution. The light exhibit opens at 5:30 PM. We approached the Arboretum from Brevard Rd as instructed and found a line of cars already waiting. We took our place in line (estimate we were 1 mile from the turn into Arboretum) and then inched along for 2 hours! After 2 hours of waiting, we still hadn’t made it to the right turn into the Arboretum, so we gave up and went to dinner instead as the natives in my vehicle were getting restless and many needed to use the restroom! Very poor planning by the people running this event. Sell timed tickets to help control the crowds or something! It was a hellish experience, typical of 2020. The only light we saw were brake lights.
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