The Haunting Holiday Guide 2023
Happy Holidays, Haunting Community! While the afterglow of the Halloween season has begun to dim, the bright lights of the holidays light our path forward. This year, our Holiday Guide 2023 provides you with the best holiday season lights displays, immersive experiences, drink festivities, and of course, haunted holiday attractions. Heat up some hot cocoa, grab your loved ones, and use this guide to make a plan to create some lasting memories this year.
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Table of Contents
Winter Holiday Experiences
Haunted Houses
We’ll start this guide with the most Haunting of experiences: Holiday-themed haunted houses. While the Halloween season usually focuses on darker themes, Christmas often employs folklore and naughtiness to differentiate their experiences. But as always, expect jump scares, festive blood-soaked cheer, and horror with a holiday twist.
San Fernando Valley
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High Desert
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Immersive Theater
Next on our list (we’ve checked it twice), are Immersive Experiences for the 2023 season. Immersive experiences offer a step up from the traditional theater show, offering participants a more active role in their narrative. Participants can often explore a location, spending more time in rooms, and engage in a strong narrative. Think of this as a personal, intimate, and evocative experience. While the experiences here do offer engagement and interaction with actors, this is in service of a narrative and rarely includes actor contact. These are safe, vetted, and are meant to form a lasting memory with the audience.
Los Angeles
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San Fernando Valley
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Winter Holiday Experiences
Next on our list (we’ve checked it twice), are Winter Holiday experiences for the 2023 season. These Winter Holiday Experiences are family-friendly events involving elaborate light displays, holiday-themed photo ops, and classic Holiday character encounters. Don’t expect scares or horror here, but rather, audiences will celebrate the joy and excitement that the holidays inspire.
Los Angeles
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San Gabriel Valley
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San Fernando Valley
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Orange County
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Inland Empire
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Dinner & Drink Events
This category focuses on experiences that are centered around food and / or drink, rather than focusing on narrative. These are social events, bringing together members of the nightlife, immersive, and dining communities. As the genre evolves, more immersive elements are being added, elevating the experience with gorgeous set design, mysteries, or interactivity. While food is the centerpiece here, the experiential nature of these events ensures their memorability, creating a full night of entertainment.
Los Angeles
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San Fernando Valley
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Traditional Theater
To end our list, we have some traditional theater experiences. Traditional Theater is exactly what you think it is: these are Holiday-Themed stage shows with some light immersive elements. The shows range from family-friendly (Nutcracker Suite & A Christmas Carol) to to more adult themed cabaret shows.
Los Angeles
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San Gabriel Valley
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San Fernando Valley
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Orange County
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