Santa's Island in Donegal’s Lapland

Christmas in Donegal can be a magical and fun-filled experience, especially if you visit Santa’s Island at Donegal’s very own Lapland.

 

Last year Donegal’s Lapland opened a new purpose-built visitors centre with new and imrpoved facilities to host the live show. Now when you arrive for the show everyone can wait indoors in the new visitors centre as the excitement builds in the lead up to each show. There will also be a number of new additions and surprises added to the whole experience this year.

 

 

When the live show gets underway, the head elf appears and explains the story of Christmas. The children watch as a star appears above the stage. Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus arrive along with a donkey in a stable. The elf now explains how Santa got involved in the story of Christmas.

 

Santa now makes his entrance coming down the chimney. Santa talks to all those gathered and at the end calls out each child by name and has a small gift for each of them. When Santa has given each child their gift, everyone is free to move out to Santa’s Village.

In Santa’s Village you can visit Santa’s home, see what he eats for breakfast and visit the elves’ bedroom. You can explore Santa’s office and the children can write and post their list for Christmas. Tour Santa’s shops, visit the toy factory and sit on Santa’s sleigh.

 

In Santa’s home, the children can meet Santa again and have their photographs taken with him. You also can continue through a tunnel into Elves Kingdom. This is a completely different world with Elves houses and many more surprises.