Christmas Glow is a Metro Vancouver winter holiday attraction with music, artisan vendors, light sculptures and illuminations in Langley.
Christmas Glow runs from November 21st until December 28th in 2024. It’s a terrific attraction and highly recommended! This year’s theme is Enchanted Forest!
For full details about the event, see the Glow Christmas website.
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Dates, Hours & Location | Admission Prices | What to Expect | Glow Video | About Glow | Tips & Advice | Other Information
Glow Langley Christmas Attraction
Christmas Glow is one of the Lower Mainland’s most popular holiday attractions. The event features an outdoor maze full of beautiful displays and over a million lights. There are also a number of indoor venues where visitors can find market vendors, live entertainment and the holiday train.
The place has a massive collection of Christmas lights and festive displays. There’s also a kids scavenger hunt, wand adventure, craft corner and a three-storey tall crystal palace!
For the event’s official website click Christmas Glow.
Glow Dates, Hours and Location
Christmas Glow runs on select days between November 21st and December 28th in 2024. It’s open from Thursday to Saturday during its first week and thereafter open from Monday to Saturday for most of December. The full schedule for this year is as follows:
- November 21st to 23rd, and 27th to 30th
- December 4th to 7th, 9th to 14th, 16th to 21st, and 23rd to 28th
Hours of operation vary depending on the day. The attraction opens at either 4:00 pm or 5:00 pm, and closes at either 9:00 pm or 10:00 pm. For the exact schedule click Glow Langley Dates & Hours.
The festival takes place at the Milner Village Garden Centre at 6690 216th Street in Langley. There is free parking at the site.
For the event’s official website click Christmas Glow.
Glow Admission Prices
Admission rates for the 2024 season (including online fees) are listed below.
- Adults (ages 13+) – $24
- Children (ages 4 to 12) – $18.50
- Seniors (ages 65+) – $18.50
- Little Kids (ages 3 and under) – Free
- Families (two adults and three children or seniors) – $79.50
For the event’s official website click Christmas Glow.
What to Expect
Glow features numerous Christmas light displays and child-friendly activities. There is also an artisan market with local vendors as well as kids’ activity areas, a miniature train and live music. One of the highlights of this year’s event is the three-storey tall crystal palace that visitors can climb up to get a bird’s eye view of the area.
The theme for this year’s festival is “Enchanted Forest” thanks to some of its newest festive activities and decorations. Guests receive a field guide and get to explore all the magical sights at the event. There’s an interactive wand adventure, rune stone mystery and more. All activities are included with admission.
Glow Christmas also features food trucks, live music and play zones. The train ride is another popular attraction and there’s a market with about 20 vendors as well.
For the event’s official website click Christmas Glow.
Christmas Glow Video
For an idea of what Glow Christmas looks like, check out the following video.* The footage was filmed at the event in 2023. As you can see, there were tons of lights to admire. The structures were big and impressive, and there was a carnival theme.
Tips & Advice
Check out the following suggestions to enjoy an especially memorable experience.
TIP #1: If you’ve been to Christmas Glow before, don’t skip it this year thinking that it’ll be the exact same. It won’t be!
TIP #2: About half of the attraction is indoors and the other half is outside. This is great because you’re out in the fresh air for a lot of the time, but there are also lots of things to do and see indoors on rainy days.
TIP #3: The event has in the past featured a number of Free Snack Nights. On those dates, ticket holders could get a voucher for a complimentary treat. Whether or not this promotion happens again in 2024 is to be determined.
- Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 – Popcorn
- Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 – Churro (which is a Mexican donut)
- Thursday, December 14th, 2023 – Cotton Candy
- Monday, December 18th, 2023 – Hot Chocolate, Latte or Coke
- Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 – Mini Donuts
TIP #4: Guests are encouraged to bring a new toy to donate to the Surrey Christmas Bureau on the last weekend in November.
About Christmas Glow
Glow is the creation of the owners of Milner Village which is a garden centre and greenhouse facility in Langley. They have a large garden centre store and farming operation. The main crop is poinsettias, but the garden centre also grows tomatoes and a few other products. The place is famous for its poinsettias (which is why so many people buy them at the Christmas Glow event)!
Milner Village Garden Centre has massive greenhouses. Mid-winter is slow season for the garden industry and so between late November and the beginning of January they don’t need all the indoor space. So in 2017, the family-owned business decided to turn one of its giant greenhouses into Glow.
In 2019, due to zoning issues at its location in Langley, Christmas Glow had to move to a new Lower Mainland venue. That’s why the festival took place in both Vancouver and Abbotsford. Thankfully it’s now back in Langley!
Christmas Glow isn’t just a Lower Mainland event, however. Due to its tremendous initial success, in recent years it has had locations in Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Saskatoon, Pittsburgh, Seattle and even the city of Odense in Denmark!
Glow Gardens is a fabulous “made-in-the-Lower-Mainland” success story!
For the event’s official website click Christmas Glow.
Other Information
For more information about the winter holiday attraction in Langley, see the Glow Gardens website.
For ideas on other things to do in the area or on other days in the month, check out any of the following:
- Fraser Valley
- Best Christmas Activities
- Vancouver’s November, December or January Calendars of Events
*The music in the video is by primalhousemusic from Pixabay.