Speedway Christmas Lights Winterfest Christmas Village at the Charlotte Motor Speedway

My advice spend the extra money for the fast pass, I couldn’t imagine getting in the regular line and waiting for hours. They make it fun. But I feel like there wasn’t as much lights as last year. They have definitely improved the Christmas village. We go every year just hope they don’t keep jacking up the price!!

So I saw this on social media...and thought it would be really nice to take the famiky. And opportunity presented itself...so we went....it was 45 for car/ suv..but at the start I was a bit skeptical of price and what I saw.. of it was worth it.....side note.. it was on the race track so I did decide to open up my car.. lmao... and who... as the show progress. I see that is was well worth the 45. The logh show is a good 30 min drive.. and you have opportunity to park and walk around. And there is a separate light show .. plenty of places for pics. Some food as well. Amd even a drive in movie. All Christmas theme..... we actually had a nice time.

I read the bad reviews. Been coming here for over 10 years and it’s been getting better and better and this year has topped them all! There’s a good amount of alcohol vendors, lots more food, seating, and plenty to drive and walk through. Only complaint is if the price goes up anymore, it will be too high for the common folk to visit. Plenty to enjoy here.

Get there EARLY lines going in have been as long as a 3hr wait.It was better than expected.So many things to do after the drivethru in the infield -Walk thru lights, inside the bldg.there is a little Holiday market.They have lots of beautiful decorated trees in there and a children's play area.There are lots of fair type foods outside.There is also a drive in movie playing every night.

I'm pleasantly surprised! I went into this Christmas festival with a pessimistic mindset, because of some of the negative reviews stating it wasn't a good light show. My boyfriend has been wanting to try this light show festival for a few years now because it's at the race track and he's a race car fan. So, for him, I planned a family trip here to try it out ONCE (so I thought) thinking it'd be lame and not worth the money or time. I'm happy to report I was wrong. Where I do appreciate and respect other people's opinions saying this light show wasn't the best, we a family of 7 ranging in ages 8 yrs to 40 yrs old thought it was an amazing experience and a pretty good light show. The lights were synchronized to the music station they have you turn to when you enter the light show. This light show wasn't at all disappointing as I had thought it'd be going in. I do feel there could have been more lights, they seemed spaced out at times, and spots were dark but there was still a lot of lights to drive through. The cost for general admission is a little high at $45 for general admission. I do feel the proper price point for the quality of the event should've been a bit lower. We also bought our tickets online and paid an extra $7 charge with a total of $52 for general admission, because I thought you had to buy them online, but you can pay at the ticket booth driving in as well. Paying at the booth would've saved us a little money, time, and stress trying to find the PDF file with our QR code ticket at the bottom of our emailed confirmation to get in. The instructions to whether you have to show a confirmation code, printed ticket, etc. in the emailed confirmation they send you after you pay are not clear. Would've been nice if they'd added on the email confirmation instructions to download the PDF file attached to that email that had the QR code ticket (which we did not know) and present the QR code ticket at the ticket booth upon entering. We were under the impression we just had to show the confirmation email number because it said nothing further regarding the ticket. Minor inconvenience, but hopefully it'll help someone else not make the same mistake as we did. Continuing on, there's a good bit of lights to see, they have a village area that is decent size with food and vendors. The village does have actual restrooms inside and they were clean. Inside the village our children ranging from 8yrs old to 18yrs old enjoyed taking pictures with the Christmas decorations and doing the multiple mini mazes they had, plus a beautiful small light trail. They have pictures with Santa, you do have to pay for them but they were respectfully priced. They cost less than the pictures I had paid to have done at the mall by a good bit and you had a Santa and Mrs. Clause to take photos with. They have a food area that has the most adorable singing reindeer! That was my personal favorite. As well as bon fire pits and tables to sit and eat with the family. There was outside of the village a huge drive in screen to sit and watch a Christmas movie in your vehicle with your family. On the way out of the village there was a slide trail by cookout that could've been done but we didn't stop for that activity as our children were cold from walking the village and were ready to finish the lights and head home. We got in line early being it was a Saturday, they recommended going on a week day because weekends are the busiest but with my boyfriends work schedule that wasn't possible for us. They started to let us, in general admission, in at 6pm. Those who paid extra for fast lane went in first. Doing all the lights and exploring the village was a total of an hour and a half event for us from start to finish. That's a good bit of time enjoying a Christmas festival, longer than others we've explored. The line leaving was super long! All the way out to the main road and the traffic screen there was showing a 3+ hour wait from that point and that was at 7:45pm. So I highly recommend to try to get there early and be prepared to wait awhile.