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Deets: The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa - Southern California’s historic AAA-Four Diamond hotel will kick off the holiday season on November 29, 2019 with our 27th Annual Festival of Lights celebration a free, five-week-long holiday extravaganza featuring one of the nation's largest holiday light collections of its kind. Now in its 27th year, Festival of Lights is an annual gift to the community from property owners Duane and Kelly Roberts, who saved the historic hotel from destruction in 1992.

The beloved Southern California tradition recently named “Best Public Holiday Lights Display in the Nation” by USA Today creates a magical, Disneyland-like experience in the heart of Riverside and attracts more than 500,000 visitors from all over the world each year, commencing with the famous “Switch-On” Ceremony, a spectacular event in which the castle-like hotel is instantly illuminated with 5 million holiday lights followed by a full fireworks display.

Highlights of Festival of Lights include 200 animated figures including angels, elves and Dickens carolers; appearances by Santa Claus, the world’s largest man-made mistletoe, horse-drawn carriage rides, elf tuck-ins, freshly fallen snow, elaborately decorated Christmas trees; and delectable holiday confections at the famous Casey’s Cupcakes, among other festive offerings. 

The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa’s Annual Festival of Lights features a fun Winter Wonderland theme that is carried throughout the exterior of the hotel and includes the new North Pole walkway, the Kensington Kelly suite, Kelly’s Spa treatments, holiday cocktails and delectable specials featured in our award-winning restaurants, winter-themed Casey’s Cupcakes.

This year’s Switch-On Ceremony will take place Friday, November 29th and the festival will continue through January 6th.

Hint For The Average Socialite: Open to the public!

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