{"id":71706,"date":"2023-11-17T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=71706"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:50:31","slug":"christmas-tree-wonderland-switched-on-in-bournemouth-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/christmas-tree-wonderland-switched-on-in-bournemouth-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Wonderland switched on in Bournemouth for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of lights are now illuminating the Lower Gardens in Bournemouth following the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/christmastreewonderland.co.uk\/\">Christmas Tree Wonderland<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth One has been taking a look around the gardens from the Square to the Pier, and you can see our montage of photos here.<\/p>\n<p>New for this year is a tunnel of light at the start of the trail thanks to the Council and Coastal Business Improvement District.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth\u2019s Santa Express is another addition for the kids, who can enjoy a train ride around the giant Santa illumination in front of the bandstand.<\/p>\n<p>The centrepiece walk-through tree is lit and decorated with Christmas tree decorations this year, with laser lights shooting from the bottom of the tree. A new walk-through Christmas present completes the trail on the seafront.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Markets opened yesterday featuring a range of festive wares alongside some tempting food and drinks, visitors can grab an indulgent hot chocolate to warm up as they wander through the trail, or a festive tipple from the Alpine Bar.<\/p>\n<p>The Skate Ice Rink is also making a welcome return this year. Visitors can glide across the ice surrounded by the twinkling illuminations, with younger visitors enjoying a seat as they\u2019re pushed around the open-air ice rink.<\/p>\n<p>On Bournemouth Pier, little ones can post their letters to Santa, and the whole family can enjoy the Christmas lights from high up on the Big Wheel at Pier Approach.<\/p>\n<p>For that real apres-ski feeling, Picnic on the Piste, located in the Westover Gardens area of the Lower Gardens, has live music, festive food and drink, and a glowing stepping stones trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of lights are now illuminating the Lower Gardens in Bournemouth following the launch of Christmas Tree Wonderland today. Bournemouth One has been taking a look around the gardens from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":71708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71709,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706\/revisions\/71709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}