Holiday Lights Extravaganza Walking Tour
Overview
About
Holiday Lights Extravaganza Walking Tour
What you'll do
What is included?
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
What is not included?
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
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Itinerary
New York City Walking Tours Itinerary (2026 Guide) – What You'll See & Do
Explore the full itinerary for Holiday Lights Extravaganza Walking Tour in New York City, United States. This walking tours experience includes 12 stops over 1 day. Duration: 4 hours. Activity level: Light.
Here is the starting point
Macy's Herald Square
Feel like a kid again as you feast you eyes on the magnificent holiday window displays that adorn 'The Largest Store In The World". Each year, Macy's creates a wonderful new theme for it's holiday window displays. It takes 8 months to create displays for an upcoming season. These spectacular window displays are sure to bring out the child in each of us. Drawing an average of 10,000 passersby per hour, Macy's is apparently delivering on bringing the magic of the holiday season to its windows.
Christmas Village in NYC
No visit to NYC during the holidays would be complete without a visit to the Winter Village At Bryant Park! This is truly a NYC hotspot at Christmastime as thousands visit the park to skate on NYC's largest outdoor ice rink, enjoy their big and beautiful Christmas tree or visit any of over 100 outdoor pop-up shops for unique gifts, warm beverages and food. You'll be given a little time here to revel in the beauty of this magical Christmas Village.
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue may be famously known for it's many high-end, expensive retailers that are overflowing with fancy designer goods, but it's also known for it's magnificent window displays. From 57th St to Rockefeller Center, you will have an opportunity to delight in some truly serious eye candy! You'll want to remember your cameras or camera phones, for this!
The Plaza
Trump Tower
Regardless of political affiliations, as many of our tour Guests inquire about knowing where our 45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump once lived at and operated out of whenever in NYC, we will be pointing this building out while on tour.
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sak's seemingly spares no expense on decorating their windows for the holiday season. In addition to incredibly magnificent window displays which will undoubtedly be the highlight of all of your photo opportunities, Sak's also entertains passersby with a musical light show displayed on the building's facade. Incredible, does not begin to describe what you will see and hear. We promise that you are going to LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!
St. Patrick's Cathedral
This Roman Catholic church is architecturally stunning from the outside with an equally stunning nave and interior. The church was constructed in the 1800's and it is certainly one of NYC's most impressive cathedrals, attracting millions of visitors each year.
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The real, 70-100ft donated Norwegian Spruce Christmas tree is quite possibly the most famously lighted Christmas tree, in the world! Decorated with 50,000 LED lights and topped with a 9 ft., 70 spike, 3-million-Swarovski crystal tree topper, seeing it will definitely be a highlight of your holiday tour experience! If the spirit moves you, perhaps you'll participate in sings a few holiday tunes with your fellow patrons and Guide. What better way to get in the mood of the joyous holiday season than to sing by the greatest tree in the world in the greatest city, in the world!
Bergdorf Goodman
Each year, Bergdorf Goodman, a very prestigious retailer on Fifth Avenue, unveils over-the-top holiday window displays. It is rumored that Bergdorf pays their designers between $40K-$100K PER WINDOW, to appoint their huge windows with unique holiday themes that wow thousands of passersby. These are usually some of the most spectacular windows providing wonderful holiday photo opportunities.
Radio City Music Hall
- Very near to Radio City Music Hall, there are several really terrific holiday photo opportunities that we will not let you miss!
- As your tour concludes we are ending just across from Radio City Music Hall; home to the beautiful, talented, high-kicking precision dancers known as the Radio City Rockettes. Although the cost for attending the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is not included in the cost of this tour, we urge you to book a performance. It's also been a pretty amazing show that most certainly lives up to its name.
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)
NYC's over-the top holiday decoration do not stop at Rockefeller Center! Other extravagant holiday displays can be found along 6 Ave and you will see them on this tour.
Tiffany & Co.
Famous for the movie "Breakfast At Tiffany's" starring Audrey Hepburn, Tiffany's has been thrilling passersby with their frosty, blueish, holiday themed windows featuring their extraordinary jewelry amid whimsical and fantastical mice-laden holiday settings.
This concludes the tour.
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