- Shands Rd Xmas ExperienceLast season: 2025: every night from Saturday 29 November to 30 December (Tuesday), 8.30pm-11.30pm2025: $15 per adult, $5 per child
- NotEnoughLights Christmas Light Show2026: From Saturday 28 November 2026 (first switch-on 8.30pm); shows to Christmas Eve until 11.30pm, from 25 December until 10.30pm, final show 31 DecemberFree; donations welcome
🧒 With kids
- Shands Rd Xmas Experience · Christchurch
- NotEnoughLights Christmas Light Show · Christchurch
🎉 With friends
- Shands Rd Xmas Experience · Christchurch
- NotEnoughLights Christmas Light Show · Christchurch
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Shands Rd Xmas Experience
A home-built Christmas village with animated displays: a Stargate entrance, merry-go-rounds, a Ferris wheel and rollercoaster, garden trains, carnival performers, a steampunk Santa's Control Room, Disney characters, a gingerbread village, a light show synced to rock music and a large Christmas locomotive.
🧒 With kids🎉 With friendsWhat's there
- Stargate entrance into the Xmas village
- Ferris wheel, rollercoaster and merry-go-rounds
- Steampunk Santa's Control Room with the Nautinus airship
- Giant gingerbread village
- Light show synced to rock music
Christchurch's big paid lights experience - the biggest walk-through, and the one to pick when you want more than a street of lights.
- Last season
- 2025: every night from Saturday 29 November to 30 December (Tuesday), 8.30pm-11.30pm
- Cost
- 2025: $15 per adult, $5 per child
Getting there and parking
- 650 Shands Road, with off-street parking.
Worth knowing
- Hot and cold food, treats and coffee are sold on site.
- Open late - until 11.30pm every night.
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NotEnoughLights Christmas Light Show
A house on Dunluce Place covered in 400,000+ coloured LED lights that flash in time to music. You are welcome to walk onto the driveway to look at the lights.
🧒 With kids🎉 With friendsWhat's there
- 400,000+ lights synchronised to music
- Visitors can come onto the driveway
- Free, with donations welcome
What visitors sayGoogle 4.8 ★ · 135 reviews
Google reviewers rate it 4.8 from 135 reviews; Christchurch locals also list 8 Dunluce Place as the most-loved house on the Light Up Christmas lists.
Christchurch's best free lights - a music-synced show in a normal cul-de-sac.
- 2026
- From Saturday 28 November 2026 (first switch-on 8.30pm); shows to Christmas Eve until 11.30pm, from 25 December until 10.30pm, final show 31 December
- Last season
- 2025 season; the show re-opens for 2026 on 28 November
- Cost
- Free; donations welcome
Getting there and parking
- Dunluce Place, Hornby, south-west Christchurch; it is a residential cul-de-sac, so park nearby and walk in.
Worth knowing
- You honestly can't miss it, says the show's own site.
- Expect the show to end later (11.30pm) in the week before Christmas.