Christmas at Kew 2022

Christmas at Kew was such a success that I was quick to book again for 2022. I actually booked it in January! In 2021 I had a late drop-out (covid) and the missing person was keen to give it another ago and after a little bit of asking around I got 6 tickets. As a member of Kew Gardens they were only £23 each which I thought was very reasonable.

Again things wen't slightly awry, including a son having his work's Christmas party on that night, but we had a full set of six on the nigh, four of whom were always meant to be there.

The first part of the evening went wrong too. We arranged to all meet in The Railway Tavern beforehand and some of us planned to eat there. We ordered food at 6:15 but at 7pm (our timed tickets were for 7pm) our food had not arrived and so we got a refund and left.

Luckily Kew at Christmas saved the evening.
 

As with 2021, it was a long route through the gardens and it took as about 90 minutes to get around which included one short queue for hot drinks.

There were several large set pieces, like the one above, and lots of pretty lights between them. All of the settings were good and some were magical and I paused many times to take in the experience. And the best bit was walking through some of the displays and being engulfed by them.

I will be buying tickets for Kew at Christmas 2023 as soon as they go on sale. The only question is how many.