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Christmas in the Country at Grand Geneva starts Thursday, November 24th.
The event always begins with a big celebration full of lights and excitement. This year is the 31th Annual Illumination Ceremony on Sunday, November 23rd, starting at 4:30 p.m. photos with Santa will begin, cookies and coco are available, the gingerbread display is ready for viewing, raffles will be available to benefit the Walworth County Sheriff’s Department Toys for Kids program, toy donations are encouraged and will go to kids in need, and of course the evening will conclude with its traditional flipping of the switch at 6 p.m. illuminating the grand tree in front of the resort entrance and the iconic holiday lights covering the grounds of the beautiful Grand Geneva.

Once everything is turned on, the holidays are in full swing at the resort. The halls of the Grand are beautifully decorated every year and are a favorite spot for a Christmas stroll for so many locals. Visitors come from all over to enjoy Christmas in the Country.  There is nothing within hundreds or even thousands of miles like the drive up to the Grand at night during the Christmas season. The Twelve Days of Christmas with lights, action boards, and trees come one after another on the drive.  One must drive about five miles per hour, and everybody else is doing the same, because only at that speed can a carful of families and kids sing the song as the car travels along from one ‘day’ after another. It’s a wonderfully satisfying drive and the end up at the lobby is so great to arrive at.  The end of the beginning of Christmas, America’s grand celebration, at the appropriately named Grand Geneva.