Disney's Aladdin | Gift Someone an Experience This Christmas

Christmas is my favourite time of year, fact! It’s a time of year that spending time with my friends and family is extremely important to me. In everyday life it can be easy to focus on work and neglect spending time with our loved ones and Christmas is a time where we can reflect and focus on the things that truly matter. My love for Christmas comes from my Nan who was mad about it, she would have her decorations up on the 1st December without fail, every window was covered with lights and even the front garden had a lit-up Santa and sleigh, she would get so excited about this time of year and it was infectious. Her front room would be decorated with the tackiest 80’s hanging ceiling decorations, a massive tree overly decorated with baubles, Santa’s, angels, tinsel, chocolates, multi-coloured lights and even silly string. Although my Nan is no longer with us, I can still close my eyes and see her face, her excitement and even her badly decorated tree that certainly wouldn’t make my Instagram feed!

For me that’s Christmas, even writing this blog post it’s making me smile because it’s making me recall good times with family past and present. As a kid I recall religiously going to watch a musical around this time of year and I haven’t been to one since growing up which is a massive shame. I almost forgot what it was like to see a performance like Aladdin the Musical. On arrival at the Prince Edward theatre it immediately transported me back to the good times of Christmas, a nostalgic warmth came over me, in fact I couldn’t stop smiling! It made me think why on this winter tradition was not continued into my adulthood. From this year on, I’ll see at least one musical every Christmas and to prove it I’ll write about it!

Recently I was fortunate enough to watch Aladdin the Musical including a back stage tour at the end of the show. I was blown away by the performance, the visuals and the costumes all of which gave me an uplifting feeling helped by my plus one that was completely in awe and acting like an excited puppy! Expect colourful outfits, incredible visual effects, songs that we can all recognise, exceptional performances from Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie and even a flying rug! Aladdin the Musical is currently on at the Price Edward theatre and you can still buy tickets here.

It’s a time of year for giving, so it also made me think about what to buy my family this Christmas and rather than gifting things, how amazing would it be to gift experiences such as tickets to Disney’s Aladdin the Musical? For example you too could reinvent a lost family tradition by buying two tickets, one for yourself and surprising your loved one with the second ticket. It’s an experience to remember forever as well as getting to spend time with that person.