A Christmas drive-in cinema with a festive village and candy cane forest is coming to Manchester

The festive season is well and truly upon us, so what better way to celebrate than with an immersive festive drive-in cinema experience?

Later this month, Christmas City 2021 will be rolling into Trafford’s Soccer Dome – the very place that hosted the terrifying Scare City for Halloween – to provide a whole host of magical festivities in the run-up to the big day.

The real star of the show will be the magical drive-in cinema experience, which will be showing all those festive film favourites for guests to watch from the comfort of their own cars.

Christmas City

The events will be split up into two categories; naughty for the adults and nice for families and children.

Those partaking in the ‘naughty’ screenings will be able to watch movies such as The Holiday, Bad Santa, Die Hard and Love Actually, in a perfect immersive experience for couples and groups of friends. 

The ‘nice’ screenings, alternatively, are perfect for families and children, with films including Home Alone, The Polar Express, Elf, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and many more. Children will also be able to post their own letters to Father Christmas in the Christmas City post-box and explore the North Pole from the safety of their cars.

But this is more than just your regular drive-in cinema; each ticket also provides visitors with the chance to journey through an immersive Christmas Village filled with surprises, live actors and even Father Christmas himself.

Christmas City

Visitors will also be able to take a wander through the Candy Cane forest, where they can pose for photographs with favourite festive characters like The Grinch and Buddy the Elf, as well as indulge in a selection of food and drink. 

Christmas City 2021 will be arriving at Trafford’s Soccer Dome on November 26th, where it will remain until January 2nd 2022. Tickets are £45 per vehicle plus booking fee. 

The full list of films being shown are as follows:

• The Holiday
• Home Alone
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• The Polar Express
• The Night Before
• Elf
• The Christmas Chronicles
• Bad Santa
• Bad Santa 2
• Love Actually
• A Bad Moms Christmas
• The Santa Clause
• Die Hard
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• Four Christmasses
• A Christmas Carol
• Christmas With The Coopers
• Abominable
• Office Christmas Party
• Scrooged
• The Gremlins
• Nativity!
• Nativity! 2
• Arthur Christmas
• Jack Frost
• The Family Stone
• A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas
• It’s A Wonderful Life
• The Greatest Showman
• Dirty Dancing
• Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
• Armageddon 

For tickets, screen times, dates and further information, head over to the Christmas City 2021 website.