Hampton Roads’ favorite holiday destination will light up the Virginia Beach boardwalk during the holidays! View over 250 animated nautical and holiday-themed light displays along the boardwalk…festive fish, jumping dolphins, frolicking porpoises…all illuminated by thousands of
tiny colored lights. Sailboats gently rocking in the wind and mermaids calling out to “landlubbers” complete the nautical theme of this unique light display! Add to this a surfing Santa, giant gift-wrapped packages, and a three-story Christmas tree, and it’s easy to see why
over 100,000 visitors each year enjoy McDonald's Holiday Lights at the Beach, Presented by Verizon Wireless!

McDonald's Holiday Lights at the Beach stretches from 2nd Street to 33rd Street along the boardwalk! It’s easy to see why Holiday Lights at the Beach, Presented by Verizon Wireless, has been named one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s “Top 20 November Events” for several years! This “Fanta-Sea” of lights is sure to dazzle and amaze holiday revelers! Each year the order of light displays is changed to help create a new and fresh experience for visitors.

One of the highlights is the giant "Twelve Days of Christmas” section - a huge hit with the young at heart, no matter what their age.

A free CD of holiday music, produced by local studio, Earworks, is provided for each entering vehicle, making it possible to hear AND see why McDonald's Holiday Lights at the Beach, Presented by Verizon Wireless, has become the largest grand illumination display to grace the Atlantic seaboard!