I've wondered about this too. Many years ago, we spent the last
two November weeks, ending with Thanksgiving weekend, at WDW. At the beginning of our trip (1.5 weeks before Thanksgiving Day), the resorts already had decorated Christmas trees, garlands and gingerbread houses in their lobbies. I don't recall whether they were still playing resort music tracks or holiday music in the lobbies and around the pools. Downtown Disney was all Christmas-y everywhere you looked or listened - not to be outdone by WalMart's early shopping season, to be sure! :rofl:
The
All Ears website has a posting from November 13, 2007. It says, "The day after Halloween the huge effort to decorate Walt Disney World for the upcoming holidays got under way." Photos show the early decorations going up in all of the Disney theme parks.
Disney's
official website lists the range of selected dates for...
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
Magic Kingdom® Park
November 10, 2008 - December 19, 2008
If they're trying to draw pre-Christmas celebrants to the MK for this hard-ticketed event as early as Nov 10th, they will likely have some decorations up at the resorts as well - JMO. Certainly, by November 10th, MK will be completely decked out. We've checked in on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving several years and always found the resort decorations fully finished ahead of our arrivals.
I'd think that a trip spanning Nov 16-23 would definitely include some very festive holiday greenery and decorations, even if the big Christmas light displays are not all turned on yet at night.