German Village Lights

This is a really nice event every winter. It's free and easy to park. The lights are pretty. There are carolers. And some vendors give away free popcorn and mulled wine. Go check it out!

Not worth the time. Come to German Village, of course, on any other day and enjoy it, but no need to struggle with parking, crowds, shops that you can enjoy any other time, a busy little market isle with booths that sell.. no, not Christmas market goodies, but shower stalls and what not, or long lines to get cold hot chocolate or a bag of kettle corn. Oh, and there are no extra lights to view, just some ones placed along sidewalks to guide you. Nothing special about this event at all on a personal level, no incentive to come, you will miss out on nothing.

Hmmmm….

I know people keep saying to show up on time to see the fun stuff but it's really not much to see.

Lights are not strung up anywhere and parking is an absolute nightmare!

You can walk around and go to Starbucks, Stauf's, other businesses but if you've seen it all before then I don't see how there's much to do. German Village doesn't have a ton of stuff to look at in the first place. It's pretty to look at the houses though.

There was a band playing music, Schmidt's and another place had food trucks. There were a few random businesses tabling to sell showers, etc. There were some shops to go into and places selling Christmas stuff.

You can also walk into St Mary to hear a choir.

It was cool, but crowded and mostly something to do for families. You can take a pic with Santa.

I saw lot of young adults but I'm sure they mostly came to drink, eat popcorn, and socialize.

It was a little anticlimactic.

Finding parking took most of my time and I don't see what the hype is about. Absolute disappointment.

I was excited to get to GV lights…sounded like a great event.. unfortunately I didn't get to the event till 630 and like previous reviewer mentioned get there as close to 5 as possible.. the sidewalks, tents restaurants all were absolutely filled to capacity ..to the point of a crowded college bar (elbow to elbow) I looked for a parking spot for literally 20 minutes than just gave up.. I also would like to mention that this really isn't a kids event..it's for adults, food tents, beer and wine trucks and samples .. I saw 1 kid who was a pre-teen in my endeavor to find parking..Not bashing the event but not what I thought and frankly disappointing.. went over to Columbus Commons and viewed the lights in peace and was able to enjoy holiday decorations…

Here's the scoop: Not only do you get to stroll throughout German Village and look at all the Christmas lights and decorations, but ALSO some of the local businesses open on this annually picked Sunday evening and give out free samples of wine, hot chocolate, a free munchie or two – you never know what all is going to be out for consumption/drinking. A few highlights: The Bell Chior plays classic carols with their giant hand bells. Loved the sweet melodic sound of the bells. Studio Fovero has tasty hot cider (you can add alcohol to it, if you'd like), along with several Greek finger pastries to try, wink wink. Tops the night? Super delicious hot chocolate, with whipped cream to top, on Lindy's patio. Folks, if you miss this stop, well, you've completely let me down. An instrumental band playing the usual. And, if it gets too crowded, directly across the street, the realty business has free boozy punch. The only thing to remember? Start your festivities as close to 5pm as possible, because stuff runs out.