Holt Family Lights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: 705 Tallahassee Dr., Chesapeake, VA 23322, Chesapeake, Virginia
When: November 22 through Christmas Eve (2025); Grand Illumination November 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon-Thu 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Fri-Sat 5:30-10 p.m.; Sun 5:30-9 p.m.
Cost: free
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A long-running family home display in Chesapeake that opens with its own Grand Illumination the weekend before Thanksgiving and runs through Christmas Eve. Costumed characters including Santa, the Grinch, and Sesame Street favorites greet visitors on select December evenings.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Chesapeake is around 4:50 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:19 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 36°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 7 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 14 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Ledbetter's Holly Jolly Inflatable Christmas Extravaganza
- Priest Family Christmas (Christmas Palooza)
- Burns Family Christmas Lights and Nativity
- Phillips Family Christmas Lights
- Deck the Hall & Fa La La Land at Chesapeake City Hall
- Christmas in the Country at Triple R Ranch
- Sheely Family Lights
- Piazza Family Christmas Lights
Make a night of it. This is stop 6 on our 11-stop Chesapeake lights loop — about 37 miles and 133 minutes of driving in total.