Christmas Season is here! Eureka Springs is preparing for a spectacular Christmas Season. Lights are everywhere you look – buildings, store windows, parks, adorning handrails, hanging from light poles, wrapped around trees…you get the picture. Eureka Springs is on the Arkansas Trail of Lights and we want make sure guests enjoy our wonderful town in all it’s decorated glory. We have thousands and thousands of lights up and we hope you will visit to see them.

Some of the things going on this month are the the Pine Mountain Jamboree continues their Christmas Show, the Candlelight Tour of Homes, Christmas Forest, Photos With Santa in Basin Park, and the Christmas Ball.

We will be open for Christmas and New Year’s and already have some bookings so don’t be shy about asking for holiday dates. Unlike some places, we are open all year and we’d love to have you visit during the winter when it’s slower and more relaxed.

Enjoy all the extraordinary things Eureka Springs has to offer. Call us and make your reservations today!

SPECIALS

Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides are free for a limited time.

Enjoy a Eureka Springs Holiday treat. Eureka Springs homes and businesses will be decked out in their finest Christmas decorations.

Stay any night with us November 21 thru December 22
Get a Horse-Drawn Carriage Ride thru Festive Downtown Free
Rates start at $144 per night plus tax.
Stay additional nights at 10% off.
Good November 21 thru December 22
Based on availability, no other discounts apply.
Must mention this special when making your reservation, prior reservations excluded.

RECIPE

These are really so easy. Great for holiday cookies. Makes a nice, chewy cookie.

CAKE MIX COOKIES

1 yellow cake mix
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Bake at 375 degrees on a greased cookie sheet 8 to 10 minutes.

DECEMBER EVENTS

December 3
Candlelight Tour of Homes. Tour Eureka’s Victorian homes presented by the Preservation Society.

December 3-9
12th Annual Christmas at The Crescent. Arriving at the doorstep of this delightfully decorated Historic Hotel of America, guests are swept in by the jubilant breeze of Christmas. A time to look and listen.a time to share with your fellow travelers memories anew and it all starts on Saturday, with the “Christmas Forest Tree Lighting Ceremony”.

December 3-31
Eureka Springs’ Christmas Forest. The formal garden area atop Crescent Mountain will be illuminated with more than two-dozen Christmas trees decorated by local charities as a fund-raiser for each. Visitors can stroll throughout the grounds and choose which one they think is best! Admission is free.

December 9
9th Annual Christmas Ball at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel Ballroom. Proceeds benefit the Eureka Springs Historical Museum. For more information call 479-253-9417.

December 10
Photos with Santa in Basin Spring Park from 1pm to 3pm.

December 10
2nd Saturday Gallery Stroll. The City’s art galleries are joining forces to stage a monthly “Celebration of the Art of Eureka” 6pm to 8pm. For more information call Quicksilver at 479-253-7679.

If you have questions or need more information about any of these events, email or call us toll-free.

Christmas time again! Wow, where did the year go? We’ve had our lights up for a couple of weeks now and the town looks really great. The Eureka Springs Christmas Parade will be tomorrow night and will be interesting and unusual, just like Eureka Springs, as always. We’ve decided to take off Dec 23-26 to be with family, so don’t wait to reserve for New Year’s weekend with us.

There are still dates open for the Holiday Mansion Tour Package. Only two weekends left, so don’t wait. We are also getting a wonderful discount on massages thru January, so we put together the “Personal Christmas” package that includes a Two-Nights in one of our king jacuzzi suites plus a One-Hour Couple’s Massage for the lowest price ever! This discount is good thru January, so don’t wait.

Christmas Music shows will be playing until December 11th. Nothing like great Christmas Music to get me in the Holiday Spirit!
Come relax and rejuvenate in Eureka Springs, your extraordinary escape. Reserve your dates today!

SPECIALS

A PERSONAL CHRISTMAS
A Present that Santa Knows You Deserve
* Stay Two Nights in a King Jacuzzi Suite (Maylie, Matalyn or Sabrina)
* Enjoy a Full Breakfast in your room each morning
* Homemade Desserts in your room each afternoon
* A One-Hour Couple’s Massage at Laughing Hands Massage
* $349.00 plus tax (huge discount!)
* upgrade to a fireplace suite for $20 extra
* upgrade to a private cottage for $90 extra

HOLIDAY MANSION TOUR
* Two Nights in a king jacuzzi suite with Fireplace (Olivia, Lauren or Morgan)
* A $50 Dinner Voucher good at 7 fine Eureka Springs restaurants
* 2 Candlelight Tour Tickets at the Queen Ann Mansion on November 27th, December 4th or December 11th only.
* $397.00 plus tax.

Evening Shade Inn Bed and Breakfast is proud to be a multiple-year donor to such a worthy cause. Donations can be made at the Carroll County Sheriff’s office in Berryville.

Eureka Springs Auditorium

Local musicians come together in the spirit of the season for a night of great entertainment.
Admission by donation.
Call 479-253-2586 for additional information.