In a little over a month, Disney will switch gears from spooky season to the festive holidays!

Jollywood Nights 2024 — ©Disney

That means we’ll go from pumpkins to Christmas trees all around the parks and hotels. Disney has two special holiday events — Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom and Jollywood Nights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Jollywood Nights was a new event in 2023, and it is returning this year with even more new entertainment and merchandise. We wish we didn’t have to wait until November to enjoy this holiday party. But luckily, we got an early sneak peek!

We headed to Disney’s Hollywood Studios for a night of glitz and glam as we celebrated Jollywood Nights early at the little preview party and Latin American Heritage Month event! We dressed to impress and headed for the event to find out more about this year’s event.

Disney Jollywood Nights (2023)

There was music and dancing as we got a preview of this year’s Fiesta en la Calle. Holiday Fiesta en la Calle will be a fun holiday street fair in Animation Courtyard during the Jollywood Nights events. There will be warm lighting, colorful decorations, and entertaining Latin holiday music. We were excited to get a sneak peek of this special entertainment offering!

Last night, we got to experience a #mediaevent previewing what will be offered at Jollywood Nights this holiday season in Disney’s Hollywood Studios! Here’s a sneak peek 👇 pic.twitter.com/ZBKqLiI7DX

— Disney Food Blog (@DisneyFoodBlog) October 2, 2024

At the Jollywood Nights events, there will be appearances from José Carioca and Panchito from The Three Caballeros, but we were so surprised to see them tonight! The two amigos were looking dashing as always!

José and Panchito

At the event, we also got a preview of lots of food options that will be available at Jollywood Nights. We spotted some Spicy Pimento-Kimchi Dip…

Spicy Pimento Kimchi Dip

…Meatballs and Polenta…

Meatballs and Polenta

…Birria Tacos…

Birria Tacos

…Yuca con Chicharron…

Yuca con Chicharron

…Yuca con Chicharron…

Buffalo Chicken Spring Rolls

…Chicken Empanadas with Street Corn…

Chicken Empanadas with Street Corn

…and festive Gingerbread Bites!

Gingerbread Bites

YUM! We can’t wait for Jollywood Nights to begin on November 9th! These events are specially ticketed offerings on select nights through December 21st. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, be sure to head over to Disney’s website to purchase yours today!

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Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend a preview as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Today, we were invited by Disney World to attend their media preview of Jollywood Nights. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ