The holiday season in Lakeland is not about the beach, it is about the calendar. RP Funding Center is the reason, and it is the reason a lot of people now plan their winter break around a specific week instead of a specific date.
RP Funding Center is Central Florida's premier event venue, an 8,000-seat arena, the 2,218-seat Youkey Theatre, and 100,000 square feet of exhibition space in the middle of the city, minutes from I-4. More than 400 events a year move through it, and the holiday season is the densest part of that calendar.
The inaugural Broadway season that started here is the thing putting the city on the theater map for good, and the holiday run is the best part of it. Season tickets start at a few hundred dollars, and the individual show tickets for the holiday dates go fast once the dates are announced. If you are the kind of person who plans a trip around a show, this is the city to be in, because the house is a ten-minute drive from the venue.
Pick the show first. Book the house for the week that includes it. Build the rest of the week around the lake, the golf, and the food, because those are all still open and none of them are crowded. Morning on the water, afternoon at the house, evening at the show. That is the local version of a holiday week, and it is better than the one where you are in a parking lot by 6 p.m.
The local tip: the holiday show weeks fill the houses first, because the people who plan around a show book early. If you have a show in mind, book the house before you buy the ticket.
Send us the show and the date. We manage seven houses in the Lakeland area and we will match you to the one that is the right distance from the venue and the right size for your group.