The Royal Parks held its charity Preview Night in Hyde Park on the eve of Winter Wonderland opening to the public in November 2025.
The Royal Parks charity held its Preview Night at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park on Thursday 13 November 2025, the night before the public season began. All of the evening’s proceeds went to the parks.
Winter Wonderland first opened on 11 December 2007 as an open-air Christmas market with an ice rink and a big wheel. It grew to include a Bavarian Village of beer halls and food, a circus, and an ice rink around the Victorian bandstand, the largest outdoor rink in Britain.
Munich Looping, the largest transportable roller coaster in the world, followed. Fourteen million people came in the event’s first ten years.
The charity cares for London’s eight Royal Parks, more than 5,000 acres of historic parkland, and Hyde Park is the ground Winter Wonderland stands on. Each year it takes the site for one night before the gates open to the public.
The 2025 Preview Night ran from 17:00 to 22:00 on a closed site. Guests had the run of the rides, among them Munich Looping, Hangover and Airborne, each on a first-come basis.
The public season ran from Friday 14 November 2025 to Thursday 1 January 2026.