ブレナム宮殿のクリスマス | オズの宮殿 | フルハウスツアー＆レビュー 2025 | イギリス旅行Vlog

ブレナム宮殿のクリスマス | オズの宮殿 | フルハウスツアー＆レビュー 2025 | イギリス旅行Vlog

Hello and welcome back to Explore Home Repeat. Today we’re at Blenin Palace in the Cotswwells for their brand new Christmas experience, the Palace of Oz. We’ll follow the yellow brick road through the beautifully dressed stateooms, then head outside to explore the Christmas market, the ice rink, and the fairground rides to see whether this year’s event is worth the visit for families. Right now, let’s go and explore. As with previous years, as you’re walking up from the car park, you’ll see the big ferris wheel on the left hand side. And we enter through the gates and into the courtyard where they have all the fairground rides. Pretty similar to previous years. So, they’ve got this really nice Victorian carousel, a big helter skelter, the swing boats in the corner, a little kiddy carousel, and then a load of snack carts and coffee carts. After briefly exploring the courtyard, we went straight off to the house. This year’s decorations were themed on the Wizard of Oz, and we were really looking forward to this. So, immediately as you come in, you can see Dorothy’s house being blown away by a big tornado. Impressive, isn’t it? Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s kind of like quite subtle, actually. I thought it’d be like with a storm and that it would be even more elaborate, but yeah, it’s really good. First of all, we’re going into Land of the Munchkins. Oh, it’s all sort of dark and warm lights. Wow, Sienna, look at this. Land of the Munchkins. Let’s go find some munchkins, Sienna. Wow, it’s all done like a little woodland glade in this woodland house. You’ve got little videos playing through the windows. We’ve got a missing poster here for Nim Amy. Maybe maybe we’ve got to try and find her last scene with the wicked witch of the east. So, it looks like we’re now on our way to the Emerald City. We’re going to get the scarecrow. Oh, the scarecrow is going to tell us which way to go. Maybe. Oh, we found the scarecrow. And over here we’ve got a sign back to land of the munchkins where we came from or the emerald city. I might have stood here. Here’s the tin man as well. He’s chopping wood. Certain we saved my Oh, I think I found to Is it Toto the dog as well? Oh, and some maybe some magic slippers. Although they’re not really. And now we found the cowardly lion. Seems to be just chilling out laying down at the minute. Just the level of detail they go into is amazing. That room with the lion in was just beautiful. You sort of forget to look at all the decorations and the actual house. I mean, the house is beautiful as well. Next up, we went through these really impressive emerald gates into the emerald city. Both the gates and the room inside had really impressive projections on the walls. And then we got to meet what we thought was the Wizard of Oz. Wow, this is cool. So, now we’re into the Emerald City. They got this massive projection screen with all of the city and flying monkeys around. Looks amazing. Oh, I think we’re going to get to see the wizard in a minute. Welcome to Emerald Palace. I the brave. Remember, you’ve got courage. Three brains and a half, right? Who do we have here? It was at this point that the face on screen would pick someone out of the crowd using a spotlight and then talk to them. It did seem like it was actually a pre-recorded message, but it was still quite clever and gave a bit of audience interaction. I don’t know quite what we’re going into now, but it appears to be another big forest with all the flying monkeys everywhere. They’re everywhere. It’s very well done in here. And you got a lady telling the story of what is going to happen next in the next room, but this has the flying monkeys and the wolves and the bees. It’s really well done. The next room was really beautiful and had a screen of Dorothy defeating the wicked witch by throwing water on her in a slightly camp and slightly cheesy way, but it was good fun. Just some slight overacting, but don’t worry about it too much. After that, the next room showed the giant Wizard of Oz head and Toto secretly revealing that the head wasn’t the Wizard of Oz at all, that it was someone controlling him from behind a curtain. Just come into the big library. This room is so impressive. They got a huge great big hot air balloon up in the sky. Wow. Sienna’s been a little bit worried, but it is quite a dark story. Yeah. Where they have lots of dark rooms with lights on and and there’s a big giant wizard head and things like this. So, it is a little bit creepy in places, but she’s getting braver and we said we’d buy her a chocolate brownie and a and a hot chocolate on the way out if she was brave. And then she gets to meet Dorothy. Oh, Dorothy. Nice. Whilst it is very pretty, I would say this year, this final room maybe not quite as impressive as years when they had the giant pirate ship from Peter Pan or something like that. It’s still absolutely beautiful. This yellow brick road all along the floor and then you got a projection at the end. Beautiful Christmas trees. Really immersive. Follows the story brilliantly. It is really great fun. After exiting the house, we then went and had a look around the giant Christmas market to try and find something to eat. There’s a huge range of food stores here. So, we got the sausage guys selling brat verses. There’s a bar, uh, wraps. We had a really good Christmy duck burger, uh, pizza, just really everything you could, uh, ever want really on a Christmy day out. There’s even hot roasted chestnuts. Everything here is incredibly expensive. It’s kind of 13 123 for a a burger or a big sausage hot dogy thing. So, just be prepared for that. It’s really expensive. There’s £8 a pint for a beer as well. So, you just got to get used to that. At a Christmas event, it’s all going to be pricey. This year, they have got this big undercover seating area for all the food vans, which is a really good idea. It is worth noting that this year or for the foreseeable future, the front of the palace is covered up quite heavily with scrim and scaffolding cuz they’re doing a massive project to redo all of the roof. So, it’s not looking quite so good for that photo out the front of the very grand palace. Again, like last year, they do have the great skate, a big ice rink. It’s all undercover. Most of the time you do have to pre-book, but there is walkups if you’re kind of during a quiet time. It is a really decent size rink, I would say. Probably half the size of a full size kind of ice hockey rink. Sienna is very excited to go on a carousel right now. There’s a little fairground tokens booth over here. Rides are £3 each. Well, that’s Toddlers for you. Just about to queue up to buy a token. Sienna says, “I don’t want to go on the carousel.” So, we’ve changed our mind. Whilst we’re here, just going to have a quick look in the palace shop. They sell some quite nice stuff in here. Typically, the Blenin Palace gift shop is really nice with loads of really high-end souvenirs and local produce from around the Cotsworld. They do also at this time of year have a festive Christmas shop with lots of decorations and Christmy bits and bobs. The shop is absolutely massive and has loads of really nice stuff to take home. Overall, Christmas at Blenin Palace is excellent every single year. This year’s theme, the Palace of Oz, was very, very good, although perhaps not quite as good as Peter Pan last year. That being said, the decorations are beautiful. All the immersive experiences are excellent and they put so much effort into decorating the palace. It really is great value, too. If you can come in the evening and do the light trail as well, we’d highly recommend that. Although it is very, very expensive. It’s well worth coming here and having lunch with all of those market stalls and food vans. There was such a huge amount of selection. and it was well worth making some time in your day and enjoying those even if they are a bit pricey. Right, with that being said, we’re off home. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and we’ll see you next time.

Join us as we visit Blenheim Palace in the Cotswolds for their brand-new Christmas event, Palace of Oz. In this vlog we walk through the festive, Wizard-of-Oz-themed state rooms, explore the Blenheim Palace Christmas Market, try out the ice rink, and take a look at the fairground rides to see if this popular Christmas day out is worth the money for families.

We share our honest review of prices, what’s included, and whether Palace of Oz is better than previous Blenheim Christmas themes. If you’re wondering whether to book tickets, how long you need, or what the experience is really like with kids, this video should help.

0:00 Intro
0:25 The Ferris wheel and courtyard fairground
0:53 Entering the palace: The palace of Oz
1:24 Munchkin Land
2:07 The scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion
2:52 The Emerald City and meeting the Wizard of Oz
4:52 The library and meeting Dorothy
6:14 The Christmas market stalls and food vans
7:30 The Great Skate ice rink
8:12 The palace shop
8:40 The review!

Based on the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire border in England, husband and wife Matt and Isabelle explore attractions and day out locations across the UK. From zoos, safari parks, theme parks, gardens and National Trust estates to castles, cities, towns and villages, we find out if you should visit and is it worth the money.