Our two boys of 3 and 5 were so excited throughout the entire experience and it was such a joy to see all the staff play their parts and get the entire train involved. We sang, danced, ate cookies, drank hot chocolate, met Santa, and rang our bells all in a marvelous setting of the old fashioned train (it's only a steam engine train in February, we went in December). Santa was very personable with each individual and gave each child ample amount of time and conversation. We were appreciative of everything that was done for our large group of 9, but were disappointed that the train ride was slow and didn't even get out of town. The North Pole left our five year old asking questions: "Why was it so small? Why was there a pool next to it? Why didn't we go very far? That isn't the real North Pole, is it?" We let him know it was magic how we got there and are figuring out ways to answer his questions as we go. We drove over 8 hours for this and expected to at least get somewhere and see things other then the town of Ely. We really enjoyed the complimentary train museum, that was amazing! The experience itself was pretty great for the kids, but we were definitely feeling mislead by the advertising and wish we would've been able to take a nighttime ride to hide the North Pole surroundings instead because of our child's confusion. read more