A new filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation shows that officials plan to spend over $1 million to renovate about 18,000 square feet at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine for a temporary ice-themed 2026 holiday attraction. The display will focus on the popular fantasy series by J.K. Rowling.
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Construction at the resort is scheduled to begin in November. The Gaylord Texan Resort’s ice theme will be announced July 23, according to Elizabeth Schrack, the Grapevine Convention & Visitors Bureau’s director of communications.
Selected Gaylord Hotels have created new ice-themed Christmas attractions every year since the first attraction debuted at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2001. Last year, the Texan debuted an ice attraction based on the 2003 movie “Elf” starring Will Ferrell.
The attraction will coincide with a new eight-episode Harry Potter series that debuts Christmas Day on HBO. Other renovations are planned this year at the Gaylord Texan, including $3 million for marketplace improvements.
Original reporting: Fort Worth Report — read the source article.
