{"id":22516,"date":"2025-12-24T00:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:42:51","slug":"tours-to-visit-christmas-movie-locations-in-us-state-of-connecticut-prove-huge-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22516","title":{"rendered":"Tours to visit Christmas movie locations in US state of Connecticut prove huge hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Christmas at Pemberley Manor<\/em> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Romance at Reindeer Lodge<\/em> may never make it to Oscar night, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday movies \u2013 and this season, many are making pilgrimages to where their favourite scenes were filmed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That is because the US state of Connecticut \u2013 the location for at least 22 holiday films by American cable networks such as Hallmark and Lifetime \u2013 has been promoting tours of the quaint Christmas-card cities and towns featured in this booming film market. Places where, for example, a busy corporate lawyer can return home for the holidays and cross paths with a plaid-shirt-clad former high school flame who now runs a Christmas tree farm. (Spoiler alert: they live happily ever after.)<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s exciting \u2013 just to know that something was in a movie and we actually get to see it visually,\u201d said Abby Rumfelt of Morganton, North Carolina, after stepping off a coach in Wethersfield, Connecticut, one of the stops on the holiday film tour.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rumfelt was among 53 people, mostly women, on a recent week-long \u201cHallmark Movie Christmas Tour\u201d, organised by Mayfield Tours from Spartanburg, South Carolina. On the bus, fans watched the matching film as they rode from stop to stop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People walk by the Silas W Robbins B &amp; B in Wethersfield, where parts of the Hallmark movie Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane was filmed. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/22\/b186f63b-3c39-45f3-9bda-55ee6ad883e6_5a1f8a31.jpg\" title=\"People walk by the Silas W Robbins B &amp; B in Wethersfield, where parts of the Hallmark movie Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane was filmed. Photo: AP\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">People walk by the Silas W Robbins B &amp; B in Wethersfield, where parts of the Hallmark movie Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane was filmed. Photo: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Whether you love them or loathe them, television Christmas films are a holiday season staple. The romance, the snowy landscapes, the perfectly decorated homes and the familiar stories provide millions of viewers with comfort and joy in December \u2013 and even November for some with a looser definition of the holiday season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3337309\/tours-visit-christmas-movie-locations-us-state-connecticut-prove-huge-hit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas at Pemberley Manor and Romance at Reindeer Lodge may never make it to Oscar night, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2568,14023,467,1560,3645,1543,730,5204,1557,1210],"class_list":["post-22516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-christmas","tag-connecticut","tag-hit","tag-huge","tag-locations","tag-movie","tag-prove","tag-state","tag-tours","tag-visit","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}