It's not the same event anymore. Now it's called Christmas Towne and it's a carnival with a small light show across the street. It is pretty fun, you can enjoy classic things like Ferris wheels and bad prizes. It's free to enter and rides cost a few bucks each. read more

Rock'N Lights - Festivals Near Me - Round Rock, Texas

This was my first visit to this third annual event. It features a mile and a half drive thru light display with over 2 million lights. That's a lot of lights! Enter off of Old Settler's and exit onto 79 by the Salt Lick. It took us one hour and 25 minutes to get to the ticket booth! Yes, we all had to pee. Like real bad. I almost jumped out of the car and used one of the road cones for shielding. Luckily they had some (4ish) port-o-potties once you got inside. That area is kinda dark though. Bring a flashlight. Maybe some snacks? Bring the dog and the kiddo's. Kids are gonna love this. The trail was cutely themed with a reminder of celebration to preparation to dinner time with dessert to Santa's Coal Mine to the North Pole Rodeo. It was all cute and made me wish I had some kids in my car so I could vibe off of their excitement. My favorite part was the end light tunnel. It was fully lit and would do the roving flashing thing every once in awhile. Unfortunately we got stuck with the steady on feature. Which really sucked because I wanted to experience the roving flash. There's a little Christmas Town at the end, so be sure to park and check it out. More lights, petting zoo, and little carnival. Also some food. Take the kids, they will talk about this for a long time. Good for Round Rock to bring in their own originality. Was this worth all the effort and the $15? Sure, why not? Is it four star worthy? Not really, but, one star for bringing attention to 'da Rizzle. This is year three, hopefully, they will continue to grow and improve. read more

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This is terrible It's been an hour and I'm not even half way through The Ferris wheel is at the end and it doesn't seem to get any closer Heed my warning no one wants to spend this kind of time in a car looking at crummy Christmas lights Yes some of them move but mostly it's like lights from 40 years ago If you have small children I'm sorry this would be miserable. This is like if 35 in rush hour put up lights to make traffic fun, it still wouldn't be. Not worth $15, not worth $5 just want out read more

Rock'N Lights - Amazing Christmas lights - Festivals Near Me - Round Rock, Texas

My 2 1/2 year old daughter had such an amazing time seeing all the lights. The light up tunnel was her favorite thing to see and run through. I really enjoyed seeing the American flag and the Texas flag done in led lights! read more

Rock'N Lights - Good bless America and Texas! - Festivals Near Me - Round Rock, Texas

We purchased an online ticket for 8pm Sunday (29Nov2020) at Grayslake IL. The ticket states to arrive within 30 minutes after your scheduled time. - we arrived at 8:07pm to find over 63 cars ahead of us in line, moving about 1 car length per minute=1hr wait time (I thought we reserved a time slot?) - after a 30 minute drive to get there, 4 small children in the car, and school the next day, we turned around and went home - the phone number on the ticket (224-757-5425) was a recorded message that states to use your email link to change your ticket time - using the link from the email I get the message that the event has already passed and to call the number (recorded message) - I found an email address "info@santasrocknlights.com" to send change requests after the event has taken place - email was sent Sunday night, it is now Tuesday with no response I'm pretty sure we flushed $25 down the toilet with this ticket purchase, plus an hour of driving and crushing the hopes of 4 young children. We won't be going back. read more

I would recommend coming just once. It is pretty overpriced of $15 per vehicle considering how long you have to wait in line (about 40 minutes on a Friday night around 7:30 pm) to even get to the ticket booth. The lights are fun to look at but not worth the wait. The best part is the end with a really cool tunnel of lights! At the exit is where you can park your car and enter Christmas Towne. On their website there is a $3 off the wristband for unlimited rides making it $15. There is also a light maze and walk through light tunnel for free that you can go through! Food options are very limited - just your classic popcorn, funnel cake, and caramel apples. There wasn't even hot chocolate! Anyway, I either recommend coming on a weekday night or as early as you can get there to avoid a ridiculously long and slow line. read more

Don't waste your money! All together 65.00 it wasn't even 30 mins in a small parking lot with lights not even consistently on.. a total disappointment and pissed I wasted my money they didn't even have anything to accommodate you, we should have went to botanical gardens or even Stone Mountain. Hot mess! read more

Loved Rock N Lights in round rock. They had several themes. They get plenty of traffic so come prepared for what is a pretty long drive through. It was worth the 15 bucks, kids truly enjoyed it. read more

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Heads up - this event was canceled as of 2017. Used to be one of our favorite events too. It is confusing because there is still an informational site from 2016 active online, but alas, the event is no more. read more

Disappointed. 1 hour wait just to get up to the booth to pay. Mediocre lights with only half that had anything to do with Christmas. Tiny carnival at the end with 2 games and no petting zoo like the flyer said. Not worth $15 or your time. Merry Christmas! read more

It's great and all, but they display the same lights every year. There's nothing new about the show plus you have to drive in your car while seeing the lights. We should be about to walk around and take photos. The line of cars to get in and out is really bad and quite slow. Traffic gets terrible when this event happens. I used to like it, but now I don't pay any attention to it. read more

I have had a Yelp account for a few years now. This is my first review. This is the first time something has been so horrendously unpleasant that I feel compelled to do my part to warn others to not make the same mistake. I attended the "event" with my loving and beautiful girlfriend who currently lives in Wisconsin and who spent a hefty amount of money on a plane ticket, only to spend one of our limited nights together caught in the jaws of this monstrosity. First, you will wait for no less than an hour in a gigantic line of cars. Brake, gas, brake, gas. To be honest, the line isn't the problem - but waiting well over an hour for something that's as big of a letdown as the "Rock'N Lights" is, is not fun. Sitting here now I am having PTSD like flashbacks to sitting in the line of cars, each moment I could have used to escape screaming past in my memory. But, alas, I did not know. I was so hopeful! So naive! Eventually you make it off of the street and into the park - not the display, just another line. Effectively a purgatorial vestibule. At this point, there's literally no escape. Another 40 minutes staring at Christmas light displays of water bottles and traffic cones (yes that is a real thing). Somewhere between exhaustion, excitement, and the feeling of your leg muscles atrophying, you finally reach the front of the trail. You pay 15 bucks, turn off your headlights, and off you go. You then drive through over a miles worth of "lights." I can only assume both the effort put forth and the name "Rock'N Lights" are meant sarcastically. The only thing Rock'N was the foundation of my decision making ability which, while staring at poorly designed 2D light displays of Smurfs, I've now called heavily into question. The lights are terrible. Idk man. I'm from St. Louis originally - not exactly the WinterWonderland capital of the free world but this s*** was terrible. It looked like something that may have been fun in 1983, but it was severely outdated. It is literally 1.5 miles of awful, underwhelming displays. Corny, tacky (and I like tacky!), ugly, boring, depressing light displays. It takes about 50 minutes to move through the trail from start to finish. The light tunnel at the very end was cool and by far the only thing even remotely modern or worth while. Halfway through our excursion, amidst the mutterings of "this can't really be it...can it?" my girlfriend and I finally looked up reviews of the trail. We should have done that beforehand. In summary, don't go to this. Maybe if you have kids they'll find it fun (tho I hope even young children would be filled with the proper disgust), but otherwise there is absolutely, absolutely, ABSOLUTELY no reason to spend 2.5 hours working your way through the island of misfit Christmas decorations. This thing was like sarcasm and irony had a baby and that baby grew up to make a shitty Christmas light display. Don't go. I'm warning you. Don't go. Don't. Go. Or, if you're one of those extreme survivalist types and really want to explore the edges of human sanity and psychological discomfort, go ahead and go. For any other scenario, stay far, far away. Merry Christmas. read more

Yikes. I feel like a grinch leaving a 1 star review of a holiday attraction, but this was just terrible. After waiting in traffic 45 minutes, we were desperately looking for a road to bail, but once you're in the parking lot, you're basically trapped. Then you pay $15 at the ticket booth for more traffic with an unimpressive light display. There was more illumination from the brake lights. Big waste of money and 2 hours. read more

That was the biggest waste of $15. Long lines with a mile+ of awful pre-made 2D light structures. Lots of dark space in between the structures. I can never get those 2 hours of my life back, but I hope this review will save someone's evening. I felt terrible bringing my out of town guests to this embarrassment of lights. read more

Terrible, terrible!!! We have spent over 1h 45 min getting through this. The line is horrendous and once you are in, you are stuck- no way out. Half way through the kids were crying, pleading with us to leave. The light show is pathetic- the only saving grace is the tunnel at the end. read more

If I could give it 0 stars I would. Worst use of precious holiday time and money. Spent over an hour in line before even getting to pay booth. Lights are the worst quality with zero artistic influence. And to think you have to pay for it even if you live in Round Rock. Should be called "Trashy, crappy drive thru light "display" ". Round Rock should be able to do much better with the taxes that we pay. read more

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All these people complaining about waiting have no patience and obviously went during the busy hours. Idk any Christmas event where you just go right through without waiting. This attraction is really neat when you go at the right time. We go as soon as it gets dark and waited 5 minutes to get to the ticket booth. We have went each year and never had a major issue of waiting. They have a really fun light display and gets bigger each year! We love being able to drive through this attraction especially through the tunnel at the end. Afterwards, there's a fun carnival with rides and food. Really great attraction for all ages. Everybody else here is just salty. read more

Below letter to city managers is my original review. A second issue today as Christmas came closer. Besides the letter, as you can see from other people's pictures, the lights is not impressive at all. $15 is too much. You're better off going to some guy's house that has it decorated nicely, I'm not exaggerating. The neighborhood lights are 100 times better. These lights are prob the same as they were from the 80's, it's almost comical cars would line up for hours to see it. Today on the way home on Old Setters (entrance street), the line wrapped around for like 3 miles. You are moving at snail pace. I cant believe people would willingly pay $15 to line up for this. You couldnt pay me $300 to go see it, I'm not joking. I think I have better use of my 4 hours than to sit in the car..brake..gas..brake..gas...etc and cause pollution to the environment. ================================================================= Hi Round Rock Admin, I'm writing to let you know on Dec 4th, my family and I drove through the RockNLights. What should have taken 15-20 mins for a mile or so stretch of watching lights, we were stuck for 2 hours. We were given no warning that there was a problem when we went in. Its hard to believe that the front gate personnel did not know. After 45 mins, I finally called 911 to report the issue and the operator said they were aware of it. But there was nothing done to improve. When we finally got to the end, it was very obvious what the issue was. They blocked off Harrell street that exits to 79. There was a carnival and everyone had to go through the carnival (Dell) Diamond parking lot, even the folks that was simply wanting to go through the lights. There was no reason to block Harrell street. It looked like there was some small activity/gathering like a band or something. They should have been told to move or cancel as it was clearly blocking traffic. The crew directing traffic didn't have a care in the world we all were stuck. I recently move to Round Rock and just drove through to be supportive, but of course, neither I or anyone of the other cars stuck that day will likely drive through there again. I don't know how the city project managers did not plan for this. Even traffic police should have done something as it was happening. Nothing was done. We had to slowly wait as carnival goers merged with the line to leave. I strongly believe someone needs to be held accountable. read more