This year’s dazzling display, the world-famous giant Gingerbread House is part of the joyful holiday

This year's travel city direct dazzling display, the world-famous giant Gingerbread House is part of the joyful holiday festivities entertaining and delighting guests for over a century. The colossal gingerbread two-story-high display you can walk through stands more than 22 tall and 23 feet wide. It includes thousands of home-baked gingerbread bricks, around two thousand pounds of royal icing and candy such as ribbon candy, gum balls and Starlite mints. It has a moving train that runs around the diorama with a Tram and little people scattered throughout. Next to the Gingerbread structure is a 23-foot-tall Christmas tree tickling the center of the ceiling in the Main Lobby. The Gingerbread display is in the hotel lobby through January 1, 2013.
This 12-foot tall sugar castle is a replica of a medieval French castle travel city direct and village baked by executive pastry chef Jean-François Houdré. You wouldn t believe it s made of gingerbread if you weren t told so. Stunning! Created by Executive Pastry Chef Jean Francois Houdre, King of the Castle, and his team have diligently worked day and night since July perfecting his signature 12-foot rotation Holiday Sugar Castle on display till Jan. 3, 2013. Originally created in 2005, the magnificent castle continually grows larger and more spectacular each year. Resembling a French chateau, it weighs over 1300 pounds and features more than 20 grand circular towers, approx. 30 rooms, glowing windows and a running train. New in 2012 is the newsmakers display throughout the castle. Spectators can identify well known personalities in life-like elf replicas. The inspiration for the Gingerbread structure travel city direct the chef s trips to Europe with his family. While visiting La Cite de Carcassonne, one of the best examples of a fortified city, the chef drew inspiration for his edible creation which contains 120 lbs. gingerbread, 160 pounds of pastillage, 30 pounds of pulled and bubbled sugar, 50 lbs. molasses, 400 lbs. sugar egg whites, and more.