Just like at Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort, the entrants are lined up along a long table in the lobby. There’s even a giant Christmas tree at the center! Universal’s Aventura Hotel Starbucks’ entry is quite the cavity-inducer, with tons of donuts, sprinkles, and powdered sugar to make this a holiday treat your dentist won’t soon forget.

Each featuring distinct designs and ornamentation makes this a lovely entrant. And let’s be honest, we all end up with a gingerbread house like this a few times in our life.īayliner made a five-structure village for their entry, featuring four houses and a reindeer barn. Stewarding’s house may not be the visual masterpiece of its neighbor, but it certainly makes up for that in the amount of sweets used. Combine that with the pretzel and icing trees in the back, the little campfire next to the house, and the fact that the house itself is presented on a log(!!) and you have a great contender for top house.

Leave it to the Engineering department to create a simple, elegant design featuring tons of color.īeverage may have the most aesthetically pleasing house of all, with a log cabin-style created by using pretzel sticks on all sides of the house and very neat icing patterns on the roof. Security was extremely creative while sticking to a simple idea, with a dinosaur (presumably from Jurassic Park) destroying their hard-built house! Sticking with the idea of a house, they lined the vertices with gumdrops and hard candies to give the house a consistent color pattern. While the culinary department may not have gone as big as the other departments did, theirs sure is one of the most simple and visually appealing. In this one, people were represented by Peeps. The front office team came out with a North Pole look, complete with Santa’s sleigh, a train, and three structures adorned with icing and candy. Recreation was inspired by Cabana Bay’s pool and lazy river, complete with Sour Patch Kids acting as beachgoers, chewing gum lounge chairs, popcorn and almond rocks, and brown sugar sand. Housekeeping went with a huge duplex arrangement featuring one single-story, one double-decker, and a garage in the middle, all fully adorned with tons of icing and candy including jelly beans, gumdrops, Twizzlers, peach rings, and much more. Displayed on a long table in the hotel lobby, guests are encouraged to vote for their two favorite houses in the ballot box on the end of the table.

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