Immersive Christmas adventure for families in which they help Santa and his elves sort letters and prepare gifts before meeting him in his grotto.
Santa's Workshop opens at Battersea Power Station on 27 November and runs until 24 December, with the meeting point at Malaysia Square. It's an immersive family experience built inside the station, set up as the North Pole's London headquarters and run by Father Christmas's elves. Rather than a traditional grotto, it's an adventure: families help Santa and his elves get ready for Christmas, solving puzzles and exploring the station's hidden corners.
Two of those corners get their own focus. There's The Post Room, where a Postal Elf is snowed under with letters, and The Toy Workshop, where the Toy Maker is facing a backlog of presents. After working through those, you meet Santa himself in a specially designed grotto and collect a gift. The whole visit takes around 30 minutes.
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It's part of the station's wider festive season, which brings back Glide, London's only riverside ice rink, for its fifth season, a 40-foot tree in Malaysia Square, and a Chimney Lift. The neighbourhood itself is free to enter, so you can wander around the shops and the riverfront before or after the workshop. Tickets start from £16.50, and the experience runs from 27 November to 24 December.
