Holiday Lights Limo Tours in Dallas–Fort Worth: A Planning Guide

Highland Park in Dallas, Deerfield in Plano and Interlochen in Arlington are three of the best-known holiday lights neighborhoods in Dallas–Fort Worth, and all three have the same catch: the lines. When you drive yourself, one person watches brake lights while everyone else watches the houses. With a chauffeur, everyone gets to look.

Highland Park, Dallas

Highland Park is a small town in the middle of Dallas, a few minutes north of downtown and Uptown. Beverly Drive, Armstrong Parkway and Lakeside Drive are the streets people come to see, and Highland Park Village dresses up for the season too. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets on busy nights, so expect to crawl, not cruise.

Deerfield, Plano

Deerfield is a neighborhood in northwest Plano, between Preston Road and Coit Road, where residents decorate together every December. The main entrances off Legacy Drive have the longest lines. Visit Plano, the city’s visitor bureau, suggests going on a weeknight and coming in from the Quincy Road side instead.

Two rules matter here. Don’t stop in the street to get out and look — it holds up everyone behind you. And there are no public restrooms in the neighborhood, so plan a stop before you arrive.

Interlochen, Arlington

Interlochen is run like an event. In 2025, its 50th year, the City of Arlington opened it nightly from December 13 to 25, 6 to 10 p.m., with one entrance at Westwood Drive and Randol Mill Road, police traffic control and a signed two-mile route. The city warned that the wait to get in often runs past an hour, and asked visitors to be in line before 9 p.m.

The season is short — about the two weeks before Christmas in recent years — so check the city’s dates for this year before you pick a night. In past years the city has also barred limousines and tour buses from at least one street on the route. Tell us when you book that Interlochen is on the list, and we will plan the vehicle and the route around this year’s rules.

One neighborhood or two?

The three are far apart: Highland Park is in central Dallas, Deerfield is north in Plano, and Interlochen is west in Arlington, toward Fort Worth. With a long line at each of the busy ones, Highland Park plus one of the others is about as much as a single evening holds comfortably. Try all three and most of the night is spent on the highway.

How long to book

• One neighborhood: 3 hours, our minimum on most vehicles, covers the drive, the line and the ride home.
• Two neighborhoods, or one plus dinner: allow four to five hours.
• All three: six hours or more — and we would still suggest choosing two.

On an hourly booking you can change the order or add a stop within your booked time, so if one line looks hopeless on the night, you can skip it.

Which vehicle for your group

• 1–3 people: an executive sedan, or the Rolls-Royce Ghost for an anniversary night.
• 1–6 people: an executive SUV, the easy choice for families. Tell us the children’s ages when you book and we will arrange child seats.
• 8–10 people: a stretch limousine, the classic for friends or the extended family.
• 7–14 people: a Sprinter limo. The stand-up cabin makes it easy to cross to whichever side the best house is on.
• 12–20 people: a stretch SUV such as the Escalade stretch.
• 15 or more: a party bus keeps everyone together. The bigger the vehicle, the more each neighborhood’s traffic rules matter, so tell us which neighborhoods you have in mind when you ask for a quote.

Most limousine windows are tinted for privacy, which dims the view from inside. If your group wants a closer look in Highland Park, your chauffeur can drop you at one end of a street and meet you at the other. Browse the whole fleet to compare.

When to book

December Fridays and Saturdays are the busiest nights in the neighborhoods, and they are also holiday-party nights, so vehicles go quickly. Book in November for a December weekend, and earlier if you need a large vehicle. Weeknights are easier on both counts: shorter lines and more vehicles free.

Timing tips

• The sun sets between about 5:20 and 5:35 p.m. in Dallas in December, so a 5:30 or 6 p.m. pickup gets you to the first neighborhood after dark.
• Go early, or go on a weeknight. Plano and Arlington both point visitors to weeknights, and Arlington asks people to be in line before 9 p.m.
• Eat first. Dinner before the lights means nobody is hungry an hour into the line.
• Check this year’s dates. Displays depend on the residents and, at Interlochen, on the city’s schedule, so they change from year to year.

Drinks and children

Adults 21 and over may bring their own drinks on chartered vehicles where Texas law allows. If anyone under 21 is aboard — on a family lights tour, that is most of the time — the trip is alcohol-free for everyone, with no exceptions.

See our nights out service for what an evening booking includes, then send your date, group size and neighborhoods through the booking form for a written quote.

Tip. Agree a meeting point before anyone gets out of the car. On busy nights, lights neighborhoods have signed routes, closed entrances and no-stopping rules, so “just pick us up here” rarely works.