Public invited to vote for Santa Ynez Valley town on Newsweek.com
Solvang has been nominated for the Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards in the category of “Best Christmas Town.”
The awards contest and online voting launched for the holiday-themed category on Thursday, Aug. 29 and are now live on the Newsweek site (newsweek.com/readerschoice). Voting is open to the public and all official contest at sites.google.com/enveritasgroup.com/readers-choice-portal/terms-conditions (limit one vote per person, per Contest List, per day). Online voting runs through Thursday, Sept. 26.
The Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards present up to 20 nominees in a broad range of categories to be voted on by readers. All nominees are editorially driven, with contributions from a panel of travel experts. Newsweek editors then determine the final lists of “the best of the best in the USA.” Every two weeks, Newsweek publishes an entrants list of up to 20 businesses, services or products by Awards category for public voting, to pick the Newsweek Reader’s Choice Winner (each a “Category List”). Once a Category List is published, voting runs for 28 days for each Category List and atthe end of the voting period, once voting is closed and within 10 days, Newsweek announces and publishes the businesses with the most votes as Reader’s Choice Winners in their respective categories. More information about the NewsweekReaders’ Choice Awards may be found here.
“The Newsweek awards nomination couldn’t arrive at a better time for us, as the city is preparing for Solvang Julefest, our annual holiday event, which runs this year from late November through early January. We are accustomed to being referred to as one of the nation’s most ‘Christmassy’ towns, and each time Solvang is named as such our holiday sparkle shines even brighter,” said Solvang City Manager Randy Murphy.
Solvang, the Danish-rooted, California Central Coast getaway spot with a resident population hovering around 6,000, has been nominated for similar “best of” awards in the past, with a specific Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards nod most recently, when Alisal Ranch was named as one of the 10 “Best Dude Ranch Vacation” winners in February 2024.
Feature Image: Lightposts on Alisal Road in Solvang are shown bedecked in Christmas decor last year. Solvang has been nominated as”Best Christmas Town” in the Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards. Contributed Photo
