Hallmark confirmed a three-city Jingle Stop Tour this year, hitting Chicago, Orlando, and Asheville, North Carolina, but only named the cities, not the specific venues. Follow the pattern of the other two stops, though, and the Orlando location isn’t much of a mystery at all. All signs point to Disney Springs.
We covered the full Countdown to Christmas 2026 schedule when Hallmark confirmed the tour alongside all 34 movies this week, and we’ve been tracking the Disney Springs side of this story since Hallmark first revealed its holiday pop-up shop at D23 2026.
Here’s the logic. Hallmark’s own materials tie each Jingle Stop Tour city directly to where one of this season’s three collaboration movies was filmed. Chicago is the setting and filming location for Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story. Asheville is home to the Biltmore Estate, where A Grand Biltmore Christmas was shot. Following that same pattern, Orlando’s connection is Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True, which was filmed on location at Walt Disney World. That puts the tour stop somewhere on Disney property almost by definition.
Disney Springs specifically is where the rest of the pieces line up. Hallmark already confirmed a Holiday Ever After-themed pop-up shop opening at Disney Springs in early October, set in the former Francesca’s storefront near Frontera Cocina in the Town Center, and running through the end of the year. A tour stop timed to land at Disney Springs during that same window would put Hallmark’s stars, the movie’s own merchandise, and a built-in retail destination all in the same place at the same time, which is exactly the kind of overlap a marketing team plans for rather than stumbles into.
This would also mark a real shift from how the tour has worked before. When Hallmark launched the first-ever Jingle Stop Tour in 2024 for Countdown to Christmas’s 15th anniversary, the three stops were Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City, tied to the anniversary celebration itself rather than to any specific movie’s filming location. This year’s concept, anchoring each stop to where one of the season’s tentpole films was actually shot, is a different idea entirely, and Disney Springs fits it about as well as any location could.
To be clear, Hallmark hasn’t confirmed Disney Springs as the Orlando stop yet. This is our own reading of the pattern, not an announcement. But between the filming-location logic Hallmark itself has already established for the other two cities and a pop-up shop already scheduled to be open at Disney Springs during the right window, it would be a genuine surprise if the tour landed anywhere else. Even in the unlikely case Hallmark picks a different spot on property instead, say a resort or another area of Walt Disney World, the filming connection makes it safe to say this stop lands somewhere on Walt Disney World property, not just generically in the Orlando area.
