Tickets to the new northern version of Christmas experience LaplandUK will go on sale next week, organisers have announced.<br />The immersive experience featuring West End actors has become a major success since being launched in 2007 and last year the 160,000 tickets for its main site in Ascot on the outskirts of London sold out in hours after a record-breaking 300,000 people applied for them.<br /><br />A spokesperson said: “Representing a total demand for 1.2 million tickets, the event sold out of the 160,000 available in less than three hours, in a ticket drop to rival Glastonbury.”<br /><br />The success has led to the launch of a second site this year, with LaplandUK Manchester being based at Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire.<br /><br />Organisers have now announced that tickets for both sites will go on sale next Monday, March 31, with the ticket waiting room opening at 10am and booking opening from midday.<br /><br />LaplandUK will run from November 8 to December 24 and tickets will cost between £60 and £195, with higher prices at weekends and closer to Christmas.