Marina Del Rey’s New England-style waterfront village — Fisherman’s Village — runs free weekend holiday programming through December each year: live music every weekend, photos with Santa and his elf, a Letters-to-Santa station, holiday décor along the boardwalk, and prime free viewing of the Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade. Free, family-friendly, and harbor-walkable.
Fisherman’s Village at 13755 Fiji Way in Marina Del Rey is the marina’s New England-style waterfront village — a cluster of shops, restaurants, and a public boardwalk along the marina’s southern channel. Through the holiday season, the village runs free weekend programming each December: live music every Saturday and Sunday, photos with Santa and his elf on select weekends, a Letters to Santa station for kids, holiday décor strung along the boardwalk, and the village’s signature outdoor fireplaces along the channel for evening warmth.
The village is also one of the best free viewing spots for the Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade — boats turn the corner into the village’s channel section, putting the decorated fleet just yards from the waterfront tables and the public boardwalk.
For families across Marina Del Rey — the Silver Strand peninsula, the Mariners Bay condominium clusters, the Marina Peninsula — and the surrounding Westside neighborhoods (Venice, Playa Vista, Playa Del Rey, Mar Vista), this is the harbor’s long-running drop-in holiday experience. Distinct from the kinetic Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade (one anchor evening of decorated boats moving through the marina) and the formal Burton Chace Park Tree Lighting civic evening; Fisherman’s Village is the recurring weekend-festivity character of the harbor.
13755 Fiji Way in Marina Del Rey — the southern side of the marina’s main channel, walkable from the Silver Strand peninsula and the Mariners Bay residential clusters, with parking accessible directly from Fiji Way.
Yes — the live weekend music, the holiday lighting along the boardwalk, walking the village, and viewing the Boat Parade from the public boardwalk are all free. Photos with Santa, Letters to Santa, and food or drink purchases at the village’s shops and restaurants are paid separately.
Photos with Santa and his elf, plus the Letters to Santa station, run on select weekends across December — including the Holiday Celebration Day held the weekend of the Boat Parade. Check the village’s website for the current season’s exact dates.
Yes — the village is one of the marina’s prime free viewing spots. The decorated fleet rounds the marina channel just yards from the village’s waterfront walkway and the restaurant patios. Arrive early — the area packs by 5 PM.
Free parking in the Fisherman’s Village lot, accessed from Fiji Way at the south end of the marina. The lot fills on Boat Parade Saturday and the busiest December weekend afternoons — carpooling or rideshare is the more reliable option on those days.
Fisherman’s Village at 13755 Fiji Way in Marina Del Rey is a New England Cape Cod-style waterfront village — a cluster of shops, restaurants, and a public boardwalk built in the early 1970s along the marina’s south channel. The village’s signature lighthouse, boardwalk, and outdoor patios overlook the marina’s main channel, making it one of the few free public-access waterfront destinations in the marina. The Marina Peninsula and Silver Strand neighborhoods sit just south; Burton Chace Park anchors the north end of the main basin a waterfront walk away.
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