{"id":67129,"date":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","slug":"customers-enjoy-magical-experience-shopping-at-christkindlmarkt-in-bethlehem-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67129\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers enjoy magical experience shopping at Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; It was a packed house on the final day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/christkindlmarkt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem<\/a> on Sunday and the Sunflower Trading Company booth was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From start to finish we had really good weather. We had a little hiccup on Friday this time with that big storm, but other than that it&#8217;s incredible,&#8221; said Daniel Durantaye with Sunflower Trading Company.<\/p>\n<p>Durantaye is with the Maryland-based company.<\/p>\n<p>He has been selling hats and clothing he travels overseas to get to sell here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the things that we do in here and all the styles that we carry just have kind of evolved over time to like the people&#8217;s taste here and the customers here are so incredible. Just they like nice stuff, so we try to buy nice stuff,&#8221; said Durantaye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a very good year. Certainly better than last year,&#8221; said Michael Hinly, a sales associate with Kathe Wolfahrt.<\/p>\n<p>At Kathe Wohlfahrt, ornaments have flown off the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Hinly said he has seen a lot of familiar faces as people continue to build their ornament collections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s magical. I mean we have a lot of unique things here and being apart of Kathe Wolfahrt has been great, but also being apart of Christkindlmarkt just makes the season that much more magical,&#8221; said Hinly.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses we spoke with said the holiday market keeps getting better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s been a really good year and just the best one ever,&#8221; said Durantaye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; It was a packed house on the final day of Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-67129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}