Holiday Tour (2022)

The Holiday Tour is the eighty-fifth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 14, 2022 and ends on December 27, 2022. It sees the return of Snow Land from Mario Kart: Super Circuit as a classic course, making this the first tour to only introduce one course to Mario Kart Tour since the Sundae Tour, if both race courses and battle courses are counted. This tour also introduces the R/T variant of Wii DK Summit, however. Merry Mountain and all three routes of Vancouver Velocity also return, with the former coinciding with the course's inclusion in Wave 3 of the Booster Course Pass DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In addition, all courses in this tour (with the exception of the battle courses, GBA Battle Course 1 and DS Twilight House) are snow- and/or ice-themed. The tour introduces a winter variant of Larry as a new driver, the first driver variant for a Koopaling.

Like the Anniversary Tour and the 2022 Autumn Tour, there is a track with a variant missing (Frappe Snowland R/T) and a track with a repeated variant (DK Pass R/T). A two-tour Holiday Celebration began in this tour and runs until the end of the next tour. Oddly, the official Mario Kart Tour Twitter page did not release a roadmap for the celebration following the beginning of this tour.

This tour brought back the Take them out quick! bonus challenge from the 2020 Winter Tour, making this the first instance of a Take them out quick! bonus challenge being reused.

This tour's Coin Rush course is Merry Mountain, which is reused from the 2021 Cat Tour and the 2021 Holiday Tour. The menu's background features the present tower from Merry Mountain as the landmark for this tour, which is reused from the 2020 Winter Tour and the 2021 Holiday Tour.

The eleventh set of Expert Challenges, which was made available in the Battle Tour, lasts until the end of this tour.

Daily Spotlight
The Daily Spotlight contains a mixture of items themed around the tour, items that have ranked tracks as favorites, and gold items. The rates listed are specific for that type of item; drivers, karts, and gliders are selected separately. Items marked with an asterisk (*) do not appear in the Daily Spotlight during the week they are available as Spotlight Shop banner items.

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favorite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in DS DK Pass in the Mii Cup using the Santa Mii Racing Suit for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.

Gold Pipe
The Gold Pipe, including the All-Clear Pipe, randomly shoots out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rate can be viewed via the "Pipe content" link on the Gold Pass purchase screen.

Token Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appear began on December 13, 2022 and will end on December 27, 2022. Event tokens can be earned by collecting them on courses.

Tier Shop
The shop features a variety of set and randomized items available for purchase. The item slots in the shop are unlocked based on the highest tier of players.

Names in other languages
Tour festivo (2022)