Holiday Tour (2021)

The Holiday Tour was the fifty-eighth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 1, 2021, and ended on December 15, 2021. It was the first tour to share the same name with a a previous tour in English but different names in Japanese. Being themed around the holidays, it featured the return and the debut of various Christmas- and Santa-themed items, while also marking the return of Merry Mountain since its last appearance in the Cat Tour. Additionally, this tour marked the debut of SNES Vanilla Lake 2 as the tour’s signature course, making this tour the first to introduce a new classic course since the Summer Tour eleven tours prior. This tour also appropriately marked the debut of the R/T variant of Merry Mountain, making this the first tour since the Baby Rosalina Tour 45 tours prior to feature both a new course and new R/T variants of other courses. This was the second tour overall to not introduce any new drivers, with the first one being the Bowser vs. DK Tour. It was also the sixth tour to feature festive trees scattered across courses. The Coin Box Pipe from the Mario vs. Luigi Tour returned in this tour, now including different drivers like Kamek and King Bob-omb (Gold). This is the second tour after Paris Tour (2021), which has the same name as the previous tour, while skipping the past year.

The Holiday Celebration event began on this tour, which featured new unique challenges similar to previous events like the Summertime Celebration from the Summer Tour and the Autumn Celebration from the Autumn Tour, offering rewards such as rubies and White Yoshi, as well as better rewards from the Tour Multiplayer Challenges. The event, just like the previously mentioned events, lasted for three tours, ending on the New Year's 2022 Tour.

For the duration of only this tour, the title screen image was changed to represent Team Toad's victory against Team Toadette during the Toad vs. Toadette Tour.

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

Starting from this tour, Peach (Wintertime), the Lime Tea Coupe, the Daisy Glider, and the Black Toe-Bean Balloons are all now available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

Special pipe
Names in other languages

Signature kart sets
Drivers with a corresponding cup are bumped one rank up in every course of their cup.

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favourite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in SNES Mario Circuit 2 in the Bowser Cup using Toad (Pit Crew) 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.

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shot 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 appeared began on December 1, 2021 and ended on December 14, 2021. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them on courses or hitting festive trees with items.

Tier Shop
The shop featured 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.

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
 * "The Space Tour is wrapping up in blue. Next up is the Holiday Tour, which will have you racing through Merry Mountain! Keep an eye out for the Holiday Celebration too!"