ORLANDO, Fla. — Downtown for the Holidays at Lake Eola took a different approach Sunday night as they held a sensory friendly night to ensure that everyone can have a fun and comfortable night.

The event always brings people together to enjoy the lights and fun, but for some it can be a little too much.

“I try to look for like things she can do that are not too overstimulating,” shared Paola Chalarca.

To appeal to families like Chalarca’s, a sensory night was created that toned down the music, lights and even created a quiet zone so those who might be overwhelmed can digress.

“This is good because they’re keeping the music down, so she doesn’t get too overwhelmed,” Chalarca said. “Everywhere else we go is like super stimulating and she’ll get nervous and ask me to get out.”

The quiet zone included small trinkets, arts and crafts, noise-canceling headphones and fidget spinners to bring a calming atmosphere that can be hard to find.

“It is, it is hard. Because everywhere you go, if you want to go downtown this way or anywhere else, it’s so packed full of people,” explained Chalarca. “And even here there is people but having the little space out to bring her in and have her to calm down a little bit and just do one-on-one things.”

Even if someone may not be overstimulated, the quiet zone can prove to just be a great place to sit down and recoup after a long outing.

“Yeah, we’ve been here for about an hour walking around the lake and seeing all of the lights and we were on our way to get some food,” Mark Staplehurst said. “And we thought this would just be a nice stop to just take a minute before we go back into the chaos of it all.”

It’s a concept that Chalarca says she would love to see in more places.

“I think if they can have a sensory room everywhere so if there’s somewhere we do want to take her out, and it’s full of people or packed and music is going then we can go out of that environment for her to just calm down and collect herself,” Chalarca explained.