After delivering presents on Christmas Eve, Father Christmas returns to his house in contemporary Britain. As he settles down and warms up, he greets the viewers and explains how he is busy throughout the year caring for his reindeer and pets, tending to his garden and doing the housework and shopping. Fed up with it one year, he explains how he decided to go on holiday for a change, as the film goes back to the day when he made that decision. After debating on where to go to, Father Christmas decided on France and converted his sleigh into a camper van. After placing his dog and cat into a kennel, his reindeer fly him to his destination.

At first he enjoys the French countryside, but the food he orders at a restaurant makes him ill. After relocating to a campsite with amenities to help him cope while he recovers, he eventually is forced to move on when people begin to recognise him. Deciding on Scotland, Father Christmas enjoys his time in a local pub and buys a kilt, but hates the bad weather and the cold waters of a nearby loch. Fed up, he decides to go to Las Vegas, where he checks into a casino resort. Once there, he spends his time enjoying the food, pool and nightlife for a few weeks. However, he eventually leaves when he runs out of money and is recognised by children. After returning home, he prepares to relax, until letters addressed to Father Christmas begin to arrive shortly after retrieving his pets. He thus spends the next few months reading through each and sorting out presents.

On Christmas Eve, Father Christmas heads out on his sleigh and begins delivering presents, dealing with the various households he must visit. When he has finished, he goes to the annual snowmen's party at the North Pole and meets James and his snowman, while partaking in the festivities. However, his enjoyment comes to an end when the pair find he forgot to deliver two presents to Buckingham Palace. Not wishing to leave the matter unresolved, Father Christmas travels to the palace and delivers them before the dawn of Christmas Day. Back in the present, Father Christmas completes his story to the viewers, before sorting out his dinner for the day and examining the presents he will have waiting, whereupon he wishes the viewers a "Happy Bloomin' Christmas" before going to sleep as dawn breaks outside.