Festival Centre celebrates festive surprises this December

Press release

Published December 20th, 2011 - 07:46 GMT

Al Bawaba

Festival Centre, Dubai Festival City is continuing its Festive Season celebrations under the theme of “Festive Surprises” with the arrival of Santa and his merry helpers! Travelling from the North Pole and arriving by boat at Festival Marina on Saturday, crowds of kids and families were waiting to take souvenir photographs with these jolly characters. Santa and his helpers will be at Festival Centre until the 24^th December, and shoppers have the chance to “meet and greet” them near the Festive Tree located in Festival Square.

Furthermore, Festival Centre, Dubai Festival City hosted the Dubai 92 Breakfast Show LIVE from Festival Square yesterday with Catboy and Geordiebird which saw Santa selecting one lucky child to win the top 15 gifts of 2011 from Toys R Us. A fantastic Festive celebration all round!

Background Information

Dubai Festival Centre

one of Dubai's most favourite shopping destinations. With over 500 brands and stores to choose from, the mall is home to the city's only IKEA, a flagship Zara store and the largest luxury department store, Robinsons.

Company Profile

Dubai Festival City

Boasting a 2.5 mill sq. ft. urban retail destination, DFC is home to the Guinness World Record holding cutting-edge daily attraction, IMAGINE, as well as IKEA, the only Hard Rock Café in the Middle East and a world-class mall. Additionally, DFC also encompasses four five-star hotels – Intercontinental DFC, Intercontinental Residence Suite DFC, Crowne Plaza DFC and Holiday Inn DFC.