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BBC Travel Every winter, Dubai takes shopping to the next level with the Dubai Shopping Festival. From mid-January to mid-February, millions of shopaholics, bargain hunters, and holidaymakers descend on the elaborate emirate as it buzzes with a colossal array of discounts, competitions, prizes, fireworks, entertainment and more. Evening desert safari are also nice places for doing some classic shopping. If you are after the ultimate break, then Dubai during the festival is the destination for you. The Dubai Shopping Festival was launched in 1996 as a government-led initiative to revitalize the retail trade, but it has now become one of the world's most famous shopping festivals. Every year, the month-long festival gets bigger and more spectacular than the last, attracting shoppers and holidaymakers from all over the globe. A mega 3.35 million visitors came to Dubai for the most recent event, lured by the massive discounts on already tax-free shopping as well as the competitions, entertainment, and festivities. |
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The festival kicks off with an extravagant opening ceremony, with fireworks and light shows taking place over Dubai Creek and continuing to light Dubai's skies throughout the festival. Bargain hunters will be in heaven at the Dubai Shopping Festival with massive discounts on any product you can think of including gold, Dubai's signature product, major designer fashion labels, electronics, cars and more. There are also hundreds of competitions run throughout the festival, with prizes running into the millions. The 2012 festival includes a Mega Raffle whereby every day of the festival one lucky shopper wins a luxury Infinite QX56 SUV costing AED 350,000 plus AED 100,000. |
Desert safari dealsAs well as the incredible discounts and retail competitions that are run during the Dubai Shopping Festival, the entertainment throughout the city is another major draw-card for tourists. Music concerts, street performers, fashion shows, film festivals, cultural events and more fill the city center streets and malls. Family entertainment is big business during the Dubai Shopping Festival with a host of attractions popping up in Dubai's parks including a mini fun fair, World of Ice, Flower Garden, helicopter tours, space ship, Spiderman zone, remote control boats and much more.
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Desert Safari Dubai LocationDubai, United Arab Emirates
MONDAY - SATURDAY 9am - 7pm SUNDAY Closed |