Video: Dubai Shopping Festival begins with fireworks, cash prizes and concerts

The 30th edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) kicked off on Friday with spectacular fireworks, drone shows, concerts, and light installations signalling the start of the season’s biggest shopping deals and grand raffles.

"This year would be the most extraordinary season ever in the festival’s history with an action-packed calendar brimming with non-stop, day-in-day-out, fun-filled moments for everyone, every day, in every corner of the city from December 6 until January 12, 2025," said Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), the event's organiser.

The opening weekend saw the launch of DSF Nights followed by fireworks at Dubai Festival City Mall. The city’s skyline will continue to sparkle every night with free daily fireworks every 9.15pm at the same mall, and twice-weekly fireworks displays over Hatta on weekends at 8pm.

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There will also be two drone shows daily and a spectacle combining fireworks and drones that will light up the skies above Bluewaters and The Beach, JBR. The DSF drone show will see twice-daily performances at 8pm and 10pm; and the pyro drone shows will light up the skies during the second weekend of DSF with about 150 drones delivering the fireworks, according to the organisers.

For bargain hunters and longtime shoppers, DSF is not only about big discounts and unbeatable deals, as they also stand to win cash prizes and vouchers during raffles and draws that kicked off as well on Friday.

Long-time Dubai resident Nada Habib told Khaleej Times: “DSF for us is really the best time to shop – we get huge discounts and we can also win big prizes.”

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