Tourism & Hospitality | Friday 25 November, 2016 2:35 am |

Experience the vibrant colors of the UAE flag on the Emirates Palace as the whole nation comes together to celebrate the union of the seven emirates. Emirates Palace like every year will be celebrating the National Day in full swing with many new spectacular additions.

For the first time ever, Emirates Palace will have a large video mapping that will be on the east and north side of the hotel. For spectators outside the hotel, there will be a great video mapping surrounded with sounds at the Triumphal Arch and the loop will be around 10 minutes long displaying the history and art of the Abu Dhabi and UAE. 

The world-class Hotel will be having tremendous fireworks display on the 2nd and 3rd of December that will be taking place between the hotel and Marina Mall. There will be 65 different fireworks set points on the seafront making it one of the biggest displays of fireworks Emirates Palace has ever experienced. 

Emirates Palace will be celebrating National Day with style as it will be hosting a party by the beach for guests to experience a relaxing sunset and then party away the whole evening with the spectacular fireworks display at 8:30pm. This package includes food and selected beverages and starts at AED 200 per person. 

The hotel has arranged a unique hamper, starting at AED 750, for the first time ever that will include festive season cookies, traditional German stollen, a bottle of bubbly, Panettone, truffle honey, chocolate truffles, duck rillettes and smoked salmon with 24 carat leaves on it. 

Emirates Palace will host a lucky draw for Emiratis where they will be asked to answer a few questions to win from the seven prices that vary from winning a dinner for two to a weekend stay in the Khaleej Suite. 

On this occasion, Emirates Palace will host several attractions inside the hotel, from a remarkable display of 45 different kinds of dates to a small traditional heritage village, which promises to wow every guest. “The displays inside the hotel and the huge video mapping outside the hotel will give spectators an insight into UAE culture and how far the nation has come with all the progress happening around,” said Holger Schroth, General Manager at Emirates Palace.

The kitchen artist at Emirates Palace has built a dhow that will be on display in the Grand Dome area. “Our talented artist has put a lot of effort into making this dhow display, he went to the Sayed Port and spoke with the marine experts as to how to build the dhow and took it from there. He is currently at work on the dhow, and it is made out of Styrofoam and painted in the traditional colors. This year the celebrations will be bigger than ever and we are expecting more spectators than ever before,” added Schroth.