SKYCITY brings the Festive Season to Auckland

Celebrate the 2009 festive season in style with SKYCITY Auckland. Running since 9 November 2009 until 9 January 2010 SKYCITY has an array of activities and promotions at all its venues to help everyone and anyone in Auckland celebrate the festive season.

From the beginning of November SKYCITY’s Auckland site has been decorated to get visitors in the mood for the upcoming festive season including SKYCITY’s nine metre high Christmas tree in the main atrium.

SKYCITY Group Marketing Manager, Kevin Clayton is enthusiastic about the upcoming festive season.

“SKYCITY has so much to offer the Auckland community and visitors to Auckland over the festive season with activities and deals across all of our businesses.”

New Years Eve
New Year’s Eve at SKYCITY is Auckland’s biggest party! There will be entertainment throughout the SKYCITY site including Halo, Party Dolls, Chris Powley and the fabulous Frankie Stevens. Just before the stroke of midnight Frankie Stevens will begin the countdown to 2010 ending in an impressive fireworks display from the Sky Tower which will be seen all across Auckland!

Sky Tower for Adults
Take your special someone to the Sky Tower for Christmas Cocktails in the Sky. Bring along a loved one or a few friends and enjoy festive bubble and cocktail specials while watching the sun set over the Waitakere Ranges. Guests will be entertained with live music from renowned Wellington singer/songwriter Jamie Burgess.

Christmas Cocktails in the Sky will run every Wednesday through Sunday from 1–24 December, 5:00pm - 9:00pm in the Sky Lounge.

Sky Tower for Kids
‘Santa in the Sky’ will be running for all the children who want to meet the jolly man himself. Santa will be up on Sky Deck in Santa’s Grotto where children can have a free photo on Santa’s knee, receive a free gift and post their letters to Santa at the highest post box in New Zealand. Santa’s friends including Scotty Sky Tower will also be up on Sky Deck to entertain children.

Santa in the Sky will run from 8:30am until 4:00pm every weekend in December and every day from 21 – 24 December. As a special offer one child will get free admission to the Sky Tower with every full paying adult.

Restaurants and Bars
SKYCITY’s 18 bars and restaurants will be offering an array of packages and specials for everyone who comes to SKYCITY this festive season. Some of the great offers available include a 2-4-1 signature cocktail between 5pm-7pm at twentyone (SKYCITY’s newest bar), a free glass of wine with any tapas between 4pm and 5pm at Bellota, $3.00 Lion Red pints between 5pm-6pm at Sammy’s Place and a festive season menu for lunch and dinner at Fortuna.

Entertainment
Throughout December on Wednesdays till Sunday Christmas Carols will be performed at various points around the SKYCITY site. Performances will start under the Christmas tree in the atrium, moving to Level 3 and onto the Main Observation deck of the Sky Tower. On Christmas day there will also be Santas roaming the site to entertain restaurant guests.

SKYCITY Cinemas
Throughout this festive season SKYCITY Cinemas are running two promotions. See Avatar at SKYCITY Cinemas and go in the draw to win a Kumuka Adventure to Borneo. Avatar releases in 2D and 3D at all SKYCITY Cinemas on December 17. See it on the biggest screen in New Zealand – in IMAX 3D. Also on offer at SKYCITY Cinemas is The Wiggles Live via Satellite from Sydney on 20 December at Albany and St Lukes. This is the first time SKYCITY Cinemas have done a live via satellite show.


For more information on everything SKYCITY has to offer over the festive season see www.skycity.co.nz.