The Most Impressive Firework Display for New Year’s Eve in Dubai
Burj Khalifa | The World’s Tallest Building
When I think of where to celebrate the New Year’s Eve, Dubai’s spectacular New Year Eve firework display at the Burj Khalifa come to my mind. The city is known for hosting a magnificent display of lights every year. People travel to Dubai to have an experience of a lifetime.
The Burj Khalifa is located in Downtown Dubai, next to the Dubai Mall. In the New Year Eve, security was bolstered everywhere to ensure public safety. Make sure to plan ahead as roads and access to the Downtown area will be restricted after 8pm for crowd control. It’s almost impossible to get in unless you enter the mall hours before the show starts. Even then, getting a good spot at The Dubai Mall is extremely hard.
Dubai Mall | Dubai doesn’t do anything small
The Dubai Mall is located right next to Burj Khalifa. This is the most popular location for watching the New Year Eve’s fireworks show. This Mall is gigantic. It’s got not only shops (over 1200 stores), department stores, food outlets, but also has a indoor ski resort, ice skating rink, movie theater, waterfall and an aquarium. The architecture is jaw dropping!
Dubai Mall on New Year’s Eve
Dubai Mall decorations
Roads are closed in Burj Khalifa downtown area
Burj Khalifa fireworks to ring in 2019
Roads are closed and barriers set up inBurj Khalifa for crowd control. Hundreds of thousands headed to the family viewing areas in Burj Khalifa to witness the iconic show. The area is swamped a few hours before the fireworks. It is extremely difficult to walk back to the hotel from the Dubai Mall.
Huge crowd waiting across the Dubai mall
People wait to witness the fireworks at Burj Khalifa
Manzil Hotel NYE pass
The hotel stuff told us as long as we have this NYE pass, then the security will let us come back to the hotel. Well, it turned out the security guard at the Dubai Mall doesn’t recognize this pass. We had to try other routes in order to get back to the hotel. It was quite frustrated.
Hotel Manzil Dotwntown
Finally got back to hotel Manzil Downtown to watch the fireworks.
Burj Khalifa fireworks to ring in 2019
The fireworks are lit just after the stroke of midnight. We get back to Hotel Manzil Downtown just in time to catch a good spot to watch from.
The fireworks display at Burj Khalifa on New Year’s Eve in 2019
The duration of the fireworks display is about 20 minutes. Emaar host the world-renowned firework display on the world’s tallest building this year (Emaar is the master developer of Burj Khalifa). The fireworks display on New Year’s Eve is phenomenal!
The fireworks display at Burj Khalifa on New Year’s Eve
Fireworks explode around the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
