Dubai Mega Event - Dubai Shopping Festival 2009

Lexus Lure at Dubai Shopping Festival - Courtesy farm1.static.flickr.com

The Dubai (read Do-Buy) Shopping Festival that began 13 years back has grown in popularity like nobody’s business! Its the tax free shopping that gets die-hard shoppers rushing across to the Emirate state. The yearly shopping spree has nearly 4 million tourists sprinting up to the different venues. More than the bargains its the atmosphere and fun that brings them over.

Like every year, this year too the Festival is to run from January 15 to February 15. Four weeks of shopping frenzy with huge doses of retail therapy replete with great bargains, sales, raffles, draws and promotions. You even have concerts, performances, carnivals and games. Why even dune safari’s! Dubai Shopping Festival captures your heart and your mind.

For the shopping enthusiast the event is really a retail extravaganza. The entertainment and touristy attractions are also a great pull. Every one joins in the jamboree with airlines and carpet-baggers in the fray! Amusements include events like nightly fireworks, laser/light shows, international fashion shows, street performances and cultural events. Daily raffle draws offer very attractive prizes of money, gold, cars and 4×4s.

Your best Arabian fantasies come alive here in Dubai at the Festival. Shopping centers and pavilions offer a vast range choices - gold jewelery, fashion goods, electronic items, carpets - you name it. Its always a good idea to plan a visit to Dubai to coincide with this mega event. You just might win one of the extraordinary prizes as did Aryan Thoppu Jafer. This resident Indian in Dubai has just won two Lexus models in the Lexus Mega Raffle with enough luck left to pick up 100,000 dollars in cash prize! Downtown Dubai - Anybody!