A day out in The Park
Dubai Parks and Resorts is enticing MICE travellers with its unique offerings. With an 856-seater capacity at Rajmahal, theatre at Bollywood Parks, a multipurpose venue of 20,000 sqft at Riverland, one ballroom, seven meeting rooms and boardrooms at Lapita Hotel, it just gets better for MICE travellers!
You are travelling for that business meeting, but what if your trip turns out to be a leisure experience, from the reel to the real world? This is what the Dubai Parks and Resorts, a £2.8 billion mega-theme park, promises.
Comprising of three theme parks; a Hollywood inspired park called Motiongate Dubai, regions’ first Legoland and world’s first Bollywood theme park based on some of its biggest blockbusters named Bollywood Parks Dubai, sprawling over 30.6 million square feet, this entire destination is connected by Riverland™ Dubai; a uniquely themed retail and dining district, and a Polynesian themed family hotel Lapita Hotel.
Riverland offers full event-planning services which make the destination a backdrop for a picturesque wedding, and exciting birthday celebration or a corporate outing.
“Lapita Hotel specialises in pairing luxurious meeting rooms with impeccable service and catering to create unforgettable meetings. The meeting rooms arouse the essence of Polynesia with naturally-lit spaces highlighted by culturally relevant motifs. From exclusive board meetings to product launches or corporate-wide celebrations, we ensure all meetings and events are executed beyond one’s expectations,” informs Marcel Hendriks, General Manager, Riverland at Dubai Parks and Resorts.
The meeting space offers a dedicated conference team and coordinator to each special event, group activities, intimate meeting space with outdoor space, lush private gardens for private functions and breakouts, 710 metre square
Tamure ballroom that can be split into four sections, seven meeting rooms, total indoor space of over 2,200-metre square and outdoor event space TBC.
From the perspective of catering provisions for events and conferences, Hendriks, adds, “We have a separate kitchen and have a hotel ballroom. Each park has possibilities to host and cater any kind of events and we are totally prepared for any mice business.
When asked about offering any corporate incentives for MICE, he says, “We will not bring any standard rate and every business will be negotiated accordingly as every MICE business depends on the season, size, food and beverage, etc. Hence there are many things we need to consider for every MICE business, so whenever we will have a MICE enquiry, we will negotiate accordingly.”
Dubai Parks and Resorts, is meant for frequent individual, MICE and group travellers
Bollywood Parks Dubai
Located just before the Dubai-Abu Dhabi border in the United Arab Emirates, the park features cinematic rides, thrilling attractions and entertaining live shows that bring to life the action, music, dance and drama of Bollywood. This 856-seater state-of-the-art theatre, boasts an opulent setting where Dubai will experience region’s first Broadway style Bollywood show. The theatre offers six categories of seats that are spread across two levels and a private upper box area. While the lower two levels will host 736 seats positioned for a closer view, the private box area holds 120 seats that flaunts a private entrance and a balcony view. “We have Rajmahal theatre for a seating capacity for 1,000 seats can be used also as the venue for destination weddings, family destination and adventure. Dubai Parks and Resorts, £2.8 billion mega-theme park, is meant to be for frequent individual travellers, MICE travellers and group travellers, informs, Thomas Jellum, General Manager, Bollywood Parks Dubai.
Motiongate Dubai
Commenting on how they are promoting the
facility as a events and MICE venue, John Hallenbeck, General Manager, Motiongate Dubai, says, “Especially for Motiongate Dubai, we have three of Hollywood’s legendary film studios to bring cinematic adventure to life – Dream Works Animation, Columbia Pictures and Lionsgate. We are able to host events for approximately 15,000 people. We will be offering parks for selective film shooting, and have a lot of opportunities to use. One could shoot many different scenes as well at many different places and all at one space. We will be participating in WHO Convention and IITE this year also."
“We have possibility to do events along certain themes in the park such as Christmas, Diwali, to name a few to make the parks interesting around the year,” he informs. Coming to the connectivity, he explains, “It is strategically located on Sheikh Zayed Road, midway between Dubai International Airport (63km) and Abu Dhabi International Airport (68km), and only 20km from the Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai.”
Themed Restaurants at Motiongate
Baby Brent’s Luncheonette: Inspired by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, supersized food crashes into this Italian restaurant featuring pizza, pasta, salads and more.
Slimer’s Diner: Inspired by the Ghostbusters, this is an all-American style diner featuring sandwiches, salads and fun treats like Slimer’s Slush.
Hotel Beastro: Inspired by Hotel Transylvania, this gothic style restaurant features favourites like burgers, chicken tenders and salads.
Kung Fu Panda, Mr. Ping’s Noodle Fling: an Asian-inspired restaurant with foods from the Far East including noodles, rice dishes and more.
Madagascar, King Julien’s Sideshow Café: dine under the ‘big top’ with a filling menu of crispy chicken, wings and fish and chips, plus entertainment for diners featuring the cast of Madagascar.
How to Train Your Dragon, Dragon Flame Grill: a Viking-inspired restaurant with hearty foods such as curries, shawarmas and delicious desserts.
Shrek, The Candy Apple: the only full-service restaurant, this tavern-style restaurant brings a fine-dining experience with grills, seafood dishes, salads and more.
Peeta’s Bakery: serving freshly baked goods and aromatic coffees, inspired by The Hunger Games’ 74th victor.