Arabian Nights is always thinking of ways to spice up its amazing dinner show, which includes hosting a variety of special events throughout the year—and the New Year’s Eve Celebration continues to be one of the most popular each year.

Arabian Nights continues it's yearly tradition to celebrate New Year's on horseback.

The special New Year’s Eve Celebration will start with a 9:30 pm performance on December 31st, an exciting package that includes many upgrades. The evening will begin with pre-show entertainment in the Great Hall, where a talented belly dancer will get guests ready for the party! During this opening event, VIP guests will go behind the scenes to meet the horses and performers—including Walter Farley’s beautiful Black Stallion.

Soon after, guests will move to the Palace arena to enjoy the Arabian Nights Holiday Show and an extended finale where the horses will play in the arena and riders will be available for photos and autographs for 20 minutes—so get your cameras ready!

The countdown to the New Year begins after the show, with party favors, live music and a champagne toast with the performers at midnight. The fun doesn’t end there, with a live band and dancing until 3 am and a continental breakfast served at 2 am.

This special package requires reservations, and sells out each year, so don’t delay! You can buy your tickets online at tickets.arabian-nights.com or call our reservations hotline at 1.800.553.6116.

As always, we encourage guests to snap as many pictures as they like to share with family and friends, but we ask everyone to refrain from video recording during the show and performances.

If you are staying in the Orlando Area this Holiday Season, you can’t miss the most amazing Holiday Dinner Show on horseback at Arabian Nights–And yes, we’re open during the Holidays!

Right now at Arabian Nights the halls are decked, the trees are lit, and the Holiday spirit is in the air. Our doors are open this Christmas Eve, and many other Holidays this year. Everyone at Arabian Nights, from the staff in our Reservations department to the performers in our show, works extra hard on days like today, because they understand the importance of Holiday cheer!

The cast of Arabian Nights Holiday Dinner Show welcomes you to The Most Honored Show on Horseback

Arabian Nights is open on Holidays, not because our staff doesn’t want to be with their own families, but because we want to ensure that your Holiday is a most memorable, enjoyable experience you can have in Orlando. Our “family” wants to make sure that any guest in Orlando during any Holiday can come to Arabian Nights and enjoy a night of entertainment that will be a treasured family memory for years to come.

Many are surprised that our doors are always open, and few locals realize how many out-of-town visitors are looking for something to do on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve or Easter. It is important to Arabian Nights to provide a place where anyone can come and enjoy a meal together with great entertainment during the holidays, because to us, being together for the holidays is what matters most!

So, from our family to yours; “Happy Holidays!”

You can view our Holiday Show schedule and book your tickets online right now at http://tickets.arabian-nights.com

Every performer at Arabian Nights Dinner Show is a perfectionist. No matter what their background may be, they all share a common bond that is a mix of a deep love for horses and a determination to entertain with flawless grace.

Performing in front of a crowd is not an easy task and every one of our highly-trained horseback performers understands that there is no room for error when a show is on. Add to that the fact that they are performing during a select number of dates during the Holiday Season and the phrase “practice makes perfect” takes on a whole new meaning.

Katherine Cox, Veronika Gatszegi and Michael Matrin practicing with guidance from Barn Manager Csaba Szilagyi.

This Christmas Season, Arabian Nights Dinner Show is putting on a brand new Holiday Show, featuring some of our most daring stunts ever—which makes the show even more difficult when the performers wear their amazing costumes on horseback.

Ilya Borzenkov is taking direction from veteran performer and Barn Manager Csaba Szilagyi while learning the Jack Frost silks routine featured in the Holiday Show

Arabian Nights performers practice on a daily basis. Only a handful of practices are in full garb, but every practice session is treated as if it was the real deal. Such is their dedication that performers may not even notice a difference between a full crowd or the empty seats of a practice session, as they are concentrated on the task at hand.

So the next time you visit Arabian Nights Dinner Show—and we hope you are planning on coming to one of our Holiday Show performances—be sure to remember that every one of our performers and horses have worked very hard when no one is looking to bring their own personal magic to the stage.

Practice does make perfect—and we like to show it off in every single show.

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