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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">Aquaventure After Dark returns to Aquaventure World, turning Dubai's aquatic theme park into an after-hours playground for one night. Open to guests aged 13 and above, the event runs from 8:00pm until midnight, with tickets from AED169 until 20 September, subject to availability.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">Aquaventure World is home to over 105 slides, rides, and attractions, and guests can take on some of its biggest adventures after dark. Highlights include Odyssey of Terror, the world's tallest waterslide of its kind, Blackout, the tallest vertical-drop body slide in the Middle East, and Immortal Falls, the region's first cliff-jumping experience. As night falls, the park comes alive with dynamic lighting, lasers, flame effects, giant LED screens, immersive sound, and stage effects that turn the whole place into one big show, with three entertainment zones bringing something different to every corner of the park.</span></p>
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<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Bebas Neue';"><strong>Three Zones, One Night</strong></span></h2>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">Aquaventure After Dark spreads out across the park with something different at every stop. Torrent Beach hosts the main stage and headline act, with Neptune Tower as the backdrop, plus a nearby competition area where guests can join group challenges and win prizes all night. Over at Trident Tower, a culture-led zone brings emerging sounds, social experiences, and guest activations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">Food is covered across the park too. Poseidon's Village serves loaded hot dogs, burgers, oven-baked pizza, Asian specials, vegan dishes, and the signature Atlantis strawberries with chocolate drizzle. Snappers brings American diner classics, including loaded fries, buffalo popcorn chicken, flaming shrimp waffle cones, and vegan burgers.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">The main stage at Torrent Beach in the Neptune Tower area features Dubai-based <strong><em>Taya Kruzz</em></strong>, known for her open-format sets spanning hip-hop, R&amp;B and Afrobeats. She will be followed by Paris-born <em><strong>Keza</strong></em>, bringing his signature mix of house, hip-hop and open-format sounds. As the heart of the night, the stage comes alive with large-scale lighting, LED screens, lasers, dramatic smoke jets and sparkling stage effects.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">At Poseidon Tower, award-winning British DJ and producer <em><strong>Tom Higham</strong></em> will bring melodic and Afro-inspired electronic sounds, joined by Dubai-based house and electronic music producer Scott Forshaw, whose music has generated more than 15 million global streams.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">At Splasher's Cove, <em><strong>Fred&rsquo;s Coffee Party</strong></em>, Dubai&rsquo;s viral coffee gatherings, makes its debut at the waterpark as part of Aquaventure After Dark. The experience includes a curated DJ set and house-led sounds in a more intimate, social setting.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">For the first time, guests can add After Dark to their Day Pass and stay on through the evening. As daytime hours wind down, add-on holders move to a dedicated area on Aquaventure Beach, where music and food set the mood before the event kicks off, letting guests flow straight from a day of rides into a night of music, challenges, and entertainment without leaving the park.</span></p>
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<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Bebas Neue';">Early Bird tickets start from AED169 and are available until 20 September, with gate tickets priced at AED 310. A limited number of gate tickets will also be available for Aquaventure World Annual and Season Pass holders at AED 149.</span></strong></h3>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Avenir Medium';">&nbsp;From AED169, 9 October, 8PM-Midnight, Atlantis Dubai, Palm Jumeirah,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <span style="color: #843fa1; text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: #843fa1; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.aquaventureworld.com/tickets/whats-on/aquaventure-after-dark?gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22622522394&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwq8PVBhAKEiwA2i3SHe5I7yszo-vtN0tcGf2pGHLsjRSK-Xl4csZF1rf58nu1XoaxzA2o4RoCoK8QAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aquaventureworld.com/tickets</a></span></span></span></em></p>
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