Christmas lovers, rejoice. Because the temperatures creep decrease and decrease and procuring begins to really feel like a reenactment of The Starvation Video games, the festive season in Newcastle rolls into full swing.
This 12 months, there are a great deal of Christmassy occasions and issues to do in Newcastle. From festive actions within the Toon to particular occasions, Christmas pop-up bars to pantos; you received’t be wanting locations to go in Newcastle this Christmas.
Right here’s my information to what’s on in Newcastle for teenagers and adults this Christmas 2022. Simply name me Santa, ‘cos I all the time offer you what you need…
17 Festive Issues To Do In Newcastle
1. Heat Up After Christmas Procuring At Lazy Bear
Positioned simply exterior Central Station, Lazy Bear is the proper hideaway once you’re sick of trawling the outlets for presents.
With hearth pits to huddle round wrapped in blankets and a festive drinks menu that features a bespoke ‘Lazy Bear Spiced Gin’ made in collaboration with Poetic License, that is the brand new winter tipi to go to in Newcastle this Christmas.
You’ll be able to decide up a espresso from the hut from 8am or pop in later for a pie and a pint. There may also be a Santa’s grotto for teenagers.
The festive menu launches in December alongside a calendar of Christmassy occasions happening every Saturday.
Entry: Free
Open: Every day from 12pm – Midnight, closes at 11pm on Sundays
2. Take A Stroll By means of An Enchanted Park
This Winter, Gateshead’s Saltwell Park will as soon as once more be reworked right into a magical and legendary wonderland. Wrap up heat and go for a stroll.
Tickets are offered out however I hear there’s restricted availability on the door on the on-site Welcome Marquee at Saltwell Park’s Joicey Street Carpark Entrance. Time slots are at half-hour intervals from 5pm – 8.30pm.
Grownup tickets £5.00 for ages 16 and over, youngsters go free when accompanied by an grownup.
Open: till twelfth December 2022
3. Dine In An Igloo
Might this be the very best factor to do in Newcastle this December? Within the run as much as Christmas, you may e-book a personal festive eating pod within the City Backyard on the Quayside for your self and as much as 9 associates.
This 12 months, the menu has been created in partnership with the group at Fusion from Ramside Corridor to convey a novel Asian – impressed menu to the pods, and you’ll take pleasure in views of the river as you eat.
Bookings can be found for six, 8 & 10 individuals at £45 per individual. 100 deposit required.
Varied dates from Thursday seventeenth November 2022
4. Watch It’s A Fantastic Life at Tyneside Cinema
Is there something that will get you within the festive spirit greater than watching a Christmas movie with the household?
The festive run of this basic movie has develop into a convention on the Tyneside Cinema, however this 12 months they’re additionally exhibiting Polar Specific, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf, Dwelling Alone and Nationwide Lampoon’s Christmas Trip.
You can also make it additional particular by reserving afternoon tea on the Tyneside Espresso Rooms beforehand. I really like the sound of The Vacation Popcorn & Prosecco occasion they’re operating too!
Tickets: Afternoon Tea with fizz is priced at £32.50 / £37.50pp (with fizz)
Screenings of It’s A Fantastic Life run 2nd – twenty fourth December
5. Gaze on the most well-known window show within the metropolis
The grand unveiling of Fenwick’s Christmas window show indicators the start of the festive season in Newcastle every year, and window buyers of all ages find it irresistible.
It’s simply as magical as all the time this 12 months. The theme is Clarice Bean: Suppose Like an Elf, which magically depicts the much-loved character Clarice Bean making an attempt ‘exception-ordinarily’ laborious to avoid wasting her household’s Christmas and cease the Christmas spirit floating away.
Solar 6 Nov 2022 05:00 pm – Tue 3 Jan 2023 08:00 pm
Free
6. Don Your Feather Boa For Boulevard’s Christmas Spectacular
Boulevard is a Newcastle establishment, however do you know that their Christmas calendar has greater than 50 occasions so that you can select from?
There are extra sequins, glitter and hilarity at Danni Dee and her Broadway dancers’ present within the run as much as Christmas. What higher option to prepare for the massive man than with a cabaret?
Standing tickets £10.00, seating begins at £25.00
fifth November – 1st January
7. Browse the Newcastle Christmas Markets
It comes yearly nevertheless it’s nonetheless one you shouldn’t miss in 2022. With a mixture of worldwide and native merchants, the market, which spans Gray Avenue, Grainger Avenue and Outdated Eldon Sq., may also have a bar for Christmas 2022.
Meals-wise, you may count on all the same old conventional Christmas fare and a few overseas favourites.
Entry: Free
Open: Saturday 19 November till Friday 23 December 2022
8. Go Ice Skating
The Life Science Middle has an open air ice skating rink open in Occasions Sq. all through the festive season.
There’s additionally a ‘festive fiver‘ promotion operating all season, the place you may take pleasure in a stay present filled with magical mild, expertise the Winter skies within the middle’s planetarium andmake a glow-in-the-dark Christmas card.
Costs and dates for ice skating on the Life Science Middle
twelfth November – fifteenth January
Skate Household of 4 (Max. 2 adults) £40.00
Skate Grownup (aged 18 and over) £13.50
Skate Carer (Please convey proof) £0.00
Skate Little one (aged 10-17) £12.00
Skate Little one (aged 9 and below) £10.00
9. Take The Children To The Panto
This 12 months’s Theatre Royal Christmas pantomime is Cinderella. Delight the little ones with the timeless story of the glass slipper and the woman who simply needed to remain out on the Toon.
Cinderalla is exhibiting from Tue 29 Nov 2022 – Solar 15 Jan 2023.
Alternatively, Tyne Theatre & Opera Home are doing Magnificence and the Beast (ninth Dec 2022 to eighth Jan 2023) and NATIVITY! The Musical (14th Nov 2023 to 18th Nov 2023).
Sundays 12pm, 2pm & 4pm
10. Eat breakfast with Mrs Claus at Seven Tales
Seven Tales, the Nationwide Middle for Youngsters’s Books, is providing an entire host of occasions for teenagers in Newcastle for Christmas.
Give little ones the prospect to eat breakfast with Santa’s Mrs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings all through December 2022. Alternatively, they’ll meet the Grinch on Friday twenty third December (morning or afternoon timeslots out there).
After faculty, go alongside to a storytelling session with Santa’s elves that includes among the greatest kids’s books.
Tickets: Breakfast with Mrs Claus prices £12.50 for a kid
11. Be part of Santa At Fenwick
Newcastle’s Fenwick retailer’s fifth flooring cinema shall be screening Christmas flicks all through the festive season.
Fenwick’s cinema tickets embody a complimentary mulled wine, or a spiced apple juice for adults, whereas little ones can sip scorching chocolate or juice.
You’ll be able to even improve to the Roof Thirty 9 Pre-Cinema Expertise, priced at £35. Arrive one hour earlier than the screening and luxuriate in a festive feast overlooking the Newcastle skyline because the group deal with you to a merry Cocktail, nibbles and a major course consisting of both a Festive Burger or a Vegan Festive Burger.
I’ve eaten at Roof Thirty 9 earlier than and the meals was incredible, so that is positive to please!
Children will love Afternoon Tea with Santa, Santa’s Supper Membership or Santa’s Breakfast Membership, every priced at £27.50 per individual.
Alternatively, there are Christmas story writing workshops and Story time periods with Santa’s elves.
Cinema tickets: £17.50 (adults and kids).
Santa golf equipment out there from ninth November – twenty third December
Christmas cinema out there tenth November – twenty third December
Christmas Story Writing Workshop out there seventeenth November – 17 December
Afternoon tea with Santa out there thirteenth November – 18 December
Storytime with the elves out there twelfth November – twenty fourth December
Santa on the Roof at Fenwick is offered out
Please verify costs and availability on the web site
12. Get festive at Sage Gateshead
Over the water within the iconic Sage Gateshead, there’s hundreds deliberate for Christmas 2022.
You’ll be able to stay up for household favourites like The Snowman and Dwelling Alone in live performance, a sing-along with Gareth Malone,
There’s additionally a Christmas Cabaret sequence with Ginger Johnson, Jaii Andrew, Carmen & Woman Annabella
1st – thirty first December
13. Go full Geordie at Greggs’ Festive Bake Brunch
I imply, has there ever been an occasion so MADE for Newcastle? The Greggs Festive Bake Brunch shall be coming to Dean Avenue for loyal followers of each Northerner’s favorite bakery.
Diners can take pleasure in Greggs-inspired cocktails together with Greggspresso martinis and loads of festive bakes throughout a 75 minute brunch.
The occasion reserving hyperlink is ready to go stay on Greggs’ social media channels at 12pm on Friday, November 4, and shall be out there to e-book by way of DesignMyNight.
There shall be three sittings for brunch on Saturday, November 26 2022.
14. Be part of the revelry at The Purple Peacock
The Purple Peacock all the time guarantees to be an incredible night time out, and this Christmas they’re bringing their Jingle Jangle Christmas Spectacular to the Toon. George Michael followers also can e-book the tribute present.
When you’re in search of a Christmas present for the youngsters in Newcastle, they’re additionally operating a family-friendly Santa and the Elves present, or Grinch & The Elf on Sundays.
15. See the Quayside lit up
With 6 websites and over 25 lasers, this 12 months’s Laser Mild Metropolis is Newcastle’s largest but.
This occasion is an interactive expertise the place you should use your telephone to regulate the place, color and elegance of tremendous vivid laser beams that may be seen for miles.
The lights will emanate from every of the six websites, which embody the Tyne Bridge, Baltic, Sage Gateshead and Malmaison.
30 December : 17:00 – 23:00
31 December : 17:00 – 01:00
1 January : 17:00 – 22:00
16. Go to the Christmas Clock
Be part of Eldon Sq.’s countdown to Christmas with a go to to the gorgeous Christmas clock crowing the Northumberland Avenue entrance.
Inside, yow will discover ‘Jingle and Bell’ the Specific prepare located at St Andrew’s Method or go and see this 12 months’s spectacular Christmas tree, which is situated exterior Clarks and Boots.
17. Marvel at Winter Wonderland
This 12 months’s Winter Wonderland at Newcastle Racecourse encompasses a fairground, zip wire, ice skating, toboggan slide, bungee.
It’s not all motion although – there are many meals stalls, and a German beer bar for anybody who prefers a slower tempo.
There are a selection of Christmas-themed occasions happening together with aOnce Upon a Princess present at 3 pm each Saturday in December, a Fairy Godmother Christmas Singalong at 6 pm, a Superhero Occasion at 3 pm each Sunday in December, and Meet the reindeer from 4 pm each Thursday.
After all, there’s additionally a Festive Grotto.
seventeenth November – twenty fourth December, 4 pm to 9 pm on weekdays and 12 pm to 9 pm on weekends. Prolonged hours from 12 pm to 9 pm all week throughout the Christmas faculty holidays.
Adults and kids over 12 tickets are £9.50, kids aged between three and 11 price £7.50. A household ticket, for 2 adults and two kids, prices £29.
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