The Great Bay Fiesta: Carnival Games & Rides, Winter Playground, Circus Acts & A Food Festival

By Jayme on 03 Nov 2022

Digital Editor

Since the easing of pandemic restrictions earlier in the year, Singaporeans have been spoiled silly with so many fun activities in the city, and this year-end is no exception. Besides the return of the Marina Bay Countdown, a whole host of other exhilarating events, namely The Great Bay Fiesta, will be happening in December, so you can be certain that the lead-up to Christmas and the New Year will be just like the good ol’ times!

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Slated to run from 1 December 2022 to 1 January 2023, The Great Bay Fiesta will take over the entire Bayfront Event Space with a wide variety of merrymaking festivities in four main categories - a circus with brand new acts, a carnival with nostalgic games and rides, a food festival and a winter playground.

The Great Cirque de Cascades

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The Great Cirque de Cascades will have you at the edge of your seats with its lineup of death-defying, jaw-dropping stunts titled Around The World in 80 Minutes, performed by Gandey’s Circus.

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Once seated in the Big Top, you’ll get up close and personal with crossbow slingers, gravity-defying motorbikes, acrobatics and more who will take you on a breathtaking journey as you witness them act out dangerous moves. Think firing a crossbow at their partner while narrowly missing their heads, performing a high-wire show without safety nets or lunges, and propelling themselves high into the air using a springboard as a “human rocket launcher”.

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Tickets start from $68 and you can get them here.

The Great World Carnival by Uncle Ringo

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Everyone’s favourite Uncle Ringo is back and appears to be bigger and better than ever. At this funfair, you can take part in carnival games like Pyramid Cans, Basketball and Hook-a-Duck to win mega-sized plushies and go on classic rides such as the Pirate Ship, Bumper Car, Big Carousel and Ringo Slide to relive childhood memories!

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The funfair operator has also collaborated with NFT company OpenSea to bring the highly popular NFT IP of Prime Ape Planet design to life, so you can check out contemporary art while revelling in the wave of nostalgia.

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Carnival admission tickets start from $10, which is inclusive of $5 carnival credits. Get them here.

Ice Magic: The Great Fantasy on Ice

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Experience winter at this frosty playground, which also happens to be the biggest winter-themed pop-up ever to set foot in tropical Singapore.

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As you step inside this enclosed tent, you will find two areas aptly named Snow and Ice. The former lets you experience fun winter activities such as building a snowman, making snow angels, and sliding down the longest and tallest snow slope ever constructed in Singapore.

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The Ice section includes a range of attractions like Ice Bowling and Ice Curling, a classic Winter Olympic sport.

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You can also find a 260 square-metre Ice Cycling Rink with single and tandem bikes for couples exploring new date ideas. The star of this space, though, is the 4.5-metre-high figure-8 Ice Slide constructed purely out of ice and decorated with intricate ice sculptures.

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Feeling peckish? Check out the Chocolate Origin pop-up cafe or Ice Bar, which offers a variety of ice cold beers and ice-themed cocktails to get your blood pumping.

Tickets are priced between $25 and $45, excluding booking fees. Get them here.

The Great Food Fiesta

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No carnival is complete without oh-so-delicious treats. This food fiesta boasts over 35 different stalls that serve a medley of cuisines from around the world, so prepare to stuff your face with dishes from local and international brands.

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You can look forward to a beer garden complemented with a selection of meats by local yakiniku connoisseurs, Grill by Cut, as well as brands specially flown in from Thailand, including the TikTok-famous Indy Pancake Cartoon.

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My NoNNa’s cafe will also be serving up delectable plates such as beef curry or black pepper chicken with blue pea rice, mac & cheese and beef bolognese.

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And for dessert lovers, don’t miss the ice cream booth where you can indulge in the new Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough Peace Pop - a vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate coating with cookie dough and chocolate chips in the middle, or a Magnum Mini Cup made with vanilla ice cream swirled with chocolate shards and topped with thick cracking Belgian chocolate.