Christmas with Emirates – A Luxurious Journey Weblog

Are you flying with Emirates this month? The airline is inviting clients to expertise a contact of Christmas for the entire month of December, with conventional treats and festive fare out there throughout worldwide lounges and a number of delights served inflight, guaranteeing the 1 million Emirates clients travelling this December fly higher all through the festive season.

Festive feasts throughout Emirates Lounges

It’s starting to look quite a bit like Christmas at Emirates Lounges in Dubai, the place passengers jetting off to greet household and buddies for the vacation season can pause to bask in some festive fare earlier than boarding. First and Enterprise Class lounges might be serving roasted turkey breast doused in jus and cranberry sauce with glazed chestnuts, brussel sprouts and scrumptious new potatoes. First Class lounges may have an array of winter desserts – conventional stollen, delicious mince pies dashed with vanilla sauce, pink currant cheesecake, and soften within the mouth cinnamon profiteroles. In Enterprise Class lounges, Christmas dinner may even be served, alongside tempting desserts of bitter cherry confit, Christmas fruit cake, ginger-spiced pear and chocolate praline cake, spiced citrus mandarin confit cake, and a tart and refreshing cranberry sorbet.

Guests to the lounges can heat up with some apple pie and gingerbread ice cream or get cosy with gingerbread lattes or a toffee nut mocha. Clients may chill out with Dilmah’s Christmas iced tea, cocktails and mocktails, or Emirates personal mixology with Holly Jolly Christmas, Crimson Nosed Rudolph and Jack Frost, alongside festive flavoured waters from Evian and Perrier. Clients may select to get the vacations off to a glowing begin with Moet ice Imperial and Moet ice imperial Rose. Across the globe, Emirates Lounges might be providing festive treats too, with native favourites taking centre stage.

Tis the season to be jolly onboard Emirates

For the complete month of December, Emirates will serve festive meals and snacks in all cabins on choose routes. First, Enterprise and Premium Economic system Class clients can bask in basic Christmas dishes, from lemon and herb marinated king prawns in marie rose sauce, to cured salmon gravadlax with ginger, candied orange and Sevruga caviar. A full festive important course with all of the trimmings might be out there in all 4 courses– roasted turkey with basic jus, glazed chestnuts, braised pink cabbage, roasted pumpkin, steamed brussel sprouts and creamy potato gratin. Desserts embrace a wide range of delectable dishes – Christmas pudding with a beneficiant dollop of crème anglaise, white chocolate cake with raspberry curd, or a spiced cranberry cake within the form of Santa’s belt. Economic system Class passengers may even have a moreish Christmas meal that includes roasted turkey or rooster roulade with chestnut stuffing, roasted potatoes with parsley, a medley of seasonal greens, adopted by a luxurious fruit cake and orange sauce.

For the month of December, clients in First and Enterprise Class might be provided the Emirates spiced strawberry welcome drink, and First Class clients may even get a miniature Santa Claus creatively crafted from strawberries and white chocolate cream. From 17-26 December, clients in all courses might be provided a festive sizzling chocolate heaped with melting marshmallows and First Class clients can go for fragrant mulled wine. From the 24-26 December, Emirates might be providing mini presents of pistachio and raspberry profiteroles, darkish chocolate truffles and gingerbread cookies, throughout the assorted cabin courses.

Within the A380 onboard lounge, clients departing Dubai can chill out with some fragrantly spiced mulled wine or sizzling chocolate and munch on some mince pies, stollen, panettone, Christmas pastries, in addition to conventional mandarins and chestnuts, biscotti and sweet canes. This 12 months, clients visiting the onboard lounge may seize a Christmas sandwich full of turkey, roast beef, cheddar cheese, cranberry sauce and chilli tomato relish.

Joyful Orthodox Christmas from Emirates

From 20 Dec – 8 January, Emirates may even have fun Orthodox Christmas on flights from Russia, Egypt and Ethiopia to Dubai and again. Clients in First Class might be handled to salmon gravadlax with ginger and candied orange or King prawn cocktail, adopted by roasted duck with orange thyme jus, fondant potatoes and steamed broccolini, and a dessert of basic Christmas pudding with crème anglaise or conventional bread and butter pudding. Enterprise Class clients may even get pleasure from a roasted duck important course, with starters of Olivier salad, and desserts of white chocolate and cranberry cake or spiced cranberry cheesecake. Economic system Class clients will get pleasure from starters of Russian potato salad adopted by a turkey roulade or beef stroganoff, completed off with a dessert of moist fruit cake soaked in zesty orange sauce. On 1 January, clients may even be provided creamy sizzling chocolate or mulled wine, together with some Emirates festive treats.

Get the festive feels with ice

This Christmas, Emirates clients have a alternative of 39 vacation season films onboard the award-winning inflight leisure ice, with new films comparable to  Destroy the Holidays, Christmas with the Campbells and Mistletoe Ranch, alongside all-time favourites Final Christmas, The Vacation, Elf, The Polar Specific and even Rudolph the Crimson Nosed Reindeer from 1964. There may be an array of 19 Christmas TV reveals and vacation specials, together with The Workplace Christmas Particular, Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!, Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas and The Nice Christmas Bake Off. Children can get pleasure from How To Prepare Your Dragon: Homecoming, Merry Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda Vacation and The Doc McStuffins Christmas Particular. For individuals who want to get into the holly jolly rhythm, there are 26 albums of Christmas music from artists comparable to Ariana Grande, Andrew Bocelli, Micheal Bublé, Sia, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald and extra.

The season of giving

Seize some last-minute presents as EmiratesRED launches a 4-day sale from 15-18 December, providing clients 15% off after they spend a minimal of USD 150. New luxurious merchandise launched on EmiratesRED embrace; Creed Carmina, Loewe Esencia, the Seiko Sport Computerized Watch and the Luminox Leatherback Watch, iconic La Mer The Moisturizing Cream and Dr Levy – Contour Professional Sculpting Set, or the brand new Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 Earbuds. The EmiratesRED pre-order service is  out there on most flights, permitting clients to buy from 21 days as much as 40 hours earlier than their flight, present flight particulars throughout checkout, after which obtain the order delivered by cabin crew on to their seat whereas within the air.

A variety of Christmas keepsakes are on the market at Emirates Official Retailer, the place the 2023 Christmas assortment options Emirates branded baggage, mugs, Camel Milk soaps with a mulberry pink fruit scent, Emirates Christmas jumpers and matching household pyjamas, Christmas décor and greeting playing cards. Passengers may use Skywards Miles to make purchases on the on-line retailer.

Clients may have fun the true which means of Christmas and provides again with Emirates Airline Basis, devoted to enhancing the lives of underprivileged kids. Emirates clients can donate in any foreign money on any flight by utilizing the envelope within the seat pocket, or through bank card, cheque, or financial institution switch, inflight or from house. The muse additionally accepts Skywards Miles with 95% of donations going on to aiding kids in want.

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxurious Journey Weblog and has labored within the journey business for greater than 30 years. He’s Winner of the Improvements in Journey ‘Finest Journey Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of many world’s greatest journey blogs” and “greatest for luxurious” by The Day by day Telegraph.