Waikato Business News | March 1, 2024
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22 BALLOONS OVER WAIKATO<br />
MARCH <strong>2024</strong><br />
The ZURU Nightglow<br />
25 year Anniversary<br />
For Balloons over <strong>Waikato</strong>,<br />
Hamilton’s biggest night out<br />
is The ZURU Nightglow at<br />
Claudelands Oval on Saturday<br />
<strong>March</strong> 23.<br />
For those of you with tickets,<br />
Claudelands gates will open from 4pm,<br />
where you can walk inside a real hot air<br />
balloon with the Walk Thru Balloon for<br />
a gold coin donation for the children’s<br />
charity, True Colours.<br />
30,000 tickets were snapped up by<br />
fans very quickly, but there is a Waitlist<br />
system available. For those people who<br />
secured tickets, but now no longer<br />
require them, they can release them<br />
back into our Waitlist pool to make<br />
them available for the many people<br />
who missed out and are keen to attend.<br />
Details on balloonsoverwaikato.co.nz<br />
There will be four hours of live<br />
entertainment on the main stage,<br />
starting at 5pm accompanied by carnival<br />
rides and games, plenty of food trucks,<br />
and stall vendors.<br />
This is all the lead to the highlight of<br />
the night – the well-known orchestrated<br />
hot air balloon glow, that lights up the<br />
night sky.<br />
In this, the 25th anniversary of one of<br />
Hamilton’s major iconic events, balloons<br />
of all shapes and sizes from all over the<br />
world will take part.<br />
This fantastic event culminates<br />
at 8pm with the SkyCity Hamilton<br />
Fireworks extravaganza.<br />
Organisers are also advising parents<br />
of youngsters not to forget the Lodge<br />
Lost Kids bracelets for the ZURU<br />
Nightglow, which can be collected at<br />
Innes Common during the week or at<br />
Claudelands on Saturday.<br />
You write your phone number on it,<br />
put it on your child’s wrist at the ZURU<br />
Nightglow, then if you and your child<br />
lose each other, you are easily contacted<br />
by the Lodge Lost Kids team.<br />
Parking<br />
There will be a number of full and partial<br />
road closures around Claudelands<br />
Oval from approximately 4pm – 11pm<br />
on Saturday <strong>March</strong> 23 for The ZURU<br />
Nightglow.<br />
Roads affected are Brooklyn Rd,<br />
Heaphy Tce, Boundary Rd, Thames St,<br />
Kitchener St, Stanley St, Oakley Ave,<br />
Piako St, O’Neill St and George St.<br />
PROUD TO SUPPORT THE<br />
BALLOONS OVER<br />
WAIKATO FESTIVAL<br />
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