Many residents who visited the Entertainment City at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC) yesterday found patriotic cakes, t-shirts and other items more engaging than interesting games installed for children.
Making the summer a lot more colorful and patriotic for visitors many vendors have placed amazing t-shirts, mugs, mobile covers and cakes with the iconic “Tamim Al Majd” (Tamim is glory) image.
A salesman at Dareen sweets told The Peninsula: “We have specially designed ‘Tamim Al Majd’ cake for this Entertainment City stall, nowadays people’s love for this painting has made things more attractive. We have placed the stickers of this image on top of every sweet box, not just to attract the customer but it is a symbol to portray our support with the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.”
Another stall named ‘Joyful Boxes’ had attractive range of items with this iconic image. Mug and covers with Tamim Al Majd image costs QR60, travel mug (harari) for QR100, key chain for QR35, car key chain for QR50, notebook for QR50, clock for QR150, pen holder for QR50 and mouse and coaster for QR50.
Hazam Abdullah, Manager of Loukloukat Al Khaliji at Entertainment City said: “First three days of Eid was the best days of our sale. Our perfumers are from Kuwait they are different from Qatari perfumes. The mixture of our perfumes are unique. Among the men perfumes ‘white musk’, ‘mulkhallat groob’ and ‘East magic’ mixture with oud were the best sellers during these days.”
Families, as well as groups of people, have also had the chance to play and win prizes. Despite the hot weather, a large number of local and foreign visitors are paying visit to the Entertainment City.
“Weekends are the best days for sales as the number of visitors is double during weekends. This year we have received a good number of customers at the Entertainment City. We have offered them to buy two and get one free perfume offer,” said Raslan Agha,a salesman at Taj of Oud stall. “The perfumes are always favourite among Arab people, we have introduced ‘Musk Al Amir’ which costs QR350. This perfume has been our best seller this year,” he further added. Darwish travels are offering package for Eid Al Adha at Entertainment City which include family trip to Disney Land (Paris) and trip to Armenia.
Monique M Lilles, employee at Darwish Travel, said: “In past few weeks we have observed increase in purchase of tickets from our travel agency, which is more likely due to summer vacations. Qatari people prefer to travel to Europe and Southeast Asia whereas expats prefer to travel in groups due to their limitations of fixed budgets.”
Keeping the safety purpose on top few of the thrill rides have “DOs” and “DON’Ts” boards in front of the rides. The parents keep themselves aware of what points the children should take care of. These DOs and DON’Ts boards include special tips like don’t wear shoes, no sharp objects, no glasses, no food and drinks, no chewing-gums and no fighting or rough housing.