Fiesta Carnival is back! 🎠

The Araneta Group, owner and developer of the 35-hectare Araneta City, is banking on nostalgia to attract people to its central business district in Cubao, Quezon City.
Last Saturday, December 9, it reopened Fiesta Carnival, an indoor amusement park of today’s Baby Boomers and Gen Xs, hoping that people now in their late thirties, forties, and up will bring their kids to what was one of their memorable entertainment destinations in the capital from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Also called the Philippines’ “mini-Disneyland” in its early years, Fiesta Carnival was launched in 1971 as an indoor amusement center that was open all-year round. It had attractions such as a large carousel or merry-go-round, roller coaster, skating rink, go karts, bump cars, and various perya or carnival games such as ring toss and shooting hoops. 
It closed in the early 2000s as newer amusement parks and indoor electronic arcades opened in malls in Metro Manila and other cities, and more kids turned to playing computer games at home. Shopwise Cubao, then owned by the Tantoco family, was put up in place of Fiesta Carnival. The grocery chain, now owned by the Gokongwei family, transferred to the south wing of the basement of Araneta City’s new Gateway Mall 2.