Within the CEH FY26 results presentation, it highlights an "expanded year round events calendar", and within that section was this.

Could this be the first clue, DW is set to return to longer Christmas holiday trading hours or ?????????????????????????????????

4 hours ago, New display name said:

Could this be the first clue, DW is set to return to longer Christmas holiday trading hours

Let’s hope so because if I remember correctly they didn’t do it last holidays (or it was very limited) and people are always asking for longer hours!

I agree. The GC is the best place in the world to have a theme park operating into the night. Hopefully they keep WWW open too. It's rude not to have all that GC theme parks open late in summer.

Edited August 26Aug 26 by New display name

It definitely sounds promising. The extended hours over the Christmas holidays were very successful last time from what I’ve heard. So I’d say it’s likely the park will want to bring them back.

On 26/8/2026 at 1:21 PM, New display name said:

DW is set to return to longer Christmas holiday trading hours or ?????????????????????????????????

Extended trading during the Spring holidays too

I was at Dreamworld today and had no idea this was happening, so it was a very pleasant surprise! I didn’t see any advertising about it beforehand and assumed tonight would be just another regular Night Market. But the entire park was open with all of the rides operating right up until 9pm. The place looks great at night too with all the new permanent lighting they’ve recently installed.

15 hours ago, Noll_57 said:

I didn’t see any advertising about it beforehand and assumed tonight would be just another regular Night Market.

It feels like this was a last minute decision, but it’s great to see (especially when they’re getting good crowds). And it’s great to see they’ve found a way to keep the night markets going as per normal, but also allowing the hours to be extended and keep the rides open.