New York’s most famous ice rink has announced its opening date: The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens on Saturday 10 October 2026, launching its ninetieth season. Tickets are already on sale, with access from 22 dollars per session.<\/p>\n
The rink debuted on Christmas Day 1936 as Rockefeller Center’s \u201cskating pond\u201d, already with evening ice, music and a heated clubhouse. Since then, skating between the international flags of Rockefeller Plaza has been a winter tradition in the heart of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
For its 90th season, the rink gains a fully renovated Skate House and a heated VIP lounge with hot drinks, a 60-minute session with priority access, skate rental included and a discount in the gift shop. VIP tickets start at 131 dollars and season passes at 550 dollars. The busiest Christmas dates usually sell out first.<\/p>\n
An outdoor rink that welcomes thousands of skaters a day for months demands smooth, level ice, a stable ice temperature and regular machine passes between groups. That is exactly the standard Napapiri has applied since 1993 to its mobile and permanent real-ice rinks for municipalities, event organizers and recreational and professional skating facilities worldwide, with installation and technical support included. Quotation within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Cover photo: skaters on the Rockefeller Center ice rink in New York. Photo by Marc Ruaix (Unsplash, April 2017), via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, CC0 1.0<\/a>. Archive photo of the rink: it does not show the 2026-2027 season nor a Napapiri installation.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Rockefeller Center ice rink opens its 90th season on 10 October, with a brand-new Skate House and a heated VIP lounge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"two_page_speed":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ef\/Ice-skating_in_Rockefeller_Center_%28Unsplash%29.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11032,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions\/11032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napapiri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}