Book your Santa photo at Westfield Riccarton today
What feels more like Christmas than experiencing the joy and happiness of your Santa photo moment?
As the home of Christmas, Westfield Riccarton is here to make this time of year festive and easy.
With a variety of photo packages available, book your Santa photography session today to secure a time that is convenient for you.
This year, Westfield Riccarton have a range of photography sessions and packages to suit everyone and every budget, with your choice of:
- Family and friends
- Sensitive Santa
- NZ Sign Language Santa
- My First Christmas
- Pet photography
Where to find Santa and where to park
- Our Santa Photography set is located: Level 2, outside Decjuba
- Best parking: Entrance off Rotherham St and up ramp to the Mezzanine Level.
Santa Photography Sessions on offer:
Family and Friends sessions
Christmas is more magical with our loved ones, so get together with your friends, family, sports teams, school groups, work crew and any other loved ones to create a memory to last a lifetime.
We've made it easy with an online booking system offering a range of photo session times and a photo package to suit every size group and every budget.
Book your Santa photo session today.
Sensitive Santa
Everyone gets their time with Santa this Christmas with our Sensitive Santa option.
Join us for our Sensitive Santa experience where families can have a photo taken in a relaxed environment, tailored to children with sensory challenges. These calm and comfortable photography sessions take place before stores open when the centre is quieter to create a relaxed and sensory-friendly Santa experience.
Book your Sensitive Santa experience today.
Note: Online bookings are essential for Sensitive Santa photography sessions.
Sign Language Santa
Westfield is proud to offer New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Santa, a program offering children who use sign language as their primary form of communication, the chance to share their Christmas wish list directly with an NZSL-fluent Santa. These sessions are longer and have helpers and an interpreter on hand to facilitate.
My First Christmas
We understand that a child's first Christmas is special, which is why we’ve got My First Christmas photography sessions available for those enjoying their very first Santa experience.
All children who are booked into My First Christmas will receive a special gift to take home.
Please note this is now fully booked.
Pet Photography
Why should your four-legged family members miss out on all the fun? Bring them along for a Santa photo with the whole family.
Dress-ups are welcomed, so dress your pet in their best festive outfit to create the paw-fect Christmas memory to cherish for years to come.
Book your pet photography session today.
Note: Online bookings are essential, and sessions book out quickly. There will be no walk-ins available (no matter how persuasive those puppy eyes may be).
Entry Point: Please head up to the roof top car park off Rotherham Street and wait at entrance.
Please also note that when you book a pet photography session, you are automatically opting in to the below terms and conditions:
- Owner/s must be responsible for their pet at all times.
- Owner/s must bring waste disposal bags for their pet's use if required. Please note that waste is prohibited from being placed in bins inside the centre.
- In the event that any animal exhibits aggressive behaviour, we will ask that they are removed from the centre.
- Owner/s must wait at the designated entrance, outside of the centre, prior to your allocated booking time. At the time of your booking, a staff member will meet you at the designated entrance and escort you to the Santa photography set. Pets must be brought into the centre on a lead or in a cage.
- Every endeavour will be made to adhere to your booking time, however in the event that another photography session is being completed, we appreciate your patience while the current pet photography session is finishing up.
Which pets are allowed?
- Most pets are welcome, including dogs, cats, rabbits and other small animals
- Centre management may at its discretion, remove any animals from the centre
If you have any questions regarding your pet photography session, please contact us on 03 983 4500.
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