Take a look at what to expect when the Coca-Cola Christmas Truck arrives in your town with our helpful video (filmed Dec 2023).
Coca-Cola’s iconic Christmas truck, with Santa Claus, will visit your town on the following dates*
*Details are as publicly promoted by Coca-Cola HBC Cyprus. Share Cyprus is not responsible for any last minute changes, or any failure of the Coca-Cola Truck to appear late or not at all for any reason whatsoever.
16:00 – 18:30 – Metropolis Mall
19:30 – 21:00 – The Christmas Village (Village of Angels) in Kiti
16:00 – 18:00 – Alphamega Supermarket Larnaca
19:00 – 20:45 – Slavenitis Supermarket Larnaca
16:30 – 18:30 – Metro Supermarket Larnaca
19:00 – 21:00 – Finikoudes Beach area outside 36 Bay Street/TGI Fridays
16:00 – 17:30 – Lysiotis Supermarket Limassol
18:30 – 20:30 – Papantoniou Supermarket Ypsonas
17:00 – 19:00 – Alphamega Kapsalo
19:30 – 21:00 – Nagshead Pub/Aristos & Kiki Kebab House/Rio Bravo/Barley’s
17:00 – 19:00 – Slavenite Columbia Supermarket
19:45 – 21:00 – Uptown Square
16:00 – 17:00 – Papas Supermarket
17:30 – 19:30 – Alphamega Supermarket Polemidia
19:30 – 21:00 – Gazebo Mare
16:30 – 18:00 – Sklavenitis West Supermarket
19:00 – 21:00 – My Mall Limassol
16:00 – 18:00 – Kings Avenue Mall
18:30 – 20:00 – The Garden of Eden Hypermarket
20:15 – 21:00 – Outside Second Cup/Boulevard in Paphos Old Town
16:00 – 17:30 – Papantoniou Supermarket
18:30 – 20:45 – Sklavenitis Supermarket
16:00 – 18:00 – Kokkinos Supermarket
18:30 – 20:30 – Paralimni Square (near the church of Agios Georgios)
16:30-18:00 – Panpantoniou Supermarket Engomi
18:30-20:00 – Cito Gourment Express
20:00-21:00 – Moondogs Bar & Grill
16:30-18:30 – Alphamega Supermarket Lakatamia
19:30-21:00 – Mall of Nicosia
16:30-18:30 – Metro Supermarket Platy
19:00-21:00 – Baristro/Brothers Bar and Grill/Box T
18:30-20:30 – Metro Supermarket Strovolos
20:45-21:15 – Makariou Avenue (near the 360 Building)
16:30-19:30 – Athiainitis Supermarket Pallouriotissa
20:30-22:00 – Stasikratous (at the Stasikratous Christmas Street Party)
16:00-17:30 – Touba Cheri Supermarket
18:30-20:30 – Alphamega Engomi
16:00-18:00 – Hypermarket Micropolis Nisos
18:30-19:00 – Henry’s Restaurant on Makariou Avenue
19:00-21:00 – Christmas Fairytale City
or copy and paste this link:
https://www.sharecyprus.com/coca-cola-christmas-truck-cyprus-schedule/
Believe it or not, the Coca-Cola Christmas truck first appeared on TV in 1995 and here’s a chance to watch the first-ever commercial (it’s still amazing!).
The Coca‑Cola Christmas trucks were created by the American advertising agency W.B. Doner, and the campaign was named internally as ‘Christmas Caravans’.
It’s also cool to know that the same company behind the Star Wars films made the lighting on the illuminated trucks for the original commercial.
By 1998, newer commercials featuring the Coca-Cola trucks were broadcast in over 100 countries.
The latest 2024 Coca-Cola commercial is below.
This year, the ad was created using artificial intelligence!
This has caused controversy, mainly because Santa Claus doesn’t appear in the commercial!
Watch the 2024 Coca-Cola advert below and see what you think, but we don’t believe anything can beat the original commercial above.
If you think Coca-Cola’s ties with Christmas are a modern invention, think again. It goes back to 1931. However, it’s not true that Coca-Cola is responsible for the red Santa Claus.
Many people mistakenly believe that the red Santa is the work of Haddon Sundblom, and his drawings of Santa that were created for Coca-Cola advertising in the early 1930s, but the red suit first appeared on the covers of the famous magazine Harper’s Weekly at least forty years before.
According to Wikipedia, the first appearance of a modern Santa Claus, complete with what we consider the defacto “Santa suit”, was created by Thomas Nast. Prior to this, Santa’s suit was tan-coloured!
The drawings created by Thomas Nast were of a small Santa who could slide down chimneys, but his later works made him full-size. In addition, Thomas Nast was also the first to draw Santa, wearing a red suit with fur lining, a nightcap, and a black belt with a large buckle.
Rather than taking the credit for our much loved modern-day Santa, Coca-Cola has publicly attributed the suit’s red colour to Nast’s earlier work. Still, we think it’s fair to say that the work by Haddon Sundblom and the advertising of Coca-Cola from 1931 onwards certainly “standardised” and made the fat red Santa in the red suit extremely famous.
If you want to know more, here are some useful links (these links open a new window or tab):
The History of the Coca-Cola Red Truck Commercials (Coca-Cola Website)
