Paris Cabaret At Christmas And New Year: Shows, Prices And How To Choose

What Cabaret Shows Can You Actually See In Paris Over The Holidays?

The holiday cabaret calendar in Paris comes down to five bookable products: the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening (a themed dinner show running Dec 18 to Jan 5 except Dec 31), the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala, the year-round Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and transport, an illuminations tour that ends at the Moulin Rouge, and a glass-roof dinner bus. Each is a different format at a different price, from $101 to $445 per person.

Two of those are genuinely holiday-themed. The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening and the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala exist only for the festive season, with special menus and dates that wrap around Christmas itself. The other three are year-round products that keep running through December, which matters if your dates fall outside the themed windows or the themed seats are already gone. For a fuller look at every option running that month, our guide to December shows in Paris covers what is confirmed and what is still unannounced.

The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening is the headline: the official programme lists a 7pm dinner followed by the 9pm Féerie show, from December 18 to January 5, with the exception of December 31, because that night belongs to a separate New Year's Eve evening with a 10pm show. The page does not state the year, so treat it as the current season's programme rather than a permanent fixture.

The Paradis Latin, on the Left Bank near the Panthéon, takes the other themed slot with a Christmas Eve dinner and cabaret. And for nights when neither themed date works, the year-round Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and hotel transport keeps its regular schedule right through the holiday weeks, which is exactly why it belongs in a holiday comparison even though it is not a Christmas product.

How Does The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening Work?

The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening pairs a 7pm dinner with the 9pm Féerie revue, runs December 18 to January 5 except December 31, and is listed from $326 per person for a 4-hour evening. It rates 4.8 from 24 reviews on the listing. December 31 is excluded because the venue runs its separate New Year's Eve evening that night, with dinner at 7pm and a 10pm show.

This is the themed product: the dinner carries the festive framing, and the Féerie show, the Moulin Rouge's long-running revue with its Doriss Girls, follows at 9pm. The whole evening runs about 4 hours from the dinner seating, and the listing price of $326 covers the dinner and show package. The listing states it is not refundable, so unlike several tours on this site there is no free-cancellation window: once you book a date, that date is yours.

The schedule detail worth catching is the December 31 gap. If you are in Paris specifically over the New Year, the Christmas Evening does not run that night; the venue's own New Year's Eve programme takes over, and that evening is a separate ticket you would book directly rather than through the dinner-show listing. For every other night from December 18 through January 5, the Christmas programme applies.

The venue sits at 82 Boulevard de Clichy at the foot of Montmartre, and the listing's meeting point is the Moulin Rouge ticket office. Because the themed dates sit inside the busiest theatre fortnight of the Paris year, the seats that go first are the weekend and Christmas Eve performances; midweek dates in mid-December tend to hold out longer.

For readers weighing this against the other festive evenings, the fuller comparison of Christmas Eve dinner options in Paris covers the restaurant and cruise alternatives on the same night, and the site's overview of things to do in Paris at Christmas places the cabaret night in a wider holiday plan.

Is The Paradis Latin Christmas Eve Gala Worth Booking?

The Paradis Latin Christmas Eve dinner and cabaret runs about 3.5 hours, is listed from $338 per person, and rates 4.8 from 16 reviews. Unlike the Moulin Rouge dinner products, this listing states free cancellation, which makes it the safer themed booking if your December 24 plans are not yet fixed. The venue is the Paradis Latin cabaret at 28 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine.

The Paradis Latin is a different animal from the Moulin Rouge: a smaller, older theatre, a revue called L'Oiseau Paradis, and a Christmas Eve framing built around a gala dinner. The fresh reporting on the venue's own pages describes the Christmas Eve dinner-show with a menu from Guy Savoy and Pierre Hermé, reported at around €300, and a New Year's Eve dinner-show and ball reported above €600. Those euro figures are reported prices on the venue's own site, not converted here; the bookable listing on this site carries the $338 from price.

The 3.5-hour format is shorter than the Moulin Rouge evening, which suits a Christmas Eve where you may want to be out of the theatre by late evening for a walk past the Seine or a midnight service. Notre-Dame, a short walk away, holds its Christmas Eve masses, and the verified schedule from last season lists a vigil at 23:00 and a midnight mass, though the 2026 mass times are not announced yet.

The free-cancellation term is the practical differentiator. The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening listing is not refundable; the Paradis Latin listing is. If you are booking months ahead and your travel dates could shift, that single line changes which themed night is the low-risk booking.

Moulin Rouge With Champagne And Transport: The Year-Round Alternative?

The year-round Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and transport is listed from $445 per person, rates 4.7 from 413 reviews, and runs about 4.5 hours including pickup. It is not a Christmas product: it is the regular dinner-show evening that keeps operating through December, which makes it the fallback when the themed Christmas dates are full or your night falls outside them.

The price is higher than the Christmas Evening, and the reason is what is bundled: dinner, champagne, the Féerie show, and transport from your accommodation to the venue and back. The listing states free cancellation, so unlike the themed Christmas Evening it can be rebooked if plans move. Its review pool, 413 reviews against the themed evening's 24, is also the deepest of any cabaret product compared here, which tells you something about how many nights a year it runs.

The honest framing matters: this is a year-round tour that runs in December, not a holiday show. If you book it for December 20 you get the same dinner and the same revue you would get in March. What you trade away is the festive menu; what you gain is a much larger review base, a cancellation window, and the transport that removes the late-night Métro ride home from Montmartre after the show.

Two other year-round night products belong in the same breath. The illuminations tour with Moulin Rouge show, listed from $193 and rated 3.7 from 708 reviews, pairs a city lights drive with the revue over about 5 hours, and the glass-roof cultural night bus with dinner on board, from $101 and rated 4.7 from 291 reviews, runs 1.5 to 2 hours. Neither is a Christmas product; both run through the season.

One booking note on the transport evening: because pickup is part of the product, the operator needs your accommodation address at booking time, and the 4.5-hour window means the return can land close to 1am. That late finish is worth knowing before you pair it with an early museum morning the next day.

Which Night Show Fits Which Budget And Which Night?

Across the five bookable cabaret and night-show products, prices run from $101 (the glass-roof dinner bus) to $445 (the Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and transport). The two themed products sit in the middle, at $326 for the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening and $338 for the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala, so the themed premium is modest over the plain dinner bus but real.

The table below holds the five products side by side. Note which ones are holiday-themed and which are year-round: that distinction, more than price, decides which listing is honest for your date.

Budget alone does not sort these. The $101 dinner bus is the cheapest evening and also the shortest; the $193 illuminations tour spends most of its five hours on the road rather than at a table. The two themed evenings cluster tightly in price but differ in cancellation terms and in date coverage: the Moulin Rouge themed evening spans more than two weeks, while the Paradis Latin gala is a single-night product.

What Happens At A Paris Cabaret On New Year's Eve?

The Moulin Rouge runs a dedicated New Year's Eve evening on December 31 only, with dinner at 7pm and a 10pm show, replacing the Christmas Evening that night. The Paradis Latin reports a New Year's Eve dinner-show and ball above €600 on its own pages. No dated New Year's Eve cabaret product appears in this site's roster, so the honest route for Dec 31 is the venue programmes or the year-round listings that operate that night.

One gap to know about: this site has no New Year's Eve dated cabaret ticket, and none of the year-round products should be described as NYE specials. What can be said firmly is what the venues themselves publish. The Moulin Rouge's page lists the Dec 31 evening with its later 10pm showtime; the Paradis Latin's page describes its gala with the reported €600-plus price.

The wider New Year's picture is covered in the site's guide to Paris on New Year's Eve, which explains what is confirmed and what is still unannounced for the Champs-Élysées night. Last season, the avenue opened to pedestrians from 19:00 with video mapping on the Arc de Triomphe about 23:50 and fireworks at midnight; the 2026 programme is not announced yet.

If your plan is a cabaret on a night other than the 31st, the themed Moulin Rouge evening runs right through to January 5, which makes the first days of January a genuinely good window: the themed programme is still live while the Christmas-week crowds have thinned.

What Should You Wear And Know Before You Book?

Dress code at the Paris cabarets is evening wear: the Moulin Rouge and the Paradis Latin both expect smart dress, no shorts or sportswear, and the dinner formats mean you are seated for the whole show.

The practical details are where the products diverge most. The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening and the Paradis Latin gala both include the meal, so arrive hungry and expect the evening to run its full stated length: 4 hours at the Moulin Rouge, 3.5 at the Paradis Latin. The illuminations tour with the Moulin Rouge show includes no meal, so plan dinner before or after; its meeting point is Place de Sydney in the 15th, not the venue itself.

Getting home is the detail people forget. The Métro's last trains run before 1am on most lines, and a show ending near 11pm at the foot of Montmartre leaves a tight connection; the transport-included listing exists precisely to solve this, and a taxi or rideshare from Pigalle is the standard fallback for the other listings. The site's guide to Paris night tours covers the lighter evening options if a full dinner show is more evening than you want.

Weather matters less inside a theatre, but the walk to and from matters in December: the verified Météo-France normals put the December mean high at 8.0 C (46 F) and the mean low at 3.8 C (39 F), with 11.4 rain days in the month, so a coat you can check at the door is the working answer. The site's dressing guide for what to wear in Paris in December goes deeper.

Booking lead time is the last variable. The themed dates concentrate demand into a two-week window, and the smaller review pools on the themed listings reflect how new and how seasonal they are. The year-round evening with transport, with 413 reviews, is the one that keeps availability through the season; the Christmas Eve gala and the Christmas Evening are the ones to book first.

How Do You Choose Between The Cabaret Evenings?

Pick the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening if you want the themed Moulin Rouge night and your date falls between Dec 18 and Jan 5; pick the Paradis Latin gala for Christmas Eve itself with free cancellation; pick the year-round transport evening if your date is outside the themed windows or you want pickup and a refundable ticket. The dinner bus and the illuminations tour serve the smaller budget and the shorter evening.

The decision collapses to three questions. First, is your night inside the themed windows? If it is December 24, the Paradis Latin gala is the purpose-built product, and the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening also runs that night, so both themed options are live. Second, does refundability matter? If it does, the not-refundable Moulin Rouge listings drop out and the Paradis Latin or the transport evening remain. Third, do you want the whole evening to be the show, or dinner and a drive as well?

The site's wider comparison of shows to see in Paris in December places the cabarets against the ballet and concert alternatives. For the cruise alternative on the same festive nights, the Seine Christmas dinner cruise guide covers the Bateaux Parisiens and Bateaux Mouches festive menus.

One framing note before the booking links: Christmas In Paris is a season with two distinct halves, the themed programmes that exist only for these weeks and the year-round evenings that carry the overflow, and knowing which half a listing belongs to is the difference between an honest expectation and a disappointed one. The Moulin Rouge's own programme page publishes the Christmas and New Year evenings, and the Paradis Latin holiday pages describe its Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve galas; both are worth a read before you commit a date. The city's official Versailles practical information page matters only if you are pairing a cabaret night with a palace day trip, since the palace closes on Dec 25 and Jan 1.

Common Questions About Cabaret Shows In Paris At Christmas And New Year