BABYMONSTER CHOOM World Tour: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Auckland)

A Tuesday night on the waterfront

This one is a school-night show. On Tuesday 8 December 2026, BABYMONSTER brings the CHOOM World Tour to Spark Arena, Auckland’s largest indoor concert venue. Choom (춤) is the Korean word for dance, which fits a group whose choreography gets dissected frame by frame online.

December is early summer in Auckland. The evenings stay light late, so fans heading to the doors walk along Quay Street with the harbour still bright beside them. Expect plenty of fan merch and homemade signs in the queue along Mahuhu Crescent.

Who you are seeing

BABYMONSTER is a seven-member girl group from YG Entertainment, the agency behind BLACKPINK and BIGBANG. The members are Ruka, Pharita, Asa, Ahyeon, Rami, Rora and Chiquita. They come from Korea, Japan and Thailand, so expect a mix of languages in the stage talk between songs.

The group’s breakout came with “Sheesh” in 2024. Their first full album, Drip, followed later that year. The setlist and running order for this tour are not part of what we know, so this guide doesn’t guess at them.

Inside Spark Arena

Spark Arena opened in 2007 as Vector Arena. It is a modern bowl with tiered seating wrapped around a flat floor, and it holds up to about 12,000 people in concert setups. Floor sections sit flat, so shorter fans on general admission floors often head for the raked tiers, where the sightlines are clearer.

The concourse runs around the outside of the bowl, with food and bar counters along it. Spark Arena’s event pages are where the venue publishes door times, bag rules and accessibility information for each show. That’s also where the ticket link for this date sits.

Getting to Mahuhu Crescent

The arena sits between the downtown waterfront and the suburb of Parnell. Most people don’t drive. Your main options:

• Train: Britomart station is the hub for every Auckland train line. From there it’s about ten minutes on foot east along Quay Street.
• Bus: Plenty of city routes stop around Britomart and Customs Street, within the same short walk.
• Ferry: Fans from Devonport, Waiheke or the North Shore land at the Downtown Ferry Terminal, about fifteen minutes’ walk west of the arena.
• Car: Parking near the arena is limited and the surrounding streets clog after big shows. Drivers usually park in central city buildings and walk the rest of the way.

Ride-share cars bunch up on Mahuhu Crescent at the end of the night. Many fans walk back towards Britomart or Customs Street and get picked up there, which is quicker.

Concert-night habits in Auckland

A few local habits make the night easier.

• Paying: New Zealand runs almost entirely on cards. Contactless payment works at arena counters and most city bars, and some venues are cashless.
• Tipping: It isn’t expected in New Zealand. Bar and food staff don’t count on it, though nobody minds if you round up.
• Transport fares: Auckland Transport trains and buses take an AT HOP card. Contactless bank cards also work on most services, so visitors rarely bother buying a HOP card for one night.
• Fan culture: Auckland’s K-pop fanbase is large and well organised. Fans often hand out free photocards or small gifts outside the venue before the show. Saying thanks and swapping something of your own is the done thing.
• The last train: Weeknight services thin out late in the evening. Fans heading to the outer suburbs usually look up the final departure from Britomart for their line before the encore starts.

Before and after the show

The streets around the arena are good for a meal before the show. Britomart’s laneways, just west of the venue, are full of restaurants and bars. The Viaduct Harbour and Wynyard Quarter run further along the same waterfront and have more of the same.

Fans travelling from outside Auckland usually stay in the city centre, near Britomart, Queen Street or the Viaduct, so the walk back after the show takes minutes. Parnell, uphill to the east, has quieter accommodation and is within walking distance. If you have a spare daylight hour, Auckland Domain and the Auckland War Memorial Museum are a short climb up through Parnell.