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A villa stay in Dubai is a different product from a hotel room, even inside the same resort. You get a front door, a garden or a deck, usually a private pool, and room for a family or a group to live at its own pace — breakfast when you wake up, children in the […]

Dubai Creek Harbour is the city’s newest waterfront district, built by Emaar along the Creek at Ras Al Khor, facing the wildlife sanctuary’s flamingos on one side and the Downtown skyline across the water on the other. It is quieter and more residential than Downtown or the Marina: a marina promenade, parks, a viewing point […]

Downtown Dubai is the district most first-time visitors picture: the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall, the Dubai Fountain and the boulevard of cafes and towers around them. Staying here puts the big sights on foot, which matters more than visitors expect — traffic around the mall can be slow at peak times, and a ten-minute walk […]

Dubai is one of the easier big cities in the region to visit with a wheelchair: a modern metro with lifts, step-free malls, and a hotel stock built largely in the last twenty-five years. The detail that decides a stay, though, is the room itself — a roll-in shower, grab rails, a wide bathroom door, […]

Three-star in Dubai does not mean roughing it. The city’s official three-star hotels are mostly modern, chain-run properties with pools, gyms, proper breakfasts and rooms that would pass as four-star in many European cities — what you give up is the long restaurant list, the spa and the beachfront setting. For travellers who spend their […]