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Travelling with a dog or cat used to mean leaving Dubai off the list, or paying for boarding while you stayed in a hotel without them. That has changed. A growing number of hotels across the city now welcome pets properly, with beds, bowls, menus and outdoor spaces where your animal is expected rather than […]

Deira and the streets around Dubai Creek feel different from the glass towers further south. This is where Dubai started as a trading port, and it still works that way today: dhows loading cargo on Baniyas Road, traders haggling in the Gold Souk and Spice Souk, and abras carrying passengers across the water for around […]

Staying in Dubai for a month is a different kind of trip. A standard hotel room starts to feel small after the first week, eating out three times a day gets expensive, and laundry becomes a real chore. Hotel apartments solve those problems in a practical way. You get a proper kitchen, a separate living […]

Dubai does big hotels brilliantly. Vast lobbies, record-breaking towers and resorts with hundreds of rooms are part of the city’s story. But stay a little longer, or look in the older neighbourhoods along the Creek, and a different side appears: small hotels in restored courtyard houses, low-rise addresses where staff learn your name, and design-led […]