Category: Hotels in Dubai

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 […]

A staycation in Dubai works differently from a holiday stay. You already know the city, you are probably driving, and the hotel has to be the destination: a pool you actually want to sit by, dinner worth staying in for, and enough to do that nobody reaches for their phone to plan an escape. The […]

Sheikh Zayed Road is Dubai’s main artery, and its hotel strip runs in a near-straight line from the World Trade Centre roundabout through DIFC and down towards Business Bay. Stay on this road and almost everything is close: the metro runs alongside it, Dubai Mall is minutes away, the airport is a straight drive, and […]

Hatta is Dubai’s mountain exclave, about 90 minutes by road from the city in the Hajar range on the Oman border — cooler air, brown peaks, a turquoise dam, and a completely different pace from the coast. Sleeping there used to mean one hotel; now you can choose between a full resort, pine cabins, riverside […]

Bur Dubai is the old city on the south bank of the Creek: the Al Fahidi lanes and wind towers, the textile and electronics souks, the abra crossings to Deira, and some of the best-value eating in Dubai. Its hotels are a mixed bag in the best way — heritage buildings inside the Al Seef […]

Four-star is where Dubai hotel value usually sits. The city’s five-star resorts get the attention, but a good four-star here typically means a proper pool, a gym, several places to eat, rooms larger than the European average and staff used to international guests — at rates that often start well below the luxury names, especially […]