Category: Hotels in Dubai

Landing at Dubai International Airport (DXB) at 2am with a 9-hour layover, or catching a 6am flight out, presents the same question: is it worth leaving the airport for a bed? The good news is that DXB has one of the best airport hotel clusters in the world. There is a hotel inside Terminal 3 […]

Choosing a family hotel in Dubai can feel overwhelming, because nearly every resort claims to welcome children. The ones that genuinely work for families, though, share a few things in common: properly staffed kids clubs rather than a single playroom, rooms that actually sleep a family of four or five, and easy access to a […]

If your first trip to Dubai has to be based in one neighbourhood, make it Downtown. This is where the city’s two biggest landmarks stand side by side: the Burj Khalifa and The Dubai Mall, with the Dubai Fountain dancing on the Burj Lake between them. Staying here means your evening walk, your dinner table […]

Palm Jumeirah is the island most Dubai visitors picture before they arrive: a palm tree traced onto the sea, fringed with private beaches and stacked with some of the best-known resort hotels on the planet. If you are planning a beachfront stay in Dubai, this is the shortlist that matters. Here are the five Palm […]

Dubai has a reputation for eye-watering hotel bills, but the city hides a serious collection of hotels that cost a fraction of the big names while feeling anything but cheap. Clean rooms, proper pools, free breakfast and metro stations at the door — that is the standard across Dubai’s best value hotels, not the exception. […]

Dubai does not do understated. If you are going to book a five-star stay here, it might as well be the kind you tell friends about for years. From the sail-shaped icon on its own island to a new generation of design-led resorts, the city’s top hotels are experiences in their own right — and […]