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Dubai Slideshow
Top Hotels in Dubai
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Grosvenor House Dubai
1074 reviews -
Atlantis, The Palm Dubai
2447 reviews -
Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel Dubai
346 reviews
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InterContinental Dubai Festival City
422 reviews
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Golden Sands Hotel Apartments Dubai
685 reviews -
Holiday Inn Dubai-Al Barsha
196 reviews -
Crowne Plaza Hotel Dubai
255 reviews
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Grand Hyatt Dubai
549 reviews
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Le Meridien Dubai
736 reviews
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Burj Al Arab Dubai
882 reviews
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Hyatt Regency Dubai
263 reviews
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Towers Rotana - Dubai
239 reviews
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Four Points by Sheraton Sheikh Zayed Road Dubai
506 reviews
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Arabian Park Hotel Dubai
341 reviews
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Tamani Hotel Marina Dubai
203 reviews
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Media Rotana, Barsha - Dubai
121 reviews
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JW Marriott Hotel Dubai
244 reviews
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Hilton Dubai Jumeirah
1603 reviews
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The Address Downtown Dubai
391 reviews
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Al Qasr at Madinat Jumeirah Dubai
667 reviews
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Chelsea Tower Hotel Apartments Dubai
119 reviews
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Dhow Palace Hotel Dubai
137 reviews
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The Fairmont Dubai
280 reviews
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Shangri-La Hotel Dubai
248 reviews
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Millennium Towers Dubai
101 reviews
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Novotel World Trade Centre Dubai
349 reviews
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Al Bustan Centre & Residence Dubai
22 reviews
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Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina
639 reviews
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Ibis Al Barsha Dubai
141 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Dubai-Deira
38 reviews
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Al Murooj Rotana Dubai
238 reviews
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Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates Dubai
315 reviews
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Ramada Dubai
107 reviews
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Majestic Hotel Dubai
281 reviews
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Raffles Dubai
356 reviews
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Four Points by Sheraton Downtown Dubai
402 reviews
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Mina A' Salam at Madinat Jumeirah Dubai
816 reviews
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The Carlton Tower Hotel Dubai
64 reviews
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Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek
439 reviews
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Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel And Towers
358 reviews
Dubai
Travel Blogs from Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai... that doesn't look like Dubai!
This is a top pick! ... I will have to go back to Dubai because apparently you aren't even allowed to leave the airport when you are connecting on Emirates, no matter how long your layover is... I finish catching up on my blog and sleep before boarding another plane headed to ...
A Day At The Mall
This is a top pick! ... woman/stewardess who was milking it for all it’s worth. This night I met Dulce, one of Diggy’s closest friends in Dubai. She is originally from but due to her father’s line of work, she has lived in Germany and now Dubai for five ...
Show and Tell
This is a top pick! ... cost around $15K USD. Diggy has a similar driving style as I so it was probably a good thing the corvette wasn’t functioning. Dubai streets are lined with police cameras and the fines add up. Diggy told me that on a recent trip from Dubai to Abu ...
Dune Bashing
This is a top pick! ... belly dancing! Initially we had planned to do a desert safari in Oman thinking it would be cheaper as it is less touristy than Dubai but unfortunately we were wrong. The tours in Oman were five times the price so we headed back to Dubai a day early and ...
Ten hours in Dubai Duty Free
This is a top pick! Our aim was to try and get a transit visa so we could possibly meet a few friends for lunch but once again the 'Curse of the little green book' struck and we were told the only way we would get a visa on arrival would be if we booked a nights ...
Wild Wadi Water World
This is a top pick! ... caught a bus out to the Wild Wadi Water World which we had seen on the Amazing Race a few seasons ago. Public transport in Dubai is seriously lacking as after two bus changes we finally arrived close to two hours later. There is a lot of traffic on the ...
Travel tips and closing thoughts on UAE and Oman
This is a top pick! ... the hard sell, there are no beggars or indigent people, and other than the occasional traffic jam, everything runs efficiently. Dubai is quite hot and humid during the summer. Guidebooks say the most comfortable times to visit are between November ...
Under Construction...Dubai City of the Future
This is a top pick! He Said: Prior to the controversy a few months back when a number of US ports were purchased by a Dubai company, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates were certainly not on the radar of most Westerners. That's not a big surprise, it is a tiny nation and ...
Is it an airport or a shopping center?
This is a top pick! ... top. Not the first time I've been here but it continues to amaze each time. In about an hour I hop on another Emirates flight to Osaka...I'm sure it'll be over 10 hours but I haven't confirmed that yet. Luckily, I have my business class ...
Under Construction
This is a top pick! · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · GMT +4:00hrs "build it and they will come" - Kevin Costner, Field of Dreams Under construction Dubai, the jewel of the Arab world, is one of the 7 emirates that make up the oil-rich Persian Gulf country, The ...
Gold, Gold and More Gold
This is a top pick! ... any tourist information, not for lack of trying and hours of walking in the heat, we decided to head to the Mall of the Emirates. This is the largest mall in the eastern hemisphere. Aside from over 500 shops and numerous food courts it has an indoor ski ...
An architects dreamland.....Dubai!
This is a top pick! ... share. They brought out bread and hummus and chicken. It was really good, this was also the cheapest meal we had in Dubai. While we were sitting there eating, a man and his young son sat down at the table. I started talking with ...
Plans Unravelled - New Plans Made.
This is a top pick! ... for a 4 day visit due to leave 2 days after we arrived in Dubai (from South America). We had booked these after Ebony's January Emirates work roster had come out and we knew she would be away for these days but back after wards when we could have some ...
A night in Dubai, or Emirates Rules!
This is a top pick! ... like a shopping mall at Christmas even at 1:00 in the morning. Even better, because we were waiting so long, Emirates gave us a wonderful free buffet meal at its hotel restaurant. They had chocolate mousse for dessert. We also got ...
in the airport
This is a top pick! Hi all, just a quick post to say that we're safely in Dubai and the first leg of the journey went very well indeed. The next is due to commence in about 1hr 30 mins. Got to be quick as we're stealing wifi in some electronics strore in the airport so will ...
Farewell UAE
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; SPITTING (and associated noises)! · Dubai drivers - aggressive, fast and fearless · Sweaty summers ...
Going through hell to get to heaven
This is a top pick! Mainly, I just wanted to leave a posting from Dubai, because, hey, I was there for 11 hellish hours, and when's the next time I'll be in Dubai? So why not? The flight, though, turned out to be a lot more adventurous than I really needed. I got on the ...
Sweating
This is a top pick! ... in a crazy 2 week dash in Yemen, Oman and UAE, and I knew my mate Lars would be crazy enough. So flights to Dubai were booked and I arranged flights with Air Arabia to San'a. About 1 month later the security situation in Yemen worsened and I needed to ...
A Day in Dubai
This is a top pick! ... Now. Perhaps They Were Men in Black. We left Toronto for India back in mid-January. Our flight had a scheduled stop-over in Dubai. As we left the Toronto terminal building and entered the narrow ramp that led to the door of the airplane a German Shepherd ...
Dripping in gold and bored to tears
This is a top pick! ... and health and includes the brilliant sentiment "protection from an unpleasant view", which possibly lost something in the translation? Dubai is a way of life rather than just a place. Expat heaven with all the trimmings. The executive housing ...
The BIG idea
This is a top pick! ... had been planning to buy a property in Dubai so we could get settled and start a family. Unfortunately the property market in Dubai had other plans for us as property prices were increasing daily with the apparent supply and demand problems, and by ...
Dubai
This is a top pick! ... fare was served........pita bread, chicken, lamb kebabs, salad and pickled salted vegetables......all rather tasty. Having stayed in Dubai for a week last year to celebrate Caroline's BIG 40 we were now very acquainted on how to get ...
It's getting hot in herrr
This is a top pick! ... forty minutes of standing in line before we could get a cab. Checked out the Mall of the Emirates...home of the famous middle east ski hill. Ski Dubai is as claimed. An engineering feat, no doubt...and a tourist attraction in itself. ...
Insanity meets Money
This is a top pick! Since Dubai was a stop-over on our way to Germany, we decided to check it out for a few days. In a nutshell, Dubai is crazy expensive and probably one of the most artificial, uncharismatic and wasteful places out there (another version of ...