Inside Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi, Air Maniax operates an indoor adventure and inflatable park bringing the Dubai-born brand to the capital's waterfront shopping centre. The Marina Mall setting places the venue among a large mix of retail, dining and leisure on Abu Dhabi's Corniche breakwater, with views across to the city skyline. As with the brand's other sites, the centre is built around active play, combining inflatable and obstacle-based attractions in an air-conditioned indoor space. Feat.....

Reopened in 2018 after a major restoration, the Cultural Foundation is a long-standing arts and community centre in central Abu Dhabi, set beside the historic Qasr Al Hosn fort. First opened in the early 1980s, it was for many years the heart of the city's cultural life before closing for an extensive refurbishment and returning as a modern arts hub. The building brings together exhibition galleries, performance spaces and learning facilities under one roof, run by the emirate's culture and to.....

Opened in 2005 at a reported cost of around three billion dollars, Emirates Palace is a landmark luxury hotel on the West Corniche of Abu Dhabi, owned by the emirate's government. Conceived on a grand, palatial scale, the sandstone-coloured building is set in extensive landscaped grounds with a private beach and its own marina. It was operated for its first years by Kempinski before management passed to Mandarin Oriental, under whose name it now trades as Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental. Th.....

On the 74th floor of Tower 2 of the Etihad Towers complex on the West Corniche of central Abu Dhabi immediately opposite the celebrated Emirates Palace Hotel, the Observation Deck at 300 is the highest publicly accessible observation deck in the broader Abu Dhabi region and one of the highest single observation venues anywhere in the broader United Arab Emirates outside the Burj Khalifa's 124th-floor observation deck. The 300-metre-high observation deck opened on 22 May 2014, occupying a dedicat.....

Qasr Al Hosn is the oldest standing structure in Abu Dhabi, with origins dating to a circular watchtower built around 1761 to defend the freshwater well that first attracted Bani Yas tribal settlement to the island. The original tower was expanded into a small fort during the 1790s by Sheikh Shakhbut bin Dhiyab Al Nahyan, and grew progressively under successive rulers into the white-walled Inner Fort that became the seat of Al Nahyan family governance and residence of Abu Dhabi's rulers until 1.....

Qasr Al Watan, meaning Palace of the Nation, occupies a 380,000 square metre site within the Presidential Palace compound on the Al Ras Al Akhdar peninsula of Abu Dhabi, opening to the public in March 2019 as the first working presidential palace anywhere in the region to admit visitors during designated hours. The building functions simultaneously as a museum, cultural institution and active state ceremonial venue used by the President of the United Arab Emirates for hosting visiting heads of s.....

Plunging thrill-seekers down the exterior of a high-rise tower, the Velocity Slide forms part of the CLYMB Abu Dhabi adventure hub on Yas Island, billed as one of the steepest and fastest body slides of its kind in the region. The attraction is attached to CLYMB, the indoor adventure facility that also houses the world's widest indoor skydiving flight chamber and one of the tallest indoor climbing walls, all gathered under a striking diagrid glass dome beside Ferrari World. Riders climb to the l.....

Painted bright yellow, the inflatable boats of The Yellow Boats run guided sightseeing tours from the Emirates Palace marina in Abu Dhabi, offering a fast, open-air way to see the capital's coast from the water. The operator is well known across the UAE for its distinctive fleet of rigid inflatable boats. This branch departs from the marina beside the Emirates Palace, the landmark hotel on the Al Ras Al Akhdar headland near the western end of the Corniche. The setting places the tours among som.....