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.....

A horror-themed escape-room venue in the Al Nahyan district of Abu Dhabi, BlackOut builds its games around suspense, darkness and live scares rather than puzzles alone. Escape rooms place small teams inside a themed, locked space where they must search for clues, solve a chain of challenges and find their way out within a set time. BlackOut leans into the realistic-horror end of the genre, using set design, sound, lighting and at times live actors to heighten the tension. Its rooms run to dif.....

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.....

On a dramatic seafront site along the Corniche breakwater immediately west of Marina Mall in central Abu Dhabi, the Heritage Village is one of the most thoughtfully presented small open-air heritage museums in the United Arab Emirates and one of the principal cultural-tourism destinations of the broader Abu Dhabi capital. The 25,000-square-metre open-air complex first opened in 1996 under the management of the Emirates Heritage Club, occupying a dedicated waterfront site that combines authentic .....

Along the broader Al Salam Street in the eastern section of Abu Dhabi Island about 15 minutes east of central downtown, Khalifa Park is one of the largest landscaped urban parks in the broader Abu Dhabi region and one of the most heavily visited public open spaces in the broader Emirate. The 50-hectare park first opened in 2007 as part of the broader Abu Dhabi urban-greening programme, occupying a substantial dedicated site along the broader eastern coastline of Abu Dhabi Island. The park's lan.....

Mangrove National Park protects roughly 19 square kilometres of intertidal forest along the eastern shoreline of Abu Dhabi, forming the largest contiguous stand of Avicennia marina grey mangroves in the United Arab Emirates. Designated a protected area in 2013 by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, the reserve serves as a critical nursery for fish, crabs and shrimp, while supporting populations of grey herons, western reef egrets, flamingos and the rare Socotra cormorant. The mangrove ecosystem al.....

Marina Mall sits on the Breakwater peninsula in Abu Dhabi, jutting into the Gulf at the western tip of the Corniche and offering one of the broadest waterfront panoramas of the city skyline. Opened in November 2001 by the National Investment Corporation, the centre spans approximately 122,000 square metres across three floors and houses more than 400 retail outlets, anchored by an IKEA store, a Carrefour hypermarket and a Plug-Ins electronics department store. The mall was extensively renovated.....

Built around more than two dozen challenge cells, Prison Island Abu Dhabi is a team-based adventure game on the third level of the Abu Dhabi Mall in the capital. It is the Abu Dhabi branch of a game concept with sites across the United Arab Emirates. Unlike a conventional escape room, the game does not revolve around escaping a single locked space. Instead, teams move freely between cells, each containing a different task to solve within a short time limit. The cells test a mix of skills, from.....