Overlooking the Museum of the Future in central Dubai, 25hours Hotel One Central is a design-led hotel beside the Dubai World Trade Centre and close to the Dubai International Financial Centre. Opened in December 2021, it was the first 25hours hotel in the Middle East and the brand's first property outside Europe, developed and owned by Dubai World Trade Centre and operated by Ennismore. The building's architecture is by Hopkins Architects, with interiors by the design firm Woods Bagot built a.....

Wired directly into the world's most-visited shopping mall, Address Dubai Mall puts the heart of Downtown within a few steps. The luxury hotel connects straight to The Dubai Mall and looks out over the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Fountain, placing guests at the very centre of the city's glittering core. Its dining line-up spans Mediterranean and modern Greek restaurants, casual cafes and stylish lounges. Many of its rooms and venues frame head-on views of the world's tallest building. A signat.....

Built for children up to 150 centimetres tall, Adventure Parx and Cafe is an indoor play area on Al Wasl Road in the Al Safa district of Dubai, paired with a cafe for accompanying parents. Open since 2020, the venue was designed as an urban play space where younger children can climb, jump and explore under supervision while adults relax nearby. The play floor is divided into six zones, combining a multi-level soft-play area with a trampoline section, a climbing wall, a two-level rope course a.....

Anchored by three luxury hotels and a permanent water theatre, Al Habtoor City is a large mixed-use development on Sheikh Zayed Road in the Business Bay area of Dubai, beside the Dubai Water Canal. Commissioned by the Al Habtoor Group in 2012, the complex combines hospitality, residences and leisure across a single canal-side site of more than 360,000 square metres. Its hospitality collection comprises three hotels, including the Al Habtoor Palace, the V Hotel Dubai and a Hilton property, toge.....

On the second level of the Dubai Mall opposite Galeries Lafayette in the heart of downtown Dubai, ARTE MUSEUM DUBAI is the largest immersive media-art experience in the broader Middle East region and the seventh permanent venue in the rapidly expanding international ARTE MUSEUM chain operated by the South Korean media-art studio d'strict. The 30,000-square-foot complex opened on 27 April 2024, joining the chain's existing venues in Seoul, Jeju, Busan, Gangneung, Las Vegas and Chengdu. The ARTE .....

On the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in downtown Dubai, At.mosphere is the highest restaurant in the world and one of the most architecturally distinctive fine-dining venues anywhere on the planet. The 210-seat restaurant occupies a substantial 2,300-square-metre space some 442 metres above ground level, providing diners with panoramic views of the entire central Dubai skyline, the Persian Gulf coastline, the Dubai Marina and (on the clearest days) the distant Hajar Mountains of the United Ara.....

One of the highest restaurants in the world, At.mosphere occupies the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, more than 440 metres above Downtown Dubai. Opened in 2011, a year after the tower itself, it was created as the building's signature fine-dining destination, reached by a dedicated high-speed lift from the ground floor. The venue is split between a grill restaurant and a lounge, the two sharing floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the city, the coast and the desert far below. The restaurant f.....

BIYIY Electric Bikes is an electric-bike provider based in Dubai, offering battery-assisted bicycles for hire as a way to get around the city and its waterfront and leisure areas. Electric bikes pair a conventional bicycle frame with a small motor and battery that assist the rider when pedalling, making longer distances and warmer conditions more manageable than on a standard cycle. Such services are typically aimed at residents and visitors looking for an active, low-effort alternative to wal.....

BlackOut brings its realistic-horror escape rooms to the Al Quoz district of Dubai, occupying a unit on Al Meydan Road in one of the city's warehouse-and-studio quarters. As at its Abu Dhabi sister venue, the concept centres on themed, locked rooms where small teams hunt for clues and solve linked challenges against the clock. The branch specialises in the scarier end of the genre, using detailed sets, darkness, sound design and, in some games, live actors to unsettle players. Several rooms r.....

There are tall buildings, there are very tall buildings, and then there is the Burj Khalifa. Standing at 829.8 meters, just over half a mile, it has been the tallest structure on the planet since its topping out in 2009, surpassing Taipei 101, which had held the record for half a decade. But the raw number only tells part of the story. Dubai built it for a reason. The emirate had been watching its oil reserves dwindle for years and made a calculated bet on tourism and global prestige instead. T.....