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.....

360 Play is an indoor family entertainment centre at the Al Ghurair Centre in Deira, one of Dubai's oldest shopping malls, close to Union metro station. The venue is aimed at children roughly from toddler age up to twelve, providing a supervised indoor space where younger visitors can burn off energy while families shop or shelter from the summer heat. Its play zones combine soft-play structures with climbing frames, ball pits, slides and a trampoline area, mixing active features designed to e.....

Spread across two upper floors of City Centre Deira in Dubai, Adventure Island is a large indoor adventure and amusement park built around active, experience-led attractions. It comes from the team behind TEPfactor Dubai and the Prison Island concepts in the region, and the Deira site is described as their biggest location, gathering all of their formats under one roof. The headline attraction is Prison Island, an immersive challenge in which teams work through 24 themed cells of puzzles and p.....

On the southern bank of Dubai Creek in the historic Bur Dubai neighbourhood about two miles south-east of the modern downtown Dubai business district, the Al Fahidi Historical District (also known as Al Bastakiya) is the largest and best-preserved historic neighbourhood in the United Arab Emirates and one of the most important surviving examples of pre-oil Gulf Arab urban architecture. The 30-acre historic quarter preserves approximately 60 individual late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-.....

A traditional dhow converted into a floating restaurant, Al Faris runs luxury dinner cruises along the Dubai Water Canal, boarding from the waterfront beside Dubai Festival City Mall. The vessel combines a glass-enclosed, air-conditioned dining deck with open-air seating, allowing guests to cruise comfortably year-round while taking in the city after dark. A typical cruise lasts around two hours, gliding along the canal and creek with an international buffet served on board. The route passes .....

Tucked into a beautifully restored early-twentieth-century coral-stone-and-mud-plaster house in the heart of the historic Al Fahidi Historical District in the Bur Dubai neighbourhood of Dubai, Al Khayma Heritage House combines a thoughtfully curated small heritage restaurant with one of the most authentic surviving examples of traditional Emirati domestic architecture in the entire United Arab Emirates. The two-storey courtyard house dates to the early 1900s and was meticulously restored to its .....

Stretching 1.8 kilometres along the south bank of Dubai Creek, Al Seef is a waterfront shopping and dining district developed by Meraas beside the historic Al Fahidi neighbourhood. Completed in 2017, the pedestrianised promenade was designed to tell the story of Dubai's transformation, splitting into two distinct halves along the water. The heritage zone recreates the look of old Dubai, with low coral-and-gypsum buildings, wind towers and narrow lanes housing a traditional souk, craft stalls, .....

On the lower ground floor of the Wafi City Mall in the Umm Hurair neighbourhood of central Dubai, AYA Universe is one of the largest immersive multimedia entertainment venues in the broader United Arab Emirates and the flagship Middle East venue of the international AYA immersive entertainment brand. The 40,000-square-foot complex opened on 9 February 2023, occupying a substantial former retail space at the popular Wafi City Mall and providing a 90-to-120-minute walk-through immersive multimedia.....

Perched over the waters of Dubai Creek on a timber deck, Boardwalk is one of the city's most romantic waterfront dining institutions. Part of the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club in Al Garhoud, the iconic restaurant pairs a marina-inspired interior with an outdoor terrace that sits right on the creek. Its menu leans on Mediterranean and international plates, anchored by a striking fresh-seafood display reminiscent of a market stall. The over-water terrace is the main event, drawing diners for sun.....

On the southern bank of Dubai Creek in the Umm Hurair neighbourhood of central Dubai immediately east of the historic Al Fahidi Historical District, Creek Park is the largest waterfront public park in central Dubai and one of the most heavily visited public open spaces in the broader Emirate. The 96-hectare park was established in 1994 along a substantial 2.5-kilometre stretch of the southern Creek shoreline, occupying a dramatic crescent-shaped site that wraps around the broad southern bend of .....