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.....

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 .....

At the central roundabout intersection of Maktoum Bridge Road and Al Maktoum Hospital Road in the heart of the historic Deira neighbourhood of Dubai, the Deira Clocktower is one of the oldest surviving modern landmarks in the city and one of the most architecturally distinctive small monuments in the broader United Arab Emirates. The 12-metre concrete-and-aluminium structure was completed in 1965, commemorating the opening of the original Maktoum Bridge (the first bridge connecting the two histo.....

In a dedicated 40,000-square-foot purpose-built immersive entertainment complex at the Atlantis The Palm resort on the eastern crescent of the Palm Jumeirah artificial archipelago in Dubai, Dinosaurs - The Immersive Odyssey is one of the largest dinosaur-themed immersive multimedia experiences in the broader Middle East region. The complex opened in March 2024 as part of the broader Atlantis Aquaventure entertainment programme, providing a substantial 90-minute walk-through immersive multimedia .....