In the central Khalid Lagoon of downtown Sharjah just east of the historic Sharjah Heritage Area, Al Noor Island is a 45,000-square-metre artificial island that has been transformed into one of the most thoughtfully designed small public garden and leisure parks in the broader United Arab Emirates. The island opened to the public in December 2015 following a comprehensive three-year landscape-and-architecture development programme led by the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority, fulfilli.....

Built around a wall-to-wall trampoline arena, Flipped Park is an indoor trampoline and adventure park on an upper floor of the Sahara Centre extension in the Al Nahda area of Sharjah. The park is aimed at children, teenagers and families, gathering a range of active attractions under one roof in an air-conditioned mall setting. Its Jumpverse zone offers interconnected trampolines, slam-dunk basketball lanes and obstacle courses, with foam pits and dodgeball adding to the bounce-based fun. A l.....

Flipped Popup is a compact play concept from the Flipped Park brand, set on the ground floor of the Sahara Centre near the city-gate entrance in the Al Nahda area of Sharjah. It acts as a smaller, more accessible offshoot of the brand's main indoor adventure park on the upper floors of the same mall. The pop-up brings a scaled-down selection of the group's active attractions to a walk-by spot among the shops, aimed at shorter visits. It is pitched mainly at younger children and families looki.....

Part of the Al Qasba leisure district in Sharjah, Masrah Al Qasba is a theatre set among the canal-side attractions of the Al Qasba development in the Al Khan area. Its name means simply "the Al Qasba theatre" in Arabic. Al Qasba is a waterfront leisure and cultural district built around a canal, lined with restaurants, an observation wheel, art spaces and family attractions. The theatre forms the performing-arts anchor of the district. As a purpose-built performance venue, it stages plays, mu.....

Pearls Kingdom Waterpark opened in mid-2024 along Al Khalidia Street in Abu Dhabi, occupying a 25,000 square metre site themed around the historic pearl diving heritage of the Trucial Coast that sustained the region's economy for centuries before the discovery of oil. The park is operated by Tilal Liwa Hospitality Group and forms part of a wider family entertainment district that includes a hotel, retail concourse and outdoor amphitheatre. Themed zones recreate stylised versions of an Emirati p.....