Dubai travel guides & articles
All 12 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Dubai — newest first.
Booking Dubai Around Untold Without the Guesswork
The festival has moved out to the Jebel Ali side of the city. Book your hotel and your transport around that, and think about how your nights will end.
Five Days in Dubai Without the Sheikh Zayed Road Crawl
A five-day plan that keeps each day to one walkable cluster, linked by the metro and a one-dirham boat, so you see the city instead of driving across it.
Dubai Steps Back Outdoors in October
This is the month the sea cools, the seasonal parks open their gates and the city can be walked again, with a five-day shape built around October's weather instead of ignoring it.
Crossing Dubai by Metro, Abra and Metered Taxi
Six transport systems, one nol card and about AED 60 a day: how to get around Dubai properly without ever renting a car.
How to Plan a September Dubai Trip Around the Heat
September in Dubai rewards anyone willing to build the day backwards: cold rooms through the afternoon, the old city at nine, the desert only after dark.
A Night Drive Down Dubai's Supercar Boulevards
Sheikh Zayed Road at 60kph, the Marina loop seen from above, and a 2am plate of food that costs less than the valet tip: how to spend one night inside Dubai's obsession with speed and light.
Dubai's Desert Comes Alive After the Sun Drops
When the heat breaks after sunset, Dubai's dunes shift from daytime spectacle to something closer to the real desert, and nine venues, from vintage Land Rover convoys to dark-sky stargazing, are worth planning an evening around.
Dubai's Friday Brunch Has Become a Full-Contact Sport
From a Peruvian dancefloor in Jumeirah to a AED99 buffet in Bur Dubai, Dubai's weekly brunch ritual has split into a dozen different sports — here's how to pick the right one.
In Dubai's Old Souks, the Trade Still Sets the Price
A walking route through Old Dubai's spice, gold, textile and perfume souks — the trading families still running them, and the new-age souk built to carry the same trade forward.
Where Dubai actually eats — the Deira cafeterias, the Kerala mess halls, the Pakistani grill rooms and the Filipino bakeries where the city's workforce lines up. The real food city behind the Michelin stars, where a meal still costs less than a taxi ride.
Past the Michelin stars and the Marina menus, Dubai's real food city runs on cafeteria counters, biryani degs and banana-leaf spreads where a full meal still costs less than the taxi that got you there.
The Warehouse of Ideas: Alserkal Avenue and the Dubai That Doesn't Shout
Down an industrial road in Al Quoz, a cluster of converted warehouses has quietly become Dubai's cultural centre — here is how to spend a day among its galleries, its cinema and its cooks.
One Dirham Across the Water: The Dubai Creek the Skyscrapers Never Reached
Skip the towers for an afternoon and cross the Dubai Creek by wooden abra — a one-dirham fare into the souks, spice lanes and courtyard cafés where the city actually began.