Dubai Travel

A trip to Dubai during your vacation will make you relieved and forget all the stresses of the world. Dubai is a very attractive city. It enables you to experience a festive lifestyle with its blue seas, sunny skies among other features. It is referred to the city of Gold.

When on a trip to this city you can visit so many places and enjoy yourself to the fullest. Some of the places worth a visit and the best include; Nad Al Sheba Golf and racing club. This club is located some kilometers from the city. Around this place, you will be able to meet different types of hotels from where you can book online for accommodation. Some of these Hotels include, Al Manzil Hotel. This luxurious hotel lies right next to the Dubai mall and Burji Dubai. The hotel is from a central location where one has the access to the world trade center of Dubai and its shopping malls. This Hotel is fully and comfortable because it is equipped with modern facilities. This place provides a favorite environment from where one can enjoy camel rides, races and swimming. Besides there are so many other Hotels around this place which can see you enjoy your vacation.

The museum is another exciting place where one can spend their precious moments from. This area has Hotels from where you can also book for accommodations online. One of the most precious Hotels is the Hotel Holiday International. It is located on the shores of Sharjas Khalid lagoon. The Hotel like the others around this place is spacious and luxurious. It has 253 spacious guest rooms. It has temperature controlled out door swimming pools hence making it so contusive for spending your time around this place. The museum is not far from these hotels and hence the place is the favorite one for those who want to pay it a visit.

While in the city you can visit the Creek Park which is the best place to be. The Creek Park is located some few kilometers from the city centre. This place is surrounded by quite a number of Hotels. The Hilton Hotel in Dubai is located at a ten minute drive from the air port. This Hotel is luxurious and contusive to the guests who are able to enjoy 154 guest rooms and many other precious facilities. This Hotel offers a variety of services which will enable you to appreciate the opportunity of visiting the Creek Park

While on you are on your vacation or be lucky to be here for business you can visit the shopping centre and get to know what it is that the city owns in terms of business. This place is called the Deira City Centre. Some of the best Hotels which can offer you accommodation include; Novotel
Deira city, Al Bustana Rotana. There are other different types of Hotels around here.

You will bear me witness that if you visit these places in Dubai, you will talk about this city for your lifetime. There has never been a place like Dubai. It is just unique in its own making. When in those good Hotels you feel at home because the services make you contented.

Dubai is located in the oil-rich Middle East region of the world. It is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and a popular holiday destination for many people of diverse cultures. It is a city that has grown for a short time and attained a world-class status due to manufacturing industry fuelled by money from oil sales. The country is hot and the sun shines for most of the year. It is for this reason that people from temperate countries find a safe holiday haven here. When they are climbing the high storey buildings of this city, they find the simmering heat catching up with them even on top of the buildings. The ideal way to visit Dubai is through walking since most of the attractions are found far apart from each other. Some of these sites are along sandy beaches.

Bastakiya is the main tourist attraction of this city. It is located in Bastakiya district to the east of Dubai Souk. There are many courtyard houses to visit as part of the holiday. Back in the days of the post-electricity era, there used to be numerous wind-driven fans in these houses to provide a cool atmosphere after a day in the blistering heat of desert sun as it scorches the beach. The hot climate bears resemblance with the one to be found in the Arabian Desert which extends to the neighboring Arabia. Due to increase in the number of tourists going into this site in order to sample its magnificence, the authorities here have rolled out a plan of converting it into a tourist village.

Palm islands consist of three magnificent which are a wonder to see both from the moon and from the ground while on a boat ride. The wonder of this site is that is the greatest man-made island and which is still undergoing reconstruction. There are about 7000 apartments which have been fully completed and in which there are people residing. It is clear that many more constructions will be seen to be coming up in the palm island. Lifestyle here is of very high class and there are major renovations being made in supermarkets, hospitals and hospitals in order to cater for the high number of touring visiting this area. The golden mile is one such example which offers a wide array of variety in the form of boutiques, hotels, restaurants and clubs. In other words, it is a village within a village.

Sheikh Saeed Al-Maktoum’s house has become another tourist attraction site in Dubai. It is one of the oldest homes in Dubai and is made of sandstone in a unique style that is found nowhere in the world. Since the ancient times, the Arabians have maintained a unique architectural format when building their houses. Such formats are best revealed to the modern world through the remnants of great Arabian rulers who reigned at the height of prosperity of the Arabian world. The home belongs to a former ruler of UAE who controlled foreign and domestic trade in the country.

Dubai is one of the seven emirates, and the most popular city of the United Arab Emirates. It holds top airports (major) as well as upcoming ones, have a look at this:

Dubai International Airport
Dubai international airport has grown quite fast, in a short span of time. It has grown from an airfield into an aviation hub. The great development is as a result of the great visions that the late ruler of Dubai, HH Sheikh Rashid had for his country.

Today the airport is not only the fastest growing airport but also it is also recognized as the aviation hub of the Middle East. It now stands among the top ten airports in the world.

The airport was introduced in 1959, when the ruler of Dubai then, ordered the first airfield in the country. Located 4 kilometers from the city center, the airport holds great proximity not only for the town but also the future expansion of the airport.

The airport presently, has 107 airlines serving over 160 destinations. It is such a great improvement for the airport, and it is with no doubt that the airport offers excellent deals and services. The runways are perfect spots, as the airport continues to fish in many passengers with each passing day, as it holds 62 million passengers with an approximate 2.1 million tones of cargo a year, in its current phase.

Al Maktoum International Airport
This is a major new airport in Dubai which is under construction, and is expected to serve millions of passengers when ready. The airport was initially called Ali international airport, but it will officially be Al Maktoum international airport within no time. If completed as planned, the airport will basically hold an annual capacity of cargo close to 12 million tons three times heavier than that of Memphis international airport which is currently leading in cargo holdings.

Since the airport is designed for the future, it is expected to hold and handle all next-generation aircrafts. It is believed that up to four aircrafts will be able to land simultaneously, 24 hours a day which will highly minimize in-air queuing. This is one major airport coming up in Dubai.

Dubai is quite a small state but its airports are coming up in quite a quicker pace, that it is expected to have the top airports in the next few years. Dubai international airport is currently ranked among the top ten in world class airports. This gives Dubai an added credit as they
re-strategize and plan to come up with more airports.

The pearl of the middle-east, Dubai is like an oasis in the never ending deserts of Arabia. The capital of the United Arab Emirates, this glittering city, is a perfect holiday destination and millions of people across the world visit this nick of the woods during its famous shopping season. And the city of Dubai does not let them down and truly lives up to the standards of Arabian royalty which is depicted in their fabulous hotels and beach resorts.

If one has to talk about hotels, then the first name that strikes every intelligent mind is Burj Al Arab. Architecturally a true marvel, this mammoth hotel is a landmark in the history of unique structures. Its shape of a billowing sail goes up to a stupendous height of 321 meters and incorporates in itself a helipad and tennis court approximately 300 meters from the ground. This massive all-suites hotel easily dwarfs all other buildings in Dubai. Situated a little away from the coast, this 7-star hotel offers the best services in the world with every floor having its own private reception desk and a chauffeur-driven Roll Royce for all its clients. The assortment of highly trained butlers and chefs offer you the experience you are not likely to forget in your lifetime.

Madinat Jumeirah is the one of the most highly rated hotels in Dubai. This 867-room hotel resort is a place that has rooms for every kind of people from every strata of the society. The decor of the hotel is very Arabian and it gives a highly comfortable environment to all the visitors. Its charming beachfront Dar Al Masyaf is a true sight in itself. The sub hotels that comprise this resort like the Mina A Salam and the Al Qasr are impeccable in the service and luxury that they provide. The resort also incorporates in itself nearly 20 full-fledged restaurants that provide every kind of food known to man. The shopping complex and the superb theatre present within the resort itself add further value to it.

The Ritz-Carlton Dubai, yet another rendition of the famous Ritz chain of hotels is perhaps the best hotel in Dubai after the Burj. The style, elegance and level of comfort that the hotel offers is truly a treat to all the customers. Its sophisticated European style dining hall where the quality and manner of dining are unbelievably regal is definitely a big hit in this Arabian landscape. The food no doubt is awesome and so are the rooms. The beds that the Ritz offers its customers are so famous for their comfort throughout the city that now there is a new offer doing the rounds that one can take away a bed from the hotel after paying a certain some of money for it.

Perhaps the most recent addition to Dubai’s list of fabulous hotels, The Park Hyatt, Dubai is really a wonder. Although it is situated in the hustle-bustle of the city, the hotel lends a very calm and peaceful environment. Its décor combines an Arabic look with an African one. The rooms are very comfortable and wonderful. The hotel also boasts of a ton of spas and many eating places that provide very good food.

Dubai is an amazing city, a true master-piece in the rather difficult locales of Arabia. And with such hotels and resorts, who wouldn’t want to go there and have a bawl?

Dubai is more of a city state than a country. It is one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates. The city-state is the best in terms of being Modern and progressing in the region of the UAE. The city-state is some what a new player in international tourism. Dubai is a city-state that is basically a desert that has managed to transform its self into a fabulous city-state. The journey to Dubai from Europe is only five hours and from the rest of the surrounding regions like India, Middle East and Far East it is only a trip of three hours.

Dubai has a different weekend to all other places in the world they weekend of late has been shifted to Friday and Saturday. In the past the weekend was from Thursday and they are some firms in the city-state that still use the old system. It goes without saying that the climate is hot considering that the landscape is all deserts. It is usually dry on the hot days and the days when it is cooler the climate is humid. The heat is considerably better from the end of September to May but even during this period the temperature can reach 29 degrees Celsius. To get to Dubai most of the international travelers use air travel. There are number of airports that operate in Dubai. For people that visit Dubai on a regular basis they can purchase an e-gate card so that they do not spend a lot of time in the immigration section. The Dubai international airport is the biggest in the region and that is where the Emirates airline is based. The airport is a very busy place and can lead to one spending hours by the airport in the immigration section. The other airports that are there are the Sharjah airport and the Maktoum.

Other modes of transport that one can use to go to Dubai are car and boat but these are mostly for people who are from the neighboring city-states. By car, if you want to use a car to go to Dubai you have to be from Oman and that is the only border that Dubai has. The charge for a car that is leaving Oman is 3000 OMR. Using a boat, you have to make arrangements with the captain of the ship especially if you want to get to the city in that way. There is accompany in Iran that has a boat service that travels to Dubai and it has this service every second day. It is hard to find taxis in Dubai and one will find them by waiting in queues at various shopping malls dotted around the city. The standards of driving in the city-state is one of the worst around and they taxis are notorious for that.

Driving for your self can be very confusing as the names of the roads are different in terms of the spellings and the construction work that is being done around the city-state is making it hard for people to find their destinations and this is due to the fact that the road has many detours and the road signs some of them are temporary. You can view the city from a boat ride, the ferry is called the abra .the cost of the ferry is on dirham. The service is very reliable and is available at anytime of the day. The city-state is very small in terms of size nut the government of Dubai is very ambitious and they are planning to build a rail way system and a certain phase of the rail system has already began construction.

The sites that are a must see when you visit Dubai are what some people call the old Dubai. Firstly there is the Al Ahmadiya School, it is the first school that was built in Dubai and has recently undergone restoration. It is a great place to go and visit because it is a welcome break from the modernization of the city. The Bastakiya district is one of the few remaining places that are a symbol of the past that the city-state once had. The buildings in this district have been renovated to the old style of building that used to take place in Dubai. The city also has various museums and cafes that one can visit and some of them are located in the district that is traditional Dubai. The Dubai museum is a great place to visit especially if you are interested in the history of the Emirates. The museum has great art exhibitions that one can see and also it will be both a marvel and amazement to people how fast development took place in the city-state. The Jumeirah mosque is one of the best in the region and is one of the only few mosques that allow non –Muslims to tour the place.

Visiting Dubai would not be complete without visiting the worlds only seven star hotel (mind you that is an unofficial title) to say the hotel is sophisticated an understatement. To gain entry in to the hotel one needs to have made a reservation but if you are a guest at the hotel that is adjacent then you are allowed to go for a visit but only on arrangement. The reservations for the hotel are to be made a month earlier and to book a meal at the restaurant one needs to book a few days in advance. The dress code at the hotel is smart casual, ordinary people can book tours of the hotel but they are no tours of the hotel if it is full. There are a lot of things that one can do in Dubai and that includes going skiing and golf. The golf courses in Dubai are maintained by professional people and even though it is a desert the irrigation systems of the golf courses are well maintained.

Dubai is a great city to visit and it is one city that has totally embraced the spirit of modernization and that is evident from the huge quantity of construction sites that are surrounding the city.