Trips To Dubai is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Edinburgh.
What this site is trying to be
Dubai is written about either as a marvel or as a punchline, and neither is much use if you are trying to plan five days here. This site is more interested in the fact that the abra across the Creek costs one dirham and is the best thing in the city, that a non-prime Burj Khalifa slot ending near sunset gives you the same view for half the price of the sunset ticket, and that the dhow wharfage is a working port you can walk straight into.
It also tries to be straight about the things the official material leaves out — the rules that are genuinely enforced, the medication list, and who built the city.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Dubai changes quickly. Attractions close for renovation and reopen late — the Dubai Museum at Al Fahidi Fort has been shut far longer than announced, and a great many listings still show it as open. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check before you travel for it.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Museum of the Future entry says it is expensive for what it is, and why the Al Seef entry points out that the genuine article is ten minutes upstream.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — an opening time, a fare, a closure — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].