When visiting Dubai, UAE for the first time, it is difficult for tourists and solo travelers to create a holiday program. Many attractions, shopping and entertainment centers offer a variety of services. To solve this problem, you can familiarize yourself with life hacks for vacationers in Dubai.
Content
Attractions and food
Do not run from one attraction to another. Most of the top ones can be seen on a sightseeing tour. What you should pay attention to:
- Dubai Mall;
- Singing Dubai Fountain;
- flower park;
- Oceanarium in Dubai Mall;
- Observation deck Burj Khalifa;
- Jumeirah Mosque at sunset;
- New Dubai Park Resort out of town towards Abu Dhabi.
For a quick bite, we recommend a good fast food chain Golden Fork (golden fork). This fast food can be found in every area, a good price for seafood. A useful life hack for tourists in Dubai: if you haven’t found where to eat, then in any market there are departments with ready-made food.
Good inexpensive restaurants:
- in the Al Barsha area, the Turkish restaurant “TURK” near the CentroAl Barsha hotel;
- Al Mandi restaurant near the Auris Plaza Hotel;
- Good Syrian restaurant near Le Royal Meridien hotel;
- Dubai Marina Mall and near Pier 7 (several floors) there are many cafes overlooking the Marina.
In the Dubai Mall on the second floor in a cafe overlooking the singing fountains terrace, you can order something trifling, and watch the fountain show in comfort, because it is much better than standing in the crowd below with outstretched arms and phones for shooting. There is also a huge Apple store on the 2nd and 3rd floors, where you can look after yourself a brand new iPhone.
GlobalVillage
Entrance fee (15 dirhams). It is a city within a city where 30 countries of the world represent themselves. Everything is very beautiful! Each country has a pavilion with decorations, inside it is divided into small shops where you can buy food, clothes, souvenirs, jewelry specific to a particular country, as well as try something from the local cuisine.
Also in each pavilion there is a stage where shows with national dances are held from time to time. As a result, an excursion to 30 countries in one evening. Another life hack for tourists in Dubai: every Thursday and Friday, some guest star or dance group performs there, and these days there are always fireworks at 22.00. You can eat on average for 30-35 dirhams (menu with a burger, potatoes and a drink), tea, coffee, fruit, ice cream at every step). Souvenir prices are the best.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Sheikh Zayed Mosque)
The mosque is open for visiting from 9 am to 10 pm. They give out abayas for rent (free of charge). In the evening, the mosque is even more beautiful than during the day and there are not so many people. From the mosque to the bus station it takes only 20 minutes by taxi, the cost is about 20 dirhams.
Ride a boat through Creek Bay. Madinat Jumeirah is very beautiful. Dubai Venice. You can walk around the area for free. Very beautiful and visible Bur Dubai (sail)
Dubai Transport
There are buses, but the stops are easy to miss, as they are often just marked with a sign and timetable, so keep your eyes peeled. Catching a taxi is not a problem, the service costs 5 dirhams. 1 km – 3 dirhams. Payment is usually in cash, they issue a check. You can also use a card, but be warned. There are “craftsmen” who are trying to steal 5.50 for a serve. a trifle, but not pleasant. I recommend checking with the navigator ahead of time so that you don’t drive in circles if you don’t know the exact road. Odessans are here too.
There is a wonderful application Wojhati – a route planner. A very sensible program, available in the Play Market and the Apple store, you enter the place where and from where you need, you can set the planned time and you have all the possible options listed, the fare is given and even the map is linked (what’s online), even if you don’t have a mobile Internet, the program saves the last laid route offline.
Mobile connection
Services of the mobile operator Du – a starter package for a tourist costs 55 dirhams. It is bought only on the passport. You have 200 MB on your account, 20 minutes of calls and 20 SMS, all this is valid for 7 days, then you need to extend the validity of the number (an SMS with a reminder will come). A life hack for tourists in Dubai: if the Internet is over, then we replenish the account by 20 dirhams and ask the employee to help with the Internet balance, since it is not always possible to do this on our own the first time. You can replenish your account immediately in the operator’s stores.
Beaches
Entrance to the beaches is free. But some hotels charge a fee for renting umbrellas and sun loungers. This does not apply to regular hotel guests. Life hack for tourists in Dubai: free buses leave from city hotels 2 times a day to public beaches in the city.
Popular beach areas of the resort:
- Kite beach: located on the right side of Burj Al Arab, if you look at the sea. The beach has a jogging track, a cafe, WC, rent of sun loungers and umbrellas.
- Marina Beach: JBR beach. Sun lounger rental: AED 110 – 1 sun lounger + 1 towel. 190 – 2 sun loungers + 2 towels.
- Carrefour can safely buy an umbrella (price from 16 to 50 dirhams, depending on quality and size) and bedding (from 8 dirhams for a single).
Since most city hotels in the emirate do not provide beach accessories, even towels. Shopping malls, subway and JBR have good free Wi-Fi, but you can only connect to it if you have a local mobile number (it throws you on the registration page when connecting). After registration – 60 minutes of use for free.