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Dubai hotels, among the world's most luxurious and expensive, share a common problem. Because the vast majority of staff are foreign—and often newly arrived—they don't know much about their new hometown. It helps to do your sightseeing homework in advance. Hotel room rates are highest during the mild winter and the annual Dubai Shopping Festival; at any time of year you will get the best deal booking a package with an Asian or London-based tour operator. Virtually the only establishments with liquor licenses, hotels serve as oases of social liberalism within a conservative Arab and Moslem culture. While Dubai is far more tolerant than its neighbors Iran and Saudi Arabia, be aware that Dubai's hotels are now required to install digital surveillance. Police respond with alacrity to complaints from UAE nationals about behavior regarded as disrespectful to Islam, such as public kissing, especially during Ramadan. For the most part, hotels indulge and pamper foreign visitors, although you will encounter nods to Arabian decorum such as gender-segregated spa facilities.
The Address occupies 11 floors of a 63-story residential tower with views of the adjacent Burj Dubai, currently the world's tallest building. Most of the 196...more
Located on a desert nature reserve a 45-minute drive from Dubai, Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa offers a respite from the city's urban grind and ubiquitous...more
The Armani Hotel Dubai, Giorgio Armani's debut hotel, occupies the first eight floors plus levels 38 and 39 of the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest...more
This $1.5 billion, 1,539-room re-creation of the Atlantis in the Bahamas ramps up the amenities with a giant aquarium housing 65,000 sea creatures (including a...more
The 202 all-duplex-suite Burj Al Arab is, at 1,053 feet, the second tallest building in the world to be used exclusively as a hotel. Low-key it is not, with...more
One of the city's rare small hotels, this enclave of 24 suites and villas sits on a 150-acre polo estate whose verdant lawns feel far, far away from the cranes...more
This 749-room complex comprising two adjoining Art Deco–inspired towers is located bang in the center of Dubai Marina and pulls in the crowds thanks to...more
Arguably as iconic as the Burj Al Arab, the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, with its mirrored wave-shaped exterior, was the first of Jumeirah's beachfront resorts,...more
The Exacto Blade–shaped twin towers of this 400-room hotel and its adjacent office block are a dominant feature on Dubai's skyline. Visitors always gasp at...more
The 405-room Jumeirah Zabeel Saray on the Palm island took a domed Ottoman seraglio for its inspiration. Paintings of sheet-draped harem girls abound,...more
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