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Dubai hotels, among the world's most luxurious and expensive, share a common problem. Because virtually all the 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 skyrocket in the winter high season and during the annual Dubai Shopping Festival; at any time of year you will often get a better deal booking a package through an Asian or London-based tour operator. Virtually the only establishments with liquor licenses, hotels are generally regarded as oases of social liberalism. Still, you may encounter nods to Arabian decorum such as gender-segregated spa facilities.
The "Old Town" is actually brand-new—a hotel, condo, and shopping complex built in Arabian palace-style at the foot of the Burj Dubai, a finger-thin tower...more
One of the smallest five-star hotels in town, the 138-room Ritz-Carlton may have excellent service, but apart from the Bedouin-inspired Amaseena restaurant, in...more
Although attached to a shopping mall with an ancient Egyptian theme, the pyramidal Raffles is a lesson in not judging a hotel by its exterior. The external...more
The Moorish-style Park Hyatt's soothing cream, beige, and ocher interiors offer a welcome respite from the brash decor of most hotels in Dubai; even the staff...more
One of the city's most established and romantic resorts, this comprises three separate hotels in one heavily landscaped 150-acre complex. There's the original...more
Dubai's answer to Vegas's Venetian Hotel, complete with 2.3 miles of meandering waterways navigated by electricity-powered abras (traditional water taxis),...more
Arguably as iconic as the Burj Al Arab, with its mirrored wave-shaped exterior, this was the first of Jumeirah's beachfront resorts, opening in 1997. Admittedly...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 202 all-duplex-suite Burj Al Arab is, at 1,053 feet, the tallest building in the world to be used exclusively as a hotel. Low-key it is not, with...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
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