Dubai and the Gulf itineraries
Starting points, not fixed departures. Tell us which one is closest and we change the rest.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi: 5 days, and the things we would skip
Five days is the right length for a first Gulf trip. It gives you the old city, the modern city, a night in the…
Dubai with children: 6 days, and which tickets are worth buying
Dubai is a good family destination for reasons that have nothing to do with how it is marketed. The flight is short from Europe,…
Desert and mountains: 7 days in the Gulf away from the city
There is a version of the Emirates that has nothing to do with the skyline, and most visitors never see it. The Hajar mountains…
Romantic Dubai: 5 days, two hotels and two dinners worth planning around
Dubai sells romance badly. The version in the brochures is a private table on a beach with a photographer, and it is expensive, staged…
Old Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi: 6 days of culture and food
The most common complaint about Dubai is that it has no culture. That is wrong, but it is an understandable mistake, because the culture…
Boutique Dubai and Abu Dhabi: 5 days of design, art and quiet
Dubai has more five-star hotel rooms than almost any city on earth and most of them are the same room. The interesting properties are…
Dubai and Oman: 14 days, and why most of it is in Oman
This is the fortnight we build more often than any other on this desk, and the ratio is the whole argument. Three nights in…
A Gulf stopover and three weeks in Asia: Dubai at both ends
Dubai's real advantage is not the city, it is the position. It sits between Europe and almost everywhere in Asia we work, on one…
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