Dubai has plenty of hotels chasing “futuristic,” but most of them are just tall and shiny. ME Dubai by Meliá is something else – it’s built...
🇦🇪 UAE
Dubai has no shortage of villa-style luxury stays, but most of them are either standalone rental properties with zero hotel infrastructure behind them, or full hotel...
I’ll admit I was skeptical walking in. An “indoor rainforest” in the middle of the desert sounds like exactly the kind of thing that looks incredible...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇦🇪 UAE
Etihad A380 First Class Apartment – Abu Dhabi to Tokyo Narita on the new route
The Etihad First Class Apartment is the kind of product that comes up every time someone asks “what’s the best first class seat in the world?” — and...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇦🇪 UAE
Etihad Airways 787-9 new business class suite, Japan – Tokyo to Abu Dhabi to Jeddah
Let me set the scene. It’s 5:20pm at Tokyo Narita. The sun is going down. You’re boarding a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in Etihad business class for a 12.5-hour...
🏰 Places, 🇦🇪 UAE
Dubai Gold Souk, UAE – the world’s largest gold market, a 63kg ring and a 1 AED boat ride
Dubai has a version of itself that looks like a science fiction film – the Burj Khalifa, the Palm, the Museum of the Future, the malls so large they have indoor...
A $680 million USD construction cost. An 18th-century Baroque palace built from scratch on the western tip of Palm Jumeirah. Forty thousand Swarovski crystals on a...
Dubai has an interesting problem with superlatives — everything is the biggest, the tallest, the first. But Dubai Safari Park actually earns its entry in that list. One...
Dubai has eight of the world’s ten tallest hotels within its skyline. It’s the kind of city that treats height records as a standing invitation rather than a...
Okay so you’re already in Dubai Mall — probably because you had no choice, it’s impossible to be in Dubai and not end up there at some point — and you walk...
