"The best of both east and west" Top 5 Page for this destination Dubai Favorite Tip by uglyscot

Favorite thing: This is the commercial centre of the Emirates with its Duty-Free shopping. There are number of shopping malls, multiplex cinemas, as well as a golf course, yacht club and excellent restaurants.
The skyline has noticeable features in the Emirates Twin Towers, and the sail of the Burj el Arab.
A shopper's paradise, but a driver's nightmare. Everyone drives too close and too fast.After erecting so many high glass fronted buildings, the architects are turning to building more traditional buildings alongside residences th at blend with them [like at Al Badia], or areas where exotic domed 'palaces'are in the same area as a'traditional English market town 'shopping complex [as at Mirdif].
In other words, you never know what you will find in Dubai.

Fondest memory: The warm weather in the winter months when much of the northern hemisphere is suffering freezing temperatures.
The space after the polluted city that is Cairo, and where seeing the sky is a strain at times.