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Dubai · Places to Visit

16 Best Places to Visit in Dubai

The top Places to Visit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ranked by traveler ratings and how many people rated them. Every spot is a real, verified venue — facts checked against live Google data.

The list

  1. Zabeel Park — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Zabeel Park

    Zabeel Park in Dubai's Al Kifaf/Al Jafiliya district (near Zabeel metro station) is a 117-acre green space famous for the Dubai Frame and a weekend flea market. 4.6★ (42,058 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  2. Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant | مطعم الخيمة التراثي — Dubai restaurant
    Dubai · ★ 4.9

    Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant | مطعم الخيمة التراثي

    Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant sits in the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood near Al Souq Al Kabeer, serving Emirati classics like machboos, harees, and luqaimat in a Bedouin-tent-style courtyard.

  3. Waterfront Market — Dubai hidden gem
    Dubai · ★ 4.5

    Waterfront Market

    Waterfront Market in Deira, Dubai, is the city's covered fish and produce market on Al Khaleej Street, part of the Deira Enrichment Project on the Corniche. 4.5★ (43,040 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  4. Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood

    Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, on the Bur Dubai side of the Creek near Al Fahidi Metro Station (Green Line), is Dubai's best-preserved old quarter — a maze of coral-and-gypsum wind-tower houses now packed with museums, galleries, and cafés.

  5. Creek Park — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.5

    Creek Park

    Creek Park is a large green stretch along Dubai Creek in Umm Hurair, best known for its cable car, kids' play areas, botanical trails, and creek-side dining. 4.5★ (15,808 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  6. Books Kinokuniya Dubai — Dubai hidden gem
    Dubai · ★ 4.7

    Books Kinokuniya Dubai

    Books Kinokuniya Dubai is the Japanese chain's big outpost inside The Dubai Mall, near the Fashion Parking entrance, and it's busy enough that timing your visit matters. 4.7★ (10,223 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  7. Love Lake — Dubai hidden gem
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Love Lake

    Love Lake is a pair of heart-shaped, man-made lakes in the Al Qudra desert area (Saih Al Salam), part of Dubai's Al Qudra Lakes chain, best visited at sunrise or sunset for cooler temperatures and better light.

  8. Hindu Temple, Dubai — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.8

    Hindu Temple, Dubai

    This is Dubai's newer Hindu temple complex in Jebel Ali, open daily 6am–8:30pm, and it draws steady crowds all day on weekends. 4.8★ (6,449 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  9. Dubai Old City — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Dubai Old City

    Dubai Old City sits in Al Hamriya, on the Deira side of Dubai Creek, a maze of low sand-coloured buildings, wind towers and narrow lanes built to evoke the emirate's pre-oil past. 4.6★ (4,457 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  10. Etihad Museum — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Etihad Museum

    The Etihad Museum sits on Jumeira Street where the UAE's founding fathers signed the 1971 union agreement, and its swooping white "manuscript" roofline is worth seeing even before you step inside. 4.6★ (3,287 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  11. Dubai Old village — Dubai attraction
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Dubai Old village

    Dubai Old Village in Al Hamriya, on the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek, is a reconstructed heritage quarter of coral-stone and gypsum buildings showing how Dubai looked before the oil boom. 4.6★ (1,109 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  12. Al Bastakiya — Dubai hidden gem
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Al Bastakiya

    Al Bastakiya is the old wind-tower quarter of Al Fahidi in Bur Dubai, a few minutes' walk from Al Fahidi Metro Station on the Green Line. 4.6★ (260 reviews) — what visitors say, hours, and tips.

  13. Nobu One Za'abeel — Dubai restaurant
    Dubai · ★ 4.6

    Nobu One Za'abeel

    Nobu's newest Dubai outpost sits inside The Link, the sky-bridge connecting the two towers of One Za'abeel, roughly 230 metres above the city — making it arguably the highest-altitude Nobu on the planet.

  14. Gymkhana: Dubai Travel Guide — Dubai trendy
    Dubai

    Gymkhana: Dubai Travel Guide

    Gymkhana Dubai is a newly opened Indian restaurant that has quickly become one of the city's hardest dinner reservations to get.

  15. Nobu (The Link, One Za'abeel): Dubai Travel Guide — Dubai trendy
    Dubai

    Nobu (The Link, One Za'abeel): Dubai Travel Guide

    Nobu (The Link, One Za'abeel) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates — a new/trending spot: what it is, where it is, and how to visit.

  16. Sutēki: Where to Eat in Dubai — Dubai restaurant
    Dubai

    Sutēki: Where to Eat in Dubai

    Sutēki in Dubai, United Arab Emirates — a new/trending spot: what it is, where it is, and how to visit.

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