Is Dubai Travel Getting More Expensive?
Planning to visit Dubai? Effective March 31, 2014, tourists staying in a variety of hotels will be charged an extra tourist fee of about $5 per room for every night they stay. This may not seem like a big deal for us, but for Dubai, the revenue generated will be used to fund the tourism industry.
So which hotels in Dubai will participate in this Tourist Dirham tax? Apparently, all hotels, vacation houses, bed and breakfasts, inns, apartments, and condo rentals are included.
Dorms and apartments are cheaper in Dubai, but hotels charge usually the same rates as here in the United States. For example, a dorm room may cost $27 per night while a budget price hotel can go from $50 to $100.
Some of the best hotels in Dubai (many of which have franchises all over the world) are:
Fairmont Dubai
Raffles Dubai
Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort
Crowne Plaza at Festival City
Dusit Thani
Hilton Jumeirah Beach Resort
Intercontinental Dubai
Radisson Blu Hotel
Most
people travel to Dubai for the shopping. Dubai boasts of the largest
shopping mall in the world, The Dubai Mall, consisting of over 1,200
stores with brand name products. The biggest shopping event is the
Dubai Shopping Festival, which starts in January and ends in
February. Despite prices being so low in many stores, haggling is
common here.
Dubai is a destination not to be missed. It is by far the newest city with the biggest immigrant population. It is also home to the most magnificent infrastructures such as Burj Dubai, the Dubai Marina, and the Palm Islands, just to name a few.
Marie Soleil authored hundreds of articles for the Associated Content-Yahoo Voices (Yahoo Contributor Network) platform.
Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing. Yahoo! Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo! News. In early December 2011, its owners Yahoo! announced a major shakeup involving the introduction of a new service, Yahoo! Voices, which would replace the Associated Content site and take on the bulk of its content, while some 75,000 items would be retired under the new site's more stringent content submission rules.
