About Dubai Trip Guide
Dubai Trip Guide publishes verified practical details for venues in Dubai: opening hours, ticket prices, menus with current AED prices, parking rates and contact numbers. It is an independent publication, edited by Dan-Ionuț Ciobanu. It is not owned by, affiliated with, or paid by any venue, hotel group, tourism board or booking platform.
Why this site exists
Most of what people search for before visiting a restaurant or an attraction in Dubai is not inspiration. It is logistics: what time does it close, what does parking cost, is there a validation, what is on the menu and what does it cost, what is the phone number. That information is scattered, often out of date, and frequently wrong on the aggregator sites that rank for it.
The failure mode is specific and it is worth naming. An aggregator copies a price once, ranks for it, and never checks it again. A listicle promises “the 30 best brunches in Dubai” and invents day, time and price for the twenty-five venues that never published any. Neither tells you when it last looked. This site does one thing instead: it publishes what the venue itself states, says plainly when the venue states nothing, and dates every page.
Who writes this
Dan-Ionuț Ciobanu — Editor, Dubai Trip Guide
Dan-Ionuț Ciobanu is the editor of Dubai Trip Guide and runs its verification process: every price, opening time and contact detail published here is checked against the venue's own sources before it goes live, and re-checked when readers report a change. He has visited Dubai three times and runs Zarina CRM, a software company with operations in Romania and Dubai; the site is a separate, unfunded project.
The 5 photographs on this site are his, taken on those visits, and each is captioned as such; every other page has none, for the reason set out under photographs in the editorial policy.
He has visited Dubai three times and has arrived through both of its airports — Al Maktoum (DWC) in 2019 and Dubai International (DXB) in 2025 — as well as travelling on to Ras Al Khaimah. Where a page carries something from those visits it says so on the page, with the year attached. It is never the source of a figure: every price, opening time and rule here comes from the operator or the authority, dated, as the editorial policy requires.
Editorial responsibility for everything published here, including any error, rests with the editor named above. Professional profile on LinkedIn.
The documents that govern the work: the editorial policy (sourcing rules and what is not covered), the corrections log (every error found, with the date and what was wrong), the funding statement (no sponsorship, no affiliate income, no advertising), and the contact page for reporting an error. They are the same four documents the site declares to search engines, and they are the ones a reader is entitled to hold us to.
What is on the site
| Venues covered | 237 restaurants, attractions and malls in Dubai |
|---|---|
| Every page carries | The date its details were last checked, and the sources they were checked against |
| Last full verification | 3 September 2026 — all 237 venues re-checked against operator sources |
| What we publish | Opening hours, admission and menu prices, parking rates and validation, addresses, phone numbers and booking routes |
| What we do not publish | Star ratings, quality rankings, sponsored “best of” lists, or any figure a venue has not published — except a handful of comparison columns we work out from published figures and label as ours (see the editorial policy) |
How the facts get checked
Every claim is traced to a source the venue itself controls, and pages that cannot be sourced say so rather than filling the gap. In the September 2026 review this meant removing ticket prices that had been taken from a reseller and presented as official, deleting an entire menu that belonged to a different restaurant, and replacing several “free entry” claims with the honest statement that the operator publishes no price either way. Those corrections are listed on the corrections log, and the rules behind them are set out in the editorial policy.
It also means this site sometimes tells you less than a competitor does. Where an operator contradicts itself — and several in Dubai do, on their own websites — both versions are published rather than one being quietly chosen for you. And where an operator publishes nothing at all, that is recorded as the answer rather than filled in, and every such gap is catalogued on one page.
Where else we publish
Dubai Trip Guide posts the same verified details, and the corrections, on its own channels. These are the only accounts we run — anything else using the name is not us.
- X — @DubaiTripUAE
- Instagram — @dubaitripguide
- YouTube — @DubaiTripGuide
- TikTok — @dubai.trip.guide
- Facebook — UAEdubaitripguide
How to reach us
Write to contact@dubaitripguide.com. Corrections are read and acted on: tell us a price or an opening time here is wrong and we re-check it against the venue’s own source, then update the verification date on that page. It is the same address venues use to send us updated menus and hours.
How we work
Our sourcing and correction rules are set out in full in our editorial policy. How the site makes money is set out in our advertising and affiliate disclosure.