Dubai indoor activities: what each venue actually publishes
For four months a year Dubai is an indoor city, and the venues that fill those months price themselves inconsistently. Two of the ten venues here state whether VAT is included. None now publishes a UAE resident rate: iFLY, the one that did, has taken it off its offers pages. Not one venue that requires you to buy grip socks publishes what the socks cost. Two venues band by height rather than age. And one well-ranked official site has been frozen mid-January for several years.
Published entry prices
| Venue | Price | What you get | Age or height rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ski DubaiMall of the Emirates | AED 240 / 340 | 2 hours / full day slope access | 3+; under 2 not admitted |
| Dubai Ice RinkThe Dubai Mall | AED 100 | 90-minute session, skates and socks included | Under 100 cm not admitted |
| BounceAl Quoz and Festival City | AED 90 | 1 hour; AED 80 for miniBOUNCE | Over 110 cm for the main zones |
| KartdromeDubai Autodrome | AED 99–199 | 15 or 20 minutes, 3 paced then 12 on your own | Outdoor 13+; indoor 7+ and 125 cm |
| iFLYCity Centre Mirdif | AED 179 | Two 1-minute flights, gear and instructor included | 3+; under 115 kg |
| Adventure ParxAl Quoz | AED 70–90 | 1 hour; one adult free per paying child | By height: under 80 cm / 81–150 cm |
| Dubai Aquarium | AED 199 | Silver pass: tunnel, zoo, Penguin Cove | Adult and child passes sold, child undefined |
| Museum of Illusions currently closed | AED 90 / 65 | Adult 16+ / child 3–15; senior AED 75 | Published cleanly |
| The Green Planet | AED 175 / 150 | Adult 11+ / junior; under 2 free; 3 hours parking | Published cleanly |
| Switch Bowling | AED 50 | One game, one person; AED 200 an hour for a lane of five | Not published |
More indoor venues with their own pages, each read on the operator’s site: Play DXB (credit from AED 250), The Storm Coaster (AED 75 a ride, 1.30 m), illusion City (AED 95 adult), Total Ninja (AED 100 an hour), PAC-MAN Live (from AED 160, over 7), 3D Blacklight Minigolf (AED 110 adult), Wild Paint House and Danube Sports World (padel AED 300 an hour).
Added in October: Air Maniax Al Quoz (AED 90 an hour), Inflight Dubai indoor skydiving (AED 220 for two flights), Escape Hunt (from AED 120 per person, plus tax), Tiger Strikes (bowling AED 40 a game on weekdays) and the Emirates A380 Experience, whose own site gives two prices for 15 minutes.
Immersive art: AYA Universe at Wafi City (AED 135) and the Theatre of Digital Art at Souk Madinat Jumeirah, where each show is priced separately.
The compulsory extras nobody prices
Three venues require you to buy or hire something before you can take part, and only one of them tells you what it costs.
- Bounce requires grip socks — “everyone bouncing needs to wear our special grip socks” — and publishes no price for them anywhere on its site.
- Adventure Parx states “Closed shoes and non-slip socks are mandatory” and, likewise, no price.
- Dubai Autodrome charges an AED 15 annual membership fee for new registrations and renewals. It is the only compulsory extra in the whole category with a number attached, and it sits below the headline rate where it is easy to miss.
Ski Dubai is the counter-example: “All passes include outfit and equipment rental”, which for a snow venue is the difference between a AED 240 ticket and a AED 240 ticket plus a jacket, boots and gloves.
VAT and resident rates: almost nobody states either
Two venues of the ten here publish a VAT position. Ski Dubai: “All prices are inclusive of 5% VAT”. The Green Planet: “VAT included (5%)”. Everyone else, including every Emaar Entertainment property, is silent. Under the federal display rule an advertised price should already include VAT, but silence is not a statement.
No venue here now publishes a UAE resident rate. In September iFLY advertised “AED 175 instead of AED 220” for residents, while its packages page priced the same tier at AED 179, struck through from AED 299. On 1 October 2026 none of iFLY’s offer pages carried a resident rate; its offers are now a 2-person package at AED 299 and a 3-person package at AED 399. Ski Dubai’s resident-rate pages return server errors. Adventure Parx names Fazaa, Esaad and Emirates Platinum discounts without stating the amount of any of them.
Height, not age — again
Two of the family venues here band entirely by height. Adventure Parx splits at 80 cm and 150 cm with no age mentioned at all. Bounce splits at 110 cm for its main zones and 140 cm for miniBOUNCE access. Dubai Ice Rink uses 100 cm and 120 cm. This is the same trap we describe on the child ticket prices page and at the waterparks: measure the child before you budget, because a birthday will not tell you which side of the line they fall on.
Two venues sell adult and child tickets without ever defining child: Dubai Aquarium’s annual pass is AED 500 adult and AED 400 child with no age band. The Green Planet manages to publish a second child band elsewhere on its site — “Juniors (2-10 yrs)” on the day pass and “Juniors (10 yrs and below)” in the offer block beside it.
Three venues we are not going to price
- Hub Zero — its official site is live, well ranked and frozen. It publishes hours captioned “until 21 Jan” with no year, a news notice promising an attraction “coming in January” from an operator that ceased trading years ago, and the pre-2022 Sunday-to-Thursday working week. No prices, no address, no age limits render anywhere. The City Walk venue is not trading under this brand.
- Dubai Bowling Centre — no venue-controlled website could be found at all. Every price in circulation comes from an aggregator, so we carry none.
- Laserzone — no Dubai venue of that name publishes anything. The Dubai laser tag operators that do publish are different brands, plus the Laserdrome at Dubai Autodrome at AED 70 for a 15-minute session.
Elsewhere the stale flags are smaller but the same: Ski Dubai still serves an expired National Day offer page and shows one pass with a price of “0”; Play DXB publishes weekend hours ending at “1pm”, almost certainly a typo for 1am, which we quote as published rather than silently correcting; and Bounce currently displays a summer offer, an after-school offer, a holiday special and a December giveaway simultaneously, all at AED 150, in September.
If the plan is water rather than a trampoline, waterpark tickets are here. If it is a screen, the cinema page covers a category where only two of five chains publish anything at all.
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Common questions
What is there to do in Dubai when it is too hot?
The published options run from AED 50 for a game of bowling to AED 340 for a full day at Ski Dubai. The table above gives each venue's own price, age or height rule and what is included.
How much is Ski Dubai?
AED 240 for two hours and AED 340 for a full day of slope access, and the operator states all passes include outfit and equipment rental and that prices are inclusive of 5% VAT.
Do Dubai indoor venues charge extra for socks?
Two require them and neither publishes a price. Bounce states “everyone bouncing needs to wear our special grip socks” and Adventure Parx that non-slip socks are mandatory — with no figure anywhere.
Is there a UAE resident discount for Dubai indoor activities?
Not any more. iFLY, the only one of the ten that advertised a resident rate (AED 175 “instead of AED 220”), no longer shows it on its offers pages as of 1 October 2026. Its first-timer package is AED 179 for everyone.
Do these venues price by age or height?
Three by height alone. Adventure Parx splits at 80 cm and 150 cm with no age mentioned; Bounce at 110 cm; Dubai Ice Rink at 100 cm and 120 cm.