What Dubai operators changed
When an operator raises a price it publishes the new figure and deletes the old one. Nobody keeps the old one. Since 2026-09-29 we have, because we re-check every venue on a rota and we now keep what we found the previous time instead of writing over it. 12 changes across 6 venues so far: 5 figures moved, 4 appeared where nothing was published before, and 3 stopped being published at all.
What this page is, and what it is not
It is a record of what a named operator published on a date we checked, set beside what the same operator published the time before. It is not a claim about what anything cost, and it is not an accusation. An operator is free to change a price whenever it likes.
Two honest limits. We check each venue on a rota, so a change is dated to when we found it, not when it happened — the real change falls somewhere between this date and the previous check on that venue, and its page carries both. And from outside, a price rise and a corrected typo look identical; we record the movement and do not guess which it was.
September 2026
| Venue and figure | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah MallName | Not published before | Palm Jumeirah Mall since 3 September 2025. Dubai Holding Asset Management's press release… |
| Ibn Battuta MallEV charging / car wash | Not published — neither the mall's FAQ nor its mall services directory lists EV charging… | Listed, not priced — the mall's own amenities page names "EV Stations" and "Car Wash"… |
| Global VillageCurrent status | Between seasons and closed as of this page's verification date. The operator's homepage… | Closed between seasons until Season 31 opens. The operator's homepage reads "Coming Soon!… |
| Global VillageSeason 31 dates | Listed by the operator only as "Oct 2026 - May 2027"; exact opening and closing dates not… | "14 Oct 2026 - May 2027", on the operator's own site. No closing day in May is given, and… |
| Global VillageHours, Sunday to Wednesday (Season 31) | Not published before | 16:00–00:00 |
| Global VillageHours, Thursday to Saturday and public holidays (Season 31) | Not published before | 16:00–01:00 |
| Global VillageFamily/women-only day | In the operator's own words: "Tuesdays (Except those falling on a public holiday) are… | In the operator's own words: "Tuesdays(Except those falling on a public holiday) are… |
| Global VillageHours (Mon–Thu, when open) | 16:00–00:00 | No longer published |
| Global VillageHours (Fri–Sun, when open) | 16:00–01:00 | No longer published |
| Dubai Miracle GardenOperating season | The operator's pages disagree. Its FAQ says the garden "operates seasonally, typically… | "Opens 8 October 2026", on the operator's homepage, with the season given as "October –… |
| Dubai Crocodile ParkPublished closure window | "Temporarily closed from 15th June 2026 to 14th September 2026", per the operator's own… | No longer published |
| Al Ghurair CentreParkin's own fee table (the car park operator) | Not published before | Parkin publishes a Monday-to-Saturday table (6am to 3am) that matches the mall's hourly… |
Related: what we got wrong ourselves, the documents that never change when they should, and what is never published at all.
Common questions
How do you know what a Dubai attraction used to cost?
Because we wrote it down. Every venue on this site is re-checked on a rota against the operator's own published source, and since we started keeping the previous value instead of overwriting it, each change leaves both figures on the record with the date we found them. We make no claim about figures from before we started.
Is this a price history?
It is a record of published figures, which is not quite the same thing. It shows what an operator published when we looked, not what anyone actually paid, and not the date the operator made the change — only the date we found it.
Why does the date not match when the price actually changed?
Because we check each venue on a rota rather than every day. A change is dated to the check that found it, so the real change happened somewhere between that date and the previous check on the same venue. Both dates are on the venue's own page.