Dubai tickets and prices: what operators actually publish

Compared across the city

Built from the operators' own figures, ranked so the rows are comparable.

• Attraction ticket pricesAED 3 to AED 699
• Restaurant prices55 restaurants by median main
• Child ticket pricesNo two agree on 'child'
• Annual passesThe break-even arithmetic

By category

Where a whole category prices itself the same awkward way.

• Observation decksAED 89 to AED 769
• Waterpark ticketsResident rate, height, VAT
• Theme park ticketsThree prices, one ticket
• Cinema ticketsTwo of five publish one
• Golf green feesNo rate cards left
• Indoor activitiesThe unpriced compulsory extras
• Desert safari pricesAED 595 to AED 1,950
• Museum admissionOne page 3.3× under

Eating and drinking

Menus, brunches and the small print that sits under every printed price.

• Restaurants in The Dubai Mall1,232 priced items
• Brunch days & prices12 of 237 publish one
• Vegetarian: what is published206 marked dishes
• Beach club day passesWhat comes back as credit
• J1 Beach clubsThe weekend trick
• Hotel fees & taxesQuoted from the law

Also in Tickets & prices

The rest of this section, each page carrying its own sources and its own verification date.

• Restaurants in Mall of the Emirates — 3 restaurants inside Mall of the Emirates, 3 with a full AED menu (441 priced items), plus 1 chains naming a branch there
• Restaurants in City Centre Deira — 2 restaurants inside City Centre Deira, 2 with a full AED menu (365 priced items), plus 1 chains naming a branch there
• Restaurants in Dubai Hills Mall — every dining outlet Dubai Hills Mall lists in its own directory, with floor, parking and phone
• Restaurants in Dubai Marina Mall — 1 restaurants inside Dubai Marina Mall, 1 with a full AED menu (108 priced items), plus 0 chains naming a branch there
• Restaurants in Palm Jumeirah Mall — 1 restaurants inside Palm Jumeirah Mall, 1 with a full AED menu (49 priced items), plus 0 chains naming a branch there
• Restaurants in Dubai Festival City Mall — 3 restaurants inside Dubai Festival City Mall, 2 with a full AED menu (257 priced items), plus 4 chains naming a branch there
• Boat tours & dhow cruises — Three sources publish a first-party Dubai boat price; the dhow category is entirely resale and one famous brand's domain now redirects elsewhere
• What is actually free — Across 237 venue pages one operator writes that entry is free without qualification; the rest are unpriced, which is different
• Gold Souk prices — The daily gold rate is published by a trade body and titled Suggested; no authority publishes anything about making charges
• Shopping festival & sales — Next season’s dates are unpublished; Dubai’s was-and-now rule requires a discount compatible with a price list held by the regulator
• Expo City tickets — No general admission ticket is published; Terra now prices AED 100 and Vision AED 75, and the plaza, parks and Surreal are free and open 24/7
• Tipping & service charge — Nothing is published about tipping anywhere; the 10% service charge is not a government charge, only a published ceiling
• dubai price changes — The only record of what Dubai operators used to publish: each changed figure with its previous value beside it, dated to the check that found it — operators delete the old page, so this is kept nowhere else

Why a price here may be higher than one you saw elsewhere

This site publishes what the operator charges, not what a reseller charges for a package it has bought. Those are different numbers and they are not interchangeable, which is why a figure here sometimes sits above the one on a deals site — and why, for the venues that publish nothing, we carry no figure rather than borrow one.

The rule and the reasoning are in the editorial policy.

Common questions