How we verify information
Every factual claim on this site — a price, an opening time, a parking rate, a phone number — is checked against a source the venue itself controls before it is published. The date of that check appears on the page, next to the source. If we cannot verify something, we do not publish it.
Our sourcing rules
- Official sources first. The venue’s own website, its published menu, its verified Google Business Profile, or a UAE government source such as Dubai Municipality, RTA or the Department of Economy and Tourism.
- No estimates. If a venue does not publish a price, the page says the price is not published rather than guessing a figure or copying one from an aggregator.
- Dated, not undated. Prices and hours in Dubai change often, especially around Ramadan and public holidays. Each page shows when its details were last confirmed, so you can judge how much to trust them.
- Corrections are visible. When a reader tells us something has changed, we re-check it against the source and update the verification date. We do not quietly edit a page and leave the old date in place.
- Nothing is pay-to-appear. No venue can buy a place on this site, a better position, or the removal of an inconvenient fact. Where a page carries an affiliate booking link or paid placement, it is labelled as such.
Which sources we accept
Not every published page counts as a source. We work down this order and stop at the first one that actually states the fact.
| Accepted | The venue’s own website, its own published menu PDF, and its own booking page. For a tenant of a mall, that mall’s own directory listing. For a property, its landlord or developer’s own page. UAE government sources such as Dubai Municipality, RTA and the Department of Economy and Tourism. |
|---|---|
| Last resort | Tourism-board listings such as Visit Dubai, used only where nothing else exists and never described as the operator. |
| Never accepted | Ticket resellers such as Platinumlist, Headout, GetYourGuide and Klook; review platforms such as TripAdvisor and Zomato; news outlets; blogs; and listicles — including our own competitors. |
Menu prices from a restaurant’s ordering channel
Many Dubai restaurants publish no prices on their own website but do publish them on the delivery platform they operate through — Talabat, Deliveroo or Careem. Those listings are uploaded and priced by the restaurant itself, which makes them a first-party source in the same way a venue’s Fever ticket page or SevenRooms booking page is. Where a restaurant publishes no prices anywhere else, we use them, under three conditions that appear on the page itself:
- The channel is named. The page says which platform the prices came from and on what date, in the same place it would name the restaurant’s own menu PDF.
- The delivery caveat is stated. Prices on a delivery platform are sometimes higher than the same dish in the dining room, and platform fees sit on top. We say so rather than implying the figure is what you will be charged at the table.
- The venue’s own menu wins the moment it exists. A delivery listing is a stand-in. When the restaurant publishes its own priced menu, or sends us one, it replaces the channel prices and the page is re-sourced.
What this does not license: a price from a platform the restaurant does not operate through, a price from an aggregator or review site, or a price with no date on it. Those remain excluded, and the difference matters — a restaurant sets its own delivery prices, while an aggregator copies figures it never had.
The reseller rule matters more than it sounds. A reseller’s price is its own price, not the venue’s, and it goes stale independently. Two pages on this site were found in September 2026 publishing reseller prices while implying they came from the operator’s official booking platform. Both were corrected and both are on the corrections log.
When a source says nothing
If a venue does not publish its opening hours, its ticket price or its parking rate, this site says that the venue does not publish it. We do not substitute a figure from somewhere else and we do not infer one. An absence is information too: it tells you to call ahead rather than turn up expecting a published rate.
The same applies to entry being free. Unless the operator states that entry is free, the page says no admission fee is published — which is a different claim, and the only one we can stand behind.
When an operator contradicts itself
Several venues in Dubai publish two different answers on their own website: different closing times on the homepage and the FAQ, a season described as year-round on one page and seasonal on another, two different phone numbers. Where that happens, this site publishes both statements with the page each came from, and where one is safer to plan around it says which and why. It does not pick one silently, because a reader who arrives at a locked door is not helped by our having sounded confident.
What we do not cover
This site covers practical logistics: how to get somewhere, when it is open, what it costs, how to contact it. We do not publish medical, legal, financial or immigration advice, and we do not rank hospitals, clinics or professional services. Those topics carry real consequences for readers and are outside what this site is qualified to write about.
We also publish no star ratings, no scores and no “best of” rankings. A ranking is an opinion dressed as a fact, and this site is not in the opinion business.
Report an error
If a price or an opening time on this site is wrong, tell us and we will re-check it against the source. Use the contact page and include the page address. Corrections are the fastest way this site gets better.