The United Arab Emirates is famous for its luxury and ultramodern attractions, which include huge shopping malls. Dubai has long been known as one of the world’s main shopping centers, there are about 100 shopping malls, which have a lot of entertainment for family holidays, and a huge number of traditional bazaars. We have prepared for you a description of the most profitable and interesting places for shopping.
1.Dubai Mall
The largest shopping and entertainment center in the world, located in Down Town Dubai, there is absolutely everything here: books, electronics, sweets and fashionable clothes, more than a hundred cafes and restaurants. Fashion Avenue deserves special attention, where the latest collections of couture clothing and accessories are presented. For movie lovers — a complex of cinemas with 22 screens. For sports fans — an Olympic-sized ice rink. Among the unique structures located under the roof of the Dubai Mall is the world’s largest indoor aquarium, where you can see more than 33,000 fish and marine animals, including sharks and rays.
2.Dubai Marina Mall
Dubai Marina Mall is one of the largest and most popular malls in Dubai. It is located on the shore of the yacht marina. Dubai Marina Mall offers casual family shopping, with more than 130 different shops. The emphasis here is on inexpensive clothes and beauty salon services. The mall has a large selection of restaurants overlooking the bay. As entertainment, Dubai Marina Mall offers a large cinema, an ice rink, a bowling alley and a wide variety of entertainment for children.
3.Dubai Outlet Mall
The mall is a half-hour drive from Dubai, but it must be visited by bargain hunters. Dubai Outlet Mall boasts 240 stores and over 1,200 brands. Sales of designer brands such as D&G, Lacoste, Ralph Diane von Furstenberg and Marc Jacobs, as well as household goods, electronics and perfumes, take place here all year round. In the Dubai Outlet Mall, prices are often reduced from 20 to 90 percent.
4.Mall of the Emirates
Mall of the Emirates has more than 700 stores, 100 restaurants and cafes, includes Carrefour hypermarket, Centrepoint home goods mall, multi-brand clothing department stores Debenhams, Harvey Nichols, Home Centre, Jashanmal and Marks & Spencer and the Fashion Dome Design Brands department. A new wing has recently opened in the Mall of the Emirates, which features an Apple store and a host of luxury boutiques. The mall building houses one of the world’s largest indoor ski resorts, Ski Dubai, which is the very first in the Middle East.
5.Ibn Battuta Mall
Ibn Batuta Mall is a chain of one or two storey buildings, each section of which is dedicated to one of the countries where The Moroccan merchant Abu Ibn Battuta visited 7 centuries ago: Persia, Andalusia, India, Tunisia, Egypt and China. There are a huge number of fashion boutiques and sports shops that regularly offer various entertainment and promotions. The symbol of this mall is a huge thirty-meter ship assembled right in the building, next to it there is a series of small restaurants, an artificial ice rink, fountains and a mini-bazaar.
6.Gold market
One of the most famous markets in Deira, which tourists go to wherever they live, is the world famous Dubai Gold Market. It attracts gold wholesalers and those who wish to purchase exquisite gold jewelry. You will be able to purchase jewelry masterpieces, precious stones and Arabic jewelry at favorable prices.
7.Dubai Spice Souk Spice Market
It is here, like nowhere else in Dubai, that you can feel the atmosphere and flavor of a real oriental bazaar. The market welcomes guests with a riot of aromas. Restaurant chefs and housewives like to shop here. In the Spice Market, you can find high-quality saffron at local prices, fresh dates and other products. After shopping at Dubai Spice Souk, I want to return home as soon as possible and put the purchased spices in jars.
8.Dubai Perfume Souk Market
So far The UAE is a major exporter of perfumes and cosmetics worldwide. In the Dubai Perfume Souk market you will find all the fragrances of the world — from pure perfumes to essential oils, incense and perfumes. Be sure: the unique rich aromas will certainly turn your head, and you will want to immediately buy all the perfumes in bulk. Also, experienced perfumers offer services for creating individual fragrances.
Enjoy your shopping!
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