The United Arab Emirates is recognized as one of the most popular places for shopping tourism, where prices for goods can be significantly lower than in the country of origin of goods. However, about goods and prices you can hear from tourists who went shopping, rather conflicting reviews. Someone is surprised at the cheapness of things, and someone frowns at the fact that everything is very expensive. We will conduct a virtual shopping tour of the malls in Dubai, the capital of the UAE, where there are more than 40 shopping centers to understand who is right.
Dubai Shopping Centers
In the resort capital of the United Arab Emirates, there are six of the best malls. In addition to shops and boutiques, they have cafes and restaurants, salons and children's entertainment centers, and a lot of what you need to see, try and buy ...
- One of the most visited places in the capital is the Dubai Mall. It is located in the prestigious Downtown neighborhood near the Caliph Tower.
- The Emirates Mall in Dubai has huge retail space and the amazing Sky Dubai indoor complex.
- Wafi City Mall is a magnificent structure in the form of an Egyptian pyramid. It is famous for its luxurious boutiques.
- "Bur Juman" is a huge shopping gallery with a wonderful interior. It is spacious and crowded.
- Deira City Center is a shopping center that you won’t get out of without a purchase. This is evidenced by the reviews of tourists who visited it.
- Ibn Batuta Shopping Mall is recognized as the most beautiful mall in Dubai.
In each of the shopping centers, tourists can find goods of famous brands of the world. Buyers in Dubai are attracted by fantastic services and the opportunity to purchase goods at a price lower than in the manufacturing country.
Holiday Sales
Buying goods in Dubai is profitable at any time of the year. Since it is an open port, import duties are low. But to make the shopping tour less expensive, go on a trip for the holidays, during which mass sales are held. It is about them that tourists who have visited the Emirates write in reviews.
In the United Arab Emirates, trade festivals are held annually, during which tourists can purchase any product at great discounts. At the Dubai Trade Festival, which lasts all of January, and the Dubai Summer Surprise, which runs from July 1 to mid-August, product discounts reach 70%. All malls in Dubai during the festival attract customers with a win-win lottery and attractive promotions for a wide range of products.
Promotions cover a wide range of product categories and brands. A large number of promotions and sales are held during the Eid Al-Fitr (Uraza-Bairam) festival. The date of the celebration changes annually, so before you get ready for a shopping tour, you need to get information about the holidays in the UAE from the tourist center.
"Mall of the Emirates"
One of the most visited malls is Mall of the Emirates - the flagship shopping center and the largest resort in the region. Since its inception in 2005, Mall of the Emirates has shown steady growth and impressive demand from retailers.
Over the past seven years, the annual number of visitors to Mall of Emirates has increased by an average of 8-10% per year. The huge Mall of the Emirates has 535 international retail brands, including more than 80 luxury stores. Absorb shopping center is 233,467 square meters. m
The main stores of the mall are the Apple Store, Boutique 1, Carrefour, Harvey Nichols, Home Center and others. Among them, Carrefour is a large hypermarket. It has everything - from food, to furniture, clothes, photos and video equipment to camping equipment, garden equipment and children's goods.
Guest reviews
A large number of reviews from tourists is devoted to shopping in the Mall of Emirates. It is convenient and compact, travelers say. Here you can find goods of international and local brands. Amaze with their abundance mountains of things and chain European stores. In stores of Mall of Emirates you can buy goods for children with good discounts. In August, there are discounts on the purchase of goods necessary for school: from clothes and shoes to school supplies. Mall of Emirates is unlikely to leave without a purchase.
In the United Arab Emirates go not only for shopping. Basically, this is a combination of a good family vacation and shopping. An unusual offer from travel agencies includes the Magic Planet family entertainment zone, a 14-screen VOX cinema, and the world famous Ski Dubai. Amazing, especially for children, the entertainment area and the indoor ski slope of Ski Dubai in the unknowing cold winters of the Emirates. The roomy theater, Dubai Community Art Center and over 95 international restaurants and cafes are in demand.
Dubai Mall
Located in the heart of the prestigious area of the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a huge shopping center, is part of the Burj Khalifa complex. The cost of the building is 20 billion dollars. There are 1,200 stores in the mall. More than 80 million visitors shop here every year.
The popularity of the Dubai Mall shopping center (a photo of the open-air platform located in it, is located below in the article), like any of the UAE malls, is associated not only with shopping, but also with the entertainment component. In the shopping center you can just walk, enjoy the beauty and richness of design. But if tourists have a goal - to make a large purchase of goods, it is advisable to go to small shopping centers, which are located far from tourist areas, since prices for goods in mall stores are higher than on the outskirts.
One of the unique places of the mall is the open-air street landscape of The Village. Here you can choose denim from a rich collection of jeans brands. If you believe the reviews, the Dubai Mall has created excellent conditions for relaxing in restaurants and cafes and walking along the alleys with street landscapes without leaving the shopping center.
Children will enjoy the Candylicious candy store, which is considered the largest in the world. On its shelves you can see confectionery from all over the world. The mall is expanding to accommodate even more shoppers.
List of stores in Russian
The Dubai Mall has established shops and boutiques of such designer brands: Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Hermes, Galiano. They are very similar to museums with luxurious decor. Shopaholics will be pleased to be in this mall - the largest center for shopping, entertainment and recreation. For lovers of haute couture, more than 70 branded stores are represented. This is a true paradise for lovers of fashionable clothes, shoes, accessories.
The selection of goods is large. Top the list of Dubai Mall stores - Bloomingdale and Lafayette Gallery. They feature the best Western fashion brands in the Middle East. It is impossible to stop and leave without a purchase, tourists share their impressions in reviews. Depending on the purpose of shopping, there are a number of stores where you should look:
- "And Other Stories" - shoes for women and accessories;
- "Novelties and Gifts" - souvenirs and accessories;
- "For all people" - denim shop;
- "2100% capri" - clothing;
- "Abdullah Hussein Khunji Man" - Arabic clothing for men;
- "Abdul Samad Al Kurashi" - perfumes, perfumes, incense;
- "Adidas" - sportswear.
Retail
Many world-class shopping centers allow the country to dominate several international ratings and attract more and more visitors. A growing population and an appetite for unique experiences among both local residents and visitors from abroad ensured that a very favorable 2018 came in the country's retail sector, and the growth momentum was postponed to 2019.
Shops Dubai Mall offers an unprecedented retail experience combined with world-class restaurants and entertainment. In particular, The Fashion Avenue, an area dedicated to high fashion, is currently expanding, positioning Dubai as the capital of fashion for the Middle East. At Fashion Avenue, as in many shops of the shopping center, you can get acquainted with the latest collections of clothing by world famous designers and brands and purchase the latest designer shoes.
Souk Market
No less colorful is the Suk market. In the stores located on its territory, tourists can buy handicrafts, jewelry made by local craftswomen, and traditional Arabic clothing. Those who are interested in gold jewelry can find them in this market. In Dubai alone, there are more than two hundred stores in the gold market. Gold jewelry in the United Arab Emirates is the cheapest in the world.
How to get to the shopping center?
There are three types of transport to get to the shopping center: by metro, by bus and by car.
The station you need to get to by metro is Burj Khalifa. After leaving the metro, you should go along the pedestrian bridge leading from the metro to the shopping center. A special bus also runs from the metro station, taking passengers to the mall.
Two buses: No. 27 and No. 29 go to the Dubai Mall.
By car, drive along Sheikh Zayed Highway to the road junction. The landmark that is visible from this place is the tall skyscraper "Burj Khalifa". Next to it is a shopping center.