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Enjoy quality time with the UAE’s Family category. Whether you're looking for kid-friendly attractions, weekend guides, or educational fun, we’ve got activities for all ages across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and beyond.

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Flamingos wade in a wetland with Dubai’s skyline and Burj Khalifa in the background
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Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary: Complete Visitor Guide

It still catches people off guard: a genuine wildlife sanctuary, thousands of wild flamingos included, sitting quietly in the middle of Dubai, wedged between the Ras Al Khor industrial zone and the tail end of Dubai Creek. No entry fee, no booking system, no fuss, just bring binoculars and a bit of patience. What Is…

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Man in traditional white robes walking beside towering bookshelves in a modern library
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Mohammed Bin Rashid Library: Complete Visitor Guide

Dubai doesn’t do libraries by halves, and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library is the proof. Rising over Dubai Creek in Al Jaddaf, this isn’t a quiet back-street reading room as it’s a landmark building with millions of books and media items, event spaces, and an architectural statement that’s as much a reason to visit as…

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A woman stands by a pond reflecting a tropical house with pointed roofs and palm trees
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Mushrif Park Dubai: Complete Visitor Guide

Dubai doesn’t get much credit for greenery, but Mushrif Park quietly proves the city can do sprawling, shaded, family-friendly outdoor space just as well as it does skyscrapers. Tucked away near Mirdif, on the eastern edge of the city, this is one of Dubai’s largest parks, and easily one of its most family-oriented as a…

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Five boys walking along a winding path through lush jungle-like foliage and giant tree roots
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The Green Planet Dubai: Complete Visitor Guide

Somewhere between Downtown Dubai and JBR, tucked inside The Beach at JBR, there’s an eight-storey glass dome that decided the desert wasn’t doing enough for you. Step through the doors of The Green Planet Dubai and the temperature drops, the humidity climbs, and suddenly you’re standing under a 25-metre biomimicry tree surrounded by sloths, spider…

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Immersive digital art installation with colorful projected flowers and cascading light around visitors
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TeamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi: Complete Visitor Guide

Abu Dhabi’s cultural district has a new resident, and it doesn’t behave like a normal museum. teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, from the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab, is a standalone building on Saadiyat Island built entirely around large-scale, immersive digital art installations that respond to natural phenomena, light, water and sound, rather than static works hung…

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Decorative entrance gate to Quranic Park with floral-patterned towers and a crosswalk in front
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Quranic Park Dubai: The Visitor Guide To Something Culturally Special

Quranic Park doesn’t look like much from the entrance, pleasant landscaping, a couple of themed gardens. Then you reach the Cave of Miracles and the Glass House, and it becomes clear this is one of Dubai’s more genuinely thoughtful public parks, built around a concept you won’t find anywhere else in the city. What Is…

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A group of playful people in Candy Museum Dubai
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Candy Museum Dubai: Complete Visitor Guide

If your Instagram feed needs a serious sugar rush, Candy Museum Dubai is built for exactly that. It’s part sweet shop, part interactive art installation, part full-blown sensory experience — a candy-coloured playground of oversized lollipop forests, marshmallow clouds and ball pits that photograph beautifully and, refreshingly, are actually fun to walk through rather than…

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Man sitting on a reflective floor in a vivid blue and orange digital art installation with cartoon-like floating figures
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House of Hype Dubai: Everything You Need to Know

If your feed has been full of neon corridors, secret doors and people mid-scream inside what looks like a fever dream, chances are you have already seen House of Hype without realising what it was. Tucked inside Dubai Mall, this is not a restaurant, a bar or a nightclub in the traditional sense. Instead, it…

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A girl bowling at Dubai International Bowling Centre
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Dubai International Bowling Centre: Complete Guide

Bowling doesn’t need reinventing, but Dubai International Bowling Centre has quietly become one of the city’s most reliable, no-frills nights out — decent lanes, arcade games to fill the gaps between frames, and none of the velvet-rope pretension that comes with a lot of Dubai’s newer entertainment venues. It’s a solid pick for birthdays, corporate…

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