Budget Travel
Dubai on a budget is real: ride the AED 1 abra, hit free beaches like Kite Beach, sleep in…
2/8
A one-dirham boat and a driverless Metro run right past the supercars. The expensive city is optional.
3/8
Old Deira and new Downtown sit on top of each other, so saving hard and splurging big both come easy.
4/8
Kite Beach, the Creek abra, the Fountain show — the best of Dubai costs almost nothing.
5/8
Clean metro-connected rooms run AED 180 a night. Save the Palm for one splurge, not seven.
6/8
An evening desert safari — dune driving, then a fire and a sky full of stars an hour from the mall.
7/8
Roughly AED 200 to 300 a day outside the big splurge. Here's the honest math.
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