Dubai is designed to keep children enthralled. Its family-friendly hotels feature mini check-in desks, crèches and kids’ clubs, dedicated children’s menus and restaurants without curfews for youngsters, spa treatments for little ones and big-ticket facilities that stretch far beyond basic playgrounds. The best water parks are directly linked to hotels. Hit the slides at Aquaventure at Atlantis, The Palm, Wild Wadi at Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Jungle Bay at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina.
Most of Dubai’s other family attractions are within easy reach, rarely more than a 30-minute taxi drive away. Children will feel like all their Christmases have come at once at the permanently festive Ski Dubai, an indoor snow park with an 85-metre slope and chair lift, and KidZania allows them to role play in a miniature version of the world, complete with a supermarket, petrol station and medical centre. Other theme parks have been created around comic-book heroes, cartoon characters, tree-top rope courses and Lego building blocks. These are the best family hotels in Dubai.
