Dubai has been ideally categorized as the first preference not only for the travelers but also for shopaholics, who besides enjoying the spectacular huge buildings, luxurious malls and traditional style souks wants to experience a hand-on majestic shopping extravaganza. If you are seriously planning to visit Dubai, the coming vacations, I assure you that won’t regret spending your savings on this trip. Besides this, if you are a fashionista and a brand conscious person too, you will surely enjoy shopping numerous stuffs ranging from clothes from a well-recognized designer -boutiques, fragrances from international brands, remarkable electronic gadgets from the Electronic stores, to the authentic gold jewelry available in the Gold souk. Alongside, if you are an avid lover of traditional handmade or artisanal handicrafts then you have an opportunity to visit numerous craft houses as well. All these outlets will surely offer you with unique and striking products that can find and buy under the same roof.
So, guys if have some leisure time while planning for your Dubai trip, do hit-out the under mentioned market places that not only caters all your needs in a particular section or retail department but will also offer you everything with-in a budgeted price. An icing on the top is that if a person gets tired while on a high motion during the shopping and strolling of these shopping locations, numerous restaurants and high-end cafes in these locations will ensure to keep you full and intact with high energy levels. A thoughtful suggestion for all the travellers planning to visit Dubai is to come along with minimal luggage so that you can’t be bound to shop in restriction and thus carry a bag full of these luxurious and trendy products on your return trip.
Let’s pay an insight on the 5 most visited hotspots for shopping in Dubai, one-by-one, in detail:
- The Dubai Mall:
The very first most visited shopping location that is primarily on a tourist’s check-in list is the Dubai Mall. It is rightly recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment and shopping hotspot that is situated in the heart of the Downtown Dubai and is perfectly and precisely titled as” the one shopping destination where you get everything you once aspire for”. Architecture wise, the Dubai mall has been built over a notable dimension of about 5,00,000-800,000 sq. meters of land, which has been designed around an artificial lake with about 1200 shopping stores, which includes diverse jewellery stores, fashion boutiques and much more along with about 160 food and beverage joints that keeps you full while you are on a full shopping swing. Not only this, this mall also offers you quite a majestic and spectacular experience of various amusing attractions including the Dubai Aquarium, Dinosaur skeleton, Dubai Fountain, Indoor ski-resort and many more.
The Dubai Mall is more precisely a multi-level mall, where the lower-most level is confined for souvenir outlets, Restaurants and food joints along with multi-brands supermarkets. The ground level has been devoted for various jewellery outlets while the top-most level is reserved for innumerable book store, home-stores and electronic gadget stores. So, if you are enough fashionable and love to shop multi-international brands under the one roof, you are surely going to rock this place. So, do come and check-in this place for ultimate shopping experience once you are in Dubai.
- Deira Gold Souk:
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In Arabic Terminology Souk, which is also pronounced as ‘Souq’ refers to the Market-place. This place is named so because it is situated in the commercial business district of Dubai, well-known as Deira. This is second commendable place, if you are an avid fan of jewellery artefacts and love to shop distinguished, authentic and reasonable diamond, gold, silver pieces along with the precious stones or the jewellery pieces embedded with these precious stones. Once you visit the Deira Gold souk, the dazzling, glittering and sparkling stream of innumerable designs of these precious metals is sure to grab your attention. Not only this, visit to this Gold souk enables you to buy jewellery pieces that are quite expensive ranging from 18-carat to 24-carat pure gold, along with various precious and real diamonds to the counterfeit pieces that falls well in your budget. So, this one is a favourite spot for you, if you want to buy authentic and distinguished jewellery for your loved ones. This is one such shopping place which you can’t give a miss while you on your Dubai trip.
- Mall of the Emirates:
This place is rightly categorized as the shopper’s paradise or an architectural wonder, as it one of the leading and famous malls of Dubai that tends to hosts its visitors with a memorable shopping experience. This mall precisely accommodates beyond 630 international branded stores that trades in almost everything and anything together with numerous home-furnishing stores, lifestyle, fashion boutiques, electronic gadget outlets and much more. If however, you want to relax after the all day long shopping experience, you can immediately re-collect your lost energy by enjoying sumptuous meals of varying categories and different cuisines from a food court or a restaurant along with sipping coffee of your choice from the variety of café joints available in this mall. Alongside, if you want to move on the entertainment front, book your tickets to watch the latest or the most recent blockbuster movie launched at the cinema complex.
- WAFI Mall:
The WAFI mall was established back in the year 2001 and is one of the oldest malls of Dubai that is often highlighted in the check-in list of the travelers coming to Dubai. This mall is well known all over the world for its distinctive and unique style architecture encompassing a pyramid like structure that offers a natural illumination to this mall the whole day. One of the unique and eye-catching feature of this mall is the Egyptian themed artwork that is sure to grab one’s attention. The WAFI mall is recognized by its high-end ambience and the famous rejuvenating Spa where one can relax and enjoy the therapeutic massages along with manicure and pedicure facilities. This mall hosts nearly 350 shopping outlets including the home-décor outlet, various apparel -boutiques, handicraft outlets, innumerable international brand outlets and many more.
- AI Fahidi Street:
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This is the favorite shopping hotspot or destination for the electronic gadget lovers. Renowned as a colorful and vibrant street area of Dubai that tends to offer you with a lively, flashing and spontaneous nightlife. AI Fahidi street also popularly known as the gigantic electronic market area in Dubai. This market area is flooded with streets that includes amalgamation of stores that offers you with various branded mobile-phones along with fancy mobile equipment, cameras, laptops and many more. Not only this, but once you visit this shopping hotspot you will surely fall for its diverse range of home-appliances including washing machines, refrigerators, ovens and many more. Additionally, if you are well-versed with bargaining skills you can seriously buy any original electronic gadget at much reduced prices.
This is all about the 5 most visited shopping destinations in Dubai. So , plan and visit these locations during your Dubai trip and enjoy the charismatic aura of these memorable locations at large.
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