Eat Drink Stay Dubai Newsletter 56/w45

Hi Dubai friends,

Welcome to Week 45, Edition 56

So here is this week’s digest of the ‘Dubai news worth knowing’, all in 10 minutes or less of your time.

👇 A few things worth knowing about Dubai this week 👇

💸 My Emirates Pass

🚕 RTA Taxi-Sharing Abu Dhabi/Dubai.

🏖️ Careem Beach

🛬 Emirates return to Edinburgh

🕶 Skip's Luxury Flight Club

💰 Black Friday Deals

🗞 Tittle-Tattle: Christmas carols, brunches, popups & markets. Robbie Williams Abu Dhabi.

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DUBAI DEALS

My Emirates Pass Is Back! Great Discounts Around Dubai

My Emirates Pass, the discounts program for Emirates passengers via their boarding pass, has returned for Winter.

For travellers to Dubai arriving on Emirates between 01 November 2024 to 31 March 2025, keep your paper or electronic boarding pass to hand and you can avail of discounts up to 30% across Mind & Body, Leisure, Retail & Dining Experience categories, such as:-

• At The Top Burj Khalifa

• Aquaventure waterpark at Atlantis The Palm

• IMG Worlds of Adventure

• Dubai Parks & Resorts

• City Sightseeing

• Dubai Shopping Festival (from 06 Dec 24 to 12 Jan 25)

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I’ll do a deeper dive on My Emirates Pass on Eat Drink Stay Dubai and YouTube over the the coming days, so please keep checking back.

In the meantime, this is an Explainer of the Summer version of My Emirates. Note - some venues may have changed since then, and others may have been added.

🔗 My Emirates Pass (official site - Emirates)

🔗 My Emirates Pass (Eat Drink Stay Dubai)

DRINK

The UAE’s best swim-up bars, according to Time Out.

9 Dubai Happy Hours with drinks from 26 AED.

Pick of the bunch is Nelsons at Media Rotana, with a super-long Happy Hour from 12pm to 8pm that has bottled from 29, draught from 30, wine from 32 and house spirits from 26.

STAY

Hotelier Middle East’s General Manager Power List 2024

Hotelier Middle East have published their General Manager Power List 2024, which is their take on the 101 leading hotel 101 GMs in region.

These things are often worth keeping note of, just in case you’re visiting one of their properties it’s often handy to have their details should things go awry or you have any feedback.

The National has a ‘first look’ at Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort’s new makeover.

Mohamed El Aghoury has returned to the resort as Multi-Property General Manager, and will also oversee Aloft Palm Jumeirah.

Hyatt Place Baniyas Square remains closed after a fire last Friday.

DUBAI

Careem Beach Is Coming in 2025

Careem have announced a new service will launch next year, called Careem Beach, which will enable ordering food and drink deliveries from beach-side locations.

Read more about Careem Beach on Time Out Dubai or check out Careem’s own video below.

EMIRATES

Emirates ICE Now Includes Spotify Curated Podcasts & Playlists

Emirates ICE is already pretty good, and now they’ve collaborated with Spotify to provide ‘expertly curated content’, such as Top Spotify Podcasts and Spotify’s Signature Playlists.

🔗 Emirates and Spotify partner for in flight entertainment

Emirates Returns to Edinburgh With a Daily Service

Emirates have restarted their Edinburgh service, touching down in the Scottish capital for the first time since the pandemic in 2020.

FLIGHT DEALS

Flight Deals by Email via Luxury Flight Club

There are many great deals around for flights these days. Sometimes these are ‘mistake fares’, some are due to normalisation of post-pandemic travel surges and sometimes there are just good deals around.

There are many different ways to find these deals, and almost as many ‘flight deal finder’ services, some which I’ll cover more of in the coming weeks.

Today I’d like to flag up Skip and Luxury Flight Club, which is an email alert service with both free and paid-for (Gold) levels of membership. As a free subscriber, you’ll get a (usually) weekly email with one good deal, whereas Gold gets a wider range and frequency (and often better deals) such as a recent Business Class one for Qatar Airways to Abu Dhabi and Dubai (see below) from €1,339.

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It’s worth checking out and signing up, even for the free alerts. One other email weekly isn’t a hardship, and who knows, you may get lucky with a deal that’s just right for you.

I believe the Gold is around $10/month, so maybe try the free level and see what you think.

🔗 Luxury Flight Club

DUBAI DEALS

Black Friday Deals Are Coming. Catch Them Here

Whilst Black Friday isn’t officially until Fri 29 Nov 24, some early deals are coming before then.

To try to keep track of them, I’ll be listing them on two pages, split into Black Friday Travel Deals (flights etc.) and Black Friday Hotel Deals. Some of these may be Dubai-specific, whilst many will be non-location specific (ie use anywhere).

I’ll be updating the pages over the the coming days, so please keep checking back.

🔗 Black Friday Travel Deals

🔗 Black Friday Hotel Deals

DUBAI NEWS/TITTLE-TATTLE

• Fancy carol singing in Dubai? Check out Carols by Candelight at Expo City 20-24 Dec 24

• USA expands Global Entry to include UAE citizens.

• Christmas Day Brunch Deals in Dubai.

• Robbie Williams to perform at Saadiyat Island on 28 Dec 24.

• 5 Christmas pop-ups to visit in Dubai.

• This Dubai restaurant will only serve one dish.

• New Year’s Eve deals for under 500 AED you may want to snap up now.

• The best Christmas Markets in Dubai.

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