All-Inclusive Resorts in Dubai
Dubai is home to some of the world's finest all-inclusive properties — and knowing which ones actually deliver is where a good travel planner earns their keep. Dubai is the 21st century's most audacious city — where the world's tallest building, an indoor ski slope in the desert, and a palm-shaped artificial island are all considered just the beginning. The luxury hospitality infrastructure here rivals anywhere on earth.
The Wedding Unicorn has vetted the all-inclusive resort landscape in Dubai and knows which properties offer genuine luxury, which overdeliver at mid-range prices, and which ones to avoid entirely. We match you to the right resort based on your travel style, not on whoever pays the highest commission.
Dubai is humanity's greatest act of sheer will — an ultramodern city built from desert sand in 50 years that somehow keeps managing to out-spectacular itself.
We book the right room categories (not all rooms are created equal, even at the same resort), negotiate group rates when applicable, arrange excursions outside the resort, and ensure you get the most from Dubai's Burj Khalifa, Palm Jumeirah, desert safaris, gold souks, indoor ski slopes.
- Best time to visit: November–March
- 12 hours from New York City
- Language: Arabic / English universally spoken
- Visa: No visa required for US citizens (90 days)
- Currency: UAE Dirham
- Resort matching based on travel style
- Room category optimization
- Negotiated rates and extras
- Excursion coordination outside resort
- Restaurant and entertainment reservation
7 Nights in Dubai — The City That Built the Future
The world's tallest building, desert dunes at sunset, and underwater suites at the most famous hotel in the world
Dubai is the most extraordinary urban experiment in the world — a city that was a small fishing village in 1970 and is now a gleaming megalopolis of 9 million people, with the world's tallest building, the world's largest mall, man-made islands shaped like palm trees, and an ambition for spectacle that has no obvious ceiling. For honeymooners, Dubai offers a combination that exists nowhere else: the ultra-luxury resort hotels of the Palm Jumeirah and Jumeirah Beach (including the only seven-star hotel in the world), the desert dunes of the Arabian Peninsula 45 minutes from the city center, the old gold and spice souks of Deira across the Dubai Creek, and a dining scene that spans every cuisine on earth. It also happens to be one of the safest cities in the world.
1Arrival & Burj Khalifa at Night
Fly into Dubai International (one of the world's busiest airports) and transfer to your hotel. Dubai's first impression from the highway is genuinely astonishing — the Burj Khalifa appears over the highway 30km away, growing slowly until you're in its shadow at the base. Check in, then head immediately to the top of the Burj Khalifa for the At the Top SKY experience — 555m above Dubai, looking over the city, the Palm, and the desert. Book the sunset time slot. Dinner at Dubai Fountain lakeside.
- ✦ Burj Khalifa At the Top SKY — 555m observation deck
- ✦ Dubai Fountain show from the base
- ✦ Dubai Mall and the aquarium tunnel
2Burj Al Arab & Jumeirah Beach
The Burj Al Arab — the sailfish-shaped hotel on its own artificial island — is one of the world's most recognizable buildings and Dubai's defining image. Non-guests can only access it for dining (reserve well ahead). Have afternoon tea in the Sky View Bar at 212m, a revolving restaurant above the Arabian Gulf. Then Jumeirah Beach — the long public beach with the Burj Al Arab visible offshore is one of the world's great urban beach settings. Evening: the Dubai Marina walk, a 7km promenade along the Marina with restaurants on the water.
- ✦ Burj Al Arab afternoon tea — Sky View Bar
- ✦ Jumeirah Beach with the Burj Al Arab offshore
- ✦ Dubai Marina walk at sunset
- ✦ Dinner on the Marina waterfront
3Desert Safari
The Arabian Peninsula's red sand desert begins 45 minutes from downtown Dubai — a sea of photogenic dunes that reaches into Saudi Arabia. A private desert experience (not the group safari buses) takes you into the Empty Quarter's edge for dune driving at sunset in a 4WD, then a camel ride across the dunes as the light turns amber, followed by a Bedouin camp dinner under the stars with Arabic coffee, dates, mezze, and a traditional falcon demonstration. The contrast with the city you were in this morning is profound.
- ✦ Private dune driving at sunset — not the group convoy
- ✦ Camel ride across the red dunes
- ✦ Falcon demonstration at the Bedouin camp
- ✦ Dinner under desert stars with Arabic coffee and dates
4Old Dubai — Creek, Gold Souk & Spice Souk
The Dubai Creek bisects the old city into Bur Dubai (south) and Deira (north), connected by the abra — a traditional wooden water taxi that crosses for 1 dirham and has been doing so for over 100 years. The Gold Souk in Deira is the world's largest gold market — over 300 shops in covered arcade lanes displaying jewelry that would be extraordinary anywhere, at wholesale prices. The adjacent Spice Souk sells frankincense, oud, saffron, dried rosebuds, and Omani limes from open sacks. The Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood on the Bur Dubai side is a preserved wind-tower village — the city as it was in the 1950s.
- ✦ Abra water taxi across the Dubai Creek — 1 dirham
- ✦ Gold Souk — 300 shops of extraordinary jewelry at wholesale prices
- ✦ Spice Souk — frankincense and saffron from open sacks
- ✦ Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood — Dubai in the 1950s
5Palm Jumeirah & Aquaventure
The Palm Jumeirah — the palm tree-shaped artificial island extending into the Arabian Gulf — is home to Dubai's most spectacular hotels and the Aquaventure Waterpark. A morning at Aquaventure (the best waterpark in the world, attached to Atlantis) with private cabana service and the River Ride through the park. Afternoon: the Palm's crescent beach at one of the Palm's luxury beach clubs — Drift Beach at One&Only, or Azure Beach at Rixos. The monorail crosses the Palm's trunk to the hotel cluster on the crescent for dramatic Gulf views.
- ✦ Aquaventure Waterpark with private cabana
- ✦ Palm Jumeirah monorail ride
- ✦ Azure Beach or Drift Beach for the afternoon
- ✦ Gulf sunset from the crescent tip
6Museum of the Future & Alserkal Avenue
The Museum of the Future — a torus-shaped building clad in 14km of laser-cut Arabic calligraphy on Sheikh Zayed Road — is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and houses an extraordinary exhibition about humanity's futures, presented through immersive environments. Afternoon: Alserkal Avenue in Al Quoz, Dubai's arts district in a repurposed industrial complex — galleries, design studios, independent cafes, and the opposite of what most visitors imagine Dubai to be. Evening: dinner at one of Dubai's extraordinary fine dining restaurants — Nobu at Atlantis, Zuma in DIFC, or Tresind Studio for modern Indian.
- ✦ Museum of the Future — one of the world's most beautiful buildings
- ✦ Alserkal Avenue art galleries
- ✦ DIFC financial district architecture
- ✦ Fine dining in Dubai — Zuma or Tresind Studio
7Departure
Dubai Airport is vast — allow 3 hours for international departures. Duty-free is world-class if you're shopping on the way out.
- ✦ Final Dubai Mall walk or Marina morning
- ✦ Dubai duty-free
Where to Stay
The newest and most spectacular resort in Dubai — 795 rooms in a gravity-defying structure above the Palm crescent, with 90 pools and water features, 17 restaurants including Nobu and Heston Blumenthal's Dinner, and the most dramatic arrival experience of any hotel in the world.
The world's only seven-star hotel — a 321m sail-shaped structure on its own artificial island, with no standard rooms (only suites), a gold-plated lobby, and butler service for every guest. The most famous hotel in the world.
The most refined resort on the Palm — smaller scale than Atlantis with a beautiful private beach, extensive gardens, and the most intimate luxury experience available on the Palm Jumeirah.
This is a sample — your actual itinerary is fully custom.
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