Most “things to do” lists tell you what somebody enjoyed. This one tells you what each thing costs , who is allowed in , and where the operator publishes nothing at all. 21 of the 41 attractions here publish an adult price, from AED 15 at Riverland Dubai to AED 699 at XLine Dubai Marina . Of the remaining 20, 1 publishes that entry is free, 5 sell activities rather than admission, 2 sell no admission at all, and 12 publish no figure you can budget from . That last number is stated rather than filled in. Below, the same set organised by the question people actually arrive with: how old are the children, how much is there to spend, and what is the occasion. If it is your first trip Four pages that answer the questions people actually arrive with — what is worth the money, how the days fit together, and what is still open — using published prices and published closing times rather than a ranking. First time in Dubai The landmarks a first visit converges on, priced from each operator’s own page Three days, hour by hour An itinerary built backwards from last-entry times, because that is what breaks a plan Dubai at night Dubai Mall publishes eight sets of hours for one building; RTA publishes no last train Dubai in summer What genuinely shuts, the federal midday rule in full, and the temperature figure we will not print By the age of your children The age gate is what decides a day out, and it is published nowhere in one place. Every threshold in these six pages is the operator’s or the authority’s own wording — including the venues that publish two different rules on two of their own pages. With a baby Free entry from under 2 to under 3, two attractions that refuse prams, and the metro rule RTA never published With a toddler Every free-entry threshold lands between 2 and 3, so a toddler is free at one gate and paid at the next With 4 to 6 year olds The band where height replaces age: 80cm, 90cm, 95cm, 105cm, and one ride with a maximum With 7 to 10 year olds The 1.07m and 1.2m rides open, but unaccompanied entry waits until 12 and 14 With teenagers Twelve unlocks the zipline, the Edge Walk and the metro alone; eighteen unlocks the rest Every child threshold, city-wide Free transport ages, supervision cut-offs and why no two operators agree By what it costs Ordered by the operator’s own published figure, cheapest first. Where an operator publishes no price, the page says so instead of estimating one. Everything under AED 100 Nine published adult prices under AED 100, the cheapest of them an AED 1 cash-only abra The published high end The most expensive published experiences, and the famous names whose sites publish no figure Every attraction, priced Ranked by published adult admission, with the ones that publish nothing named What is genuinely free One operator writes that entry is free without qualification. The rest are unpriced, which is different Child ticket prices What a child actually saves, and the venues that publish no child rate at all

Annual passes and break-even Four pay back inside two visits; the arithmetic is ours and labelled as ours Restaurant prices, ranked Median main course across every menu we hold, worked out from published prices By the kind of day The same venues grouped by what you are actually doing, each page carrying the operator’s own hours, prices and conditions. Extreme sports and eligibility Prices, and the age, weight and medical rules that stop people at the desk Water parks compared Published adult price, height cut-off, resident rate and what the gate adds Theme parks Where one operator publishes three different prices for the same two-park ticket Indoor, for the hot months What is actually indoor, and the four venues that price only inside a booking widget Observation decks Four decks, four different child-age splits, one flat adult price The desert What a safari costs from the operators that publish a price on their own site Museums Admission where it is published, and the ones deleted from the official list Boat tours and the abra The AED 1 crossing, and why no Creek dhow operator publishes a first-party price By the occasion Pages where the useful finding is often what nobody publishes. Dubai for couples Restaurants publish prices; hotel “experiences” publish dress codes and age rules instead Proposals and celebrations Ain Dubai publishes AED 3,499 to AED 9,499. The landmarks publish no price at all New Year’s Eve Nothing is published for this year yet, and no official source has ever named a free viewing spot Ramadan What changes, and which operators publish revised hours rather than assuming you know Public holidays The published calendar, and where the ministry and the portal disagree about it Why there is no ranking here There is no “best of” list on this page and there will not be one. A ranking by enjoyment is an opinion with a number attached, and this site does not publish opinions — the reasoning is set out in the editorial policy . What you will find instead is every table ordered by something an operator actually published: a price, an age, a height, a closing time. Where we have worked something out ourselves — a median, a break-even, VAT added to a pre-VAT figure — the page says so on the page. The other thing you will find is absence, stated plainly. Those 12 of 41 attractions publish no price you can budget from. Sky Views publishes two different height limits for the same walk. RTA publishes no rule at all about prams on the metro. Those are not gaps in our research; they are the finding, and a list that smoothed them over would be less useful than one that names them.