Accommodation in the United Arab Emirates

While visiting UAE you will probably pay most of the many for housing, which is quite expensive there. The reason is absence of different kinds of accomodation. There are mainly luxury hotel present in the UAE.

Hotels

Hotels are the most expanded kind of housing in the UAE. There are mostly four or five-star hotels, you can barely find any less-star hotel. On the other hand, the equation “the more you pay, the better services you get” holds true in the UAE. The offered services are on a very high level in every hotel. Usually every hotel has a swimming pool and a fitness, the hotel restaurant is of a high quality, the beaches and the sports fields are perfectly adjusted. Big worldwide hotel chains’ “branches” serve as their “display window”, so most of the hotels is driven by the best “western” managers who did well managing hotels in a whole world.

If you consider a journey to the UAE, we recommend booking the accomodation through the travel agency. Hotels give travel agencies a quantitative discount which you don’t get if you book the hotel on your own. And this discount is not insignificant considering local prices. If you still insist on individual voyage, choose a hotel which arranges your entry visa. It is worth to mention that local hotels offer radical discounts during the summer because of the unbearable heat reigning this season.
World’s most luxurious hotel is situated in the UAE. It is called Burj al-Arab and is located in Dubai. Althouth official ranking admits no more than five stars, this super-luxurious hotel is evaluated by no fewer than seven stars.

Hotel apartments

Under this denomination, we can imagine sort of little non-traditional hotels with fewer rooms. The rooms of the “hotels” are more furnished, usually they include a kitchen. The hotel apartments are not used only by tourists, but also by people who spend long time in the United Arab Emirates and they don’t want to pay big money for a classic hotel. That is because, concerning local conditions, the prices are “popular”.

Hostels

The UAE attract particularly wealthy tourists which leads to the fact that there are very few accommodation facilities for people who cannot afford to pay an expensive hotel. Hostels, so popular in other corners of the world don’t exist here. Actually there are few, but all of them require interntational member card Hostelling International which is to buy directly in the hostel for about 75 Dh.

Camping

There is no camp in the UAE, but the camping is very popular in here. You can camp almost everywhere, it is only necessary to respect common rules, notably not to camp on a private propriety.

Electricity

In the electric network, there is 220 Volts. Wall plugs of “G” type (British, 3 pins) are used. You can buy an adapter in a superstore at the place.