Dubai & Abu Dhabi (Lonely Planet)

This has all the major attractions and tips that you would need for a trip to the city. The fold out maps are pretty good but not very durable. They could also have a bit more detail on them. Overall this was exactly what I was looking for. Perfect size to toss in a purse or small bag.

We spent 5 days in Dubai and used the guide for some basic orientation and for suggestions on sightseeing. It served this purpose. However, I found the guide to be very basic....it does not describe all the sites very well and does not go into depth. Also, it would be nice if it included a few pictures and provided recommendations on on things like "what is the best time to visit the Burj Khalifa", or "which are the good desert safaris" etc.

I used this book to plan a 3 day trip to Dubai. I found it very suitable for my purpose and reasonably accurate. I knew in advance what I wanted to do there and it worked out as planned. The hotel gives a detailed map so it is not necessary to have it bulk up a guidebook. The deceptive thing about Dubai is distances. Things look close but are not. For example to walk from the Dubai Mall metro to the fountains took 45 minutes as they are on the opposite side and the mall is at least a mile long. Taxi's are cheap though. Walking from Burj Al Arab to Mall to the Emirates looks possible, but trust me - take a cab. The metro took almost an hour from the new part of Dubai to the old, including a change. The book does not tell you that although the metro is easy to use. The book's tip to buy a gold card was essential. Also when it says that roads are impossible to cross, it is correct. Use taxi's. It is not worth the hassle. The most I paid for a cab was $20 from the souq's to Burj Al Arab. I also recommend a Yellow Boat tour which was not in the book. Get tickets to the Burj Khalifa in advance and get there an hour early .. we had 5.30 tickets and got to the top at 6.25.

I find the city guide to be very helpful, with lots and lots of information - both on Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I will be using it on my trip to Dubai in May.

I bought it used, but it was not damaged very much, just writing here and there. It is a bit hard to follow in places, and I don't care for the layout, but it has lots and lots of maps.

I give it a 4 star because it doesn't have a very easy to read map. Also, the book is only in color print for the first a dozen pages, then it's all black and white. For those that wants more pretty photos of the attractions (for to know which ones you'd like to go to) maybe this is not the book for you. The book isn't that easy to navigate, probably because it doesn't want to sound biased on how it recommends places to go, but for a place like Dubai, you know you want to visit the Burj Al-Arab Hotel and Burj Khalifa, but the information in this book is not as descriptive as I imagined it would be. It would be a great book if you're doing an intensive, 3 week backpack to Dubai since it has all the directories you need. But who stays in Dubai for that long? If you're looking for a crash course of what to do, where to go in Dubai, maybe this book is a bit too much for you.

Very helpful and very informative. It has every nook and cranny of Dubai and tells you how to discover everything. This guide is all you need.

I should have listened to other reviews. I expected the book to cover both Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I fully realized that Dubai is a more significant tourist destination and therefore would get better coverage, but I didn't expect it to get all the coverage. Reading the book you would think that Abu Dhabi is purely a small neighborhood of Dubai. Less than 10% of the book is devoted to Abu Dhabi. To make matters worse, the many of the entries related to Abu Dhabi are intermixed with those for Dubai. If you look at one of the many "Best for..." lists you are on your own figuring out which city an entry applies to. In many topics the book doesn't even pretend to address Abu Dhabi, "Most the hotels in Dubai have gyms ..." It is probably safe to assume those in Abu Dhabi do to, but you wouldn't know it from the book. If traveling to Abu Dhabi I instead recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/Dhabi-Travel-Guide-Grapeshisha-Guides-ebook/dp/B004S2CMT8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425238068&sr=8-1&keywords=abu+dhabi+grapeshisha The Grapeshisha guide may not have the glitz of Lonely Planet, and it is in heavy need of a good editor, but its content is much more bountiful and complete.

Probably one of the best city guides I've ever read and it had so much information about the two cities and briefly about other nearby destinations as well. Provided up to date information and was generally very useful.

Der Reiseführer kam im angegebenem Zeitrahmen und hat mir sehr geholfen. Bin sehr zufrieden mit dem Buch. Würde ich immer wieder bestellen. Vielen Dank.

No hay muchas guías de Dubai. Ésta es bastante completa. está en inglés, como suele ser habitual en las guías más exahustivas.

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Very good guide when going to Dubai and making a day trip to Sjarjah or UAE East Coast. Every area in Dubai is described separately (about 20 pages each) with highlights in each section. Good maps of each area of Dubai are included in the back of the book. Abu Dhabi guide is very short (about 5 pages) and described only a few highlights of which most are far out of the city centre. When only going to Dubai I would recommend this guide. If you go to Abu Dhabi I would not.