Fairmont Dubai

Downtown Dubai


This city slicker wows, especially at night when its four-poster towers are dipped in coloured lights. With a direct link to the Financial Centre, it courts high-powered execs and even has rooms with an extra-large desk to help you ink that deal. Wi-fi is charged at Dhs100 per day.

The two rooftop pools are lovely indulgence zones, Cirque Le Soir and Cavalli Club are two of the hottest nightclubs in town while dining-in-the-dark Noire could just be the most original restaurant.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Downtown Dubai attractions

1. World Trade Centre

0.28 MILES

Compared to its cloud-touching cousins, the 149m-high World Trade Centre seems small today, but when completed in 1979 was actually Dubai's first…

2. Emirates Towers

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Although neither the tallest nor the newest skyscrapers in Dubai, the twin, triangular towers coated with silver-coated aluminium panels and topped with…

3. Dubai Street Museum

0.74 MILES

In 2016, 16 local and international street artists, including Hua Tunan, Ashwaq Abdulla and Inkman, mounted their cherry-pickers to turn the rather drab…

4. 2nd December St

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Quiet by day, 2nd December St turns into one of Dubai’s liveliest walking strips after dark with plenty of fine pickings for street-food aficionados…

5. Gate Village

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Two wooden bridges link the massive Dubai International Finance Centre to Gate Village, a modernist cluster of 10 midrise stone-clad towers built around…

6. Opera Gallery

0.84 MILES

More an art showroom than a classically curated gallery, Opera caters to collectors of artistic heavyweights in genres as varied as pop art, calligraphy…

7. Dubai International Financial Centre

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Dubai’s stock exchange and leading international financial institutions are housed in a complex of six buildings surrounding an impressive central 80m…

8. Cuadro

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In a fabulous space taking up the entire ground floor of Gate Village’s Building 10, this highly regarded gallery shines the spotlight on midcareer and…