Many guests and new residents in Dubai are shocked by simply what number of parks and inexperienced areas there are to discover throughout town – most are free or at a really low value and are exceptionally family-friendly.
Right here we offer you a run-through of all our favorite parks and outside areas in Dubai, together with entry charges and what further amenities you could find for households.
A number of of town’s parks are run by Dubai Municipality, and a small cowl cost is payable for his or her upkeep and maintenance, which is payable in your RTA Nol card.
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Greatest parks and playgrounds in Dubai – learn on for particulars
Al Barari Playground
This gorgeous new nature spot in Dubai has gone from a hidden gem to an area favorite. Recognized for its journey playground and relaxed setting, youngsters can get pleasure from water play to climbing, large swings to pirate ships, even exploring the veggie patch, and all within the lush setting of luxurious property Al Barari.
Mother and father love the Hideout lounge the place you may get pleasure from a beverage whereas the children play, plus there are ice lotions, burgers, and shawarma readily available if you wish to seize a chew. Pre-booking for this luxurious nature play park is crucial, particularly on weekends.
- Entrance: Paid weekdays 25 AED for two hours/weekends 35 AED (youngsters beneath 90cm free)
- Services: Playground, cafe, bogs
- Opening occasions: 10.00 am to eight.00 pm Tuesday to Sunday (closed Mondays)
You possibly can be taught extra about Al Barari Playground right here.
Al Barsha Park
A superbly manicured 52-acre park set round a big man-made pond. You possibly can rent pedal or solar-powered boats on the water, in addition to pedal Go-Karts, bikes, and e-scooters for train across the park.
There are two park areas, appropriate for toddlers and your older kids, in addition to loads of grassy areas for picnicking and a working monitor.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Park Home Café kiosk and bogs
- Opening occasions: 6.00 am to 11.00 pm each day
Al Ittihad Park
Discovered on the trunk of Palm Jumeirah, it is a lengthy park that seems beneath a 3.2km stretch of the Palm Monorail. A fantastic path for strollers and scooters, the park is noticed with playgrounds and water options, in addition to health gear, outlets, and cafes you may cease at alongside the best way. You may additionally hear this one known as Palm Jumeirah Park.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, outlets, and eating places alongside the best way
- Opening occasions: 24 hours
Al Khazzan Park
Centrally positioned reverse Dubai’s Metropolis Stroll, the distinctive blue and white striped water tower is straightforward to select on this city park. There are two shaded play areas with swings, slides, and climbing frames for each toddlers and older kids. A great place for bringing your personal picnic; look out for the small little kids’s library right here too.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, shaded seating and play areas
- Opening occasions: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm Saturday to Wednesday & 8.00 am to 11.00 pm Thursday and Friday
Al Sufouh Park
Situated in a quiet suburban space of town between Hessa Road and Al Sufouh Street, you’ll discover two kids’s play park areas on this cosy little park. It’s higher in your youthful youngsters, but in addition features a working monitor, sports activities courts, and a small espresso store.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, sports activities amenities, espresso store
- Opening occasions: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm Saturday to Wednesday & 8.00 am to 11.00 pm Thursday and Friday
Al Wasl Park
One other small suburban hidden gem simply off Wasl Street, Jumeirah 1. It’s not enormous, however sufficient area to unleash the children on scooters and bikes in addition to have a play within the partly shaded playground.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs
- Opening occasions: 8.00 am to 11.00 pm
Bay Avenue Park
Bringing a contact of inexperienced to the in any other case concrete jungle of the Enterprise Bay Space, the Bay Avenue Park contains two outside gyms, a skatepark, a trampoline space, and loads of grassy spots the place you may pull up a picnic rug, in addition to compulsory playground gear, largely beneath shade.
A close-by Spinneys grocery store is ideal for choosing up a chew to eat, and the park usually hosts a farmers market and yoga within the park
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, skate park
- Opening occasions: 24 hours
Dubai Creek Park
Located on the western financial institution of Dubai Creek, this is among the metropolis’s bigger outside areas with loads of further amenities and leisure to get pleasure from. It’s a well-liked spot for picnics and barbeques, in addition to having a big botanical backyard, mini-golf and a go-kart monitor. There are a number of kids’s playgrounds dotted across the park.
For added further’s inside the park, take a look at the Dolphinarium and Kids’s Metropolis, an edutainment and studying centre together with Planetarium. Within the winter, the Creek Cable Vehicles run each day throughout the park (summertime evenings solely).
- Entrance: 5AED (beneath 2 free)
- Services: Barbeques, bogs, picnicking,
- Opening occasions: Sunday to Wednesday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm. Thursday to Saturday, 8.00 am to 11.00 pm.
Be taught extra about Dubai Creek Park right here
Dubai Backyard Glow & Dinosaur Park
A seasonal occasion held inside Zabeel Park within the winter months, watch dinosaurs roar to life and the park mild up every night time with vibrant neon creations.
A pricier night than most of our parks, however undoubtedly enjoyable for a particular deal with and one of many prime park experiences we suggest to our guests. The dinosaurs are very lifelike, so look ahead to lengthy youngsters who could also be scared.
- Entrance: 65 AED (beneath 3’s free)
- Services: Bogs, eating
- Opening occasions: Saturday to Thursday, 4.00 pm to 11.00 pm, Friday, 4.00 pm to 12 midnight
Be taught extra about Dubai Backyard Glow right here.
Dubai Hills Park
Considered one of Dubai’s most unimaginable new group parks, you’ll discover this contemporary, multi-use park inside Dubai Hills Property. With 1800 bushes, it brings a refreshing splash of inexperienced to the suburbs; open to all, you’ll discover an enormous number of play parks and sports activities courts to go well with all totally different age teams.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Splash park, skate park, ice rink, canine park, sports activities courts, playgrounds, restrooms
- Opening occasions: 24 hours
Dubai Miracle Backyard
The biggest flower backyard on the planet by the full variety of blooms sits simply exterior of town. Comply with a magical maze of pathways between floral and topiary creations, larger-than-life cartoon characters, creatures, and well-known websites changed into floral preparations. The centrepiece of the park is an unimaginable floral A380 Emirates plane.
The backyard has loads of eateries, stunning swings, and play areas, in addition to enjoyable swings. Take pleasure in some pretty household snaps, although do get there early to beat the crowds and warmth.
- Entrance: 75 AED, youngsters 60 AED (beneath 3’s free)
- Services: Bogs, eating places
- Opening occasions: (October to April) 9.00 am to 9.00 pm
Be taught extra about Dubai Miracle Backyard with youngsters right here
JLT Park
This can be a nice little patch of inexperienced for the Jumeirah Lake Towers group to discover amongst the city jungle, between clusters O and P. There are three totally different shaded playground zones for various age teams, in addition to a big spider net climbing body and zip line.
Loads of grassy areas to get pleasure from, and within the cooler months, you’ll discover meals, music and open-air cinema amongst a packed leisure lineup.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, eateries
- Opening occasions: 24 hours
JLT Canine Park
Obtained a 4 legged pal? Then that is the one for you. Situated in Cluster H, the JLT Canine park gives a secure area the place highrise-dwelling residents in Jumeirah Lake Towers can safely head with their pets for some off-leash enjoyable and train, together with a sandpit, open inexperienced areas, and seating.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: shaded areas
- Opening occasions: 6.00 am to 9.00 pm (closed for cleansing from 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm)
You possibly can be taught extra about JLT Canine Park right here
Jumeirah Seaside Park
One other of Dubai’s lately redeveloped parks, superbly manicured gardens meet the beachfront within the Jumeirah space of town. There are plentiful spots to tug up for a picnic, in addition to barbeque amenities and youngsters’s playgrounds.
- Entrance: 5 AED or 20 AED per automotive
- Services: Bogs, barbeques, meals kiosks,
- Opening occasions: Sunday to Wednesday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm. Thursday to Saturday, 8.00 am to 11.00 pm. Girls solely days on Monday & Wednesday.
Be taught extra about Jumeirah Seaside Park right here
Love Lake Dubai
Considered one of Dubai’s extra distinctive parks, you’ll really discover this stunning spot of Dubai buried deep within the desert! Nicely well worth the drive, you’ll be rewarded with a beautiful strolling/working monitor that circumnavigates the man-made Love Lakes in Al Qudra, Al Marmoom Desert Conservation Reserve.
Pack a picnic or use the designated BBQ spots. Snap away on the park’s many insta-worthy options and benefit from the tranquillity of this eco-spot.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs (automotive park solely), BBQ areas
- Opening occasions: Open 24 hours
Be taught extra about Love Lakes Dubai right here
Mamzar Seaside Park
Situated on the Deira aspect of Dubai Creek, that is one other stunning park and seashore in a single. In addition to swimming and water sports activities, there’s a massive inexperienced park connected with all the pieces from youngsters’ play gear to picnicking areas and jogging tracks.
Lifeguards are on obligation in addition to change facilitates, and small chalets may be rented each day.
- Entrance: 5 AED per individual or 30 AED per automotive (Swimming pool 10 AED grownup/5 AED baby)
- Services: Chalets for lease, swimming pool, sports activities courts, barbequing, eating places, bogs
- Opening occasions: Sunday to Wednesday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm. Thursday to Saturday 8.00 am to 11.00 pm. Girls solely days on Monday & Wednesday.
Be taught extra about Al Mamzar Seaside Park right here
Mushrif Park
One of many metropolis’s oldest nature parks, you might be in for fairly a distinct expertise to the usually completely manicured metropolis parks. Busy on winter weekends, the park is fashionable for household gatherings and barbeques.
One can find an enormous vary of amenities from bike tracks to sports activities fields, camel and horse driving, a mannequin home show village, a kids’s video games space, playgrounds, eating places even a miniature practice service. There are additionally public swimming swimming pools for males, girls and youngsters (further cost) and Aventura Parks, a ziplining course by way of the Ghaf forest.
- Entrance: 3 AED per individual or 10 AED per automotive
- Services: bogs, eating places, sports activities fields, bike monitor
- Opening occasions: Sunday to Wednesday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm, Thursday to Saturday, 8.00 am to 11.00 pm
You possibly can be taught extra about Mushrif Park right here
Nad al Sheba Cycle Park
A park devoted to cyclists and health lovers, you’ll discover Nad al Sheba Cycle Park adjoining to Meydan Race Course (a transformed camel racing monitor!). There are 4km, 6km, and 8km circuits appropriate for novices by way of to execs on this lush inexperienced spot. There may be additionally a particular monitor for youthful kids to show them about highway security.
- Entrance: free (bike rental payment 50AED)
- Services: bogs and alter rooms
- Opening occasions: 24 hours
Quranic Park
This stunning new park within the Al Khawaneej space of town is devoted to the Holy Quran. Overlaying 60 acres, the park is open to all faiths, though do observe it’s a household park and you need to be appropriately dressed.
Inside, you’ll discover the Lake, the Orchards, the Cave of Miracles – with interactive shows (in Arabic) – then there’s a glasshouse that shows vegetation talked about within the Holy Quran. There are additionally play parks and meals carts inside.
- Entrance: Free (further 5 AED every for Glass Home and Cave of Miracles)
- Services: Bogs, shaded seating and play areas
- Opening occasions: Saturday to Thursday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm. Friday’s 3.00 pm to 10.00 pm
Be taught extra in regards to the Quranic park right here
Safa Park 2
One other of Dubai’s great little group park, it may be discovered simply off Al Manara Road. The park has three totally different play areas with a lot of shade for picnics, a small meals kiosk and bogs. It’s pretty quiet throughout the week and spring to life stuffed with households on weekends.
- Entrance: 3 AED (beneath 2 free)
- Services: Bogs, cafeterias, theatre, monitor and subject courts
- Opening occasions: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm
Be taught extra about Safa Park 2 right here
The Block
A sensational new outside area on the waterfront of Dubai Creek. With slightly one thing for everybody, The Block is a part of Dubai Design District D3 Park. That includes a skate park, basketball and volleyball courts, climbing partitions and conventional play gear. You will have an excellent number of eating places and cafes close by within the Design Quarter, so an excellent one for grabbing a cuppa and pulling up a seat whereas the children play.
- Entrance: Free
- Services: Bogs, sports activities amenities, climbing partitions, and cafes close by
- Opening occasions: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm
Be taught extra about The Block right here
Umm Suqeim Park
(Additionally generally known as Burj Seaside Park). Located near Sundown Seaside, this superbly landscaped park is the right city household escape, fashionable with locals and expats alike. Throughout the week, it’s girls solely, and at weekends males can go to with household.
There’s a playground appropriate to barely older kids, in addition to a restaurant and bogs inside the grounds.
- Entrance: Nominal cost
- Services: Bogs, small café
- Opening occasions: 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. Women and youngsters throughout the week, fathers permitted as nicely on weekends.
Be taught extra about Umm Suqeim Park
Zabeel Park
House to Dubai Backyard Glow & Dinosaur Park now we have already talked about above, this 52-acre park additionally has expansive strolling paths, barbeques, kids’s playgrounds, and shaded areas to get pleasure from.
There are plentiful further household leisure choices, together with boats to rent on the decorative lake, bikes to rent, and eating places.
- Entrance: 5 AED (beneath 2’s free)
- Services: Bogs, eating places, barbequing, health gear
- Opening occasions: Sunday to Wednesday, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm, Thursday to Saturday 8.00 am to 11.00 pm
You possibly can be taught extra about Zabeel Park right here
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