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| Spice Souk in Deira, photo courtesy of Joi,Flickr |
Deira City Center
The most popular mall in Dubai features the interior divided into the zones with shops of similar assortiment, which make easier to find the desired item.
There are all leading brand names from UK, US, Italy or Japan, like ZAra,Diesel, Hugo Boss,Gap or Adidas. One flor is occupied by Debenhams , and Magic Planet features 11 rooms for screening the latest hits.
Mall of the Emirates
The visit here equals a day of entertainment. Besides the brad names like ISL or Armani and 400 other shops there is Magic Planet, Peekaboo and the astonishing enterprise - Ski Dubai with chair lift, an artificial snow and even several mountain hut cafes.
Boulevard Emirates Towers
Small but elegant mall, which looks like an interior of posh hotel features brand jewellers like Bulgariand Cartier, and elite designers like Armani, Gicci or Stella McCartney.
But the reason of a visit payed by celebrities there is a smal fashion shop Boutique1.
Wafi
Elegant Egyptian surroundings tempt to spend the time not only for shopping, but also to enjoy the dining time in a good restaurant, or rejunivate body before more shopping at best local Spa Cleopatra.
Dubai Mall
The biggest mall in the world, is also the last one build in Dubai, thus has everything that other malls trade.
Only the Gold Souk features 220 retailers, and the total number of shops in Dubai Mall exceeds 1 200.
Traditional Souks
Today it is hard to imagine how was life like before shopping malls, but it still exists nearby with the presence of traditional bazaars - Souks.
The open-air markets with the stands located along narrow stripes sell gold, spices, textiles, food and cheap electronics.
The most notable ones are in Deira: Spice Souk, Gold Souk and Textile Souk.
