Everyone is looking forward to having a good shopping experience. Some people prefer to shop for affordable products, while others prefer to shop for luxury products. Dubai is the right place to satisfy the needs of different groups. Dubai is globally known for its luxurious and cheap malls at the same time, so it’s the right place for those who are looking forward to an entertainment shopping experience. Each mall is different and has its characteristics.
Cheapest malls in Dubai
1. Dubai outlet mall
Dubai Outlet Mall is the ultimate destination for those who are looking for good deals. Interestingly, it is considered as one of the top five malls in Dubai. It is located in Dubai Alain road.
Stores and Sales
The outlet has more than 200 stores. Including many stores and famous brands such as Mango, Nike, and Charles, and Keith. All of us are looking for good deals when we go out. Dubai Outlet Mall offers affordable prices and high-quality products, and all of that under one roof. They offer sales and discounts that could reach up to 20% to 90% for all products such as clothing, sunglasses, and electronics. Not just that, they also offer great deals on holidays and special public occasions.
Restaurants
In terms of food, there are a variety of restaurants to satisfy different tastes. It includes food courts that have delicious foods. The shopping mall includes restaurants such as Piero pizza and pasta and skylarks. It’s most encouraged to call and have a reservation since it can become very busy fast especially on weekends.
Chuck E Cheese
Who said that kids can’t have fun too? Chuck E Cheese is a play area for kids to have fun through playing fun rides. It also includes kids friendly restaurants, and it is mostly known for its fun pizza parties. The fun part about Chuck E cheese is the ability to make parties over there. It’s a good place for parties, especially when hosting a big number of kids.
Easy Access
Many other reasons encourage consumers to visit outlets besides prices, which is transportation. As the Dubai Outlet Mall has a very accessible location, which can make your day many times better. You can reach the mall in many ways, such as Metro, Bus, or even a Taxi. In terms of the metro, they can reach the outlet from Rashidaya red line or oud Metha green line. After that, take a bus or a taxi.
2. Dragon Mall
Dragon Mart in Dubai is the ultimate shopping destination for those who are looking for diversity and uniqueness in Chinese products obtained with the most competitive prices. Dragon Mart is also known as the China mall, which is considered as the largest trading hub for the Chinese goods/products in the UAE.
Shops & Offers
With more than 5,000 outlets offering a variety of Chinese products such as clothes, home essentials, office supplies, furnishings, furniture, electronics, and machinery. The moment you enter the mall, you will be noticing the massive numbers of deals and continuous offers on selected items regarding all types of products.
Reputation
The mall has a concept of selling their products at cheap prices included by special deals and offers, for multiple occasions. As the National, (2013) states that “Nakheel says 70 percent of wedding planners in the UAE buy products from Dragon Mart. As the mall’s vast extension nears completion, it plans a section devoted to the big day”. The mall has never ceased to promote different types of products with competitive prices on social media accounts.
Timings & Directions
The mall’s website has provided multiple options to help you reach the destination regardless of the obstacles or conflicts that may occur.
BY TAXI
Taxis have relatively affordable prices and easy to locate
To contact a taxi: –
+971 4 208 0808
“When at the mall taxis can be found at Dragon Mart and Dragon Mart 2 during mall trading hours at the following locations:
Dragon Mart Taxi Stand Entrances
Main entrance (AA)
Rear entrance (BA)
Dragon Mart 2 Taxi Stand Entrances:
In front of GB entrance, opposite The Mahal restaurant
RASHIDIYA Metro Station is the closest metro station to the mall. You can reach the mall: –
Plan your journey aboard the Dubai Metro
BY CAR
The easiest way to reach the mall is from Al Awir Road / Ras Al Khor Road (E44).
Luxurious Malls in Dubai
1. Dubai Mall
The Dubai Mall is considered to be one of the largest shopping centers in the world. It is the best shopping destination, whether you are looking for a variety of luxurious designer clothing and handbags. The mall is next to the Burj Khalifa downtown, surrounded by hotels, restaurants, and buildings. It consists of four floors, with over 1300 shops and stores.
The mall rated a packed shopping area with 80 million visitors per year. If you don’t like to be in a full and crowded area, the best time to visit the mall would be in the morning to avoid traffic. Thus, it opens at 10:00 AM and closes at midnight on weekdays and remains open until 1:00 AM during the weekend.
Dubai Mall Parking
There are many ways to reach the Dubai Mall entrance, whether it’s by using the bus, Taxi, Uber, private car, or the metro.
If you are going in your car, don’t worry about searching for parking, as the center has more than seven levels for parking, including the valet parking services. Dubai mall has also innovated in a parking machine where you can find you parked your car by just inserting your plate number.
Activities in the mall
Dubai mall has many activities you can enjoy doing other than shopping and eating. Dubai mall has its Aquarium, one of the world’s largest aquariums consisting of more than 30,000 aquatic animals. You could go and enjoy the sea life by either watching them or even by swimming just next to them. Getting tickets for that won’t be hard at all.
Not an animal lover? No problem. Dubai mall also has an ice rink in the middle of the mall. where you could stop swiping your credit card and start swiping your feet. The ice rink is for all ages and all levels of experience.
KidZania
KidZania is one of the best family experiences in the Dubai mall. It is considered as a city built for children, which provides a new extraordinary opportunity for the kids to discover the real-world jobs in entertainment and educational ways. It includes different brands with more than 100 exciting careers such as police officers, nursing, journalists, and more.
Candylicious
This is the ultimate dream word for all the candy lovers! Candylicious is the world’s largest candy store located next to the aquarium. It contains many exclusive sweets, chocolates, and candy bars. Not just that, it also has a variety of branded gifts including shirts, mugs, cups, and toys. The unique attractive design grasps people and tourist’s attention to pass by the store and take some photos and buy candies. The visitors can watch the whole process of making the candies from the clear glass.
Gold Souks
The UAE is a well-known country of providing pure gold, and many may visitors prefer to buy gold from Dubai. For the love of yellow metals, Dubai Mall has a huge area consisting of different shops that provide many different designs of pure gold.
Fashion Avenue
Fashion Avenue is a luxury area with more than 150 fancy shopping brands, coffee shops, and restaurants. It is home to hundreds of major brands such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, and other well-known brands. In this fancy part, you will find white cars that can pick you up to where you want to go inside the mall for free.
2. Mall of the Emirates
Mall of the Emirates (MOE) has to be one of the biggest mall lists in Dubai. MOE, a multi-level mall, is one of Majid al Futtaim’s incredible work. It was done by 2005, with more than 600 retail outlets, over 180 cafes and restaurants, and 250 anchor shops.
Ski Dubai
Mall of the Emirates has many incredible shops that you may not find in your typical shopping mall. MOE has the biggest indoor snow park in the Middle East (Ski Dubai). It contains many activities like skiing, snowboarding, ski lessons for all ages, a cafe, and finally, a place where you can see real-life penguins.
Luxury Stores
For all the luxurious and shopping addicts there, MOE got you covered!! MOE has it’s level/corner of luxury shops, where many worldwide brand shops are there. Some of the luxury shops are Dior, Chanel, Cartier, Valentino, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bvlgari, Tiffany & co, Messika, and many more.
Other than the luxury shops, there are many flagship shops in the mall. Those are the ones that stand out and can cause a lot of traffic jams. Those flagships include carrefour hypermarket, Centerpoint, Harvey Nichols, and Debenhams.
VOX Cinemas
Alike ski Dubai, MOE’s VOX cinemas are the biggest VOX cinema theater built in the Middle East. MOE can get a bit crowded, so the best time to be there to avoid the jam is when it first opens or before it closes. MOE opens at 10 am till 10 pm on weekdays and closes at midnight on weekends.
Mini Tricks
A really good trick to have some bonding time with your children is to visit the lego shop. Where you can just sit in a lego corner and play legos as much as you like. In this way, you’ll enjoy some quality time, and be more convinced to buy legos for your kids.
Restaurants
MOE thinks of its customers first at all times. Which means that food has to be a highlight in the mall. Restaurants and cafes are very well put together, as there is something for everyone’s taste. Whether it’s fine dining, dinner with a view, cozy food, international food, or even a dessert shop. They’ve got it all!
Best in Between
Mercato Mall
For many others, their go-to malls are not the cheapest or the biggest. Whether it’s because of the location, the atmosphere, or the shops there. Many unique malls are all over Dubai. In my personal view, Mercato Shopping Mall is the go-to.
Shows
Mercato is an average-sized mall located in Jumeirah street. It almost has daily shows for kids, they also do some fun activities from time to time. For instance, turning their escalators to slides for an easier and fun way to go up or down.
Shops & Restaurants
Their most known shops are virgin megastore, H&M, Bershka, Spinneys, Pets Plus, and Fun City. You can also have a night out by watching the movies in the VOX cinema located there. You can finish the night by enjoying one of their many restaurants like Gazebo, Shake Shack, Pizza Hut, and last but definitely not least Cinnabon.
