Boarding the flight:
Travelling with a toddler and a tween was certainly a new and a good experience. Starting with the moment you board your flight to the moment you take off till the moment you land, you are bound to experience something new , at times frustrating too but it pays off in the end when your kids are happy. On one hand you have one old something who is keen on pressing call bell again and on other hand you have a kid who's only focus is watching the movie of her choice without any interruption. And yes one more thing, my older one was more interested in getting travel buddy than my younger one who only wanted to get hold of the tv remote.
Reaching Dubai:
Dubai surely is more hotter than Pakistan and less greener also but the moment you see their buildings, you are bound to get mesmerized. The height, the structure, the design; everything is just amazing.The thing that touches you the most is that they have created all this in desert and in such scorching heat, they are able to attract huge number of tourists all around the world due to their diligence: they are no doubt one of the most hard working nations around the world.
Exploring Dubai:
We stayed in Hilton hotel near mall of emirates which was very nice offering good breakfast and a nice swimming pool too. The icing on the cake was that it was just 5 minutes walking distance from mall of emirates.
Img park:
IMG world of adventure is the world's largest indoor theme park.
Img park was just amazing : a perfect treat for kids especially from 7-12 age group. Our daughter enjoyed a lot especially on scary rides.There are also some rides suitable for toddlers too and we made sure on son also enjoys the visit by riding him on train and carousel. The shops selling products of cartoon characters do attract kids but at least we were able to divert our daughter's attention as we found some of things expensive as compared to shops in the shopping malls.
IMG park is amazingly built; it has different sections with altogether different rides. There are comfortable sitting places too where you can relax.Food is also nice with variety of restaurants to choose from. We are glad that we chose img park among the list of other parks to visit.
Cruise:
We took the cruise and we were glad that we decided to do so because it was obviously different experience from wandering in the big shopping malls and the big themes adventure parks.The food was nice and so was the traditional dance.
Dubai Dolphinarium was also a really good place where you get to know that how playful and intelligent dolphins are.
Shopping:
We didn't explore the shopping bargaining places.We only went to two shopping malls: one was Dubai Mall and other was Mall of Emirates which was close to our hotel.Dubai Mall is so big that you need whole two days to explore it thoroughly. It has got almost every famous brand under the sun. Moreover it has got the amazing aquarium.Not to forget, it has the amazing fountain show every evening.
I found Mall of Emirates more convenient and reasonably sized at least with kids .It has got everything too from brands to restaurants to really nice cinemas.It has got the famous Ski Dubai too where you can enjoy the snow while there is scorching heat outside.
Food:
Food was really good too with almost all the famous chains present everywhere. The restaurants which we liked the most were " Cheesecake Factory",
" P.F.Chang's" and "Shake Shack".
We also went to "Atlantis", the amazing five star hotel made on Palm, man made island. It has a water park, underwater world plus 23 restaurants to cater to.
Overall it's a good place to visit especially with kids as Dubai is very child- friendly place.You have got something for the kids everywhere.
