Dubai Sites

With a focus on global business and decadence, Dubai has gone from being an emirate relying on oil to a massive tourism and financial hub. Some see it as a giant construction site in the middle of the desert while others applaud its almost unimaginable scale and luxury. Our Dubai blog award winners bring both the positive and negative aspects of the city to the forefront of the world's attention - within the list you'll find top class travel literature and guides on Dubai tourism.

• Life in Dubai

  http://dubaithoughts.blogspot.com/

  SeaBee seems to gravitate towards Dubai, having lived there between 1977-1984 before returning to witness first-hand the continuing boom of construction. This time around, he takes advantage of the blogging culture to comment on his experiences living in the city.

• Dining City Dubai

  http://www.diningcity.com/dubai/

  As with any city as gigantic as Dubai, knowing where to eat out for the uninitiated can be a figurative minefield. That's where the Dubai portion of Dining City steps in, going above and beyond a simple text-and-picture based restaurant reviews.

• Dubai Sunshine

  http://dxbsunshine.blogspot.com/

  A personal and unabashed insight on a woman's day-to-day living in Dubai. The blog looks at the highs and lows of Dubai but it's plain to see that despite the rare negative coverage, she wouldn't have it any other way.,Has a blog award displayed from elsewhere

• The Emirates Economist

  http://emirateseconomist.blogspot.com/

  Saying Dubai has a lively economy is like saying the Burj Khalifa is a bit on the tall side. The Emirates Economist demystifies the complex goings on and presents them in an intelligent, easy to review style.

• Dubai .AL

  http://www.dubai.al/

  Dubai.AL is a well presented blog with a lot of light-hearted and interesting content from the paradise city. Great for casual readers, but also of use is the real estate and business sections of the site.

• Grapeshisha

  http://www.grapeshisha.com/

  If you want to go deeper than the standard tour guide will allow, Grapeshisha is a long-standing blog getting deep beneath the skin of the city and UAE at large. No subject is left uncovered.

• Dubai Media Observer

  http://dubaimedia.blogspot.com/

  An non-corporate blog analysing the media industry in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates at large. Brutally honest and very revealing (not to be confused with the original blog of the same name, which has been defunct for quite some time and written by a different author).

• Dubai Consumer Mirror

  http://dubaiconsumermirror.blogspot.com/

  Candid, subtly funny and worthy of adding to your RSS feed. If you want to read a discerning take on Dubai and the world in general, the Dubai Consumer Mirror is definitely the blog for you.

• Dubai Expat Diaries

  http://ixpats.com/dubai-expats/

  Tech, travel and business news geared towards foreigners living in or travelling to Dubai. Easily the best expat blog out there relating to the city.

• Crap-Free

  http://crap-free.com/dubai-expat/

  The Crap-Free site on expat life in Dubai is as unconvoluted as its name suggests. The guides are superbly written and the cost of living calculators are a sobering look into how much it costs to live comfortably in Dubai (and after some research we're led to believe that it's really quite accurate).