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Pick of the Real Deals: Dubai by Sea

Mind if I state the obvious for a moment? Dubai is quite an expensive place to visit. This Middle Eastern super city is all about wealth: its top attractions include gold souks, marble-lined shopping centres, hotels dripping in diamonds and a certain kilometre high building built on a budget which would bankrupt, well, almost anyone [...]

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How Long Would £1000 Last You?

There’s not long left to tell us where you think Eve is in our competition! Why enter? For the £1000 holiday fund of course! So get yourself over there and have a go. Not sure how you could spend this giant pile of free cash? You could blow the lot or eke it out into [...]

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The World’s Top 5 Skylines

Many of us walk past hundreds of buildings a day, yet we don’t always take time to look and marvel at our man made skylines. That ends now. Prepare to be awestruck by our top five skylines: Singapore Singapore Skyline at night – Image by Jo@net One of the most striking skylines in the world, [...]

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Hotel Price Challenge

Way back in November, I challenged myself to get to the bottom of hotel prices, to find out for you, our beloved dealchecker readers, how to get the cheapest hotel prices. And I succeeded! You can thank me now. I looked at mid-range well-located hotels in New York, Dubai and Paris for a week on [...]

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Off the Beaten Track in…Dubai!

With its glossy malls, adventurous architecture and designer shops, Dubai is undoubtedly the playground of the wealthy. There’s lots to do, plenty to see and much to take in, but if you fancy spending your time in Dubai a little differently, here are a few things you might want to try… Dubai Creek When the [...]

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Tall Stories: The Burj Khalifa Tower

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest structure ever built, and provides a fitting centrepiece to the Emirate with the largest population of the seven regions making up the United Arab Emirates. Completed in October 2009, the Burj Khalifa stands a towering 828 metres tall, and broke many more records besides being the tallest structure. [...]

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