Dubai Shopping Festival Tour Packages

A city known for its ultramodern architecture, skyscraper-filled skyline, luxury shopping, and lively nightlife, Dubai, in the last few years has become a highly visited tourist destination. Oil revenues helped accelerate the development of the city, and today, Dubai has become a global transport hub for passengers and cargo. Although the revenues from oil reserves have dried up and now the contribution is only 5%, the global city now thrives on revenues from trade, tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services.

Dubai Shopping Festival 2021

The Dubai shopping festival lasts for a month and it is the perfect place for all shopaholics to satiate their shopping desires. From apparels, gold jewellery, perfumes and cosmetics, watches, Leather bags and jackets, home decor, gadgets, and exotic spices, you will find it all at the Dubai Shopping Festival which is every connoisseur’s heaven. Book the Dubai Shopping Festival Package 2021 with Pickyourtrail and live your shopping dream.

Shopping in Dubai

Shopping is inevitable in today’s life and world and Dubai provides innumerable shopping avenues for luxury shopping. Beginning with the Dubai Mall, its high-end designer brands which include Candylicious, Nike, Victoria Secrets are an exclusive attraction with the tourists. Shop till you drop at this exquisite Dubai mall.

Dubai Souk Shopping

Dubai’s souks are again a catch with the tourists and a good place to set off on a shopping spree. Noisy, chaotic and colourful all at once, the souks sell everything ranging from gold, silver to spices, perfumes, textiles. Shopping at souks paints you a picture of how the trade market looked like in Dubai before the skyscrapers came in. Be sure to bargain at the souks and start by halving the price quoted. You should be able to settle by paying 75% of the original offer. Also, carry cash as cards are often not accepted at these souks.

Here are some must-visit souks of Dubai

Gold Souk - It is the world’s largest gold market with over 380 retailers who are primarily jewellery traders. So even if jewellery shopping is not on your list, it is definitely recommended to take a stroll down the souk and gawk at the shiny wares on offer from Dubai and India. If you change your mind and do decide to buy, try out your haggling skills and settle on a good bargain. Also, don’t stress about the quality as the merchandise are heavily regulated by the government and the chances of rip-offs are rare.

Spice Souk - Here you will get a glimpse of the city's culinary heritage. It is the market where you’ll find baskets of fragrant dried rose, hibiscus petals, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, lemons, saffron, cumin, and other aromatic herbs stored in burlap sacks alongside nuts, incense burners, henna kits, shishas, and dried limes, essential ingredients in Middle Eastern cuisine. At these souks, you will also find tiny shops selling groceries, plastics, and other household goods to locals.

Perfume Souk - This is your go-to shopping place if you want to create custom scents out of amber, oud, rose, jasmine, or countless more and feast your senses with its intoxicating smell. These also can be good souvenirs to take home.

Textile Souk - If you are on a hunt for exotic fabrics, your search ends here. It is a paradise of colourful, vibrant fabrics rendered in everything from raw silk to embroidered cotton. You will also find accessories like lace, sequins, and buttons here.

Dubai Shopping Festival Packages with added Activities

Pickyourtrail offers exclusive Dubai tour packages for Dubai shopping festival. Choose the 4 nights itinerary that covers the best places to shop in Dubai or a 7 nights shop till you drop itinerary covering Dubai and Abu Dhabi and live your shopping dream.

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