Dubai is a spectacular city to visit, with only five days to explore all of what it has to offer it definitely wasn't enough. I have to say I spent a lot of time shopping, which is insane. I followed the motto of 'shop till you drop', the malls in Dubai are ridiculously large!

Dubai has some of the most amazing restaurants, who doesn't splurge on a good meal every once in a while?!

Anyway I will just leave you with some of the highlights to my trip.


I have to say I was utterly impressed by the new Hamad airport, the shops were all spectacular. I've definitely never been to such a fun and interesting airport. I obviously had to take the typical and cliche teddy bear by Urs Fischer picture that is situated right in the middle of the airport.


The best place in the airport was obviously the food court or the eat street 1048.



Yumm.. Sea food!!



The gold souq is astoundingly beautiful, aren't all these bracelets gorgeous?!


I thought this painting was interesting and I was so curious to find out what it was made out of it. I realized that it was made out of recycled food packages that are quiet popular in Qatar.


Another cliche picture from the airplane, but I couldn't resist.


I have to say the hotel was architecturally astonishing, all the rooms are spread across the entire landscape so that they could look over the horse racing field hence the name "Al Meydan" which means the field in arabic.

I thought it was lovely how all the hallways are lined with the balcony view and it looks down to the lobby and the restaurants.




The hotel is made so that you could enjoy watching the horse competitions from the balcony of your room which is perfect. Sadly there aren't any competitions in the summer :/

Horses were everywhere in this hotel, the patterns found outside rooms are assembled out of horseshoes... Brilliant!


At the food court of the Marina mall in Dubai you get to enjoy the staggering skyline of the marina, however it was a very humid night and so the pictures do look hazy but nonetheless it still looks incredible.



This is the view from the balcony of the huge field, just enjoying some morning tea and the morning newspaper (lol naah I don't really read the newspaper just though it was a nice touch to the photo though).


This shop was probably my favorite, I mean it had the wackiest things ever! The posters that they sell are a must have, I will definitely be going back to purchase some of the posters they have for my bedroom in the future.


This is another store that we walked through and these chairs are gorgeous, I mean its umm Kalthoom for God's sake.


Dubai mall is stunning in general but these butterfly strands are just impeccable.


More butterflies, this was on a window display to one of the designer stores (can't remember which one it was... oops).


Seriously Dubai has the best shops ever!
Superman... meh



but look at the details on the joker! its immaculately done, I think.


Grass horses on one of the hotel's roundabout, they look more like ponies though but it's still adorable.



The chill out cafe was a magnificent experience, I mean its an ice cafe in the middle of a desert. Some people mind find it odd that I actually went to a below zero cafe but hey it was super entertaining.
You also get a free hot chocolate upon entering.

There was a miniature ice sculpture of the burj khalifa tower although it still wasn't short enough for the cafe.


Chilling inside a somewhat warm igloo.


The ice Queen and castle, felt like I was Elsa from frozen sitting on that chair.

Bumble Bee ♥



Also got the chance to watch transformers live in the DeceptionClone performance, felt bad for the guy inside the costume he looked like he was struggling to move in such a large armor.


The cheesecake factory has some of the most delicious cheesecakes and pastas, loved the meal and the service was great. I feel as if I'm writing a review for this restaurant, but seriously it was great. No wonder its always crazy busy and crowded.


One of the ultimate highlights to my trip is getting locked up in a room for 60 minutes, HA! The hint hunt game was very challenging and I adored all the clues and solving that I had to do, I truly felt like Sherlock Holmes. Funny my sisters and I only managed to escape during the last two minutes but apparently that impressive so woohoo.


The dynamite shrimps at P.F.Chang's are divine, although they were extremely spicy for my liking. I still enjoyed every bite of the meal. I also loved the summer plum juice that I had along with it.


How cute are these dolls by Mua Mua of Christian Louboutin, Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, really wanted one of these. I mean look at that mini Louboutin heel.


A 155 million year old dinosaur which belongs to the family Diplodocidae, imported from America. It is installed right at the main entrance of Dubai Mall, apparently this dinosaur was discovered recently in 2008.


Large shoe at the level shoe district.


'Hun, you've got more issues than vogue'
I felt like some famous fashion blogger as I was sipping my hot chocolate and relishing the cheese platter.





Another show in celebration of summer in the summer festival 2014 in Dubai. The power puff girls sining happy by Pharrell Williams.


The sky was looking marvelously bright and blue.


A Middle Eastern actor,  خالد آمين.

This post is filled with cliches, I don't think another one will hurt. Heres the famous tall tower Burj Khalifa, not only do you have to crane your neck but its ridiculously difficult to get the entire tower in one picture.

Hope you guys enjoyed a glimpse of my wonderful stay in Dubai.
I might be doing a haul of everything that I bought because its Dubai and its almost impossible not to have an insane shopping spree.

Take care,
Haya xx