Best Hotels with Activities in Dubai

Dubai's family hotel scene splits by neighbourhood as much as by star rating: Downtown clusters around Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall, Dubai Marina runs along a walkable waterfront promenade, and Palm Jumeirah and Bluewaters Island offer private beachfront a taxi ride from the centre. Twenty hotels made our family shortlist here, from three-star Rove properties with interconnecting rooms to five-star resorts with private-pool villas on a working polo estate. Nearly all of them run an outdoor pool, ten have a kids' club, and beach access ranges from private sand to a 15-minute walk from Marina Beach or The Walk at JBR.