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Wellness Holiday in Dubai
The weekly wellness treatment has become for many tourists a real necessity. There are a growing number of visitors that added it to their list of "things to do" during holidays, after the tan and the shopping.
Dubai is a city for business, but also for holiday and relaxation. It offers many wellness centers.
ROIS TRAVELS can be your guide in this particular sector.
In addition to the leisurely Zen wellness centers in minimalist style and to the exotic hammam in Moroccan and Turkish style, as the Oriental Hammam, Dubai offers the best in its extravagant and luxurious centers, with elaborate pillars, gilding and large tubs. Of course, the Burj Al Arab is unsurpassed - and his Assawan Spa is not to be missed.
Most of the wellness centers offer a number of classic treatments: facials, exfoliations, bathing, bandages and massages, up to the very popular Ayurvedic treatments with warm oils. There are more innovative packages, which are suitable for different lifestyles and different cultures (how do you say about a bath in milk like Cleopatra?).
The packages are the most fun and usually include scrub, bath, massage and facial, with sauna and Turkish bath, herbal tea, fruit juice and a healthy lunch. They range from 90 minutes to a full day.
Why Wellness Holiday in Dubai
The old acceptation of the word equated wellness with health (mostly physical), which was an approximately absence of disease condition. Today wellness has a broader meaning, coming to involve all aspects of being (physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual). The concept has a necessary implication in the overall wellness, not only in the psychophysical aspects, but also in mental, social and spiritual aspects. It finds a root in both Eastern and Western philosophical thought, and it is recently confirmed in medical-scientific field.
Today is accepted the definition of wellness as "the emotional, mental, physical, social and spiritual state of wellness, which enables people to achieve and maintain their personal potential in society." All the five aspects are important, but more important is that these are mutually balanced to enable people to improve their wellness.
If you want to forget your everyday stress, choose Dubai for a holiday dedicated to wellness. Let that the competent and discreet staff of ROIS TRAVELS surround you with all the pleasurable attention you have always desired, in a natural setting that will excite you.
For restore yourself you will be spoiled for choice among the wellness treatments offered by Dubai: aromatic and therapeutic baths, hydromassage, a sauna in one of its many variations and massages.
Wellness Centers in Dubai are sites completely dedicated to getting you in shape.
They offer visit and medical control during the entire period, pools with different techniques of hydromassage, draining or beauty massages with specific cream, regenerating and purifying packs for the body with essential oils, facial masks and solarium, gymnasiums where do passive exercises and all that you want for your wellness holidays in Dubai.
ROIS TRAVELS will take care of everything, so that you can just relax.
There are endless possibilities for those who spend their holiday in Dubai to profit from goods and wellness treatments; this way you will be able to enjoy your holiday and make it the happiest time of year. Wellness is also understood as exercise with appropriate programs and methods of relaxation and stress management, like autogenic training, sauna and meditation.
Entertainment and Shopping during the Wellness Holiday
in Dubai
Frances Gordon recommends in his book "Oman, Yemen and United Arab Emirates ", EDT Edition, (one of the best guides to Dubai and surroundings):
ENTERTAINMENT
Do you want to let enrapture by the Arabian Nights? You only are spoiled for choice. The dishdasha are at Kasba (The One & Only Royal Mirage), an Arabic version of Studio 54. Trendy people go to Tangerine (Fairmont Dubai Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Rd), to Terminal (Airport Millennium Hotel) and to the Boudoir (Dubai Marine Beach Resort & Spa). Those who like quieter locals and a more frank and jovial fun meet in the Irish Village (behind Al-Garhoud Rd) and very often they end the night dancing at Long's Bar (Tower Rotana Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Rd) or at the Lodge (Za'abeel Rd, Karama). The scene in the nightlife locals changes more rapidly than the Dubai skyline, hence look at Time Out proposals for to know which way the wind blows in the city.
To see a film in English to try Cinestar (- 294 9000; Deira City Center) and Grand Cineplex (- 324 2000), near the Wafi City Mall.
Shopping in Dubai
In today’s United Arab Emirates, the shopping center is the modern equivalent of the traditional suq, a place where the Emirates’ inhabitants go to do business, relax, go shopping and have fun. The truth is that today many "national" would not dream of going shopping in the suq of Deira or Bur Dubai, and leave them to tourists. They develop a passion for shopping centers; they go mad for the abundance of shops, for the haute couture boutiques and for the cafeterias. Two great advantages of the shopping centers are air conditioning and parking. The three most important shopping centers of Dubai are Wafi City Mali (- 3244555, 10-22 from Saturday to Thursday, 16.30-22 Fridays), specialized in exclusive clothing and base of some of the best bars and restaurants in Dubai. Deira City Center (- 295 1010; from 10-22 Saturday to Thursday, 14-22 Friday) is the base of superstores like Ikea and other big centers of entertainment and multiplex, especially appreciated by Dubai teenagers. The Market (- 3444161, 10 -22 from Saturday to Thursday, 14-22 Friday) is base of Spinneys supermarket, small boutiques and many cafeterias. All three are architecture follies: the Wafi City Mall is located under a big glass pyramid, a kitsch variation on the pharaohs theme. Deira City Center is huge, noisy and always crowded.
Dubai is a shopping paradise and it is difficult to decide when the choice is so vast. Too many shops, which would deserve your dirham, but these are our two favorite places in the city:
Majlis Gallery (- 353 6233; AI-Fahidi St, Bastakia, 9.30-13.30 and 16.30-20 from Saturday to Thursday), which is something between art gallery and craft shop. It is inside a restored traditional villa, a real Aladdin's cave full of treasures of local productions, including household items and jewelry. The prices are reasonable and the only reason for do not buy will be the restrictions of luggage on the return flight. Abdul Samad Al Qurashi (- 294 1344; Deira City Center, AI-Garhoud, 10-20 from Saturday to Thursday, 15-20 Friday) is a company of perfume, born a hundred years ago. It is an institution in the Gulf. The staff is always ready to introduce visitors to the secrets of the mixtures of heady aromas of Arabia. You will be amazed by the valuable original ingredients stored in hundreds of glass cases that cover the walls of the store. Prices range between Dh 200 and Dh 8000.
Shopping centers in Dubai
"So much snubbed in other countries, shopping centers are particularly suited for the sweltering heat of Dubai and play the same role that in other cities have squares - complete with fountains, stages for live events and many souvenir stalls - allowing travelers to get an idea of the Dubai society and to know the locals. The elders sit in cafes watching the comings and goings, while young people stroll and send messages one another with the mobile phone.
The Ibn Battuta Mali brings to the extreme this concept of shopping, with "streets" specialized in certain goods that look like the markets of Andalusia, Tunisia, Egypt, Persia, India and China during the XIV century.
Shopping is a daily rite in the Emirates, but in Dubai reaches sublime heights. The elegant local girls, with shayla (foulards), designed by famous designers and decorated with Swarovski crystals, make a turn at Saks while their mothers in burqa spend the morning at the Spice Souq: everything takes place quietly, examining and selecting the items and, when the purchase is decided, they always asks for the discount. Follow their example.
The duty-free shops do not apply always prices lower than normal, since in the Emirates do not pay taxes, but we recommend to visit several shops and ask for the "best price". Shopping in Dubai is especially fun in the evening, with the locals. Shopping centers are open every day from 10 to 22 (Friday afternoon only)."
Information taken from the book "Dubai: encounter", by Lara Dunston and Terry Carter, EDT, 2008, p.160.
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