Best Mall In Dubai?

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Best mall in Dubai?

City Centre
23
30%
Burjuman
7
9%
Mall of the Emirates
30
39%
Mercato
4
5%
Ibn Battuta
12
16%
 
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Best mall in Dubai? Oct 16, 2005
Which mall/shopping centre do you think is the best in Dubai at the moment?

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Oct 18, 2005
To behonest the bigger and more sprawled out they are the thought of walking around them just leaves me cold. There's nothing NICE about many of the malls.

Some of them need those airport moving walkways running from one end to another, they're too flippin' big!
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Nov 08, 2005
Chocoholic wrote:they're too flippin' big!


That's the arab "vision" though isn't it? - the bigger the better?
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Dec 15, 2005
There was an article in The Independent recently in which a reporter took a short-break excursion from the UK to Dubai and sampled the shopping experience.

Essentially she found all the shops she would have in the UK at prices generally around the same, with some electrical goods etc slightly cheaper. All that was missing were the hoardes of actual shoppers as opposed to those just wandering about with no intention of buying anything other than a coffee.

She returned home with some vanilla pods and an incense burner and wondering why the hell she had travelled all that way for a wander around some less-than-appealing giant malls in Dubai.

Quite....

For prices, character and everything you could wish for, give me New York.... period. Altho just now you will get your nuts frozen off :shock:
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Dec 15, 2005
I would love my nuts to be frozen off right now! I am sick to death of sunshine. I want snow, I want rain, I wanna feel cold. :lol:

For me, Mercato is the best. It does not really have the shops, but it certainly has a better class of women walking around! :lol: :lol:
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Dec 15, 2005
OK Yorky, your wish is my command.... by the power vested in me by the Snow Dome..... tomorrow your nuts will drop off, altho I wouldn't give much for a gelding's chances with them classy women walking around Mercato :oops:
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Dec 18, 2005
Hahahahahhaahhaha, nice one.

suppose I could always put my nuts on a block or two of ice, before i drop them in my G&T!
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Jan 21, 2006
8) Battuta 8)
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Jan 21, 2006
Defo wrote:8) Battuta 8)


NOT!!! 8)

I don't like the "Son of the Duck" mall...
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Jan 22, 2006
I like Mall of the Emirates-one of the few places I can get to and get home from without ending up in another Emirate! :roll:
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Jan 22, 2006
You need to point your banana in the right direction Gab

:lol: :lol:
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Jan 22, 2006
Liban wrote:
Defo wrote:8) Battuta 8)


NOT!!! 8)

I don't like the "Son of the Duck" mall...


Whats wrong with it?
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Jan 22, 2006
Nuff with 'nanas!! :lol:
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Feb 12, 2006
i found Ibn Battuta more relaxing n less " westrenized" , more kinda arabain type of mall :lol: 8) :roll:
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Feb 12, 2006
mall of the emirates - ever heard of a shopping mall in the desert where u can ski on ice?
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Feb 12, 2006
Defo wrote:
Liban wrote:
Defo wrote:8) Battuta 8)


NOT!!! 8)

I don't like the "Son of the Duck" mall...


Whats wrong with it?


Its pretty dead as a mall I find. Mall of the Emirates on the other hand.... :wink:
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Feb 12, 2006
ross392 wrote:mall of the emirates - ever heard of a shopping mall in the desert where u can ski on ice?


You mean snow...
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Feb 12, 2006
Liban wrote:Its pretty dead as a mall I find. Mall of the Emirates on the other hand.... :wink:


Ever since MOE opened up that's very true. Although its handy when you don't fancy lining up for hours to buy groceries.
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Feb 13, 2006
But Geant seems kinda pricey compared to Carrefour I find... No??
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Feb 13, 2006
Some things are - detergent and some imported items. But 'fresh' produce are on par - bread, milk, fruits and veggies. I live between the two of them so depending on which day I feel like doing my shopping I'll alternate between the two. But as a matter of convenience going down to Geant to get some bread and bottle of milk is less of a painful (time consuming) exercise than going to Carrefour.
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Feb 13, 2006
Dude, I am pretty much on the same boat as you and work the same way.

Somewhat between the two (closer to Battuta), go to Battuta for essentials, Carrefour for major shopping.

Plus parking in Emirates Mall is a hassle.
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Feb 13, 2006
XRW-147 wrote:
ross392 wrote:mall of the emirates - ever heard of a shopping mall in the desert where u can ski on ice?


You mean snow...



snow/ice/frozen h20/cold object that turns to part water and partly evaporates into air bcoz of heat, all the same to me! :D
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Feb 13, 2006
ross392 wrote:snow/ice/frozen h20/cold object that turns to part water and partly evaporates into air bcoz of heat, all the same to me! :D


I'd like to see you tackle a ski slope made of ice :)
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Feb 13, 2006
Liban wrote:Somewhat between the two (closer to Battuta), go to Battuta for essentials, Carrefour for major shopping.


Same dude, I live in Dubai Marina 2nd Development. So near that little slip road between the main interchange being refurbished and the Battuta interchange.
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Feb 13, 2006
OMG!!!! Dude, we are neighbours!!!!!

I am right there too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What building? Now we gotta meet :)
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Feb 13, 2006
Haha... Small world eh.
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Feb 13, 2006
I'd say that again!
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Feb 14, 2006
XRW-147 wrote:
ross392 wrote:snow/ice/frozen h20/cold object that turns to part water and partly evaporates into air bcoz of heat, all the same to me! :D


I'd like to see you tackle a ski slope made of ice :)


in that case, yeah I guess your right! :D
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Feb 24, 2006
Im going to visit dubai 15 days from now and im hearing about the mall of emirates as a very beautiful mall hope i can go there and enjoy the mall. :D
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Dec 04, 2006
Ibn Battuta is the best!!!
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