Fly into Abu Dhabi F1 in style

WHY drive when you can fly in style to the Abu Dhabi F1 this weekend? Book your helicopter shuttle transfer between Dubai and Abu Dhabi from the 23rd till 25th November with FLYHIGH Dubai Helicopter Services by Alpha Destination Management. 

The service is available every hour from 8am till 2am. If travellers would like to fly to the heart of YAS Island to beat the traffic jams, then they can opt for the most exclusive and rapid helicopter service in the UAE: less than 30 minutes trip to reach the destination enjoying the stunning aerial views of Dubai.

Prices start at AED 2900 per person per way. Below are the rates per 1 way, inclusive of 5% VAT. All prices include free transfers from YAS Links to Yas Marina Circuit and free beverages at Atlantis The Palm Helipad.

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Yas Experiences rebrands

YAS Experiences, the trade arm of the leisure and entertainment destination Yas Island Abu Dhabi, today announced it has strategically rebranded to Experience Hub.

The new identity reflects the role Yas Island’s promotional hub will play to facilitate overall tourism packages in Abu Dhabi, as the demand for leisure and entertainment packages in the UAE’s capital continues to grow.

Experience Hub will continue to operate as the one-stop destination partner promoting Yas Island Abu Dhabi – one of the world’s fastest growing leisure and entertainment destinations.

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Travellers bound for Abu Dhabi

THE latest figures from Abu Dhabi show the number of hotel guests staying in the emirate during June rose by six per cent compared to the same month a year ago.  The UK posted a 14.5 per cent increase for the month, and a 12.9 per cent increase for the first six months of 2018.

In total 339,592 visitors were guests of Abu Dhabi’s 162 hotels and hotel apartments during June, an increase of more than 19,000 over the previous year.

For the first six months of 2018, the figures show #AbuDhabi upping the total number of hotel guests to the emirate by five per cent on the year, with 2,413,230 guests in total arriving.


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A new world sets to open in Abu Dhabi

WARNER BROS. World Abu Dhabi, the world's largest Warner Bros. branded indoor theme park, is putting the final touches on the Park ahead of its July 25, 2018 grand opening. The 1.65 million sq. ft. park promises captivating experiences, bringing together some of the world's most iconic characters and stories under one roof for the first time in the region. The park's incredibly immersive environments, unique thrill rides and fan-favorite characters will undoubtedly create a truly unparalleled experience and memories that will last a lifetime for all who visit.

When the highly-anticipated theme park opens its doors later this month, guests will be transported to six expertly designed lands including DC's Metropolis and Gotham City, as well as Cartoon Junction, Bedrock, Dynamite Gulch and Warner Bros. Plaza.

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Next global act to perform at this year's Yasalam After-Race Concert

YAS Marina Circuit and FLASH Entertainment have revealed the next global act to perform at this year's Yasalam After-Race Concert as part of the Formula 1 2018 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. Sam Smith has been confirmed as the headline performer for Saturday 24 November's Yasalam After-Race Concert at the du Arena, Yas Island.

Since #AbuDhabiGrandPrix tickets were launched worldwide in March, interest has been extremely high with West Grandstand, West Club and Abu Dhabi Hill two-day tickets having already sold out and only a limited number of fan favourite three-day Abu Dhabi Hill tickets available.

The addition of the new one-day Friday products, allows ticket holders to build their weekend with a General Admission two-day or Hospitality two-day Marsa Suite, Terrace Hospitality and Champions Club ticket with a one-day Friday Paddock Club or Club at Trackside Terrace Friday.

Ticket holders can also take their weekend up a gear by purchasing 'Golden Circle' upgrade tickets for the Yasalam After-Race Concerts.

There's only four weeks remaining to buy 'Early Bird' tickets for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, offering 20 per cent discounts to race fans across a range of ticket packages, 'Early Bird' tickets will be available until 31 July.

Tickets are available online www.yasmarinacircuit.com



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Arabian Nights

CRYSTAL Esprit, the award-winning boutique yacht of Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises, will embark on a captivating new season of voyages through the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Oman and the Holy Land in October through December of 2019. The seven- to 11-day sailings will cruise the Arabian Peninsula, with immersive exploration of the ancient wonders and physics-defying modern marvels in the region. 

Overnights in Dubai and Abu Dhabi showcase the thriving riches of modern UAE culture, while a double overnight in Aqaba, Jordan, allows for visits to the legendary Rose City of Petra and Wadi Rum. New on the Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises roster of destinations are Doha, Qatar, where the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art and dramatic Sheikh Faisal Museum display the country’s fascinating heritage, and the excitement over the 2022 World Cup is already beginning to build; and Sokhna, Egypt, which offers Crystal guests a gateway to the remarkable pyramids of Giza, just 60 miles away from Cairo, and the soon-to-be-opened archaeological Grand Egyptian Museum.

 Crystal Esprit embarks on her new Arabian Nights Collection on October 20, 2019, with all-inclusive luxuries tailored to accommodate just 62 guests. 

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Warner Bros Abu Dhabi to open its doors late July

MIRAL, Abu Dhabi's creator of destinations, announced today that Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, an indoor theme park, will open its doors to the public on 25th of July 2018.

When the highly-anticipated Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi opens this summer, it will feature six immersive lands including DC's Metropolis and Gotham City, as well as Cartoon Junction, Bedrock, Dynamite Gulch and Warner Bros. Plaza. When guests step through the iconic Warner Bros. shield, they will enter a world where Super Heroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman fight for justice and animated stars like Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote and Scooby-Doo come to life in the most brilliant and awe-inspiring ways.

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Welcome to Abu Dhabi

THE opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island and the hosting of the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix contributed to a dramatic surge in hotel guests staying in the emirate during November. 

The month saw a 16 percent rise in guests staying in the emirate’s 162 hotels and hotel apartments compared to the same period in 2016, according to figures released by the Department of Culture and Tourism. 

With 4.3 million hotel guests staying in accommodation across #AbuDhabi city, Al Ain Region and Al Dhafra Region in the first 11 months of the year, the emirate has witnessed 9 percent year-on-year growth and is on target to reach a record 4.9 million guests by the end of December.

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Immerse yourself at Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI'S leading creator of destinations Miral, announced today that Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi will feature six immersive worlds: Metropolis and Gotham City, inspired by the universe of DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains; Cartoon Junction, Bedrock, and Dynamite Gulch, themed after iconic animated brands such as Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera; and Warner Bros. Plaza, reminiscent of old Hollywood, where these seminal characters and stories were originally brought to life. 

Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, which is located on Yas Island and set to open in 2018, will be a one-of-a-kind, world-class destination home to state-of-the-art thrill rides, interactive family friendly attractions, and unique live entertainment. From the action and adventure of DC to the wacky and wonderful world of Looney Tunes, this immersive and interactive new indoor experience brings some of the world’s most popular stories and characters under one roof.

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Art in the Arab world

LOUVRE Abu Dhabi opened its doors to the public on 11 November 2017. It is the first museum of its kind in the Arab world: a universal museum that focuses on shared human stories across civilisations and cultures.

Located in #AbuDhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pritzker Prize winning French architect Jean Nouvel has designed a museum city (Arab medina) under a vast silvery dome. Visitors can walk through the promenades overlooking the sea beneath the museum’s 180-metre dome, comprised of almost 8,000 unique metal stars set in a complex geometric pattern. When sunlight filters through, it creates a moving ‘rain of light’ beneath the dome, reminiscent of the overlapping palm trees in the UAE’s oases.

On display will be the museum’s important collection of artworks, artefacts and loans from France’s top museums. These span the entirety of human existence: from prehistorical objects to commissioned contemporary artworks, highlighting universal themes and ideas and marking a departure from traditional museography that often separates according to origin. In addition to the galleries, the museum will include exhibitions, a Children’s Museum, a restaurant, a boutique and a café.

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Safe in Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI has been named the safest city in the world by Numbeo, a website that curates and collates data to develop the world’s largest user-contributed database about cities and countries worldwide.

With the lowest crime index of just 13.54 in the past six months, and the highest safety index of 86.46, #AbuDhabi was well ahead of second place city, Basel, Switzerland in the scores for overall safety. Respondents to the index stated that Abu Dhabi has very low crime levels and scored the capital at 94 per cent for a general feeling of safety in the city.

Last month, Abu Dhabi was named the second-best city in the world to live, work and do business in, overtaking both London and Paris in the most recent Ipsos City Index.

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Up in the air . . .

THE peak summer travel period is fast approaching with many travellers making plans for trips home or on holiday. 

The combination of the Eid public holiday, school break and the summer season means that 22 June to 24 August will be a particularly busy time at Abu Dhabi International Airport, with up to 3.3 million guests flying with Etihad Airways across the network over the next two months.

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Etihad Airways to launch A380 flights to Paris

ETIHAD Airways is introducing its award-winning A380 on the #AbuDhabi – #Paris route this summer as part of seasonal adjustments to the airline’s fleet deployment plan. 

Featuring the carrier’s revolutionary The Residence – the world’s first three-room suite on a commercial airliner – the aircraft will operate on one of its twice-daily services to the French capital between July 1 and October 28.

Paris becomes the airline’s latest A380 long haul destination following London, Sydney, New York and Melbourne. With the aircraft upgrade from a 328-seat Boeing 777, Etihad Airways is able to offer an all-A380 daily service from Paris to both Melbourne and Sydney via the airline’s Abu Dhabi hub.

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In the air . . .

Vietjet announces its new international route connecting Hanoi with Singapore the new route will commence operation on April 27, 2017.

Etihad Airways today announced its Abu Dhabi – Düsseldorf route will be operated 14 times a week with the addition of a new daily service, effective 26 March 2017.

Jet Airways, India’s premier full service, international airline have introduced a new daily service between Mangaluru and New Delhi which took off on January 16. This new flight also links Mangaluru to key international business centres such as London, Amsterdam, Singapore and Hong Kong and popular tourist destinations such as Bangkok, Kathmandu and Dhaka through New Delhi.

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World's tallest indoor climbing wall to open in Abu Dhabi

THE world’s tallest indoor climbing wall and its widest skydiving chamber will be housed in a giant futuristic multi-sided diagonal cube on Yas Island. The skydiving chamber will be 9.75 meters wide, and the climbing venue’s highest wall will have a height of 43 meters.

Developer Miral said the US$100 million "Clymb" is scheduled to open next to Yas Mall in 2018. Work is already under way, and the project is 35 percent complete as of the beginning of this month. Zublin Construction has been appointed as the main contractor, Miral said.

Clymb will join existing attractions Ferrari World and Yas Waterworld and will follow future attractions such as the Warner Bros theme park, which are all part of the vision to turn Yas Island into a top global destination attracting 48 million visits a year by 2022.

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Warner Bros. theme park for Abu Dhabi

A WARNER BROS.-THEMED destination is to open in #AbuDhabi. On Yas Island, the development will include a Warner Bros. theme park and the world’s first Warner-branded hotel. The first phase of the project, #WarnerBros. World Abu Dhabi, is scheduled to open in 2018. Construction is underway and rides are in production. 

The attraction will feature stories and characters from the studio’s portfolio of DC Comics super heroes, including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, as well as Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry. Guests will be able to step inside Gotham City and Metropolis, and experience the cartoon worlds of Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera under one roof.

Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi aims to help Yas Island take its annual visitor tally from 25 million in 2015 to 30 million in 2018. 

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Thomson Cruises to base ship in Dubai

THOMSON CRUISES is to base a ship in #Dubai in winter 2016-17. Thomson Celebration will run two itineraries in the Gulf region from December next year.

The two seven-night itineraries – Arabian Nights and Cities of Gold – will include an overnight in Dubai and calls in Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi.

Flights will operate to Dubai from Manchester, Birmingham, Gatwick, Cardiff, Newcastle, and Glasgow, with #cruise-and stay-packages also available when the programme goes on sale in November.

Thomson Cruises managing director, Helen Caron, said: ‘We know that destinations are one of the key deciding factors for our customers, and our decision to set sail from Dubai will allow holidaymakers to see and experience more destinations than ever before. With the average Brit visiting more than 14 foreign countries in their lifetime, we can’t wait for everyone to discover Arabia, from the glamour and opulence of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to the ancient heritage sites in Oman.’

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Golf drive in the Gulf

#ABUDHABI is teeing up for a drive to strengthen its standing as a world-class golfing destination.

The plan – supported by Abu Dhabi’s leading #golf courses, tour operators, and hoteliers – is to target expanding golf markets in Europe, China, India and across the Gulf states. It will dedicated golf portal for golf enthusiasts, serve as a one-stop-shop to connect them with a range of golf holiday options, and offer direct booking tools.

Says Sameer Taher Bagaber at Abu Dhabi’s tourism and culture authority: ‘Our international golfing footprint is widening and visitors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in how they research and book their stay, so expanding the availability of golf information and direct booking access via the visitabudhabi.ae website represents a significant regional competitive advantage and broadens the opportunity to extend our golf tourism message.’

visitabudhabi.ae will host individual pages – in nine languages – for each of the emirate’s golf clubs.

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