Dubai City Hotel
Located in Dubai’s Deira shopping and business district, opposite the Deira City Centre leisure complex, the affordable Dubai City Hotel comprises 104 suites in total, 26 of which are executive suites and another 26 deluxe suites.
This budget hotel offers all the usual facilities such as 24 hour concierge, room service, laundry and dry cleaning.
The suites [...]
Dubai in the nineteenth century
Two catastrophes struck Dubai during the mid-nineteenth century, in 1841 smallpox broke out in Bur Dubai forcing residents to relocate to Deira; then in 1894 fire swept through Deira burning down most homes.
Despite this, the town’s geographical location still continued to draw traders and merchants from around the region.
The emir, keen to attract foreign [...]
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