Everyone knows that Dubai is a hotspot – literally – so you may wonder why my hotel overlooks a ski slope. Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with ski slopes of varying difficulty, real snow and even real penguins! It maintains a welcome 0°C temperature all year round – highly appealing in the summer, when the mercury regularly hits the 50° mark.
This winter wonderland is in the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, which also houses the Kempinski Hotel, where I have checked in for a few days.
It is December 2023, just a few weeks after the Hamas…
