Where to Go on Valentine’s Day in Dubai
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s time to start planning a truly memorable experience for you and your partner to share! With its luxurious restaurants and exhilarating experiences, Dubai is considered a romantic, exciting destination.
So, where should you go on Valentine’s Day in Dubai? Depending on the kinds of experiences you and your partner enjoy, there’re a lot of options. You can sit down to a delicious fine dining meal, or head into the secluded desert for a safari. Or you can go on a sightseeing flight or go to the spa together.
This guide explores where you should go on Valentine’s Day in Dubai. Use it to plan a romantic, unforgettable day.
Fine Dining
Valentine’s Day is a day for you to pull out all the stops and splurge on yourself and your partner. Spend an evening together at a fine dining restaurant, where you’ll be promised delicious food, a romantic ambiance, and a truly memorable experience.
Here are some of Dubai’s most romantic fine dining restaurants and lounges.
Private Dining at At.moshpere Restaurant
The At.mosphere restaurant is nestled in the Burj Khalifa and is the world’s highest restaurant. On any night, it offers a wonderful dining experience as you dine on delicious dishes while looking over Dubai’s sparkling lights.
On Valentine’s Day, book the Private Dining Room, which seats only 16 guests. As well as a more intimate experience, the private dining room has an exclusively curated menu with dishes that use the freshest produce from around the world.
What to order: Even if you’re not dining in the private room, there are a plethora of luxurious dishes to choose from. Order some caviar from Kaviari, followed by shucked oysters from Brittany. You can also try the cold seafood platter, which includes crab legs, prawns, scallops, salmon, and salads. The restaurant also has an expertly curated wine menu and a sommelier who will suggest the best wine pairings.
Address: 122nd Floor, Burj Khalifa, Downtown Dubai – Dubai
Ossiano at Atlantis
Ossiano is an underwater fine dining restaurant under one of Dubai’s most famous hotels, Atlantis. As you dine on meals conceptualized by Chef Gregoire Berger, you and your partner can watch colorful fish, stingrays, and sharks swim by.
With twenty-four hours advance notice and an extra charge, underwater divers will swim right up to your table and deliver a personal message to your dining partner. What a wonderful way to say Happy Valentine’s Day!
What to order: Ossiano’s menu features dishes like The Salad, The Soup, The Speciality, and The Meat, all of which are made using different ingredient selections each day. The restaurant also has nine, eleven, and thirteen-course menus, which have been designed by Chef Berger.
Address: Atlantis, The Palm – Dubai
Pierchic
Pierchic is a romantic, waterfront restaurant that is known for its excellent seafood and service. This restaurant serves Mediterranean cuisine and focuses on sourcing local ingredients to ensure that they are fresh and sustainably gathered.
A lunch or dinner at Pierchic will be a memorable Valentine’s Day meal as you are assured of great service, a stunning view, and a delectable array of dishes.
What to order: Pierchic’s signature dishes include US Diver scallops, wagyu beef tartare, royal king crab, and seafood risotto. You and your partner can also try the seven-course tasting menu, which includes oysters, ceviche, foie gras, terrine, tenderloin, and a cheese platter.
Address: Al Qasr at Madinat – Dubai
Jumeriah Al Qasr
If you’re looking for a more intimate dinner, consider the Jumeriah Al Qasr Private Dinner on the Beach. This is a private dining experience on the Jumeriah Al Qasr private beach. There are two options to choose from:
- White tent setup. This includes a four-course seafood menu, soft drinks, a bouquet of roses, and a bottle of French champagne.
- Arabian style setup. This includes a four-course menu (international, Arabian, or seafood), a bouquet of roses, unlimited soft drinks, and a bottle of French champagne.
For an extra charge, you can also spell out a candlelit message to your Valentine.
Dinner Cruise
Many tourists visiting Dubai choose to go on a yacht or traditional dhow cruise, where they can dine on a delicious spread and see the Dubai skyline by night. A cruise will also be an extremely romantic experience.
My Conceriege offers an exclusive yacht dinner for two. You and your partner will be invited aboard a luxurious yacht, and you’ll set sail just before the sunsets.
As you watch the sunset over the sea, you’ll be served chilled wine and delicate appetizers. Then, as you cruise along the Dubai coastal waters, you’ll be served an array of sushi with a bottle of Prosecco. My Conceriege can also adapt the experience based on your unique desires; customize it to make it even more romantic!
If a private cruise is a little out of your budget, make a reservation on the Bateaux Dubai, a luxurious cruise with fine dining fare. This cruise is on a traditional dhow that has glass panels – a feature that will allow you and your partner a beautiful view of the Dubai skyline. This cruise is 2.5 hours long and includes a three-course gourmet meal and live piano music.
Visit a Spa
Spa dates are wonderfully romantic on any day. They allow you and your partner to relax and thoroughly unwind in each other’s company. On Valentine’s Day, it’s the perfect way to start your day together and get ready for a romantic night out – or in! Dubai has a collection of luxurious spas, many of which have special experiences for couples.
Talise Ottoman Spa, Jumeirah Zabeel Saray
This luxurious spa has received several international awards for its intensive treatments and soothing spaces. It has 42 treatment rooms, steam rooms, sauna rooms, snow rooms, and thalassotherapy pools, all of which are designed to rejuvenate your body.
The spa’s Romance 1001 Roses package is one of the spa’s signature treatments, designed for couples. It has been inspired by traditional Ottoman treatments.
You and your partner will start the treatment by soaking in a skin-softening bath, which will be followed by some time in the sauna and relaxation area. The experience will culminate with a deeply soothing 60-minute massage.
Address: Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, The Palm Jumeirah, Crescent Road (West) – Dubai
Heavenly Spa
The Heavenly Spa at The Westin is a popular spa amongst Dubai locals, known for its extensive selection of treatments. For a Valentine’s Day treat, book the Heavenly Escape For Two package. It’s a 180-minute treatment that includes a welcome foot massage, a salt cleansing scrub, a massage, and a facial.
Address: King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud St – Dubai
Waldorf Astoria Spa
The plush Waldorf Astoria Spa offers a Couples Retreat package. It’s a 150-minute treatment with an exfoliating body scrub, followed by a massage and a rejuvenating soak in a private hot tub. The treatment is tailored to meet your individual needs. Depending on whether you and your partner have any pain points or concerns, your therapists will choose special oils and fragrances that will soothe and treat them.
During the treatment, you’ll also enjoy strawberries and chocolate.
Address: Crescent Rd – Dubai
Ritz Carlton Spa
The stunning Ritz Carlton Spa has a Romantic Couples Spa Retreat package. It includes a 60-minute couples massage in the Ritz Carlton Spa Suite with exclusive access to the steam room. During your massage, you and your partner can sip on a glass of bubbly with strawberries. After it, you’ll get access to the hotel’s pool and private beach.
You can also ask the spa for an ‘interactive massage.’ During this, the massage therapists will give you and your partner tips about how to massage each other so you can recreate the experience at home!
Address: JBR Walk, The Ritz-Carlton
Visit the Desert
No visit to Dubai is complete without visiting the Arabian deserts which surround it.
Tour operators and hotels pull out all the stops to offer visitors unique experiences in the desert. You can go dune bashing in a powerful car, watch falcon shows, and have a decadent meal between two sand dunes. While in the desert, you should also look out for wild desert animals, including onyx and wild camels.
Going on a desert adventure is a wonderful way to spend time with your Valentine. Here are some experiences you will definitely enjoy as a couple.
TripX Tours Romantic Desert Safari
TripX tours have a private desert safari experience, which allows you to enjoy the best of the Arabian desert exclusively with your Valentine. The company will pick you up from your home or hotel and then take you into the desert where you’ll have a camel ride, a dune drive, and a romantic, private dinner under the stars. This tour is a seven-hour experience and includes:
- A camel ride and dune drive
- A tour guide
- A barbeque dinner in a Bedouin tent
- Unlimited soft drinks and selected alcoholic beverages
- A falcon display
- Stargazing
The experience will be in the Dubai Desert Conservation reserve, in a pristine, secluded area.
Orient Tours Flying Carpet Safari
This is a private desert safari designed especially for couples. It will allow you and your partner to enjoy a range of different desert experiences and connect with the local Emirati culture. This tour includes:
- A dune drive
- A visit to a camel farm
- A camel ride
- A private BBQ dinner in a Bedouin tent
- Cultural performances including whirling dervishes, fire dances, and belly dancers
- A falcon show
- Shisha
- Sandboarding
- Henna tattoos
Arabian Adventures Wildlife Night Drive
If you and your partner are budding naturalists or animal lovers, the Arabian Adventures WIldlie Night Drive will be a wonderful experience to share. This experience is a five hour night drive through the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. A portion of what you pay goes to support local wildlife conservation. The tour includes:
- A pickup and drop off from your hotel
- An experienced tour guide who will help you spot and learn about wildlife and fauna.
- Stargazing with a telescope
- Scorpion searching with a UV light
This tour may include other guests. However, if you want to make it a more private, romantic experience, you can pay a little extra for a private vehicle and tour.
Balloon Adventures Dubai Overnight Desert Safari
For a truly elevated experience, spend a night in the Arabian deserts with your Valentine. Baloon Adventures’ overnight desert safari offers a whole host of experiences including a dune drive, a hot air balloon ride, a night in the desert, a falcon show, and a gourmet breakfast in the desert. Here’s what the experience includes:
- Heritage desert safari. This tour begins with a drive through the desert in vintage land rovers. Experienced tour guides will talk about Dubai’s history and cultural heritage and point out native animals like gazelles, falcons, and onyx.
- Stay at a Heritage camp. After the safari, the cars will take you to a heritage camp that has traditional Arabic stone dwellings. You and your partner will spend the evening going on a camel ride, getting henna applied, and watching cultural performances. You will then be taken to a private stone dwelling to enjoy a romantic night in the desert.
- Sunrise hot air balloon ride. At sunrise, you’ll get into a hot air balloon to take in the view of the deserts from the skies. An experienced guide will accompany you to guide the hot air balloon and talk about the Arabian deserts. During the ride, there’ll also be an amazing live falcon show, during which you can see a falcon swoop past your hot air balloon.
- Gourmet breakfast in the desert. After your hot air balloon ride, head back to the Heritage camp and have a gourmet Continental breakfast, which includes smoked salmon, cold meats, eggs, and fresh fruit.
This overnight safari will be a wonderful Valentine’s Day experience, and you can be sure you and your partner will create some beautiful, exhilarating memories together. Balloon Adventures Dubai also has a private experience, where you and your partner can have a private hot air balloon ride, followed by a private breakfast between two secluded sand dunes.
Take to the skies
This Valentine’s Day, take your partner to the top of the world with a flight over Dubai. While most destinations look beautiful from a bird’s eye view, Dubai is especially stunning thanks to its skyscrapers, beaches, and man-made islands. It will be an exhilarating experience to share with each other.
Here are some of the best ways to see Dubai from the sky.
Romantic hot air balloon ride
Even if you don’t want to go on a full-fledged desert safari, you and your partner can still enjoy a romantic hot air balloon ride over Dubai and the Arabian desert.
Hot Air Balloon Dubai has a Charter Flight tour which can be customized to make the experience more unique and romantic. The experience includes a hot air balloon ride, camel ride, quad biking, falcon show, and a gourmet breakfast. Special optional add ons include:
- Red carpet balloon boarding
- Cake
- A flower bouquet
These optional add ons will make your hot air balloon ride a touch more romantic – perfect for Valentine’s Day!
Helicopters
As you fly into Dubai, you’ll likely be impressed by the fleeting view of the stunning, futuristic metropolis from the sky. Book a helicopter ride over Dubai to enjoy a longer look at Dubai’s impressive landscape, which includes sandy beaches and towering skyscrapers.
A good tour company is HeliDubai, which has a collection of helicopter tours over Dubai. The iconic tour, for instance, is a short, twelve-minute ride that will take you over the World Islands, the Wind Towers, the Burj Khalifa, and the Jumeriah coastline.
Meanwhile, the longest tour they offer is the 40-minute Oddesey tour, which will take you’ll over the Dubai business district, the coastline, and a wildlife sanctuary.
Seaplane
Several tour operators operate seaplane tours over Dubai. Seaplanes take off and land in or near the sea, which is a unique experience that you and your Valentine will cherish having had together.
The Seawings Signature & Heritage Tour is especially popular. The plane takes off and lands at the Mina Rashid and soars over Dubai’s coast. From the skies, you’ll see the Arabian desert, the Burj Khalifa, and other landmarks. This tour also includes a visit to the gold and spice souk, a traditional ferry ride, and a meal in Al Bastakiya, a heritage neighborhood in Dubai.
Conclusion
If you and your partner are spending Valentine’s Day in Dubai, there are plenty of places you can go to.
Have a delicious meal at a fine dining restaurant like Pierchic or Ossiano, or have a private meal by the beach or aboard a cruise. Or, visit a spa for a luxurious couples massage. Venturing into the Arabian desert is another memorable way to spend Valentine’s Day. You can also explore Dubai by air in a hot air balloon, seaplane, or helicopter.
Each of these experiences will be a wonderful way to spend Valentine’s Day in Dubai.
