Lonely Planet Dubai City Guide 0.98

Best for curious and independent-minded travelers. - WALL STREET JOURNAL

This spectacular city of skyscrapers and souks won’t seem like a mirage, with Lonely Planet’s Dubai Cityguide on your iPhone. A desert boom-town to put Las Vegas to shame, the powerhouse of the UAE could seriously overwhelm, if it wasn’t for the hundreds of hours our expert authors have spent scouring the town for the best eating, sleeping, shopping, sightseeing and more. From the ivory beaches of Jumeira to the gold market of Deira, we’ve got this oasis covered.

Dubai is a feverishly high-tech town, the kind of place you need a Cityguide on your iPhone to navigate properly. You’ll never lose your way, or be at a loss to find the best attractions in your area with our comprehensive, zoomable, GPS-enabled maps; the intricacies of local lore are made plain in our authoritative chapters on Arab history, culture, food, language and more; you’ll be able to pierce the city’s heart with confidence, following our detailed walking tours; and if desert safaris or golf are your pleasure, we’ve done the legwork on those too. And don’t worry about leaking money on roaming connection charges: our apps work stand-alone. Perfect!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITY GUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon

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