Today my mission is to show you that Dubai can actually be traveled affordably. What’s up guys and welcome to the Dubai International Airport. If you’ve just arrived here, then you’re probably feeling exhausted, which is exactly why I’ve come here and gotten myself a delicious cappuccino.

Now, most of you guys probably think of Dubai as this luxury travel destination and for some, that’s definitely the case. But today, my mission is to show you that Dubai can actually be traveled relatively affordably.

We have set ourselves a very fine budget of 10 U.S. dollars, let’s see how long it lasts for us. So cappuccino was 25? Thee we go, so there’s five, 10, 15, 20, thank you. Thank you very much. Alright, so.

So naturally, if you’ve just arrived in Dubai, you’re of course, with your luggage, so the first thing we’re gonna wanna do is probably head to your hotel so that you can get rid of all that.

The best options are gonna be to either take a taxi, which is actually relatively affordable compared to North America, or to take the Metro system. Very efficient and very cheap, so let’s try that.

The Metro system taking you all the way downtown to the Burj, to the Central District. It’s eight AED or about like, two U.S. dollars, guys. So, so cheap. So efficient. Don’t even bother with a taxi.

When traveling, often your greatest expenses are related to accommodations so I wanted to give you a bit of an idea of where you can get the best bang for your buck here in Dubai. So there are two areas that I heard are very cheap and affordable, one we actually stayed in there’s Mankhool and there’s Deira.

Now, Mankhool is only about a 50 AED taxi ride away from the airport, the Metro doesn’t run there, but the taxi is so cheap. And the hotel we got was an incredible value. Now if you wanna be in the most happening places and you don’t mind spending a little bit of extra, you’ve got downtown Dubai, which is next to the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Mall, and right across from it, you have Business Bay Dubai.

The third and last one I wanted to mention is JBR and that’s about a 25-minute drive away. The awesome thing about it is that they’re all connected by the Metro system which is dirt cheap to use, incredibly efficient, so don’t be afraid to stay in the JBR area.

So I wanted to give you a top tip for a very affordable activity here in Dubai. To keep your costs low, simply go to your hotel lobby, grab a seat, and just take it in. Maybe see if you can snag a few complimentary drinks.

For me, I need somewhere I can do work, feel comfortable, have high-speed internet, so this place is about 80 U.S. dollars per night. A quick pan around, boom. Look at all the workspace. Very, very happy with that, I have high-speed internet, and this is the benefit of not being in the downtown core of Dubai.

Katia, do you feel that? It’s the feeling of savings. This temperature right now is about eh, 38 degrees. Very humid. And that’s the reason there are very few people in Dubai right now, which means you can save on hotels and experiences.

There’s gonna be tons of people trying to sell us stuff as we go through here. And as far as the eye can see, it is just a jewelry store after jewelry. This is my friend here, he sells gold. Is your smile for sale? Because it’s golden.

So this right here is one of the local areas. It’s outside of downtown Dubai by about 30 minutes in the cab and it’s called Deira. Dee-duh, dee-duh, day-duh? It’s called Deira and Deira is one of the areas where you can get like, a very cultural Dubai.

You look like an assassin. Ooh, it’s actually very pretty. We said yes to a stranger on the side of the road and here we are. (electronic music) Once you’ve left the Gold Souk, you basically are spat right out into the Spice Souk.

And wow, there are so many smells in here. – It’s a date with coconut and chocolate. Very good. – [Christian] What’s that one? – Harissa curry. – [Katia] I didn’t know there were so many curries.

– Green with pineapple apple blend. – What’s the one that we… – This is like, the most beautiful exotic scent of tea I’ve ever smelt. I just know it’s gonna be amazing. We have to get a little bit.

– Yeah. – What is that? (coughing) It kinda felt nice, though. – It clean. – It cleared, it cleaned my nostrils. – Yeah. – I can breathe again. – I wanna get that when I’m sick. – Oh my gosh. That like, immediately cleaned and opened up my sinuses.

So just a small walk away from the Gold Souk and the Spice Souk is the littler river area that runs through the area known as Deira and on the other side is Bur Dubai, which are kinda like the old, traditional town.

Definitely a very cultural experience to come see this. Hello, sir! Just chilling with the boys. We’re about to cross in the Abra. Next stop… – Venice. – Venice. (laughs) (upbeat electronic music) – So, what I typically do when I’m in an expensive city and I’m really trying to cut costs, I will go to a few choice websites.

One of them is Airbnb. If you really price sensitive, what you wanna do is you wanna click on the price section here and we can drag it as far as we can afford to spend. So let’s say we’re really budget, we only have $27 a night.

So, I’ve actually found one right here for $13 a night. Now, it is shared, you don’t know who you’re sharing with. I’ve looked at the location here, for $13 plus a two dollar service fee, $15 total, you’re about, what looks to be about 20 minutes outside of downtown Dubai.

Not close, not the best location, but you get what you pay for. For $80 a night, a very beautiful apartment and it basically looks like a hotel. Now, I wanted to show you another website that I like to use.

It’s called Agoda. So if you take a look here on Agoda, I put in Dubai for one night starting tonight and if you go here, you can filter by price, by location, you can see on this map here that we can go all the way to The Palm, or we can go all the way to.

My battery’s dying. And we’ll see from our results here that we’ve got what looks to be Grandma’s little storage room for $10 a night. My computer died. Frick! Apologies for that. I don’t know why I always wait till my computer’s dead to plug it in but here we are.

So one last thing I wanted to show you is yes, you can go to Agoda, book cheap hotels there, but one last thing, if you’re a solo traveler, in particular, I think hostels are a great place to go. And for that, there’s a website called Hostelworld.

It’s like 40 degrees and humid right now, but we’re gonna go and brave it. We’re gonna show you around Dubai, the outside, where nobody can charge us to see because we are affordable travelers.

Let’s go have a look. (upbeat electronic music) Sorry, guys. Just fanning myself with all my savings I’m making right now because it is completely free to be here. But it’s also very hot. One of the really great things that Dubai has to offer is their shopping but if you’re on a budget, shopping’s not really for you.

Nonetheless, I still recommend that even if you’re on a tight budget, check out the Mall. The Mall itself is kind of an attraction. It’s extremely beautiful from the fountains, the ice skating.

I should also mention, it can be one of the cheaper places to get food. One of the ways to actually eat affordably is actually in the Dubai Mall. There is a huge array of restaurants. You can easily spend a lot, or you can get some Canadian food, like Tim Horton’s, and keep costs low.

So Katia and I have ordered ourselves some wraps. It was around like, six dollars the U.S. per person so it’s very affordable if you need it to be. (upbeat hip hop music) Alright, guys. So, once you go–ahh! I almost took out a little kid.

Once you come into the Dubai Mall, something that’s kinda fun, especially if you have never tried it before is ice skating. So this is kind of affordable. It’s coming around 75 AED, which isn’t exactly that cheap for ice skating, but for it being in the Dubai Mall, trying to kill time, if you’re not sure what to do, it’s pretty fun.

So just inside of the Dubai Mall is a connection into the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the entire world. You actually don’t know how much it’s gonna cost you until you get through the line.

There’s no display of the price, the people working the front won’t tell you, they’re like, “Well, it depends on the time of the day.” So I actually just went to the At The Top website where they sell the tickets to go all the way up the Burj and I found that it’s actually 135 to go to floors 124 and floors 125.

That’s where I’ve been before and I must recommend it. It is very, very cool. With that being said, though, there is a more budget alternative that recently opened. It’s called the Dubai Frame.

I believe it’s been open for about a year or two and for about 60 AED, you should pre-book your tickets. If you don’t pre-book your tickets, let me show you what happened when we went. ♪ Put the place up ♪ How cool was that? – Amazing.

The line was incredible. – We had to book tickets online. We tried to show up and just buy them at the door. They’re 50 AED per person but again, if you haven’t reserved any then you’re not gonna get in, so.

Round two, baby. We got this time, let’s go. We’re going to the Frame. You already know we booked tickets this time. You already know, though, we about to hit up that gold. I want the gold.

All I see is gold. You already know, though, she showed up with a player, we about to see the gold. We about to go up into the gold Alright. Up we go, the Frame. Willy Wonka glass elevator-style. (mellow electronic music) Moral of the story, pay the 10 AED extra, and pre-book your tickets if you’re gonna go to the Frame.

I should also mention that at the end of the exhibit, there is this incredible, 270-degree screen that gives you this like, future of Dubai tour and it’s like, one of the most engaging videos I’ve ever watched.

I’ve never seen anything like it. Now even though this video is about affordable travel, traveling is exceptionally expensive and I’m so grateful that today’s video is actually sponsored by a company that not only made this video possible but also by a company that made this video better.

Now, you may have noticed a few unique shots here in this video, namely, the Metro system timelapse and the one in the Spice Souk. Now, these were actually not shot by me. They were shot by shooters who I will probably never meet but the incredible thing was their footage was made accessible to me by Videoblocks.

And what Videoblocks is is it’s a giant database of incredibly beautiful footage from all around the world of all sorts of different subjects. You just type into the search bar what you’re looking for.

From there, you can download your royalty-free footage in HD or even in 4K and the best thing of it all is you can continue to commercialize your videos, despite using someone else’s footage. That right there is mind-blowing to me as a videographer, as a YouTuber, it’s such a game changer and I couldn’t be more stoked.

They are making my life so much better so a huge thank you to Videoblocks. Hopefully, they’ll sponsor another video. As you can probably tell, I’ve actually left Dubai but there’s a website I wanna share with you because I really think it could actually save you potentially hundreds of dollars if you’re spending a little while in Dubai.

If you wanna shop the website, it’s called Groupon.ae and they literally have everything from restaurants, activities, and hotels. I wanted to show you a few activities that I found while going through the website for 10 minutes.

One of my favorite activities that I’ve done in Dubai is the one right here. (upbeat indie music) Now that activity was done with a company by the name of Platinum Heritage and they’re definitely not on the lower end of the budget.

In fact, they’re on the higher end, but I’ve really loved my time. The great thing is, though, if you’re on a tight budget, I’ve literally found one here for the equivalent of 20 U.S. dollars that they will take you out to the desert, they’ll feed you, they’ll take you through the dunes in a buggy.

They’ll give you the full camel experience. Belly dancers and the cool thing is the ratings are basically four out of five stars. A lot of people here saying, “Good value for money, but “we were very packed in the small minivan.

” So I guess again, whatever you pay for, that’s typically what you get back in value. Carrying on, you can rent a supercar, a whew, Lamborghini Huracan. Huracan. Huracan. And that right there is 152 U.

S. dollars for an hour. That’s really not that bad when you consider it’s a Lamborghini. If you wanna enjoy the waterfront that Dubai has to offer, then right here we’ve got some jet skis and they’ve got pretty good reviews by the looks of it.

$51 U.S. You can get a spa treatment here for $58. It includes access to the facilities. I found here a four-star hotel that’s very close to the airport, not really that close to downtown. About a 20 minute drive away.

49 U.S. dollars. Two people get breakfast at a four-star hotel. Now, this is what I like to call balling on a budget. For 899 AED, or in other words, 240 U.S. dollars, you can have 16 of your bros chilling on a freaking yacht.

And this isn’t just any yacht, like, this thing looks beautiful. You can rent an ATV, $46 in the middle of the desert for an hour. Pretty lit. Okay, there’s one last thing I wanna show you. There’s actually an Abu Dhabi tour.

I did go to Abu Dhabi during my last trip to Dubai and it’s a bit of a hassle to get out there. It’s about an hour and a half drive and there’s a company here that will do it for 125 AED. Now, the best has been saved for last.

I wanted to share with you for the real explorers, the people that wanna get lost, this is Butt Tourism. I have no idea what it’s doing on the website. Now, they only have a two and a half star, I guess it’s not for everyone, but you’ve got the option.

Not sponsored. I wish it was. So I went to my local buddy who actually lives in U.A.E. And I said, “Nabil, “tell me one affordable activity “that you would highly recommend “to somebody who’s coming here.

” One of the places that he highly recommended you go and check out is the Etihad Museum. For just 25 AED, you get access to one of the world’s most state of the art museums. It’s this beautiful, beautiful building and they share with you the history of U.

A.E. and Dubai in particular. And if you don’t already know, Dubai is one of the fastest-growing cities in the entire world. In 20 years, it absolutely shot out of nowhere. If you don’t believe me, Google it, you’ll be blown away.

And if ever I had to learn the history on a country and a city, this would probably be the one I’d wanna learn about, so. Well, that wraps it up, guys. I hope you found some great tips to make your trip to Dubai an affordable one.

And next week, I’m posting the polar opposite video. The most luxurious of Dubai. This is not gonna be a budget-friendly itinerary but I’ll show you how to point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent of the world lives.

The billionaire population. I had the incredible experience of trying it out for a week and I wanna share with you what it was like. Whether it actually was enjoyable, whether it made us happy. If you’re new to my channel, hit the subscribe button.

If you wanna get notified when that video goes live, click that bell button and you’ll get a little notification from YouTube. Sometimes they don’t like to send it out so in case they don’t, I will see you back here on Saturday and guys, as always, let’s get lost again in the next one.

Today my mission is to show you that Dubai can actually be traveled affordably, what’s up guys, and welcome to the Dubai International Airport if you’ve just arrived here then you’re probably feeling exhausted which is exactly why I’ve come here and got myself a delicious cappuccino now most of you guys probably think of Dubai has this luxury travel destination and for some, that’s definitely the case but today my mission is to show you the Dubai can actually be traveled relatively affordably we have set ourselves a very fine budget of 10 u.s. dollars let’s see how long it lasts us so cappuccino was 25 there we go so those 5 10 15 20 thank you thank you very much, so naturally, if you’ve just arrived in Dubai you’re of course with your luggage so the first thing we’re gonna want to do is probably head to your hotel so that you can get rid of all that the best options are gonna be.

Tyler take a taxi which is actually relatively affordable compared to North America or to take the metro system very efficient and very cheap, so let’s try that the metro system taking you all the way downtown to the Burj to the Central District is the 8a IDI or about like two US dollars guys so so cheap so efficient don’t even bother with the taxi when traveling often your greatest expenses are related to accommodation, so I wanted to give you a bit of an idea of where you can get the best bang for your buck here in Dubai so there are two areas that I’ve heard are very cheap and affordable one we actually stayed in.

There’s man cool and there’s days now man cool is only about a 50 AE D taxi ride away from the airport the Metro doesn’t run there but the taxi is so cheap and the hotel we got was incredible value now if you want to be the most happening places and you don’t mind spending a little bit extra you’ve got downtown Dubai which is next to the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Mall and right across from it you have business bay do buy the third and last one I wanted to mention is jbr and that’s about a 25-minute drive away the awesome thing about it is that they’re all connected by the metro system which is dirt cheap to use incredibly efficient so don’t be afraid to stay in our area so I wanted to give you a top tip for a very affordable activity here in Dubai to keep your costs low simply go to your hotel lobby grab a seat and just take it in maybe see if you can snag a few complimentary drinks for me.

I need somewhere I could do work feel comfortable high-speed Internet so this place is about 80 US dollars per night a quick pan around boom look at all the workspace very very happy with that I have high speed internet and this is the benefit of not being in the downtown core of Dubai Kathy do you feel that it’s the feeling of savings this temperature right now is about ya 38 degrees very humid and that’s the reason there’s very few people in Dubai right now which means you can save on hotels and experiences there’s gonna be tons of people trying to sell us stuff as we go through here and as far as the eye can see it is just jewelry store after jewelry this is my friend here he sells gold it’s your smile for sale because it’s golden oh my gosh so this right here is one of the local areas it’s outside of downtown dubai by about like 30 minutes in the cab and it’s called data edita data data it’s called data and data is one of the areas where you can get like a very cultural Dubai you look like an assassin just absolutely it’s actually very pretty we said yes to a stranger on the side of the road and here we are once you’ve left the gold souk you basically are spat right out into the spice souk and wow there’s so many smells in here today with coconut and chocolate mmm very good with that one this is like the most beautiful exotic scent of tea I’ve ever smelled I just know it’s gonna be amazing we have to get a little bit yeah what is that it kind of felt nice though nostrils yeah I can breathe again oh my gosh that like immediately cleaned and opened up my sinuses so just a small walk away from the gold souk and the spice souk is the little river area that runs through the area known as data and on the other side is bird Dubai which are kind of like the old traditional town definitely a very cultural experience to come see this hello sir so with the boys let’s crossing the avro next up [Music] so what I typically do when I’m in an expensive city and I’m really trying to cut cost I will go to a few choice websites one of them is Airbnb if you’re really price sensitive what you want to do is want to click on the prank section here and we can drag it as far as we can afford to spend so let’s say we’re really budget we only have 27 dollars a night so I’ve actually found one right here for $13 a ninth now it is shared you don’t know who you’re sharing with I’ve looked at the location here for $13 plus a $2 service fee at $15 total your about what looks to be about 20 minutes outside of downtown dubai not close not the best location but you get what you pay for for $80 a night a very beautiful apartment and it basically looks like a hotel now I wanted to show you another website that I like to use is called a goda so if you take a look you’re on a gota I put in Dubai for one night starting tonight and if you go here you can filter by price by location you can see on this map here that we can go all the way to the palm or we can go all the way to my battery’s dying and we’ll see from our results here that we’ve got what looks to be grandma’s little storage room for $10 a night my computer died French apologies for that I don’t know why I always wait so my computer’s dead to plug it in but here we are so one last thing I wanted to show you is yes you can go to a gota book cheap hotels there but one last thing if you’re a solo traveler in particular I think hostels are a great place to go and for that there’s a website called hospital world it’s like 40 degrees and humid right now but we’re gonna go and brave it we’re gonna show you around Dubai the outside where nobody can charge us to see because we are affordable travelers let’s go have a look [Music] [Applause] [Music] sorry guys just Fanning myself with all my savings I’m making right now because it’s completely free to be here but it’s also very hot one of the really great things that Dubai has to offer is their shopping but if you’re on a budget shoppings not really for you nonetheless I still recommend that even if you’re on a tight budget check out the mall the mall itself is kind of an attraction it’s extremely beautiful from the fountains the ice skating I should also mention it could be one of the cheaper places to get food one of the ways to actually eat affordably is actually in the Dubai Mall there is a huge array of restaurants you can easily spend a lot or you can get some Canadian food like Tim Hortons and keep costs low so Cathy and I have ordered herself some wraps it was around like $6 US per person so it’s very affordable if you need it to be alright guys so once you go close to got a look at once you come into the Dubai Mall something that’s kind of fun especially if you’ve never tried it before it so this is kind of affordable it’s coming in around 75 80 D which is it exactly that cheap price gating but for being in the Dubai Mall trying to kill time if you’re not sure what to do it’s pretty fun so just inside of the Dubai Mall is a connection into the Burj Khalifa the tallest building the entire world you actually don’t know how much it’s going to cost you until you get through the line there’s no display of the price the people working the front won’t tell you they’re like well it depends on the time of the day so I actually just went to the at the top website where they sell the tickets to go all the way up the Burj and I found that it’s actually 135 to go to floors 124 and floors 125 that’s where I’ve been before and I must recommend it it is very very cool with that being said though there is a more budget alternative that recently opened it’s called the Dubai frame I believe it’s been open for about a year or two and for about 60 AED you should pre booked your tickets if you don’t pre booked your tickets let me show you what happened when we went how cool was that we had to book tickets online we tried to show up and just buy them at the door there 50 ATD per person but again if you haven’t reserved any then you’re not gonna get in so round 2 baby we got this this time let’s go we’re going to the frame you already know we booked tickets the stuff yeah I didn’t know that we’re about to hit up that gold I want the gold all I see is gold you already know that was she showed up at the play are we about to see the gold good posture go up into the gold all right up we go on the frame willy wonka glass elevator stop more of the story pay the ten AED extra and pre book your tickets if you’re gonna go to the frame I should also mention that at the end of the exhibit there is this incredible 270 degree screen that gives you this like future of Dubai tour and it’s like one of the most engaging videos I’ve ever watched I’ve never seen anything like it now even though this video is about affordable travel traveling is exceptionally expensive and I’m so grateful that today’s video is actually sponsored by a company that not only made this video possible but also by a company that made this video better now you may have noticed a few unique shots here in this video namely the metro system time-lapse and the one in the spice souk now these were actually not shot by me they were shot by shooters who I will probably never meet but the incredible thing was their footage was made accessible to me by video blocks and what video blocks is is it’s a giant database of incredibly beautiful footage from all around the world of all sorts of different subjects you just type into the search part what you’re looking for from there you can download your royalty-free footage in HD or even in 4k and the best thing of it all is you can continue to commercialize your videos despite using someone else’s footage that right there is mind-blowing to me as a videographer as a youtuber it’s such a game changer and I couldn’t be more stoked they are making my life so much better so a huge thank you to video blocks hopefully they’ll sponsor another video as you can probably tell I’ve actually left Dubai but there’s a website I want to share with you because I really think it could actually save you potentially hundreds of dollars if you’re spending a little while in Dubai if you want to shop the website it’s called Groupon dot A II and they literally have everything from restaurants activities and hotels I wanted to show you a few activities that I found while going through the website for ten minutes one of my favorite activities that I’ve done in Dubai is the one right here [Music] now that activity was done with a company by the name of platinum heritage and they’re definitely not on the lower end of the budget in fact they’re on the higher end but I really love my time the great thing is though if you’re on a tight budget I’ve literally found one here for the equivalent of twenty US dollars that they will take you out to the desert they’ll feed you they’ll take you through the dunes in a buggy they’ll give you the full camel experience belly dancers and the cool thing is the ratings are basically four out of five stars a lot of people here saying good value for money but we were very packed in the small minivan so I guess again whatever you pay for that’s typically what you get back in value carrying on you can rent a super car a Lamborghini Huracan Budokan water cup and that right there is one hundred and fifty two US dollars for an hour that’s really not that bad when you consider it’s a Lamborghini if you want to enjoy the waterfront the Dubai has to offer then right here we’ve got some jet skis and they’ve got pretty good reviews by the looks of it fifty one dollars us you can get a spa treatment here for $58 it includes access to the facilities I found here a four-star hotel that’s very close to the airport not really that close to downtown about a 20-minute drive away 49 US dollars two people get breakfast at a four-star hotel now this is what I like to call balling on a budget for 899 AED or in other words 240 US dollars you can have 16 of your bros chillin on a freegan yacht and this isn’t just any odd like this thing looks beautiful you can rent an ATV forty six dollars in the middle of the desert for an hour pretty lit okay there’s one last thing I want to show you there’s actually an Abu Dhabi tour I did go to Abu Dhabi during my last trip to Dubai and it’s a bit of a hassle to get out there it’s about an hour-and-a-half drive and there’s a company here that will do it for 125 a TD now the best has been saved for last I wanted to share with you for the real explorers the people that want to get lost this is but tourism I have no idea what it’s doing on the website now they only have a two and a half star I guess it’s not for everyone but you’ve got the option not sponsored I wish it was so I went to my local buddy who actually lives in UAE and I said Nabil tell me one affordable activity that you would highly recommend to somebody who’s coming here one of the places that he highly recommended you go and check out is the Etihad Museum for just 25 aad you get access to one of the world’s most state-of-the-art museums it’s this beautiful beautiful building and they share with you the history of UAE and Dubai in particular and if you don’t already know Dubai is one of the fastest growing cities in the entire world in 20 years it absolutely shot out of nowhere if you don’t believe me google it you’ll be blown away and if ever I had to learn the history on a country and a city this would probably be the one I’d want to learn about so well that wraps it up guys I hope you found some great tips to make your trip to Dubai an affordable one and next week I’m posting the polar opposite video the most luxurious of Dubai this is not going to be a budget-friendly itinerary but I’ll show you how point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent of the world lives the billionaire population I had the incredible experience of trying it out for a week and I want to share with you what it was like whether it actually was enjoyable whether it made us happy if you’re new to my channel hit the subscribe button if you want to get notified when that video goes live click that Bell button and you’ll get a little notification from YouTube sometimes they don’t like to send it out so in case they don’t I will see you back here on Saturday and guys as always let’s get lost again in the next one