Georgia at the top of Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world) with her infant son.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Why I went to Dubai<\/strong>
\nMy first taste of Dubai came six years ago, when I flew out for a beautiful beach wedding in the shadow of the billion dollar Burj Al Arab hotel. The happy couple have since moved to the city permanently, and when the invite came to stay with them for a few days, I couldn\u2019t resist. As it meant my husband and I tackling our first long-haul flight with an infant, I figured we\u2019d make a week of it and booked a few nights in the iconic Atlantis the Palm hotel. <\/p>\n

My highlight of the trip<\/strong>
\nA getaway with a kid in tow will challenge even the savviest of travellers, and holidays have been a whole new ball game since my baby son was born. But the Atlantis was a dream for keeping him entertained. I never got bored of watching the sharks and manta rays in the hotel\u2019s enormous floor-to-ceiling tank, so he certainly didn\u2019t. If you\u2019re game, you can scuba dive inside the epic underwater zoo and feed some of the 65,000 marine animals who call it home, but we mostly stuck to gawping at it from the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

What else I love about Dubai<\/strong>
\nThey don\u2019t really \u2018do\u2019 understated in Dubai. Every new building, hotel or tourist attraction has ambitions of being the biggest and flashiest, and often succeeds. The aquarium at the Atlantis is the largest in the Middle East and Africa. The Burj Khalifa skyscraper is the tallest building on the planet. The shopping malls have in-house ski slopes, aquariums and theme parks. The Burj Al Arab Jumeirah is the world\u2019s only seven-star hotel. You get the idea; they don\u2019t do anything by halves here and it\u2019s quite the spectacle. <\/p>\n