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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 449 hotels
Best hotels in Dubai
The 10 most notable hotels in Dubai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Holiday Inn Dubai Festival City
Gateway Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 100 of 449
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2
ibis Styles Dubai Airport
Casablanca St - Metro Station - off Airport Road
457 m from GGICO, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 99.78 of 449
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3
Swissôtel Al Ghurair
Omar Bin Al Khattab St
397 m from Salah Al Din, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 99.55 of 449
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4
Fairmont Dubai
Sheikh Zayed Rd
181 m from World Trade Centre, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 99.33 of 449
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5
ibis Deira Creekside Dubai
Mall, Centre - 8Th Street Port Saeed District Opp Deira City Centre
237 m from Deira City Centre, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 99.11 of 449
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6
Al Seef Heritage Hotel Dubai
Dubai Creek - Al Seef St
650 m from Baniyas Square, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 98.88 of 449
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7
Grand Mercure Dubai City
61B Street
395 m from GGICO, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 98.66 of 449
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8
Hilton Garden Inn Dubai Al Muraqabat
- Abu Baker Al Siddique St
630 m from Al Rigga, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 98.44 of 449
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9
ibis Dubai Al Rigga
Al Rigga Rd
329 m from Al Rigga, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 98.21 of 449
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10
ibis Styles Dragon Mart Dubai
E44 On - Ibis Styles Dragon Mart Al Awir Road - Hatta Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.145, percentile 97.99 of 449
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).