8 real plans for the weekend with the price, the place, how to get there and if you can go alone. Most are free. None are paid placements.
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Outdoor season is open. Checked on 24 Oct 2026; plans change, so tap through and confirm before you go.
Two days of talks, drop-in workshops and food pop-ups built around one long communal table. This year's theme is bread and salt.
Yadawei's beginner hand-building session: a tutor, 400 g of clay and a pinched cup to take home after firing. It's across the road from What The Food.
Off Pace, TINARC, KYN Hybrid, Wolfpack Fitness and Women Who Thrive run Kite Beach together after dark. Glow sticks, music, costumes optional.
Dubai Flea Market opens its outdoor season with a Halloween edition: 100+ second-hand sellers under the trees at Pond Park.
Dubai Fitness Challenge starts on 31 Oct. On Sunday morning the main road closes for bikes: a 4 km family loop or 12 km.
Season 31 is open: 29 pavilions and 250+ places to eat. Go on a weekday, go hungry and skip the paid rides.
Bonci brings Gabriele Bonci's pizza al taglio to Dubai: trays cut with scissors and priced by weight at the counter, on 48-hour dough.
Form Room, the Aussie sandwich-and-coffee spot in Binghatti Jasmine, gives new JVC residents a free espresso-menu drink, then 15% off two more visits.
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Eight plans for Friday to Sunday with every fact you need. The email and the Friday carousel.
Every FridayNew cafés, karak worth the drive, bakeries, the dessert everyone queues for, and whether it's worth the queue.
WeeklyNew openings and cheap good food across the city, with a real price per person, not a brunch package.
WeeklyMarkets, food pop-ups, festivals and one-night things, mostly free or cheap.
When it's onClay, painting, cooking, making things with your hands next to strangers.
Monthly roundupRun clubs, padel, group rides, cheap seats at real games. All levels unless we say otherwise.
WeeklyThe cheap basics we wish someone had told us in week one. Checked 24 Oct 2026; Nol fares from rta.ae.
Metro, tram and buses run on it, and bank cards don't tap at the gates. It costs AED 25 with AED 19 credit; most trips are AED 3, 5 or 7.50 depending on zones.
The wooden abra between Bur Dubai and Deira Old Souq is AED 1 per crossing, cash only. Then walk the souks: looking is free.
Alserkal Avenue in Al Quoz is free to walk in, and it's where What The Food happens this weekend.
Kite Beach and the other public beaches have no entry fee. Go after 4pm when it cools down.
No eating or drinking on the Metro, even water; fines apply. Each train has a women and children section and a Gold Class cabin.
The quickest way to know people here. Most community runs are free, and this Friday five of them run Kite Beach together.
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@offscreen.dxbThe weekend carousel every Friday, plus new openings during the week. Save it, send it to whoever you're going with.
One email a week for Dubai. 8 plans plus the midweek extra. Reply with one place we should know about: we read every reply.
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