DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ” When this city’s furnace-like summer gets too hot to bear, folks will cool off at a local resort with tumbling snowflakes, skiing and snowboarding on five trails, and, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Visitors to Dubai have a new way to keep cool during the scorching Mideast summer. The company behind the city's indoor ski slope plans to let guests stay overnight in ...

Following the Thanksgiving Day tradition of getting at least a few runs on opening day, I felt the old excitement return as the quad chair scooped us up for the ride to the top and the start of ...

When you think of festive cities, Dubai doesn't spring to mind. The dominant religion in the glitzy Middle Eastern emirate is Islam which doesn't celebrate Christmas and snow doesn't fall in its ...

A writers' take on her first day back on skis—after a ten-year hiatus, and in the middle of the Arab desert. I haven’t skied in ten years, but it doesn’t matter if I make a fool of myself, because no ...

Ski Dubai always has the big man to visit and there are usually Christmas shenanigans complete with faux snow, mulled grape and carol singers to get you into the spirit. From hotel lobbies to malls ...