Dubai Miracle Garden: A Guide to visiting

When researching things to do in Dubai, I found the Miracle Garden – the largest flower display on planet earth – and knew I had to see what it was all about. I think it’s funny that you can find this in a city in the middle of the desert, and can only imagine the water bill! That said, it makes a wonderful tourist attraction, and we spent 2 hours exploring everything at the site. Here’s what you need to know!

What is Dubai Miracle Garden?

Dubai Miracle Garden was launched in 2015, and is the world’s largest flower garden – home to some 50 million flowers. Spread out over 72,000sqm, it exhibits lots of floral themed displays such as castles, houses, and even an airplane.

The flowers are maintained by re-use of treated wastewater via irrigation. The garden needs a staggering 757,082 litres of water per day! It’s yet another example of the incredible lengths Dubai goes to to create special experiences, and it really does have to be seen to be believed.

The garden also has a licensing deal with Disney to use images, characters and themes from Disney’s collection of films – making for some very interesting displays!

How to get to Dubai Miracle Garden

Dubai Miracle Garden is outside of the centre of Dubai, on the edge near the desert.

• Taxi – By far the easiest way to get to the gardens, take a taxi from your hotel and head straight to the gardens. There is a large car park on site where taxis can pull in to drop you off at the entrance. A taxi takes around 40 minutes from downtown Dubai (the Mall area), and cost around £15-20 on Uber.
• Public Transport – For a cheaper option, you can take the metro and a bus. Take the Dubai Metro red line and stop at the MOE (Mall of the Emirates metro station). Then hop on a Bus from MOE to Dubai Miracle Garden on route 105.

Important information about Dubai Miracle Garden

• The garden is only open during winter, normally from around September to April, so please check the website before visiting
• The entry cost for the garden is 95 AED (c£20) for adults, and 80 AED (c.£17) for children
• The garden opens from 9am – 9pm Monday through Friday, and from 9am – 11pm at the weekends
• You cannot use professional cameras or drones on site, and anything that looks like any kind of professional shoot will be shut down immediately as you have to pay extra for that
• You absolutely can’t pick the flowers, and you’re not allowed to take in any food or drink either.
• There are a lot of shops on the site, and sellers can be quite pushy. A firm ‘no’ worked fine for us, but we saw other tourists waiver and end up buying balloons, head garlands and food they definitely didn’t need.

What to see at Dubai Miracle Garden

The garden is big with lots to see. We decided to try and be methodical and walk round clockwise but still managed to be pretty inefficient.

Some of the most famous areas include the Airplane, which is a full size Boeing airplane decorated in flowers! Interestingly this holds the Guinness world record for the largest vertical flower display so even more reason to see it.

Another display not to be missed is the Smurf Village, full of giant Smurfs, lots of Smurf houses and even Gargamel leaping out of a bush!

The Disney Princess Castle is also pretty cool, and there are daily shows on the stage in front of it as well. Right in front of it are also a pair of elephants which are quite fun.

We also enjoyed the Windmill display, giant Unicorns, the giant Flower Clock and the Heart Arches everywhere.

What an experience! It could definitely only be Dubai and whilst I’m glad to have been, it was a bit of an overload of my senses. I was also glad to leave the chaos behind and retreat to the calm of the hotel pool!