WEEKEND GUIDE
Find out what’s happening in the UAE this week.
Beat the heat this summer with a ton of cool water sports and indoor activities guaranteed to make your summer fun and breezy! Kayak, swim and race across Le Meridien Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort and Marina’s Club Mina summer camp. Kids aged six to
12 can become experts on ocean awareness and safety. Camp-goers will also learn to plant trees and master first-aid skills, among a sea of thrilling activities. Kids can swim through five temperature-controlled pools and their private beach till August 26. Kids are required to bring packed lunches daily. Dh750 per child, per week, and Dh160 per child, per day for Club Mina members and hotel guests, and Dh850 per child, per week, and Dh195 per child, per day for non-members. Call 04 318 1315 or email 01895.clubmina@starwoodhotels.com.
The Fairmont Fujairah Beach Resort brings the best of both indoors and outdoors with its Little Sailors Kids Club summer camp. Tots aged three to eight can dabble in arts and crafts, painting or burn off energy with rock climbing or bounding around on Aqua Bounce Fujaira – Fujairah’s first floating waterpark. From Dh575 for one week; four weeks cost Dh500 per child. From 10am-5pm, until September 30. Call 09 204 1011 or email fujairah@fairmont.com.
Kids in RAK don’t have to feel left out at all thanks you the Rixos Bab Al Bahr Ras Al Khaimah’s summer camp. Kids aged six to
10, and teenagers aged 11-16 can explore their creativity with face painting, handicrafts and cooking classes all through July. From 11am5.30pm and Dh150 daily per child. With options of weekly and monthly payments. Call 07 202 0000 or visit babalbahr.rixos.com.
Time to hand your little masterchefs an actual spatula and chef’s hat – Italian restaurant Ricetta is hosting cooking classes for kids. After cooking classes held under the guidance of Chef Prabin the budding chefs can go home with the hard copies of recipes and a certificate validating their new found skills! Every Saturday till August 25. Dh100 per child per class or avail of discounts on booking all eight classes per child. Call 04 397 7444 or email restaurants.burdubai@fourpoints.com.
The Sheraton Abu Dhabi Hotel & Resort’s Superhero Summer Camp is back this year and will kapow boredom until August 30. The programme immerses kids in sports and outdoor activities such as swimming pool games, water sports, squash and tennis lessons, football, Zumba, arts and crafts and an island trip. The superhero camp also acts as mum and dad’s fairy godmother – kids will be served a delicious lunch daily and parents will be gifted a complimentary pool and beach pass on days their child attends camp. From 9am-2pm for kids aged four to 14. Daily rate is Dh180 per child and monthly rate is Dh3,000. Call 02 6970 272 or email sheraton.resort@sheraton.com.
Kids and their imaginations can run free and wild at The Courtyard Playhouse’s storytelling camp called Little Monsters. At the camp, kids will enact five picture books written by award-winning children’s author Julia Donaldson, such as Spinderella and Tabby McTat that will help develop skills of miming and basic stagecraft through role play and theatre games that will give them a taste of what it entails to tread the boards as well as build confidence. Every day for three hours until August 30; Dh1,155 per child. Call 050 781 2269 or email juliana@courtyardplayhouse.com. Visit courtyardplayhouse.com.
Now this summer camp will turn your kids into all-rounders who excel in everything, from Bollywood dancing and pizza making to constructing Legos structures – the Dubai Parks and Resorts’ Summer Camp. Until September 6 kids aged five to 14 will keep busy with an array of activities spread across the four theme parks – they’ll get lessons in Kung Fu and make miniatures of favourite animation characters, such as Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon at Motiongate; cool off with water rides at Legoland Water Park and don the director’s cap or an actor’s greasepaint for a day at Bollywood Parks. From Dh950 per child including transportation and meals and rides at all parks, from 9am-5pm. Visit dubaiparksandresorts.com.