Dubai Miracle Garden: A Guide to visiting

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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!


  1. Contents
  2. What is Dubai Miracle Garden?
  3. How to get to Dubai Miracle Garden
  4. Important information about Dubai Miracle Garden
  5. What to see at 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!


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.
Flower heart arches


  • 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.


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.

The flower plane

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.

Looking up to the castle

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

Giant Flower Clock

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!


Thanks so much for reading! What did you think of this crazy whacky place? It was a lot of fun, but I did come away still preferring a traditional botanic garden like in Singapore. Hope you enjoyed the tour – stay safe and happy travelling!

30 responses to “Dubai Miracle Garden: A Guide to visiting”

  1. How gorgeous! Especially Dubai being in the middle of a desert, it’s so resourceful of the nation to source and reuse water to cultivate and maintain the plants. Thanks for sharing your time there, Han 🙂

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    1. Totally agree, it’s such a unique experience and such an incredible display…though a bit OTT, as is the way in Dubai!

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  2. This seems to be very Dubai-ish; over the top and intense. But also so creative and interesting. Good thing they’re recycling water!

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    1. I couldn’t agree more…Dubai is such a crazy place where you in equal part love it and hate it…I’ve never been anywhere like it!

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  3. It wouldn’t be a Dubai garden if it weren’t a little over-the-top! Glad to read they are re-using the water, in this desert country. The plane is pretty cool. Maggie

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    1. Well quite – it’s all a bit crazy but also fun if you embrace it!!

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  4. That is really incredible! I love the creativity that must go into creating such works of art out of flowers. But the water bill for this place must be astronomically high! 🙂

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    1. Totally, it really is so creative and a lot of fun to visit – but also OTT and a bit mad, as is the way in Dubai I think!

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  5. I never would have guessed that the largest flower display in the world would be found in the desert. It sure is gorgeous though.

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    1. Well quite, but Dubai doesn’t like to be undone haha!!

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  6. So vivid and quirky. Looks a must visit in Dubai.

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  7. I certainly didn’t think the world’s largest flower display would be in Dubai! Our displays of wild flowers here in South Africa do not even come close to the “Disney-like” displays of flowers in Dubai. I love the Giant Flower Clock and they are really creative with their flowers … but I think I prefer the more natural gardens and floral displays.

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    1. It’s crazy isn’t it – it was fun, but I agree, I much prefer something more natural. I recently visited the Gothenburg Botanical Garden (post to come soon) and it was by far the best gardens I’ve ever been in. I spent 5 hours in it and had it largely to myself, much better than Dubai’s effort.

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  8. Wow I’d absolutely love this!! I can see how all the colors and displays could get overwhelming.

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    1. Yeah it was a whole lot, but also a lot of fun! As is Dubai 🙂

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  9. Only in Dubai…. certainly different from the desert landscape!!

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    1. Well quite Marie…only in Dubai!! You have to hand it to them for sheer ambition!

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  10. Atrocious water consumption aside, it looks like quite the fun experience. Most days I feel I can barely manage to deadhead all my flowering annuals in my front and back yards. I can’t imagine keeping those flowers in pristine condition!

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    1. Agreed, though at least they use recycled water…still it’s a whole lot isn’t it. I in equal part loved it and was so overwhelmed by it I felt the need to be in my own garden without a giant Disney genie looking at my every move haha!

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  11. I had not heard of this garden when I was in Dubai. It looks like a fun garden – kind of artificial, like everything really in UAE.

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    1. It is definitely fun, but definitely artificial and I found it more to be for tourism than for any real relaxation in a garden, like you get in Botanical gardens for example. As is Dubai I guess!

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  12. I never knew Dubai was home to the largest flower display on Earth. It looks suitably extravagant and OTT, but also fun!

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    1. It’s exactly that, and Dubai is such a unique place to visit – definitely OTT round every corner, but fun if you embrace it.

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  13. My friend just came back from Dubai, and she sent me photos from the Miracle Garden. I couldn’t believe such wonderful gardens even existed! Given that the floral structures are changed every season you could never get bored of it. Thanks for sharing, and have a good day 🙂 Aiva xx

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    1. It’s a crazy place isn’t it, but a lot of fun 🙂 xx

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  14. This is quite amazing and incongruous for a place in the desert. Do they talk about the source of water for all these plants?

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    1. The water is old waste water which is recycled so at least that’s something!

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      1. That is impressive!

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  15. wow so beautiful city. Visit Dubai is still on my dream

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