Skyview Bar sits on the 27th floor of the Burj Al Arab — the gold-and-sail signature room of the world's most-photographed hotel. The format has been the same since the hotel opened: a curved, low-ceilinged space with floor-to-ceiling Gulf-facing glass, a champagne-and-cocktail list calibrated to the room, and an afternoon-tea programme that is the city's most-cited.
Love it if you want to do the Burj Al Arab once and want the seat that looks south over Jumeirah toward the Marina skyline. Skip it if you wanted a casual bar — there is a strict dress code, a minimum spend, and the booking horizon for tea runs two to four weeks ahead in peak season.
Skyview Bar draws a steady local crowd in Umm Suqeim. Essential — booked weeks ahead for tea; minimum spend AED 250 evenings
Curved, low-ceilinged room finished in red-and-gold, with floor-to-ceiling glass on the Gulf side. The Conde Nast Traveller 2024 Dubai feature listed it among the city's most iconic single-room bars.
The curved 27th-floor room runs floor-to-ceiling glass on the Gulf side and a curved ceiling finished in gold leaf — the design has not changed since the Burj Al Arab opened in 1999. Conde Nast Traveller's 2024 listing noted it as one of the city's most-photographed single-room bars and the seat to request specifically is the window-side banquette.
Order the Burj Al Arab Signature cocktail (AED 130) or do the full afternoon-tea seating (AED 690 per person, including a glass of champagne). The wine programme is comfortably broader than the cocktail list, and regulars on r/dubai default to a champagne flute and the view rather than the mixology list. Minimum spend AED 250 in the evening.
The champagne list runs Krug, Dom Pérignon, and a rotating rosé selection — the most-ordered evening pour. The cocktail programme is comfortably the more expensive way in: AED 130 for a signature, plus a AED 250 evening minimum spend. The afternoon-tea seating remains the most-recommended Skyview format per Time Out Dubai's 2025 feature.
Hotel guests and event-bookings during the day; the room shifts to an evening cocktail crowd from 6pm. Time Out Dubai's 2025 Burj feature notes that the afternoon-tea seating is the most-recommended way in for non-hotel-guests.
