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.
