Ready, set, go! Dangling your legs, on the chairlift, not in the water! Three soccer fields or 400 metres in hight later the degrees below zero do not really bother despite the felt air temperature of 40 degrees outside. That's reality all over the year – in the 22,500-square-metre large indoor ski slope in Dubai.

The real snow somehow seems to be different here, because only a few metres further the sun beats down from the sky. But the 1,500 ski and snowboard fans don't care and forget about it on five slopes for different difficulty levels or in the 3,000-square-metre large snow park.

Speaking of forgetting: forgot your skis or snowboard pants? No problem: they are included in the two-hour ski pass for 180 AED (that's 34 euros) for adults from 13 years on and 150 AED for children. The day pass costs 300 and 275 AED, respectively. In this sense: Good skiing!