Treat yo'self: Dubai

Do you ever get that 'I need a break' feeling and end up booking flights to Dubai on a Monday morning? No? Just me then. In exactly a month's time, I'll be boarding a plane to stay with my friend Olivia and escape the start of the British winter for a week.

It's pretty impulsive but flights were cheap, accommodation is free and a girl might as well do some solo travelling, right? I was last there six years for Christmas, visiting my dad when he lived out there. I remember we ate Christmas Eve dinner at Pierchic, a seafood restaurant floating above the sea, I rode Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's favourite stallion in the desert and we had one of those ridiculous all-you-can-eat brunches 24 floors high.

Who's got any tips for this time round?