Visiting
Location
Just 145 Kilometeres away from central Abu Dhabi, Al Ain Convention Centre is situated in the heart of Al Ain, also known as the Garden City.
Visit our What’s On section to find out more about the exciting events and trade shows happening at the Al Ain Convention Centre over the next few months. Our Venue Map will be helpful in guiding you around the centre’s facilities.
Al Ain Convention Centre, located in the heart of Al Ain, is easily accessible no matter what mode of transport you take. Whether you are travelling by plane or by car, we look forward to welcoming you.
International Travel
Organisers, exhibitors and visitors from around the world can fly into the city of Al Ain via the Al Ain International Airport, Abu Dhabi’s second international airport. Located 13.5 kilometeres northwest of the city centre, the airport receives 14 international flights and 4,000 passengers each week.
Tourists can also fly in to Abu Dhabi International Airport, the UAE’s second largest airport, which serves over 102 destinations in 56 countries. Located almost 145 kilometeres away from Al Ain, the Abu Dhabi Airport is the base and hub to Etihad Airways, the UAE’s national flag carrier.
Passengers arriving at the Abu Dhabi Airport can use the Department of Transport’s express bus service for a speedy ride to Al Ain city.
International visitors can also book flights to the UAE’s two other airports, Dubai International Airport and the new Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport.
Public Transportation
Al Ain Convention Centre is easy to reach by car, taxi and bus.
By Taxi & by Bus
Metered taxis are readily available and easy to find in Al Ain. Taxis are available from the airport as well as from all hotels and malls in the city and the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Integrated Transport Centre operate an interactive map that will provide you with all the information you may require about your itinerary whether by Air, Land or Sea, throughout the Abu Dhabi Emirate.
For more information visit www.darb.ae/darbweb/map-viewer.html Or Contact: 800 88888
Car Parking
Al Ain Convention Centre offers their visitors on-site parking facilities with a capacity for 812 vehicles. Parking areas are located on both sides of the building and located next to the main entrance which gives easy access to the venue.
The parking space map:
| Parking Zone | No. of Parking Bays |
|---|---|
| CP 1-3 | 556 |
| CP 4 | 60 |
| CP 5 | 74 |
| CP 6 | 57 |
| VIP | 16 |
| CP 9 | 49 |
| Total | 812 |
Bank & ATMs
A number of banks are located in the vicinity of the Al Ain Convention Centre, including the Dubai Islamic Bank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and Emirates NBD.
ATM’s are also accessible in the nearby Al Jimi Mall as well as located throughout the convention centre.
Hotels
Hotels at Al Ain
Al Ain Rotana
Radisson Blu Hotel & Resort
Danat Al Ain Resort
Aloft Al Ain
Hotels Around Al Ain
Asfar Resort
Ayla Hotel
Mercure Grand Jebel Hafeet
Onsite Dining
A choice of casual dining option are available at AACC and our central location means that a number of excellent choices are only a short distance away.
La Brioche Café
Al Jimi Mall
Ayla Hotel
Zest
Trader Vic's
Min Zaman
Toilets
Restrooms for men and women are located at various points throughout the centre, and include a wheelchair-accessible toilet.
View the convention centre venue map to locate the nearest restrooms.
Around the City
EXPLORE THE OASIS CITY
Al Jahili Fort
Since opening its gates in 2008, Al Jahili Fort has been a focal point of activities
associated with the philosophy, culture and heritage of Abu Dhabi.
Al Jahili is one of the largest forts in the UAE, built in the 1890s on the orders of Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, also known as Zayed the First, as the home to members of the ruling Al Nahyan family.
Eco-Centre
Situated at the lush Al Ain Oasis in Abu Dhabi’s garden city of Al Ain, the Eco-Centre
is a wonderful place to learn more about the history of the emirate.
Al Ain Oasis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting a still-operational traditional falaj (ancient irrigation system) and meandering pathways shaded beneath a thick canopy of 147,000 date palms and other fruit trees. It’s the perfect place to bring family or friends and see what agriculture in this region has looked like for millennia.
The Eco-Centre takes this experience to the next level, offering a truly immersive and curated experience, with interactive installations telling you all about the oases in the area, and educational games explaining their creation.
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium
The home of Al Ain FC, this 25,000-seat stadium is one of Al Ain's tallest
buildings and a recognisable landmark. The outer facade is inspired by the trunk of the palm, a tree that has played
an integral role in the UAE's heritage and culture.
This stadium is part of a wider development that includes residential, commercial and entertainment areas, as well as a luxury hotel and sports facilities.
Heritage Theme Park:
Situated at the expansive Al Ain Sportplex in Al Ain, Al Ain Heritage and
Culture Village is a destination in its own right.
Bringing the richness of Emirati culture and diversity together in one place, this family-friendly heritage-style theme park invites you to journey into the past and experience traditional UAE life. The village includes a traditional café, a popular souk (market), and two theatres where you can enjoy art shows, poetry and concerts.
Jebel Hafit
For incredible sunrise and sunset photos, as well as majestic views of Abu Dhabi’s lush garden city of
Al Ain, head to the top of Jebel Hafit mountain. Rising to a height of 1,249 metres, this skyline-dominating peak is Abu Dhabi’s highest, and the UAE’s second tallest. Reach the summit of this rocky mountain by car, motorbike or, if you have the stamina, bicycle.
Jebel Hafit Desert Park
Pack a sense of adventure and get ready to immerse yourself in the rich history and incredible landscapes at the one-of-a-kind Jebel Hafit Desert Park in Al Ain.
Occupying a nine-kilometre stretch at the base of the craggy Jebel Hafit mountain, Abu Dhabi’s tallest peak, visitors can explore the family-friendly park’s majestic natural surroundings on a hike, mountain bike, horse or camel and discover fascinating archaeological and historical remains that tell enchanting stories of this unique area’s ancient habitation.
Wadi Adventure
A fantastic family-friendly adventure park that sits at the base of the majestic and history-rich Jebel Hafit mountain. Home to the Middle East’s first man-made white water rafting channels, measuring 1,100 metres in length and perfect for rafting and kayaking, Wadi Adventure also has a surfing wall, wakeboarding facilities, swimming pool and splash pool. Action fans will love the park’s exhilarating aerial adventure course that includes an 18-obstacle, two-level airpark, 1,200-metre long zip line, vertical climb line and 14-metre high giant swing.
Miniature Oasis
The Miniature Oasis is a small-scale reconstruction showing the elements, water distribution and architecture of the Al Ain Oasis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Al Ain. In this compact example, small depressions in the ground represent cultivated gardens.
Featuring scale models of the existing historic buildings and the falaj (ancient traditional irrigation) network that carries water to the gardens, this replica is a great way to understand how exactly the oasis has worked for 4,000 years. The roads built on top of the earth embankments, the exploitation of gravity to water the gardens, and the use of clay from the farms to make mud bricks to build houses and structures, all visually explain why the garden level is lower than the road level.
Oasiscape
Situated at the Al Ain Oasis in Abu Dhabi’s garden city of Al Ain is the complete visit route that will help you understand the incredible history, meaning, and intricate systems located within this fascinating oasis environment that’s been in use for over 4,000 years.
During this tour of Al Ain Oasis, you will see that an oasis is not just a palm grove, but an entire desert ecosystem. It incorporates pioneering architecture, shared knowledge, mutual social cooperation and ancient, traditional practices that continue to be fundamental to life in the desert.
Oasis Garden
The Oasis Garden is situated in the Al Ain Oasis, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Al Ain. This lush space consists of three separate sub-gardens that represent the oasis ecosystem’s three different levels.
Pre-Oasis Garden: This tier, or layer, represents an oasis at the time of its creation, with crops from arid areas and small palm trees providing shade while they grow. Sacred plants and desert flora with therapeutic uses, such as henna, indigo and aloe, are cultivated in small agricultural plots. Grain is grown for food, as well as bristle grass, a type of grass that helps to stop dunes from advancing. These plants do not require a lot of water and form, together with vegetables, the first tier of oasis agriculture.
Orchard Garden: This second tier of oasis cultivation consists of trees growing figs, pomegranates, lemons, bananas and olives. From the Mediterranean to Africa and China, civilisations have developed through the cultivation of these trees, all of which are grown in the Al Ain Oasis.
Symbolic Garden: On the third plantation tier, tall plant foliage combats the sun’s heat by creating shade, allowing all the other plants to grow in the desert. In hotter oases, the palm tree plays a major role in providing shade. In the Al Ain Oasis, the palm tree is the predominant plant and so, in this symbolic garden, it has been replaced with other plants.
Qasr Al Muwaiji
For more than 100 years, this incredible historic fort in the lush garden city of Al Ain, has played a major role in the history of the United Arab Emirates. Today, it offers visitors an opportunity to understand the country's story. Situated at the western approach to Al Ain city, Qasr Al Muwaiji's picturesque structure is a fine example of early 20th-century mud-brick architecture and a great place to take stunning photographs. The building is a simple but striking form: a square enclosure with projecting corner towers and a grand entrance gate.
Hili Fun City
This flagship family entertainment destination has been a firm favorites since opening in 1985 when it became the Arabian Gulf region’s first theme park.
The modernised and renovated park boasts 28 attractions for all ages, a family show amphitheatre and picnic and play areas. It’s also has ice rink.
Hili Archaeological Park
History buffs will be in their element here, which combining both a public garden and an impressive archaeological site, this is a popular place for international visitors and residents. Hili Archaeological Park was developed to highlight the ancient monuments of Al Ain and make them easily accessible to visitors. The site not only provides the earliest known evidence of an agricultural village in the United Arab Emirates but also contains other Bronze Age and Iron Age villages, burial grounds, forts and agricultural infrastructure. The early agricultural village is located at Hili Site 8 and dates to 3000BCE. Artefacts from these sites can be seen in Al Ain National Museum.
Al Jimi Oasis
This oasis combines a lush palm oasis with indigenous trees, traditional falaj irrigation system and 300-year- old buildings, promising to take you back in time and offer some incredible photo opportunities. The oasis sits in an agricultural area with a thick cover of palm trees and is also home to mosques and heavily fortified houses that speak to the agricultural and administrative importance of the oasis from the early 1700s onwards.
There are more than a dozen restored buildings in the oasis, including forts and watchtowers that were built in part to protect the falaj, which primarily uses below-ground canals to bring water from distant aquifers to the oasis’s palm plantations, fields and gardens. The oasis sits in a sunken basin that is divided into a series of palm gardens. In addition to palm trees, fruit trees grow under the palm canopy, with native trees like sidr and ghaf cultivated for medicinal properties. In the past, fields around the outer edge of the oasis were used for winter cereal crops, and beyond that was a zone for animals to forage.
Al Ain Zoo
Families should head to Al Ain Zoo, home to over 4,000 animals, and enjoy up-close giraffe feeding, camel riding and the inviting Elezba petting zoo. This spacious and well-kept zoo is the region's largest and most acclaimed, with transparent enclosures home to indigenous and exotic species including Arabian oryx, the big-horned Barbary sheep, rhinos, hippos, tigers, lions and more.
Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Centre
The Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Centre (SZDLC), housed in the Al Ain Zoo in a beautiful building boasting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, is a fantastic place to learn more about the UAE’s natural environment. Situated in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi’s garden city about one and a half hours away from the capital by car, you’ll find five interactive galleries here. Showcasing the country’s rich history and future-forward ideas, the galleries include the Sheikh Zayed Tribute Hall, Abu Dhabi's Desert Over Time, Abu Dhabi's Living World, People of the Desert and Looking to the Future.
Al Qattara Oasis
Situated in Abu Dhabi’s green garden city and heritage heartland of Al Ain, this beautiful oasis boasts hectares of palm and fruit trees, a 4,000-year-old tomb, historic mosques, fortified houses and a market, making it a patchwork of history and heritage and a wonderful place to take photographs.
The oasis has been cultivated and farmed for three centuries, but there are signs of earlier human habitation, with a 14-metre-long tomb containing a trove of 4,000-year-old artefacts. The tomb is located on the eastern edge of the oasis and its excavation has uncovered jewellery, including golden pendants, a large cache of weapons, stone vessels and pottery. The site has been dated to the Wadi Suq Period (2000 CE to 1500 CE) and represents a significant stage in the development of Al Ain’s culture.
Source: https://visitabudhabi.ae