"Surreal" is one way to describe Ski Dubai. Even when the city is enveloped in sizzling triple-digit temperatures, this massive indoor winter wonderland is never without fresh powder. The Middle ...

Ski Dubai will have 6,000 tonnes of real snow, making the snow 50cm deep. The previous key phase in the project, the raising of the final section of the 400-metre ski slope, finished in May.

But skiing is skiing, and sliding down snow, whether in the Alps—or Dubai—doesn’t get old. And for all their strangeness, ...