Over the past few years, Dubai has been making every effort to establish itself as a premier tourist destination. With its glittering new buildings, posh hotels, excellent restaurants and exciting nightlife, Dubai attracts tourists who want to live it up while on holiday. Dubai is known for extravagance: extravagant shopping, extravagant hotel rooms, and extravagant projects like the construction of man-made islands in the Persian Gulf. However, last month the bubble burst, as the state-owned Dubai World corporation announced that it needed an additional 6 months to pay its debts. The Dubai crisis has had a positive side effect for travelers, though-extravagance now costs less. For example,  Gadling just reported that the average price for a hotel room in Dubai has plummeted, from $

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