Indoor skydiving first for Dubai

Mirdif City Centre is set to offer two major new attractions - a well-known French edutainment concept and indoor skydiving, both a first for Dubai - when it launches towards the end of 2009.

Owner Majid Al Futtaim Leisure (MAF) has teamed up with the Parisian Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie to build its first kids edutainment facility outside France, which is called Cite des Enfants (CDE).

The concept was developed by the French museum to offer a good mix of education and entertainment for two- to seven-year-olds with a focus on learning, movement and interaction through play.

The expanded leisure offer at Mirdif City Centre, which like other malls in the portfolio will include a Magic Planet, will also contain the IFly Skydiving Centre, which features two identical flight chambers employing the latest technology to enable visitors to float, spin and fly in three dimensions.

There are no harnesses or wires; instead the body is supported by air moving at 200-kilometres an hour.