TL;DR — Dubai barbershops and men’s salons: five notable options and what to know in 2026
Dubai barbershops and men’s salons range from traditional, haircut-and-shave barbers to modern grooming lounges that add services like facials and nail care. This guide compares five source-verified options and highlights the practical booking details that matter most—especially if you’re coming from Jumeirah, while the Fade & Play Jumeirah shop is currently shown as closed on its official booking page.
Key takeaways:
- Fade & Play’s Jumeirah 2 listing shows “Bookings offline” and “Closed” on Fresha, but the brand’s Al Barsha branch is positioned as a convenient substitute with easy parking, a central location, and late hours.
- Several Dubai men’s grooming venues publish branch-specific pages with exact addresses and hours, which is the fastest way to compare convenience objectively.
- If you want more than a haircut, some brands publicly list add-ons like facials, manicures/pedicures, and massage on their booking pages or service menus.
Dubai keeps growing, and that scale shows up in the variety of grooming options. For example, Dubai’s official statistics report a total population of 3,863,000 at the end of 2024.
Fade & Play: an Al Barsha alternative when the Jumeirah shop is closed
Fade & Play is a Dubai barbershop and salon that publicly lists a broad services mix—haircut-and-beard basics plus specialty styling and grooming add-ons—along with long daily opening hours. On the brand’s own site, “Key Services” include Classic Cut, Skin Fade, Beard Trim, Hot Towel Shave, Hair Colouring, and Kids Cut, and the menu also calls out hair perming (including Body-Wave) and protective styling such as dreadlocks, retwists, and cornrows. The same page lists Business Hours: 9am to 11pm Everyday.
Fade & Play is also unusually explicit about the convenience factors that affect real-life booking. The brand’s website highlights Easy Parking and Central Dubai Locations as reasons to choose them. That matters more than it sounds when you’re trying to fit grooming into a workday, a late evening, or a family errand run.
The Jumeirah status, and why Al Barsha is the practical substitute
Fade & Play’s Jumeirah 2 venue page on Fresha currently displays “Bookings offline,” “This location is not listed on Fresha,” and “Closed.” That is the cleanest public signal available that you should plan around another branch.
Fade & Play’s Al Barsha branch is the nearby alternative that the brand itself emphasizes, and the published details explain why the commute from Jumeirah can stay simple without giving up the service range. On its Al Barsha branch page, Fade & Play lists three convenience points up front: “availability of parking,” “extended hours,” and “multiple award-winning barbers.” The same page describes the location as Al Barsha 1, “just 2 min from the Mall of the Emirates,” and it publishes the branch contact details: Al Barsha 1, 34 Street, Trio Building, Block C, Shop 20, with phone +971 58 526 8783.
Fade & Play’s own booking guidance reinforces the “commutable from Jumeirah” framing with simple route logic: it calls Al Barsha “a central, easy-to-reach spot just off Mall of the Emirates” and notes it is close to major roads such as Sheikh Zayed Road, with arrival options by car or by metro plus a short taxi ride or walk. Put together, those self-published points support the practical takeaway: even though the Jumeirah shop is shown as closed, getting to Al Barsha is designed to be straightforward—late hours plus easy parking and a central corridor location—so you can keep the same general service mix without turning grooming into a half-day project.
Chaps & Co: design-district and mall-based barbering
Chaps & Co is a useful comparison point because it publishes clear, branch-specific pages that spell out what kind of visit you’re getting—standalone shop vs. mall-based chair setup.
Chaps & Co’s Dubai Design District page lists the location as Building 6 (Mezzanine Floor), Street 11, Dubai, and describes the shop as having eight barber stations and three private treatment rooms. The same page lists opening hours of 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Mon–Sun).
For a mall option, the brand’s Bloomingdale’s – Dubai Mall page directs visitors to Bloomingdale’s in The Dubai Mall and lists 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily. It also describes the branch as a five-chair barbershop inside the men’s area of Bloomingdale’s and mentions a private barber room, which is a concrete detail if privacy matters to you.
The Barber House: three Dubai locations with late hours
The Barber House is a multi-branch operator that publishes a consistent daily schedule across locations, which can be helpful if you want the same timing options in different neighborhoods.
The Barber House locations page lists three Dubai branches—Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT), and Azizi Riviera—and publishes working hours of 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Sunday. The same page also lists service categories that go beyond a basic cut, including skin fades, men’s haircuts, beard trimming, hair perms, keratin straightening treatments, and manicures/pedicures. That kind of published category list makes it easier to decide whether you can bundle multiple grooming needs into one appointment.
Goodfellas Vintage Barbershop: a Dubai Marina shop with a wide service menu
Goodfellas Vintage Barbershop publishes strong contact/location details and a surprisingly detailed service menu, but its own site also shows why it is smart to double-check the exact closing time before you head over.
On its service page, Goodfellas lists a broad menu. The “What We Do” section includes haircut types such as Scissor Cut, Skin Fade, Buzz Cut, Line Up, and Kids Cut; beard services including Beard Trim and Traditional Razor Shave; and grooming add-ons like waxing (ear and nose), threading (eyebrow/cheeks), hair coloring, keratin treatments, facials, nails, and massage, each shown with “from” pricing.
Fade & Shave Barbers: boutique-style listings with grooming add-ons
Fade & Shave Barbers is a good example of a men’s grooming brand whose official booking pages clearly describe the “barber plus add-ons” concept.
On Fresha, Fade & Shave Barbers Princess Tower describes itself as a boutique-style barbershop providing bespoke hairdressing and grooming services, and it explicitly lists add-ons including facials, manicure, pedicure, massage, and hair care treatments. The same listing publishes opening times that run late: 10:00–00:00 on weekdays and 09:00–00:00 on weekends. If your schedule is unpredictable, that “open until midnight” window can be the deciding factor.
What to check before you book
What to check before you book starts with the simplest, most reliable public signals: branch status and opening hours on official pages, then the published service categories that match what you actually want done. If a branch is marked “Closed” on an official booking page, treating that as the strongest signal (and pivoting to another listed location) is the most practical approach.
Convenience checks matter just as much as the haircut type. The same January 2026 document points out that, for travel planning—especially from Jumeirah while Fade & Play’s physical Jumeirah shop is currently closed—published details like central location notes, extended hours, and parking availability are the indicators that can make a nearby branch feel like an easy substitute.
A practical way to decide, especially if you’re starting in Jumeirah
A practical way to decide is to filter options in two passes: logistics first, then the service menu.
Pass 1: logistics (the “will I actually go?” filter). If you live in Jumeirah and your usual shop is unavailable, Fade & Play’s situation is a clear case study: the Jumeirah 2 listing shows Bookings offline / Closed, while the Al Barsha branch is explicitly marketed around being reachable—central, near Mall of the Emirates, with parking and extended hours—and it publishes a daily 9am–11pm schedule on the brand’s site.
Pass 2: service fit (the “can they do what I need?” filter). If you want a classic cut and beard trim, every shop listed here covers that. If you want a single appointment that stacks add-ons, the published menus make the differences clear: Fade & Play lists services ranging from skin fades and hot towel shaves to protective styling and manicure/pedicure options, while Fade & Shave explicitly lists grooming add-ons like facials and massage on its booking page.
If you want to keep the process simple while the Jumeirah location remains shown as closed on its booking page, Fade & Play’s site and branch page make it easy to verify the Al Barsha address, hours, and services in one place and then book accordingly.