Dubai International Airport With Children

Dubai Airports publishes a page headed “Who should not use the Smart Gates?” The second item on the list is “Families with children.”

A different page on the same website says families with children “are ineligible to use the Smart Gates”. And the General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs, the government body Dubai Airports tells travelers to consult about Smart Gate eligibility, publishes a one-line answer to who may use them that mentions neither families nor age: “Registered passengers with height of 1.2 meters and above.”

Two publishers, four pages, three different rules, on the one thing at Dubai that decides whether your family walks through a gate in seconds or joins a queue at a counter. This page sets all of them out and does not pretend to know which one the officer in front of you is applying.

It also sets out what DXB actually publishes for a family, terminal by terminal, which is less than you would expect and concentrated almost entirely in one of the three.

Which terminal you are in, and why it decides everything

It is easy to treat DXB as one place, and the operator’s own site invites it, because the site is organized by category rather than by terminal. The terminal is a tag on each listing, and for a family that tag is the whole article.

Dubai Airports lists its facilities by category, with a terminal tag on each entry. Here is where the family-relevant ones sit, as the operator tags them.

What the operator publishes	Terminal, as tagged	Where in the terminal
Baby care rooms	Terminal 3	“Terminal 3 – Departures”
DXB Family Zone	Terminal 3	“B Gates – Departures”
Game Space gaming lounge	Terminal 3	“B Gates – Departures”, “Open 24/7”
Free showers	Terminal 3	The operator gives two different answers: “Gates A and B” in its questions and answers, “between gates B13 and B19” on the facility entry
Unaccompanied minors lounge	Terminal 1	“D Gates – Departures”, “24/7”
Metro connection	Terminals 1 and 3	Terminal 2 is not named on the operator’s Metro page

Read what is not in that table. The operator names no baby care room, no play area and no Metro connection for Terminal 2. It names no baby care room and no play area for Terminal 1.

That is a statement about what Dubai Airports publishes, not about what exists. A facility can exist and go unpublished, and a terminal can be refurbished without the website catching up.

Before you lean on that silence, here is how much it is worth. The operator keeps two kinds of document. The consumer site carries facility entries with a terminal tag on each. The media center carries a fact file for each terminal. Test the fact files against a terminal where the answer is known: Terminal 3 has baby care rooms, the DXB Family Zone and Game Space on the consumer site, and the Terminal 3 fact file, which lists that terminal’s facilities in detail, names none of the three. So a fact file that says nothing about family facilities is saying nothing about family facilities anywhere, and the silence of the Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 fact files proves less than it looks like it proves.

What does carry weight is the consumer site, because that is where the operator does publish family facilities, with a terminal tag on every one. Every such tag reads Terminal 3. This page’s reading of that, stated as a reading rather than a finding, is that the operator has no family facility to publish for the other two terminals. It has not said so, and it has not said the opposite. But if you are planning a five-hour wait around a play area you read about, and your flight leaves from Terminal 2, you are planning around something the airport has never said is there.

One more thing the table does not say out loud. The operator tags its family facilities to gate areas: “B Gates – Departures” for both of the ones it labels Family. Gates sit past passport control and past security. On this page’s reading, and the operator does not state it, that puts the Family Zone and Game Space on the far side of both checks. The baby care rooms entry is tagged only “Terminal 3 – Departures” with no gate named, so this page draws no conclusion about where those sit. It matters because of what the operator recommends elsewhere: arrive at least three hours before departure, and the early part of that wait is spent on the public side of the airport, where the two facilities it labels Family are not reachable.

If Dubai is a connection rather than a destination, the terminal question comes with a second one attached, and whether an Indian passport lets a family leave the airport between flights has an answer most people are surprised by.

Find out your terminal before you plan anything else. It is on the booking, and the answer changes what the waiting hours look like for an infant or toddler who cannot be told to wait.

Passport control with children, where four pages give three answers

This is the section this page exists for, because it is the one thing at DXB that will happen to your family whether you have planned for it or not.

What each source says

Dubai Airports publishes a page about the Smart Gates, the contactless passport control lanes. Its body carries five headings. Two of them decide this article. The first is “Who can use the Smart Gates?” The second is:

“Who should not use the Smart Gates?”

Three items sit under it, and they are declarative sentences with no modal verb of their own:

“People of Determination and guests with large strollers.”

“Families with children.”

“Guests who are under 15 years old or under 1.2 meters in height.”

Note the heading’s verb. It is “should not”, not “cannot”. That distinction matters, and this page has been careful with it because it is easy to get wrong.

Note also where that page says the gates are. Its opening paragraph reads “Guests arriving and departing at DXB Terminal 3 can go through passport control in a matter of seconds using the enhanced Smart Gates, featuring a new contactless process.” Read literally, the whole exclusion list is a Terminal 3 rule. The operator’s own terminal fact files say otherwise: Terminal 1 is credited with “20 smart gates” in arrivals, and Terminal 2 with “8 Smart Gates” in departures and “10 Smart Gates” in arrivals. So the gates exist in all three terminals by the operator’s own count, while the page that sets out the rules for using them describes only one. The operator’s passport control page, which carries the second version of the exclusions, attaches no terminal to them at all and places the gates more widely still: “an advanced passport control system available at DXB and DWC”. Whether the exclusions travel with the gates is not addressed on any page retrieved for this article.

Now the second source, which is the same operator on a different page. Its passport control and visas page states:

“People of Determination (individuals with disabilities or impairments) and guests with large strollers, families with children and guests under 1.2 meters in height are ineligible to use the Smart Gates.”

Three things have changed from the first page. “Should not” has become “ineligible”, which is much stronger. The age-15 criterion has disappeared entirely. And “People of Determination” has acquired a gloss, “(individuals with disabilities or impairments)”, that the Smart Gates page does not carry.

And the third source, which carries the most weight, because it is the regulator rather than the airport operator. Dubai Airports’ own Smart Gates page sends readers to GDRFA to check their eligibility, and its facilities page describes the dedicated counters for People of Determination as “counters operated by the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA)”, which is the same acronym spelled out a second way on the same website. GDRFA’s Smart Gate inquiry service answers the question this way:

“Who can use Smart Gates?”
“Registered passengers with height of 1.2 meters and above.”

Height only. No age. No mention of families. GDRFA’s separate page listing who may use the Smart Gates names four categories of traveler and contains no age limit, no height limit, no exclusion of children and no exclusion of families.

Four pages, two publishers. The two GDRFA rows are one source speaking twice, and they do not conflict with each other.

Page	Age rule	Height rule	Families mentioned
Dubai Airports, Smart Gates page	Under 15 “should not”	Under 1.2 m “should not”	Yes, “should not”
Dubai Airports, passport control and visas page	None	Under 1.2 m “ineligible”	Yes, “ineligible”
GDRFA, who can use the Smart Gates	None	None	No
GDRFA, Smart Gate inquiry	None	1.2 m and above may use	No

What to Actually Do

Start with the word the regulator put first, because for most readers of this page it settles the question before the conflict does. GDRFA’s answer begins “Registered passengers”. Both publishers describe the gates as something you have to be registered for, and both describe registration as something that happens when you cross a Dubai passport control desk. Dubai Airports puts it this way: “You need to be registered to use the Smart Gates. All guests who have recently arrived at DXB are likely to have been registered when they entered the immigration touchpoint.” Its passport control page says the same thing from the other end: “First-time Smart Gates users are registered upon arrival at DXB or DWC.”

Read that against your own trip, and note that it cuts differently on the two ends of it. Landing at Dubai for the first time, nobody has registered you yet, because registration is described as something that happens at the desk you are walking towards. The exclusion lists do not come into it and you are going to a counter. Flying home a week later, the operator says you are likely to have been registered on the way in, which is precisely when the three published rules start to decide your morning. Note the hedge, which this page keeps rather than firms: “are likely to have been”, not “have been”.

Expect a staffed counter and be pleased if you get anything faster. Two of the four pages name families with children as people who should not or may not use the gates, and the queue at a counter with a family is a normal outcome, not a problem or a slight.

If you have a 13-year-old who is taller than 1.2 meters, you have run into the gap. One page says under 15 should not. One page has no age criterion. The regulator’s own line is height only. This page cannot tell you which applies, and any page that gives you a confident single answer is picking one source and hiding the other two.

Do not argue at the gate. Nothing retrieved for this page establishes which of these published rules an officer is working from, and none of the four pages carries a date that could be read, so none of them can be shown to be the current one.

One more thing worth knowing before you arrive. Dubai Airports’ own list of who may use the gates names “Visa-on-Arrival guests with biometric passports”, while GDRFA’s list names “Pre issued visas Holders” as a separate category the operator omits. Most Indian families hold a pre-issued visa rather than a visa on arrival, so the two lists point in different directions for exactly the readers of this page. Which entry permission an Indian passport actually needs is settled long before you reach the gate, and it is worth settling properly.

Two pages on this site touch the Smart Gates and they do different jobs. Each stage of UAE immigration on arrival walks the hall lane by lane, from the aircraft door to baggage, for any traveller. This page is the one that sets the published rules against each other and works out what they mean when the passengers are children. If you want the sequence, read that one. If you want to know which queue your family is going to end up in, you are on the right page.

Changing and feeding a baby

Dubai Airports publishes one entry on this, and it is short.

“Travelling with your baby? Our dedicated baby care rooms will help you attend to them in privacy. Just ask our Guest Experience Ambassadors to find one closest to you.”

The entry is tagged Terminal 3, Departures.

The last sentence is the operator’s whole answer on how to find one. It is to ask a member of staff. No count is published. No opening hours are published. No gate-level location appears on the entry, and the operator’s terminal map is a live application rather than a page, so it could not be checked for this article either way.

Neither Terminal 1 nor Terminal 2 is named on that entry, and neither terminal’s own fact file mentions a baby changing or nursing facility. This page will not tell you there are none. It will tell you the airport has not published any, which is a different and more useful statement, and which means the practical instruction in Terminals 1 and 2 is the same as in Terminal 3: find a Guest Experience Ambassador and ask.

Whether a baby care room includes somewhere to feed rather than only somewhere to change is also not published. The operator’s phrase is “attend to them in privacy” and it goes no further.

On what you can carry through, the operator is more helpful. Its security page states that liquids in hand baggage are limited, that “The container should not exceed 100 ml”, and then that “Exemptions apply for medication, baby milk/foods, and special dietary requirements for use during the trip.” Its own question and answer section puts it more plainly:

“Yes, you can bring as much baby food as your baby might need during your flight.”

Two limits sit in what the operator publishes. The exemption on the security page is framed around what the child needs on the journey, not around stocking up. And both sentences are Dubai Airports’, one on its security page and one in its questions and answers, which makes them rules for the day you leave Dubai. What an Indian airport permits at its own checkpoint is a separate rule with a separate publisher, and this article could not retrieve it.

Somewhere for children to be children

Two facilities retrieved for this article carry the operator’s own “Family” tag, and both sit in the same part of the same terminal.

The DXB Family Zone, Terminal 3, B Gates, Departures:

“Keep the kids entertained with our DXB Family Zone in B-Gates. It’s the perfect place to let the little ones blow off steam before a flight, and there are plenty of benches for the whole family to sit down and relax.”

The entry publishes three fields: category, terminal and area. No opening hours, no age range and no admission cost appear among them, and the description adds none of the three.

Game Space, also Terminal 3, B Gates, Departures, and this one does publish hours:

“Turn wait time into Game Time! Only at DXB, Game Space is the region’s first airport gaming lounge, equipped with leading PlayStation and PC game titles for both solo and multiplayer gaming.”

Its entry says “Open 24/7”. It is tagged both Lounges and Family, and it will suit an older child rather than a toddler.

One facility that sounds like a family facility and is not. The operator lists a lounge for unaccompanied minors in Terminal 1, D Gates, with opening hours printed as “24/7”. Its description begins “Emirates’ lounge for unaccompanied minors”. That is the consumer site’s only tagged entry of its kind. The Terminal 3 fact file, which is a separate document, lists two more in a row headed “Unaccompanied Minors Lounge (5-11 and 12-15 on request)”, which is also where the operator publishes its age bands for the service. That is a lounge for children flying without a parent. If you are traveling with your children, it is not for you, and no operator page suggests otherwise.

Strollers

Here is the finding, and it is an absence rather than a rule.

Dubai Airports publishes no stroller policy. Searched across its site, the word turns up only inside the Smart Gates exclusions, on the two pages that carry them, where it reads “guests with large strollers”. There is no operator statement on whether a stroller may be taken through the terminal, no statement on where a gate-checked stroller is returned, no statement about strollers at the security checkpoint, and no airport loan or hire scheme.

So the rules that govern your pram at DXB are your airline’s, and the airlines do not agree with each other.

Airline	What it publishes
IndiGo	“One stroller or baby pram per infant is allowed without any charge.”
Air India	“We do not allow strollers on the flight.”
Emirates	“Pick up a complimentary stroller in departures and connections in Emirates Terminal 3 and make your way through the airport with ease.”
flydubai	“Yes, you can carry one fully collapsible stroller/pushchair/buggy for free as part of your checked baggage allowance when travelling with a child or an infant on the same booking.”
Air India Express	“Baby strollers/buggies/prams can be used till the boarding gate before they are checked into the aircraft hold.”

Read the Air India sentence carefully, because it is narrower than it looks. It is a statement about the cabin. It is not a statement that a stroller may not be checked or handed over at the aircraft door, and no Air India page retrieved for this article says what happens to a stroller at either point. If you fly Air India with a pram, that is a question for the check-in desk, and it is better asked in Mumbai than discovered in Dubai.

The two low-cost carriers are the only ones here that answer the question every parent actually asks, which is what happens to the pram at the gate. They answer it with different verbs. flydubai writes “You may be allowed to take your stroller/pushchair/buggy with you up to the boarding gate where it will be collected and loaded into the aircraft cargo hold.” Air India Express writes that prams “can be used till the boarding gate before they are checked into the aircraft hold.” One is a permission that might be refused. The other is a flat present tense. If you are choosing between two fares and the pram matters, that difference is published and it is not small.

In the cabin the two carriers part company again, and this time in the other direction. flydubai says fully foldable strollers that meet hand baggage size and weight “may be accepted for carriage on board if there is space”, which is a permission rather than a promise and is the airline’s own modal. Air India Express states on its special guests questions and answers that perambulators are not allowed on board. That sentence is reported here rather than quoted, because the exact printed wording came back two different ways on two retrievals, and a sentence that will not repeat itself is not one to put inside quotation marks.

So the pattern across the two is not that one is simply stricter. At the gate flydubai hedges and Air India Express does not. In the cabin flydubai leaves a conditional door open and Air India Express shuts it.

One exclusion is worth knowing if it applies to you: flydubai publishes that strollers for passengers traveling on a visa change booking will not be accepted as checked baggage. That one is reported rather than quoted too, for the same reason: the clause itself repeated across both retrievals, but the words leading into it did not.

Terminal 2 is where this lands hardest, because the Terminal 2 fact file names flydubai as the airline the terminal is home to, and Terminal 2 is where the operator publishes no family facility at all. This article has not established which terminal Air India Express uses, and no page retrieved for it says.

The flydubai wording has a hole in it where the money should be. The stroller is free “as part of your checked baggage allowance”, which pulls in two directions at once, and no flydubai page retrieved for this article resolves whether the pram is on top of your allowance or inside it. Ask before you pack to the limit.

Air India Express answers the gate and not the price. It publishes “For bookings made for infants, 10 kg of check-in baggage is permitted.” It does not publish whether the pram itself is carried free, so do not assume it is. Its baggage question and answer section, which runs to 31 questions in each of its domestic and international lists, does not mention infants or strollers at all. The infant policy sits in the special guests section instead, which is worth knowing if you go looking and come away thinking nothing is published.

Where the pram comes back is the one thing none of this tells you. flydubai and Air India Express were both asked directly whether a gate-checked stroller is returned at the aircraft door or on the baggage belt, and neither publishes an answer. No Air India page retrieved for this article says either. IndiGo and Emirates were not checked on this particular point, so this page does not speak for them. It is the most practical unanswered question here, and it will not be filled from a source that is guessing.

And read the Emirates sentence for where it applies. The loan is Emirates’, in Emirates’ Terminal 3. It is not an airport facility, the sentence names “departures and connections” and says nothing about arrivals, and it reaches no family checking in at Terminal 1 or Terminal 2. Terminal 2’s own fact file names flydubai as the airline it is home to, and Terminal 1’s says it “serves more than 50 international carriers”.

One definition to check before you book, because it decides who counts as an infant on the way home. Air India Express defines an infant as a passenger below the age of two at the time of departure “for each flight”, which is a per-flight test rather than a per-booking one, so a child who turns two between the outbound and the return is not an infant on the return.

If you are wondering what a pram is worth once you leave the terminal, where a stroller actually works in this city is a separate question with a separate answer.

Getting around the terminal

The operator publishes two sentences about moving between concourses, and they are worth having:

“Guests can access Terminal 1’s D Gates with a short trip on an airport train.”

“In Terminal 3, travellers can walk between B Gates and C Gates and take a short ride on the airport train to A Gates.”

For a family that is two facts. B to C in Terminal 3 is walkable. A Gates is not, and neither is D Gates from Terminal 1.

What the operator does not publish is how far any of it is. Neither its transfers page, its Metro page, its maps landing page nor any terminal fact file carries a walking time or a walking distance, and its transfers page carries no minimum connection time either. Both gaps are listed again, with their scope, at the end of this page. This page will not supply one from another kind of source, and neither should anything else you read.

A word about the buggies, because it is easy to assume they are for you. The operator describes a shuttle service on one page as “A 24/7 shuttle service is available to support, offering priority access and helping Persons with Disabilities (PwD) move easily across terminals and concourses to reach their gates.” On another page it says “Buggy service is subject to availability, and it needs to be booked by the airline or the service provider.” Both framings attach the service to disability. There is no published entitlement to a buggy because a family has small children, and asking for one on that basis is asking for a favor rather than a service. The same answer names a second service without saying who may use it: “We offer a free TaxiDXB service in Terminal 3, Concourses B and C.” That is Terminal 3 only. The operator attaches no conditions to it in that sentence and publishes nothing on whether a family may ask for it, so it is worth asking about and not worth planning around.

One line in the assistance description is worth knowing even though it is not addressed to families. Describing what dnata’s mobility support may include, the operator lists “manual wheelchairs, leg support, infant safety belts and buggy cars”. In the operator’s assistance material, that is the only place an infant-specific item appears in a list of what staff can provide. It sits inside a disability service, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise, but if you are traveling with an infant and have a reason to need assistance, the operator has at least said the item exists. If your group includes a wheelchair user or an elderly parent as well as the children, what a family traveling with a disability can actually arrange at Dubai covers these same services from the side where they are an entitlement rather than a boundary.

The Terminal 1 fact file names a Marhaba lounge, and the Terminal 2 fact file names two, one before security and one in the boarding area. Neither fact file says anything about any of them that concerns children, so a family reading those documents for something to plan an airport day around will not find it there.

If you are landing rather than departing, getting out of the terminal is its own decision, and the fare a family pays leaving the airport by Metro or by taxi is worth settling before you are standing at the exit with luggage and a tired child. Note the terminal point again here: the operator’s Metro page names Terminals 1 and 3, and does not mention Terminal 2.

And check the clock before you count on the train. The same page publishes operating hours as “Monday to Thursday: 5AM – midnight / Friday: 5AM – 1AM (next day) / Saturday: 5AM – midnight / Sunday: 8AM – midnight”, adding that “service hours may extend during public holidays and citywide celebrations”. Read your own arrival time against that before you decide how you are getting to the hotel. A landing after midnight leaves you outside those hours, with one exception: Friday service runs to 1AM, so it is still moving in the first hour of Saturday morning. Sunday is the one day it does not start until eight. None of that changes what a comparison of train and taxi says about the fare. It changes whether the fare is available to you.

The children’s passport counters, and why this page will not promise them

In 2023 GDRFA announced something genuinely charming, and this page is going to tell you about it and then tell you not to count on it.

On 21 April 2023 GDRFA launched a counter in Terminal 3 arrivals where children aged 4 to 12 could stamp their own passports, supervised by trained staff, with a dedicated gate and corridor and two child characters in GDRFA uniforms. On 28 June 2023, ahead of Eid Al Adha, it announced the same counters in the arrivals halls of Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, and said that around 10,423 children had used the Terminal 3 counters during the previous Eid Al Fitr.

Now the limits, and they are real. Both announcements were read once rather than twice, so the detail in the paragraph above is reported at lower confidence than the rest of this page, and the named official quotation from the first one is left out for that reason. Both announcements are from 2023. Neither says whether the counters run year-round or only around Eid. No page retrieved for this article states whether they operate in 2026. The most recent of the two is more than three years old.

So: it exists, it was announced twice, it was popular, and nobody publishes whether it is there this week. If your child would love it, ask at arrivals. Do not promise it to them on the plane.

Four checks that work on any airport, not just this one

This page has done the same four things to every claim in it. They are worth carrying to the next airport, or the next airline, because they are what separates a fact from a sentence that merely sounds like one.

Ask which kind of document carries it. An operator can keep a consumer page, a media fact file and a press release, and they contradict each other more often than anyone admits. Dubai Airports publishes three facilities a family would use in Terminal 3 on its consumer site, and its own Terminal 3 fact file names none of them.

Read the modal verb and do not firm it. “Should not” is not “cannot”. “May be allowed” is not “will be”. “It is recommended” is not “you must”. The gap between the two low-cost carriers on a pram at the gate is one verb wide, and the verb is published.

Check what the claim is scoped to. A rule published under a terminal heading may be a rule for that terminal. A service described for departures may say nothing about arrivals. An exemption published by an airport operator governs the airports it runs, which need not include the one you are flying out of.

Decide what a silence is worth before you lean on it. A source that would have published the thing is worth listening to when it does not. A source that publishes nothing of that kind anywhere is not evidence at all, and the way to tell the difference is to test it against a case where you already know the answer.

What this page cannot tell you, and why

Six things, each with its reason.

No Dubai Airports page used here carries a date. Not the Smart Gates page, not the facilities entries, not the security page, not the terminal fact files. Every fact on this page from that source was read on 16 September 2026 and cannot be shown to have been current before or since. That is unusual to say out loud and it is the honest position.

No walking times or distances at DXB. Not on the transfers page, not on the Metro page, not on the maps page, not in any terminal fact file. The operator’s interactive map runs as an application and could not be read for this article, so it is neither evidence for nor against. If you read a walking time for DXB anywhere, whoever published it did not get it from the airport.

No family lane at immigration. The operator publishes dedicated lanes for people with disabilities, in its own words “special lanes for people with special needs at all checkpoints and counters”. On every page retrieved for this article, neither the operator nor GDRFA publishes a family lane, a family counter or a family queue. The children’s passport counters described above are not one. They are a stamping experience for children aged 4 to 12, not a way for a family to get past a queue, and GDRFA does not present them as one. This page will not invent a family lane where nobody publishes one.

No stroller policy from the airport. Covered above. The gap is the airport’s, not this page’s.

Nothing about security screening for children on the Indian side. India’s Bureau of Civil Aviation Security publishes screening guidance for children within its disability section, and that guidance is scoped to children with disabilities. No general children’s screening page could be retrieved, and its site returned errors on several attempts. Rather than stretch a disability-scoped document to cover a healthy toddler, this page leaves the Indian departure unsourced and says so.

No baby care rooms, play areas or Metro connection for Terminal 2. Not published. Not the same as not there.

Two related subjects sit elsewhere on purpose. What to do if a child is unwell on the trip has its own clinics, pharmacies and insurance answers. And the battery limits that decide what goes in the cabin apply to every device you have packed to keep a child occupied.

Before you fly

Six things worth settling before the airport day starts.

1. Check your terminal. Almost everything the operator publishes for families is in Terminal 3. If you are in Terminal 1 or Terminal 2, plan on less.
2. Leave for the airport on the operator’s own timing. Dubai Airports recommends rather than requires: “It is recommended to arrive at the airport at least three hours before your flight departure to allow enough time for travel procedures.” Do not assume the early part of that wait can be spent in the play area, because on this page’s reading of the operator’s own gate tag, it sits past security.
3. On the way home, pack the baby food you need for the journey and no more. Dubai Airports words its exemption around what the child needs “for use during the trip”. For the outbound leg from India, ask your airline, because this page has no Indian source for it.
4. Expect a staffed counter on the way in. Registration for the fast gates is described as something that happens at Dubai passport control, so on a first arrival nobody has registered you. On the way home it is the exclusion lists that decide, and they do not agree. Two of the four published pages name families with children among those who should not or may not use the fast gates.
5. Ask a Guest Experience Ambassador for the nearest baby care room. That is not a workaround. It is what the operator prints on its own Terminal 3 baby care rooms entry, and since it names no baby care room in Terminal 1 or Terminal 2, it is the only instruction published on finding one anywhere.
6. Ask your airline where the stroller comes back, because the airport publishes no stroller policy at all and the three airlines checked on this point for this article publish no answer to it.

If the airport day is one part of a longer trip you would rather not assemble piece by piece, family holidays to Dubai booked as one arrangement put the flights, the transfer and the hotel under a single booking, which changes who you call when something goes wrong at three in the morning with a tired child.