Great Tour - Mr. Suleman was an excellent tour guide and was very knowledgeable. He is also a good photographer! This is a great tour for the first day or so in Dubai.

Check before you book - We did this tour (Best of Arabia Package – 2 day ) in 2006 via Emirates and we enjoyed it so much we decided to do it again whilst in Dubai in Nov 2023. Unfortunately, we booked this tour through House of Travel [HOT] in Lower Hutt and the tour was not what was on the itinerary nor what we did in 2006. After complaining to HOT we were informed basically it wasn’t their problem and to complain to Emirates. Emirates could not do anything as the tour was booked through HOT. We had other problems with HOT The half Day Dubai Tour, Marina Royal Dinner Cruise and Desert buffet dinner were brilliant, exactly as I remembered it. However, we completely missed the dune bashing, which we were looking forward to the most. We went somewhere completely different to that of the itinerary. Drove just over 1 hour to a business offering quad bikes rides (Sahara adventure I think it was called) and photographs with a falcon at extra cost. Since this activity was unbeknown to us and the other couple on the tour, neither groups paid the extra money to participate. We had to wait there for approx. half an hour for the driver to attend a prayer session. We then drove some distance to watch men force two camels having sex. This was extremely uncomfortable and added nothing to our experience. This took at least another half an hour of waiting before we went to the traditional dinner at Carvanserai Desert. Obviously, to get there we did drive through the dunes but that was it. After the buffet dinner, we travelled to the EPPCO | 57 | petrol station on Al Ain Dubai Rd for the driver to pump up the car tires. We all stayed in the car and joked with two other German Tourist as we could not understand why it took half an hour for the driver to pump up the tyers. Just make sure before you book