Dubai holidays, 5 days in Dubai

Old city; new city – Dubai has layers to it, and this tour helps you peel them back one by one, with guided tours of dizzying new attractions, and the old ones that lie beside them, including a trip into the Lahbab Desert for a Bedouin barbecue.
Two half-day tours Dhow cruise Burj Khalifa desert safari and Bedouin barbecue dinner in the Lahbab Desert
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Duration
5 Days
Type
Small group
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Dubai Highlights in 5 days to explore the Gold & Spices Souks, Burj Khalifa. Also try the Emirate food with Desert Safari Adventure with Camel ride. Photo shots at Burj Al Arab, Ain Dubai and more Tour Run Everyday
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Description of Dubai holidays, 5 days in Dubai

With five days in Dubai on this holiday, you can do both the old and new city justice. This trip is designed to show you the best of the city, even on a shorter break.

Start your trip with a half day tour of some Dubai classics – seeing the historic Al Bastakiya area, taking a traditional abra (water taxi) and visiting the famous Gold and Spice Souks. You can round off the day with a five-course dinner on board a traditional dhow as it takes you on an evening cruise. Seeing the city lights glittering across the water will remind you what awaits tomorrow.

Your next tour will be of Dubai’s more modern, world-record-breaking wonders, including Bluewaters Island, home to the world’s largest Ferris wheel, and a trip to the world’s tallest building. A highlight on this trip is the opportunity to climb the Burj Khalifa (using the lift!) to the 125th floor. At nearly half a mile up, you can enjoy the dizzying observation decks – so high that you can see Iran on a clear day.

Your holiday ends with a memorable afternoon and evening in the desert. Just outside Dubai you’ll find the Lahbab Desert – also known as the red sand desert. Here, your desert safari guide will take you dune bashing and you can test out quad bikes or beach buggies.

On your final evening, share in culture from around the Arabian Peninsula – performances of Tanoura dancing by Sufi men, a fire show, and belly dancing provide a fitting end to a trip that goes beyond Dubai’s shimmer.

Price information

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Dubai Highlights in 5 days to explore the Gold & Spices Souks, Burj Khalifa. Also try the Emirate food with Desert Safari Adventure with Camel ride. Photo shots at Burj Al Arab, Ain Dubai and more Tour Run Everyday
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This tour has daily departures most times of the year, please enquire for more information.

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1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Abu Shabi mosque

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Take private tours

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?


Not really

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


This was the start of a 46 day trip. This was a great start.

Read the operator's response here:

Dear valued customer Steve,
Thank you for choosing us to start your long trip; it was great for us, too, to show you the highlights of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We wish you enjoyed the cultural lunch operated in Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Cultural Understanding that promotes Emirati culture, customs, traditions & religious awareness. The masterpiece of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. In UAE, the locals are not working as drivers, tour guides or at hospitality hotels, so you can meet them in public places during the tours; these services are operated by other nationalities who are residents of UAE. Regarding reducing environmental impacts, we are trying to arrange the tours in small groups to clients to avoid using multiple vehicles in a way to reduce carbon emissions
Thank you

Responsible Travel

As the pioneers of responsible tourism, we've screened this (and every) holiday so that you can travel knowing we've worked to maximise the benefits of your holiday to local people and places, and minimise any negative impacts.

Planet

Our tour's accommodations, restaurants, wellbeing spa, fitness center, and outdoor swimming pool offers a comfortable stay and high-level amenities, even providing a natural environment-friendly methodology. As we are located within the Middle East, we encourage all of our travellers to shorten their shower time if possible.

We make sure that latest model well-maintained vehicles are used on tours to reduce emissions pollution. We also try and design some city tours to be done on foot the most amount as possible and reduce the number of driving each day. Exploring surroundings that feel beyond the reach of the fashionable world carries an enormous responsibility. On the included walk you may navigate boulders and crags, running streams, and pass-through traditional Al Bastakia on the way, moving to the Dubai Museum as they're going to know about ancient people's daily lives. While we study local lifestyle, it is important to not disturb it and to not leave the trace behind.

Therefore, we travel in a very small group of a maximum of 15 people. Many of the sites we visit are incredibly important historical and natural wonders, which we encourage our travellers to treat these sites intrinsically, sticking to marked paths, not climbing on ruins, picking wild plants or flowers, and avoiding disturbing the local wildlife the utmost amount as possible.

Our Desert safari trip with a group limit of 6 people in one jeep. Our Desert safari visit with natural Desert Dunes of the nation; therefore, we always inform the passengers to avoid troubling the local wildlife the maximum as possible.

We always suggest our passengers use refillable water bottles, and our leaders will suggest purchasing bigger bottles of water to store in our vehicle or accommodation to reduce the plastic bottle wastage.

We even have paper recycling in our office for all our staff members, so not only can our travelers recycle but in order that our staff can similarly.

People

We always prefer hotels or accommodation owned and managed by locals to support them to join within the travel market.

Tours with lunch are usually served in locally owned and managed restaurants thus supporting the community. This provides valuable employment to the region and keeps the cash you spend within the country which helps to develop the infrastructure of the country.

We have limited guides who are local that we utilize them once their calendar allows. Our guides are well educated about the local tourist attractions, specifically trained and licensed by the regional tourism board.

We provide authentic, real travel photography experiences to our small group tour guests, supporting local projects and charities where we will.

We proudly support many charities in UAE which are the nonprofit foundations for social care within the UAE. we donate 2.5% of the cash from our profit to the charities for People of Determination in every trip you book with us. This initiative helps in bringing happiness to the lives of young children and in creating smiles on their faces.

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