Dubai Traditional City Tour With Free Abra Ride

With only limited time to see the sights this tour was perfect. Ali our guide was great, very informative and friendly. Great Tour!

Ali was an awesome guide - very fun tour of highlight locations to get acquainted with a new city + kept us in the AC too phew!

This experience was impersonal and time consuming, The focus was on selling stuff rather than being an informative and educational tour.

Nice city tour exploring Dubai city in style. I liked provided service by Drivers and guide was gentle and helpful. To do a tour by a branded bus such as Gray Line is that I recommend to fellow travelers.

Omara was our guide very knowledgeable speaks several languages. Made tour informative and continuously asked for questions . Didn’t make us feel rushed. The driver was excellent too.

It was an unpleasant and poor experience where the Grayline tour brought us to places (see attached photos) to buy things for their benefits of commission. We are not brought to itineraries as shown on KKday like Basktakiya Area, Al Fahidi fortress. The Grayline WhatsApp also did not provide satisfactory reply to our messages.

Amazing informative trip well organised good tour guide. Very hot in may take a hat and water. Very good value trip

Tour was amazing. I really enjoyed the boat ride! Rizwan was the tour guide and he was great. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone that visits Dubai.

I recommend a tour of the old part of Dubai and thank our guide Ahmed Mohamed for the great service.

It says it in the title. I didn’t mind the rush because it was soooo hot. Rizwan our tour guide was great.

The trip started out well until we were told that we will be visiting a museum. When we arrived at the museum we were ushered into a room and told about hand made mats and were pressured to make a purchase. I did not make a purchase. The trip continued and again we were told that we will be visiting the center of a market. There we were taken into a specific stall and pressured to purchase spices. I feel that this was pre-arranged. There are other good tours so I will not recommend this tour.

I was a little nervous traveling solo but our host Rifky did such a great job explaining what’s next and how long we will be at each place/stop. I recommend Grayline tours if you are touring around the Emirates.

Friendly and knowledgeable tour guide Ricky. Enjoyed the experience. Would recommend tour 😀😀😀 Hope to visit again…..

Really good tour, variety of places to see. The bus audio was clear, and did not get out of sync with the tour. We arrived late due to our flight but were able to meet the tour at the second stop, they were very flexible about this.

Very knowledgeable guide, Living in Dubai over 15 years.. Showed lots of sites in just 4 hours. Not too much and not too little time …just right. Definitly worth every penny!

Tour guide Rifky was very pleasant and knowledgeable. He was very patient and easy to get along with.

Rifky was an excellent guide along with our driver, went beyond and above. Was a beautiful excursion and he was very patient with the group

Excellent , Rizwan was a excellent tour guide very informative, I would invite other people to book with him.

A lot of driving past things which is ok. When we did stop it was to particular businesses to hear a sales pitch, not quite what I expected. The tour guide was very friendly & helpful. The air conditioning on the bus was poor.

Generally, quite well coordinated. But the communication is a little weak. I had to initiate a call and find out the time of pick up. It should be the other way around. They brought us to a couple of their designated merchants-friends so have to visit their recommended merchants, eg Hand crafted rugs and spice shop. These kinds of activities are to help them make commissions and businesses.

Nice experience seeing more of old Dubai. Would love more time at the gold and spice souks. Be prepared to haggle and know the conversion rate. Don’t be like me and pay $100 usd for tea lol.

Excellent tour by grayline. Interesting tour guide, loved the boat ride over to the markets. Great way to see a number of spots in Dubai. Finished at the mall so we’re able to do shopping

Our group was lead by a very intelligent, smart and erudite guide, named Mohamed M. His gestures were very nice and refined. It was a pleasure to actually see this man. What he decided to tell us, was much more interesting than a plug in cell phone type of guide. His store friends had a very nice disposition, and if you decide to buy where he shows spices and such, great quality awaits, he also encourages bartering and tells you how. Mohamed told us about love relationships as well. And much more.

Art museum was selling could not go in mosque boat trip okay bus rubbish and late setting off not long enough at souk

The guide has no patience! gross ;( I had a bad experience because of it. I don't recommend it.He couldn't explain anything and looked very stressed.

Everything was amazing, the driver was super cool and very great. A big thankful to the driver. The beat part was the art Muslim experience

The trip was awesome, driver miraj was kind ,polite and helpful. All sight seeing options were best.

Gray Line Tours have great buses, very clean modern an comfy. They have multi-languae audio guides of the locations and ite was very well organised. For the half day tour, would have liked to seen alittle more of the old town. Nabeel and Mahir out driver and guides very very accomodating and good hosts.

.it was so quick, and I don’t like they drive you to certain business to buy, you can take advantage of the sightseen instead going to a only place to buy.

It was a very interesting tour! The guide was prepared and explained everything carefully! The only problem was the rain, but about this, no one can do nothing!

A worthwhile trip to see the real Dubai away from the tower blocks . A couple of uneccessary stops such as Jumerai beach which was just a building site full of tourists and also a stop to a traditional carpet shop . Apart from that really interesting

Worthwhile for an overview of Dubai, especially if you are pushed for time. Particularly enjoyed the Abra crossing. Unfortunately our experience was spoilt by 3 loud & obnoxious ladies? from the US who did not seem interested in the commentary. When I asked them to tone it down I was accused of being rude. This is no reflection on the tour operator.

Spent over an hour after being picked up from hotel in a bus stop waiting for others to join so the tour could start. Not enough time at museum (we were allocated 30 minutes) to appreciate all the exhibits, visit gift shop. Good boat ride and tour of the gold and spice souks though and recorded information on bus was very informative.

Overall the tour is satisfactory. Our guide Malik is a nice, knowledgeable and considerable guy. He managed the tour professionally, took nice pictures for everyone and gave a joyful memory about Dubai. We were took to the must-go attractions for nice photo shooting. Times was given to several places such as museum, water taxi, hold and herbs market, etc. I recommend this tour as a starter for everyone as a starter to explore Dubai.

Great tour especially the old part of town- the souks (even though we got ripped off). Very informative tour.

Gray Line is reliable, and this was no exception - they were flexible with us when flight delays cause a schedule change, and they delivered what they promised. However, the need to cover a large family of languages caused them to use pre-recorded audio on the city tours, and that's always less enjoyable than a good live guide. They also struggled a bit with time management, leading to our tour ending about an hour later than scheduled.

the visit was interesting but the visit of the museum is actually a time where we are gathered in a room to buy articles made in china ... it was not very pleasant

we only did crossing the water, but that was fun. when you have a safe driver of that boat, what we did not had, he pussed almost people out of an other boat... that the people bother you so much to buy, is bad, and they don´t understand that you are buying then less, because you cannot stop or look, they constant disturb and annoy you.

The overall trip was great. I would have preferred less travel time on the bus getting from one location to another along with a couple of free days to do whatever. However, our tour guide Ayaz Ahmed was one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. He was very knowledgeable of the country's culture and no question was off limits. He was patient and very flexible and always making sure we got the best of Dubai. I recommend him highly! YLS

<p>Was picked up at hotel as described and tour finished at Dubai Mall. Tour itself went to all areas as described for very short stops 10- 20 minutes so I felt very rushed and wished I had more time at some of the stops. Bus was advertised as having wifi but driver stated that there was no wifi Over their data limit or something like that. The price for the half day tour is very reasonable and cheaper that hop on/off bus. Would have liked to spend more time at souks and Dubai museum.</p>

Wonderful experience!! The temples on the banks of the Nile are beautiful and well-preserved. The cruise ship was clean, organized, and the staff were attentive and polite. Our Klaled guide was incredibly attentive! You know a lot about Egyptian history.

It was a great trip, we really liked it, the scenery was beautiful, the places where we also stayed, we could discover this beautiful country with the guide who accompanied us Nabil who welcomed us, who was great throughout the stay, these explanations were complete, he did not hesitate to answer all our questions, he was very pleasant with us, we recommend it for future excursions

With the city tour, we had done 2 days you see Dubai in a relaxed way. You get off and when you've seen it you get back on the next bus. One day the red row and the other day the blue. In the evening I also did the purple row. Really recommended and the price is favorable

Très bon guide avec énormément d'explication, Hamza explique sur plusieurs langues. Connait parfaitement l'histoire de Dubaï Prise en charge à l'heure , cependant le chauffeur est tombé en panne à notre arrivée. Le guide nous a pris en charge pour le remplacement du chauffeur . Merci beaucoup !

The first difficulties were with Booking Referral,we could not indicate our hotel for pickup.There was a small list of hotels. So we Googled the hotels from the list to find one nearby. The tour was entirely in English(Only the audio on the bus in German) The Burj Al Arab could be photographed at a stop at a distance from Jumeirah beach. This was followed by the Jumeirah Mosque. Next,the New Lewan Islamic Art Gallery-a pure sales campaign of wall carpets u homemade perfume,no historical information - lost time. The Dubai Museum was not approached. Finally we continued to Dubai Creek,we crossed it in an abra water taxi.Then we went to a souvenir/spice shop right at the beginning of the Deira Old Souk,it followed the 2 sales promotion of tea, spices.....-waste of time. We interrupted this. Then a few meters through the alleged souk and immediately out again.This had nothing to do with a souk, I know these very well from Morocco. From every side you were touched and harassed, just terrible, my girlfriend got scared. Please do not visit!! Finally, we were dropped off at the Dubai Mall. We would not book the trip again.

Für das Geld würde ich es auf jeden Fall wieder machen. Wir haben sehr viel gesehen. Der Reisebegleiter hat uns viel erzählt. Aber leider nur auf Englisch. Ich glaube, dass es nicht alle verstanden haben. Wir waren auf einer Verkaufsveranstaltung für Teppiche. Waren nichts für uns, außerdem sehr teuer

Abholung etc. hat pünktlich geklappt und der Bus war schön klimatisiert. Insgesamt ist das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis gut, dafür muss man allerdings an einer Teppichverkaufsvorführung teilnehmen, wo scheußliche Produkte zu überteuerten Preisen angeboten werden (wird als „Kunst“ verkauft). Dafür reist man aber insgesamt kostengünstig zu einigen Sehenswürdigkeiten in Dubai, weshalb man diese halbe Stunde investieren kann. Personal insgesamt war nett und freundlich.

We were traveling with dubai-privat.de, Marion accompanied us, Dubai is a fascinating city that brought us very close to Marion.

Na ja, so wie beschrieben ist es nicht. Weder Museumsbesuch noch Besuch in der Moschee. Stattdessen Verkaufszahlen bei einem angeblichen Händler von „wertvollen“ Wandteppichen und krimsgkrams. Alles in allem fanden wir es eher enttäuschend.