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Skyland Tourism - Desert Safari Dubai

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👍 Really enjoyed it. Good driver, excellent food, nice show. But you should be ready that the road till desert take 1,5 hour from Dubai Marina. You have only 15 min driving in desert before you arrive in the camp. Camels is only for 2-3 min, after you have 45 min free time (we spend it to walk on the... People often mention safari, tour, desert, driver, time, experience, Skyland, Dubai, sand, good,


Address

Office 110, Rashid Al Kalbani Building, Port Saeed - Road - Deira - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Website

www.skylandtourism.com

Contact

+971 55 735 5883

Rating on Google Maps

4.10 (222 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Sunday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Monday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Tuesday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Wednesday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Friday: 10 am to 6 pm

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  • 4/5 Yulia K. 5 years ago on Google
    Really enjoyed it. Good driver, excellent food, nice show. But you should be ready that the road till desert take 1,5 hour from Dubai Marina. You have only 15 min driving in desert before you arrive in the camp. Camels is only for 2-3 min, after you have 45 min free time (we spend it to walk on the sand dunes). After you have dinner and show that was just very good, well organized. Thanks!
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 priyarekha s. 4 years ago on Google
    My first international trip..and one of the best experience with Skyland..a well organised team..very nicely took care of 25plus members in our group. Our guide Mr.Shafeek was the bonus we got..he is very well versed about the places and was helpfull to all in our group...really look forward to more trips with Skyland..and will happily recommend to all who love to travell..
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 T.P.C. G. 3 years ago on Google
    In one word...Pathetic. At 4:30 PM, we arrived at the pick-up spot. Till 6 PM, they made us wait after taking the amount from us. That too under the Sun without any shelters. After the Sunset too, our ride did not come. Finally we had to mind our own business. A Friday wasted. One word of advice. Refrain from handing over the ride-fee or any advance bookings with this company until you are seated for the ride. Avoid 'taken for granted' situations.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Shobhit d. 3 years ago on Google
    Very disorganised camp. There is no parking available and people are forced to park on the side of the road. The police fined everyone who had parked. They said that its allowed to park there. The quality of drinks and food was very average. The free shisha was just in a corner and they didn't start that until 7pm. All the people driving and serving were very rude and never gave a straight answer. Ive been to many camps but this was the worst. Pls avoid it.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 L.M. M. 3 years ago on Google
    I’ve been on several desert safari tours in Dubai that were excellent, but this was absolutely horrible. If I had never been on a tour I would still have been shocked by the level of disorganization. I kept expecting someone to usher us someplace for an activity or dinner (standard on other tours), but we all just sat and waited around a stage for 2 hours while nothing happened. The camel part was literally 3 min long. The guy walked us around in one small circle like a child at the circus. It was laughable. There was a lot of garbage (old beds and mattresses, scrap metal) strewn all over the dunes around the compound. There was no sand surfing as indicated. At one point a falcon guy approached us and I asked him to put on a mask (COVID). He refused, put the bird on my friend and then demanded 40 Dhs. It was very disingenuous. Another guy kept approaching us repeatedly about putting a wrap/scarf around our heads. Even after saying no 3-4 times, he kept hounding us that we finally gave in. Then he demanded 50 Dhs. Other tours that I’ve taken there were no aggressive hawkers and in fact falconry shows and tying a scarf around the tourist head for them etc were included. The food served at dinner was not edible (served in plastic containers that looked like they had been prepared days earlier and sat out in the desert for a while). We fed it to the feral cats. At no point on our entire trip were we offered water to drink. Five hours in the desert and no water. The toilets had no water to wash hands in the sink. The dune bashing was fun (15min) and the belly dancer was great (10 min). Overall this was a complete waste of time and money.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Navas H. 3 years ago on Google
    I have earlier experienced desrt safari with other tour operaters which was great but our "SKYLAND TOURISM" is the worst as we reached at 4.30 pm batch of 13 ppl at sharjah location given parked our cars waited for the 4x4 beast to come to take us dune bashing its with big disappointment to say till 6 pl we are waiting waiting , we decided to cancel trip and took our payment back thw whole friday was fried literally... would like to add an employee in blue Tshirt of Skyland tours replied to my question how can 7 ppl sit in your 4x4 vehicle " Chayiye tho dass aadmi bhi bitaa denge aap bolegatho- means we can allow 10 ppl also in the vehicle if you say,isnt that odd this is the attitude of a tour operater where service should be taken care .. please note the 4X4 VEHICLE we saw can accommodate only 1(driver)+6 ... Altogether very unprofessional and not at all suggestable to go with...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Julia G. 2 years ago on Google
    The evening desert safari was an amazing adventure with Skyland Tourism. Dune bushing and buggies were cool, speeds, adrenaline, sliding on a sand, girls screaming 🤣. And the enjoyable sunset in the middle of the desert. All equipment is in a good condition, our guide was very skilled and experienced. Then were camels, sand boarding, delicious food, and a very skilled light and fire show. Very much recommend this tour to couples, friends, and families with kids (kids can skip the buggy).
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Michael D. 6 months ago on Google
    I am writing this review on behalf of 242 people. I am the owner of Mike One Travel and we have been in the travel business for 19 years. We only select the best of the best tour guides around the world. Skyland made my guests very happy. They were always on time, very professional, very friendly, and paid attention to details. From airport pickup receiving travelers on different flights at different times, everything was like clockwork. Mike One Travel is already planning another trip to Dubai August 4-11, 2024 and we will be using Skyland once again. Skyland Tours, you are simple the best. From Mike One Travel staff and all our guests, we thank you. See you August 4-11, 2024. Keep up the good work. Michael and Patricia Mike One Travel
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Lim Rong Y. 1 year ago on Google
    Recommend not to book with this agency. Extremely disappointed with Skyland Tourism Dubai City Tour + At The Top. No guide provided at all except dropping you for quick 5 to 10 mins for photos at every so-called attractions. The whole trip was so rush and poorly executed. They do not expect you to have lunch but directly go to burj khalifa right after the city tour. Although we communicated our desired time for Burj Khalifa, but it was ignored.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 שי �. 1 year ago on Google
    The worst company you can ever get in Dubai. Another typical tourist company in Dubai that offers you poor quality of service for outrageous price. Don't spend your money and your time using this company. This is just a big one scam
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Ahmad Abu T. 7 months ago on Google
    We took the safari trip to the Desert . Desert experience is amazing. But the driver who took us for pickup and drop-off “HAMAD” was very unpolite,unprofessional. Every 10minutes he would stop and makes us wait and then change cars for no reason and in the return road, he took the very far road, instead of taking from Desert to our house which was 20min ride, he decided to drop the other group which live way after our house leading the ride to taking 1 hour and half and when asked he said theres traffic lights in your way which was ridiculous answer. Please hire professional and respectful drivers.

  • 5/5 Nevin H. 8 months ago on Google
    Our guide/driver Habib was great. He was very informative, accommodating and very friendly. He shared the landmark information on the way to safari. Desert safari, shows, food was excellent. It is a must see trip, dune bashing was so much fun.

  • 2/5 Danyal M. 5 months ago on Google
    I've been on similar trips several times in different countries and this is definitely the worst one. Everywhere they try to sell you something. They cheat with buggies and ATVs if you try to negotiate on the spot. It’s better to clearly record everything in correspondence. sandboarding is just a broken and worn-out board that you can use to slide down the nearest hill. Some toilets don't close at all. Camel riding is a joke. I've ridden camels before and it's never been such a small circle of 15 meters. When we went to the show, no one told us what table we would have. We chose the best table from the usual ones, but they kicked us out and put us in the very last row with the worst view. Perhaps if you chose another company your service would be better. The only good thing is enough food. But they will give it to you after they try to sell the corn.

  • 2/5 Jean Y. 4 months ago on Google
    We had just completed our 7D6N tour with Skyland Tourism. Except for a good experience with the fantastic driver cum tour guide Habib in the Safari desert tour, the rest of the itinerary was average only. Our comments are 1. We didn't quite understand what some guides wanted to inform us as their spoken English is not understandable. 2. During the Abu Dhabi tour, we were taken to a restaurant that was too crowded and we had to wait for a long time to get a table. Hence we wasted time and missed going to the Heritage Village. 3. Communication with the operator must be improved. Many occasions we didn't received immediately feedback from the operater. Our msg were not read for few days and that increased before we headed for Dubai. 4. Too many different persons were handling our booking, thus we had to repeat many times our itinerary to different very confused staff.

  • 1/5 Stephan P. 1 year ago on Google
    They need to improve in so many things. Best thing was hotel pick up and drop off The belly dance is not professional they just use any dancer they have because the tourists can't tell the difference between real belly dance and regular ones The food is ok however they say you can go serve how many times you want but they give you 5 minutes to do so.. they take the food away very quickly They say they give free Shushan but they did not give us any. The soft drinks and a lot of things are separate and they will try to sell you everything extra and additional on the cost of the tour Our driver was nice and really good. He helped a lot the other cars stuck in the sand.

  • 1/5 Lucia Eklöf J. 2 years ago on Google
    Very disappointed with this experience. Pick up vehicle was a run-down jeep with poor working airconditioning. The car had more than 500k on the meter. It was 40C and there was no water in the car, ride to safari was one hour! When we arrived we had to wait 20 min in the hot car before change to the newer (2021 model) jeep for the dune bashing. One the dunes, one passanger started feeling a bit dizzy, from heat and wild ride. We asked driver to slow down..Eventually he did, for a few minutes. Then he sped up again and we cone flying over a dune that had very steep other side. The car has a hard hit on the front and all backseat passangers get bruised by seat belts. One passanger is bleeding and impact on collar bone is pretty bad. Driver didn’t first even stop! We asked to stop to check injuries. Driver checked only the car. I check on the injured passanger. There was no ice or first aid kit in the car. We ask to be driven back to camp so we could put ice on the bruises. Driver didn’t even say sorry. Rest of the show, the injured passanger sat with headache and neck pain… I have written a complaint to the company but they haven’t responded. I cannot recommend this company, due to lack of health and safety.

  • 3/5 Niels B. 1 year ago on Google
    It was OK at the price. Good show and all around worth it. But there were some downsides. For example, I didn’t have time to eat my undercooked chicken before we had to leave again. There were also many underhanded attempts at getting money out of us. Like asking 150 AED to smoke a shisha.

  • 2/5 Sohail A. 1 year ago on Google
    The driver makes the experience and had one of the worst. Very rude. Before heading into safari we stopped at shops.. went to the shop next door and driver had the horn on aggressively. The way he spoke to us was bang out of order. Ruined the whole evening for me Anantara Palm - Rixos JbR - Safari Sunday 05 June 2022 The actual safari was decent although no information was given on food being served how drinks work etc Not run very well from that aspect If I had to do it again I wouldn't go with this tour provider

  • 5/5 Deepak S. 1 year ago on Google
    Such a great experience..... I booked desert safari nd also 5 days package online with skyland tourism. The driver was friendly who came to pick us up and we enjoyed a lot as it was our first experience of safari. All the staff were well mannered and polite. Really appreciate skyland tourism nd team ,, hardly recommended

  • 3/5 Ehab A. 1 year ago on Google
    Lovely experience, however some stuff needed to be fixed asap! We really enjoyed our time we spent at dessert safari, Especially activities we made there. We started with the dune bashing from desert meeting point. Then we had our quad bikes, that was so fun driving fast and crazy over the deserts sand. After that we made the sand boarding which was a bit risky because you don’t want your clothes to become dirty by falling on the sand 😂. Third thing we made is camel riding, really nice experience as well. Finally we got to shows which were Entertaining and we had our launch watching last show. Unfortunately two things need to fixed which are: 1- the weather in shows sitting area was extremely hot, no air conditioning or any other cooling methods at all. 2- Second thing food which was awful, i had nothing taste good beside drinks. Other things were great like hotel pick up and drop off, staff were nice, and free drinks and Arabian desserts are available too. *We bought Arabian outfits from a shop on the road to desert, prices were normal and we had free drinks from them.

  • 5/5 Khalid A. 4 years ago on Google
    We Started our Tour at 9.00 AM the morning after breakfast for the Dubai city tour. Amazing hassle-free adventure.All of our Driver cum guides was fabulous. The driver was friendly and expert. First, we went to Desert safari for dune bashing. It was great entertainment. Then we went camping, and There was fantastic food with Arabic live shows music and Belly dancing shows. There we Take a free camel riding. Loved it.

  • 5/5 Assad S. 3 years ago on Google
    The trip was very good compared to the price. Package includes pick and drop from designated place, desert safari dinner, dance, camel riding.


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