18 Feb 2023
Feb 11, 2023
☆☆ - Hotel pick-up/drop-off
☆☆☆ - Quad Biking experience
☆☆☆ - Desert Camp Center Stage & Seating Area
☆ - Snacks/Buffet Dinner
☆ - Washroom Cleanliness
☆☆☆☆ - Live Entertainment
☆☆ - Camp Activities
☆☆ - Dune Bashing
☆☆ - Camel Riding
Hotel Pick-up & Drop-off
If you're less than 5 people - It's better not to choose the Option with Hotel Pick-up/Drop-off as you will be sharing the car with other guests in which somehow will extend and added your travel time by picking up or dropping the other guests to their hotel (in our case, we travelled extra 1.5 hours since they prioritized the other guests from the palm island hotel and we're from hotel in Al Jadaf area. They picked us up first and travelled to the palm and waited the guests to come out of their hotel for almost 15-30mins, then after the desert safari they drop them first then us (despite of requesting them to drop us first since we still need to travel to Abu Dhabi in the evening). If we only knew, we could have chosen the option for centralized pick-up & drop-off which is near to our hotel, we would've not missed the last bus trip to Abu Dhabi ***This applies to all Dubai Desert Safari packages, if you're 5-7 people its better to choose the option with hotel pick-up & drop-off as you will fill the car's full seating capacity.
Quad BIking & Dune Bashing
It has now a centralized quad biking area prior proceeding to the dune bashing and desert camp. Agencies should have informed their guests in advance if they would like to experience quad biking in this area, if guests will avail this, they should pick-up the guests earlier so that it will not consume much time and misses the sunset later during dune bashing. They have done the dune bashing only when transferring to desert camp, just for the sake of dune bashing offer in the package, no more photo stop in the middle of the dessert. as no more time to do so as it wass already sunset.
Desert Camp Activities /Snacks & Buffet
When we reached to Desert Camp, we went directly to the line for free camel ride and it's dark already. We were not able to avail the snacks & unlimted tea/coffee as it was closed already inside the camp, no more activities mentioned in their offer such as traditional arabic dress, etc. Dinner buffet were served in 3 long tables with 2 lines each table. As there were lots of guests, there was only 1 person who did the refilling of the food as most of the guests were not able to get each food on the table, they lack of people here refilling the food.
Live Entertainment
The live entertainment was good especially the fire show.
Washroom Cleanliness
They have limited cubicle/toilets and it's not well maintained/cleaned.
I just hope that they can improve on the above mentioned comments and always bear in their mind that they should treat all their guests equally and satisfactorily especially for all first timer tourists. First impression lasts...
My advise is to research and check further reviews before proceeding. Thank you and Have a nice day.