Dubai Luxury Canal Dinner Cruise with Optional Transfer
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Nobody wants to use vacation time in Dubai arranging tickets for excursions only to find they’re fully booked. Prebook this Dubai Water Canal cruise and relax knowing your place is secured. Then, simply board the ‘dhow’ (Arabian boat) and admire sights such as the Burj Khalifa and the canal’s illuminated waterfall bridge as you sail and relax over an international buffet dinner with live entertainment.
- Prebook to secure a seat on a Dubai Water Canal dhow dinner cruise
- See the floodlit sights of Deira and Downtown Dubai with ease, in one boat trip
- View the Burj Khalifa and more, and sail under the waterfall bridge
- Upgrade to include alcoholic beverages and/or hotel transfers
Why Travelers Choose This Tour
Cruise right beneath Dubai’s Waterfall Bridge on this traditional dhow boat ride.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (if option selected)
- Soft Beverages
- DinnerBuffet dinner
- Bottled water
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- Alcohol Beverages (If Selected as an option)
- Soda/PopSparkling Water, Tonic Water, Ginger Ale, Soda Water & Red Bull
- Additional Fee for upper deck seats AED50 per person
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Al Faris Floating Restaurant - Managed By Amazon Tours UAENext to Imagine Show - Dubai Festival City Mall - الخيران - مدينة مهرجان دبي - دبي - United Arab Emirates
Cruise Timings : Boarding Time -1815hrs Onwards | Departure Time - 19:00hrs Exact
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Operating hours.6:30 pm
Itinerary
Imagine (Pass By)
Mohammed bin Rashid Library (Pass By)
Al jadaf Walk (Pass By)
Dubai Creek Harbour (Pass By)
Design District D3 (Pass By)
Dubai Water Canal (Pass By)
Design Image Digital (Pass By)
Dubai Waterfall (Pass By)
Tolerance Bridge (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Infants must sit on laps
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- Most travelers can participate
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Dress code is smart casual
- If you are staying in hotels in Al Barsha, IMPZ, Greens, Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Beach, Media City, Internet City, Tecom, JBR, Dubai Marina and JLT you might feel the route is too long when booked on shared transfer and hence it is recommend you book a private transfer by paying an additional charge
- Alcoholic beverages will only be served to passengers who are 21 years and above. Selected House Beverages package includes Selected Beers and House wines.
- Any additional request will be charged as per the requirement.
- Smoking is allowed only in the designated smoking area on the Dhow cruise.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 120 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Tina_A
Highly recommend!!
This trip is most definitely a must., Absolutely fantastic.
So beautiful flowing along the can looking at all the different spectacular hotel designs and scenery so much to see. The buffet food was delicious with a great choice, lamb chops gorgeous. Wine very nice. What made the night as well was the saxophone player wow truly amazing we got up and danced.
This has got to be one of the best trips in Dubai. One to book.
Picked up and dropped off no worries there. You won’t be disappointed with this trip.
Reviews
4.4
based on 392 reviews
Gregory_H, Jan 2026
Great food, excellent music entertainment and wonderful site seeing, especially the waterfall bridge.
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Thank you so much for your valuable feedback. it was our pleasure to serve you onboard.
Your valuable feedback will always help us to make our service better.
We look forward to seeing you again.
Robert_G, Dec 2025
The description of the tour gave to option for a Hotel pickup (the Boat was moored 35 minutes away from Downtown Dubai).
When I payed for the tour the Hotel Pickup disappeared, and I had to go there by Cab.
The actual dinner cruse was fine, although the description as "Luxury" was greatly exaggerated.
Galina_D, Nov 2025
Very peaceful, nice music , great night view of Dubai, great service and most important optional transfer.
Sandra_L, Nov 2025
It’s a nice experience, staff was welcoming, food was good, views were great, but luxury should be removed from the description. The actual boat was old.
Tina_A, Sep 2025
Highly recommend!!
This trip is most definitely a must., Absolutely fantastic.
So beautiful flowing along the can looking at all the different spectacular hotel designs and scenery so much to see. The buffet food was delicious with a great choice, lamb chops gorgeous. Wine very nice. What made the night as well was the saxophone player wow truly amazing we got up and danced.
This has got to be one of the best trips in Dubai. One to book.
Picked up and dropped off no worries there. You won’t be disappointed with this trip.
Imtiaz_S, Jul 2025
The trip was amazing, one must have to experience. The ride, the food, the music & entertainment... all was superb.
PETER_F, Jun 2025
The staff are absolutely lovely however the alcohol choices are few and actually pretty horrible when it comes to wine. Not to mention ridiculously and over the top expensive.
A little long as well.
Rose_P, Apr 2025
If you’re after good food, relaxed & enjoyable cruise with live music & with lots to see & good service - then this is a tour you book! We sat in the open air section - loved it
Marios_K, Apr 2025
It was a great experience. a nice cruise at the river, We had a very nice time and the food was good, but a bit cold. the drinks was not included and you have to pay extra very helpful staff
Claire_W, Apr 2025
A very relaxed absolutely stunning evening. The meal was fantastic much better than expected. The views are stunning accompanied by a fantastic musician that made the whole experience beautiful. The crew can't do enough for you ! We are going to book again for our last night !
Dominic_G, Mar 2025
Great experience from start to finish! Food was good with live pasta station. Excellent service. Good value, well worth it!
Tawanna_W, Mar 2025
All around a good tour. Food was good, as well as the entertainment. We will definitely do this again, and will also recommend to friends
alexander_t, Feb 2025
Our cruise was Christmas Eve, we didn’t have a transfer booked so went by taxi, make sure when planning leave plenty of time as traffic was manic and the venue wasn’t that easy to find. However, the cruise was spectacular, we paid the extra tariff to dine on the outdoor upper deck and the unrestricted views of the city at night was awesome. We were also treated to a fireworks display(not part of the package we’re were just lucky with the timings). The staff on board were very efficient and attentive, the food too was plentiful and of a high stander. Thoroughly enjoyed this excursion.
Stephen_H, Jan 2025
Great boat ride - liked the food and the staff were really great.
The cruise itself was nice views. I want to say thankyou
Susan_S, Dec 2024
What a lovely way to spend an evening in Dubai. Sailing round the centre enjoying a lovely meal with a guy playing a saxophone in the background. I would recommend this trip. It was worth the money.
Abdessad_B, Dec 2024
It was exiting. The buffet was good and the ambience was nice with sympathique music and lighting with colourful
Janet_O, Dec 2024
This was a fantastic dinner cruise and the scenery was brilliant would recommend this and our driver was great
khadijat_M, Dec 2024
Great views of Dubai with old friends from Central Asia and my daughter who lives in Dubai. The food was very nice and a large selection. Nice presentation. The one man band was a great sax player with a good selection of tunes. Very nice evening indeed. I would highly recommend it if your doing the tourist circuit !!!
Nadia_P, Dec 2024
What a lovely relaxing experience. We booked the cruise with transfers and I’m glad we did. The car picked us up on time and escorted us to the boat. We had good communication with the tour operator. Be aware that if you wish to sit upstairs it is an extra 50UAE per person. (The equivalent of approximately $20 AUD per person). They don’t offer this when booking on Viator it is offered through text and paid directly on board. The buffet meal was good value and the live entertainment was fantastic. It was great to see Dubai at night from a water perspective and the waterfall on the bridge was beautiful.
Diana_S, Dec 2024
Overall was ok. The boat was the one advertised and we left on time. The city view looked great. But the cruise only took 1h30’ and left us somewhere in downtown ( was the national day, probably that’s why), even if we paid the full price. And because it was shorter, the bufet was open only around 30 minutes. They had a car to take us back to the staring point, but we said we will call an Uber to go to the marina instead. They insisted they will take us so we waited around 15 minutes for the car. Because the traffic was crazy , the car left us 3km from our destination saying those were the instructions from the company, in the middle of nowhere (we couldn’t walk from there). So we still end up calling another uber. We had someone injured on our group who couldn’t walk that well, so this was a huge inconvenient for us. They should left us call an Uber in the beginning.
Ellen_D, Oct 2024
A stunning, relaxing evening with great service and wonderful views. The live saxophonist was a lovely added touch.
Dionne_H, Oct 2024
I enjoyed the shuttle pickup.
I liked the food.
Entertainment was classy. Saxophonist was amazing.
Totally hated the long drive to get from my hotel to boat dock. I suggest you tell people this early on
Alison_A, Oct 2024
The boat was smooth & great to be in the open air, seeing all the night lights of Dubai. Easy transfer from hotel, great staff & good food. Sax player was great. Very pleasant atmosphere, unlike some of the very noisy boats out & about.
Eddie_G, Oct 2024
An excellent experience, fantastic cruise through downtown, to see all the sights!! Food was A1 as well as the attentive service. Well worth getting the drinks package added, as you get wine by the bottle or 5 beers in an ice bucket, which you can order again if you wish still included in the package.... Certainly has the WOW factor....👍👍👍
Noel_C, Sep 2024
Very relaxing and beautiful cruise throughout Dubai. Door to door pickup service was great. Food good. Waiter service great.
Anonymous, Sep 2024
Great night out. Good spread of food. Entertainment was pleasant. Transfer were on time and worth the extra to ensure you arrive at the right spot and return you back to the hotel after a wonderful cruise down poking at the lights of Dubai
Highly recommend this tour
Manuela_H, Aug 2024
Nice food and atmosphere, a very scenic trip, seeing Dubai from the boat. Entertaining and fun. Recommended!
Margaret_T, Jul 2024
Excellent luxury cruise. Great ambience, sights, food, friendly staff and amazing saxophone player. Would highly recommend.
Adam_L, Jun 2024
Wonderful experience! Great food and a beautiful cruise to experience Dubai at night! Highly recommend!
Shannon_S, Jun 2024
It was a great experience. Good variety of food. Would highly recommend ! The views were amazing and great for taking pictures
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