Apr 26, 2018
Very good experience - Just done the desert safari today, absolutely brilliant. Rashid our guide was fantastic. From start to finish his service was first class. He made our day even more memorable
I definitely recommend it 👍🏻
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Apr 4, 2018
Really good. - We did the 45 min camel ride to the falconry show and then a 2 min car drive to the bedwin tent. This is as authentic as it gets and our 7 year old loved it. The food was great too. It was an hours drive from our hotel (Atlantis) we were picked up at 3pm got back to the hotel about 10pm
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Feb 28, 2018
Discovering the Lahbab Desert - It was certainly an exciting and adrenaline-pumping experience to take part in the off-road excursion in the Lahbab desert. Once selected and booked in advance already from Italy the itinerary was picked up at 4 pm, at our hotel by our driver, driving a powerful and elegant 4*4 off-road vehicle.
After about forty minutes by car, crossing the city in the middle of the downtown skyscrapers, we stopped at a small supermarket with a large parking lot where in a short time many cars from other hotels in the city gathered and where all the drivers partially deflated the tires of the off-road vehicles to get the maximum grip on the sand. After a further 10 minutes of off-roading, we arrived in the desert protected area , about 50 km from Dubai. The view was fantastic with the red dunes very high that looked like small mountains finally we started the dune bashing between breathtaking climbs, drifts and accelerations but always in safety and in total control of our expert driver Fadi who accompanied us for the duration of the tour and who was very kind and professional both to the guide and in the explanations. We stopped at will at the top of the dunes to take pictures or to run on the downhill sand as the sunset was approaching.
As expected we reached the Bedouin-style camp where we participated at will in the different activities planned in the program while admiring the fiery sunset that illuminated the dune horizon. We walked with the camel and whoever wanted could sandboard. The field is very large well organized with a stage in the center and around sofas and tables both outdoors and Covered as seen in the photos that I attach. In several locations there are a souvenir shop, an area dedicated to hookah and that for henna tattoos that of course we had immediately done. After a welcome tea accompanied by dates we were offered a rich buffet with grilled meat, rice vegetables and more as well as unlimited drinks
The evening continued with belly dancing, fire dancing and the scenic Tanura dance with canvases or skirts illuminated by hundreds of LED lights. We left the camp at about nine in the evening in a deafening silence under a starry sky and were escorted back to the hotel at about 10 pm. All fantastic and recommended for an experience that will remain in my memories forever as seen in the photos I attach.
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Jan 2, 2018
AMAZING!!! - Really exciting afternoon, pick up at the hotel on time and then the adventure begins in the true sense of the word!. A fun safari through the desert dunes in a jeep in the company of other tourists and our driver Mohamed followed by 49 other cars full of people. Afterwards short experience of walking on camels followed by a hearty buffet dinner in a typical camp in the middle of the desert with characteristic dances. Book with Alpha Tours, they are really good and competent and you will return to the hotel satisfied and happy
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Sep 27, 2016
This was really good. The... - <p>This was really good. The entertainment, location, food, all top class would recommend and would do again.</p>
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Mar 20, 2019
Great time Dubai bashing! - We were the first to be picked up around 3pm, did two other hotel pick ups and then made the hour drive to the desert to meet the other cars. Desert safari is always done in a convoy of more than 10 cars. We then drove into the protected area of desert used for the safari. We had around 20-25 minutes of dune bashing and then headed to the camp. There is a great buffet dinner with options for vegetarians as well. There are two performances and then you leave by around 8:30pm.
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Feb 12, 2024
Just for groups - The driver was very good, the buffet ordinary, and the show not really interesting. This activity is more for groups than for individuals. Bad quality/price ratio
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Nov 25, 2023
4WD was fun, rest was super average - Good fun evening. Our driver was lovely and had a good sense of humour. He was an experienced driver and we had fun on the sand dunes. The entertainment at the camp was great except the fire dancer gets very close to you and he splashed turps all over us. The food was a bit disappointing. It’s advertised as middle eastern cuisine but they served us cold fries and nuggets for the entree. Like it was actually stone cold. You need to be careful of scammers at the camp, as soon as you arrive the locals are trying to sell you souvenirs highly priced. One guy allowed our family of 4 to hold a Falcon bird which was wonderful but then after we held the bird he told us to pay him $20 dirham each!! That pissed a lot of people off.
The only things we enjoyed was our 4WD experience and the belly dancer.
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Feb 16, 2018
Beware, lied to about numbers of other cars on trip, does impact on experience - Did loads of online research and wanted to do trip but unsure about some websites with hundreds & hundreds of people. Waited until arrived at Sofitel the Palm and sought advice from resident Alpha Rep in lobby. Specifically asked how many other people would be travelling and told 10 cars of 6, no more. On that basis booked and paid £60 a head.
When got to desert we waited for other cars to join us, waiting 30 minutes plus. Not happy when 23 other cars arrived. Apparently we were fortunate as Alpha often have 40-50 cars in convoy, beware.
For those that don't know the convoy then snakes it's way through the desert. It was good fun for the most part but with so many cars in front you really only see a rear bumper and brake lights. We had middle row and really felt for two in the rear/ boot seats, exceptionally bumpy. Our driver was great, very safe and sensible, he was definitely one of the pluses.
The camp was ok, sort of what you expect. Three camels do a 1 minute ride for the multitude of guests. Food edible but not good, didn't have high expectations for this part of the trip so it was fine.
Six hour trip breaks down to 1 hour 15 minutes to travel to desert, 30 minutes waiting for others to arrive, hour riding over dunes with 3 stops and two hours in camp before return trip.
We enjoyed experience despite numbers of people but could've paid a lot less for the same and would have if we hadn't been misled.
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Jul 4, 2022
This place is a tourist trap scam….beware! - This place is a total scam…beware. Most absurdly priced dinner of my entire life. All dinner we were harassed by vendors trying to sell is hookahs smoking and cheap art. We told them we were not interested but they wouldn’t leave us alone. The dinner was mediocre and the entertainment was a total joke. This is simply an overpriced dinner that sketchy concierges and tour companies send tourists to for the kickbacks. Avoid this place at all costs!
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