34 year flying experience in other fields helped the decision to diversify its business and create the Dubai sky tour “Fly Dubai”. This was a natural progression with Dubai becoming one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and growing each year. Aerogulf in conjunction with Travel & Culture Services offers a different, more American style of travel here in Dubai. 

The company will collect you from a given point and take you to the helipad thirty minutes before takeoff, where you will be talked through the safety checks and flight plan. There are three types of aircraft used for the excursions, one carrying up to 4 people, one carrying 4-5 people, and the other carrying 6-8 people. All of the aircraft are the reliable and favourable Bell Helicopters.

Your flight will take you high over various landmarks and areas including Dubai marina, Business Bay, Burj Khalifa Tower, Atlantis the Palm resort, Burj Al Arab Hotel, Jumeirah Palm and Dubai creek. The helicopter is one of the best ways to see the Palm Island and World Island, to appreciate the immense scale of the project undertaken to achieve what has become an iconic landmark worldwide.

The flight last for 30 minutes. Private charters are available at a cost and must be booked in advance.

There are so many things to see in Dubai, with its ever-growing city, that you wouldn’t have the same trip twice, many people come back to book again and again to see the many changes taking place at this ever-growing city.

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An inspiring and magnificent way to see the real Dubai.   This is an opportunity that is not offered anywhere else in Dubai, to navigate over the Arabian Desert and its an early riser’s tour departing at 05:45 hrs for an hour’s flight. You will be collected from the hotel an hour earlier and taken to the flight station where you will watch the preparation procedure prior to take off, then you will climb aboard for your flight. The early start is well worth the lack of sleep as the views more than make up for the inconvenience.

This Balloon company is the most experienced in their field and operate in various countries around the world: Hungary, Germany and New Zealand.

Their professional staff navigate you through the air and the staff on the ground follow you to make sure passenger safety remains paramount whilst keeping a constant eye on your course. The team work involved is second to none and is like a marriage made in heaven, it has to be.

Balloon Adventures Emirates LLC is licensed by the General Civil Aviation Authority (Air Operator’s Certificate AT024) and all balloons undergo a strict maintenance programme involving regular tests.

The expertise shown by the company is truly immense.

The flight takes a route into the heart of the desert where you will drift over the wildlife and desert people below.

The balloon’s base is in the desert located north of Al Ain which is about an hour’s drive from Dubai. It is a remote area which is literally in the middle of the desert.

Based on the weather conditions ensure that you wear casual comfortable clothing with an extra layer of clothing such as a jacket jumper or cardigan. For the ladies a skirt or a dress is advised against as these will get in the way. Due to the heat of the sun a hat or cap is also advisable, as well as trainers or plimsolls. Make sure you take a camcorder or camera to take a memory of your tour.

Saw high above the magnificence that is Dubai with Seawings Dubai’s only seaplane tour.

Seawings gives you the ride of a lifetime on your holiday of a lifetime and memories that will last a lifetime; if you thought Dubai was amazing from the ground wait till you see it from the seat of your Seawings tour.

Once a booking is made you can also book for other events available such as sailing, golf, and even dining.   There is a choice of 3 levels of tours and 2 custom charters to choose from so there is something for everyones taste and pocket. 

Don't forget your passports. (You will not be allowed to travel without your passport due to the close borders of other countries.)

The Cabins are first class in there fittings with beautifully upholstered and comfortable seats.  Once seated in the plane you will taxi down the water runway and take off, as you feel the plane tilt slightly backwards and the nose lift off the water, you may think that the ride would be bumpy as with tarmac runways but the ride is actually incredibly smooth. You will then hear and feel the spray stop as you then feel the plane climb high up into the sky, after a few minutes Dubai will appear out of your windows down below, you will not know what to catch on camera first such is the jungle of buildings down below, make sure you have enough film in or room on your camera for many pictures, as you will not stop snapping away or wowing at the views you will see.

The enormous entities of the Palm Island are immense as are the world Islands, the Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa and the many golf courses to be found, just to name a few of the tourist attractions, that are both huge in stature and architectural magnificence.

Once you land the plane gently aquaplanes to a soft halt where the ground staff and customer service staff will be there to greet you, to present you with your certificate of flying (which is a nice finishing touch on your 40 minute flight) and also to answer any questions. They will listen to your comment and offer to take your photo on or by the plane to sell you as a further souvenir.

You can book the flight as a personal “family” flight only if you wish, for which you will have to pay for but money may not be the issue, as the tranquillity and beauty of the flight outweighs the cost.

The giant sand dunes of Dubai are the perfect way to unwind and wrap you in the culture of travelling through the desert on the back of a camel. The desert offers many unrecognised activities that the locals have turned into part of the now extreme tourism attractions that you would not expect to experience. You may have thought that all you would get in the desert is dehydration, sun burns and miles of boredom, you would be wrong.

The Bactrian camel is the one you may have seen in films with its distinctive double hump that has been utilised to provide an income for the tourist trade and to give the local experience of the tribesman and the history of the desert. Riding a camel is a lot more fun than horse riding as you are in a higher seated position which makes the ride more exhilarating which is why it was turned into a sport of the UAE.

The options open to taking an excursion on the back of a camel is simple a few hours or a whole day, you will be given instructions and become familiar with the animals as you will be spending quite a few hours with the camels.

Most people tend to do a whole day and start off in the afternoon after the hottest point of the day and combine the thrill of seeing the sunset and taking once in a lifetime photos of the horizon bowing down in a haze of orange and red, these will be pictures you would normally only see in a magazine, not in a holiday photo album.

The Dubai Dolphinarium is situated in Creek Park, and is a 5000sq meter man made modern facility that educates people on the mammals that would normally be found in the seas and oceans around the world. The Dolphinarium was opened in an inauguration ceremony in May 2008 by Ahmad Abdul Karim, Director of Public Parks and Horticulture Department in Dubai. The centre was the first indoor Dolphinarium in the Middle East to open and cost Dh33-million. Due to the heat of the outdoors, the centre is fully air conditioned and sets out to educate as well as entertain. The 1250 seat stadium is enveloped around a 30 x 16 meter salt water pool where a number of shows can be experienced.

The Dolphinarium in 2009 provided over 140,000 specially designed educational programs for both preschoolers and schoolchildren. These programs were given in an interactive format both in lessons and classes, where the schooling included topics such as marine life conservation and marine life. The Dolphinarium also offers the chance to swim with the dolphins and have a picture taken to remember the fantastic experience and show your friends what you achieved.

The view of the live dolphin and seal show is enjoyed in your cinema styled seats, where you will get to see Pacific and Black Sea Bottle-nose Dolphins and northern fur Seals. The Dolphinarium is extremely well equipped with a state of the art laser projection facility, high tech stage lighting and incredible audio system that would grace any nightclub. The centre also has a 100 seat restaurant and a large expanse of open areas which would prove a great place for exhibitions.

Water is a plenty here at the Dolphinarium as there is 4.5 million litres of sea water continuously purified in the arena pool, the habitat pool, medical and seal pool that the mammals live in. to ensure that the health and welfare of the mammals are second to none. Onsite is a marine mammal laboratory, specialised fish preparation rooms and a technical support area. It has been visited by over 640,000 guests and visitors of Dubai.

The Dolphinarium’s in-house educational workshops and programs are set up to teach children facts about marine life and the natural gentle loving behaviour of dolphins, as well as how pollution affects marine life and educates against causing pollution and looking after the sea life creatures from an early age.

So as you can see they like to educate as well as entertain, which is the most effective way for anyone to learn. 

The dolphin and seal show consists of a forty five minute show of the mammals giving guests a great performance with the gracefulness of the bottle-nose dolphins and playful fur seals performing with their trainers who get to work with them every day, which builds up the trust between trainer and performer.

During the show the mammals are put through their paces where they perform the tricks they have learnt: singing, juggling, painting, dancing through to jumping through hoops and walking on water. The finale of the show, tends to have a spectator from the crowd selected to be pulled along in the pool in an inflatable boat by one of the dolphin stars. After the show a photographic session is allowed where the opportunity to take photos of the stars of the shows.

There are other dolphins that do not take part in the show that are utilised to be therapeutic to children and young adults with special needs, the children are invited into the centre where they can touch and feel the dolphins.