15 Dinner Cruises with Hotel Transfer in the UAE Worth Booking

1.Luxury Canal Dinner Cruise with Optional Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 1,076 reviews · 2 hours · from $59Our pick

Review of Dubai’s canal dinner cruise, with buffet dining, skyline views, saxophone music, transfer tips, and honest value advice.

“We had a great time! A fantastic way to explore the Creek Canal and the great architecture of the building along. Food was fantastic, the attentie service exceeded all expectations. The great saxophonist added to the wonderful atmosphere. We highly recommend this dinnercruise!”

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2.Dubai Luxury Canal Dinner Cruise with Optional Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 382 reviews · from $69

Review of Dubai’s 2.5-hour canal dinner cruise, with Burj Khalifa views, buffet dining, live saxophone, optional drinks and transfers.

“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 !!!”

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3.Dubai Dhow Dinner Cruise Marina with pickup drop option

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 248 reviews · from $37Best value

Review of Dubai Marina dhow dinner cruise with buffet, Tanoura show, skyline views, optional hotel transfers, and practical booking tips.

“Nice ride on the man made sea lake. Wasn't a full 2 hours as I originally anticipated. It was 90 minutes long. The food was nice and we had a good choice on the menu. Costs are expensive, but that's for everything except taxi rides in Dubai.”

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4.Dubai Marina: Luxury Dhow Dinner Cruise with Hotel Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 170 reviews · from $91

Review of Dubai’s 2-hour Marina dhow dinner cruise, with hotel transfers, buffet, skyline views, drinks, music, and practical booking advice.

“Really nice experience. The service was excellent, guys were really nice. Food was good, no long lines… Really recommend”

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5.Dubai Creek Luxury Dhow Dinner Cruise with Optional Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 123 reviews · from $72

Review the Dubai Creek dhow dinner cruise, with buffet dining, evening views, pickup options, pricing, entertainment, and booking tips.

“The boat is not maintained, look very poor. The food is avarage. No live show. We were very disappointed. Not value for money. I won't recommend this activity.”

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6.Dubai 5 Star Marina Dhow Cruise Dinner with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 34 reviews · from $115

Review of Dubai’s 5 Star Marina dhow dinner cruise, with skyline views, buffet dining, shared hotel transfers, costs, seating tips, and drawbacks.

“We do not understand why the crew hold us up till the end of queue when get on the Cruise. Then the one to arrange table on Cruise was so rude for he instruct us to the seat as he planned even a lot of seat available and finally only 70% occupied.”

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7.Lotus Mega Yacht Luxury Cruise with Live DJ, Dinner & Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 18 reviews · from $120

Review of Dubai’s Lotus Mega Yacht dinner cruise, with DJ, buffet, drinks, landmark views, transfers, prices, and practical booking advice.

“The trip was fantastic. Excellent staff on the boat, great entertainment and views. Issue with the booked pick up driver who was late and dropped is off in the near by mall with unclear instructions how to get to the boat.”

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8.Marina Dhowe Cruise Dinner with Private Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 17 reviews · from $66

Review of Dubai’s Marina dhow dinner cruise, with private transfers, buffet, Tanura dance, skyline views, value, tips, and drawbacks.

“Pick up was fine , a little late due to traffic ,”

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9.Dubai Marina Luxury Cruise w/ 5 Star Buffet Dinner & Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 15 reviews · from $139

Review of Dubai Marina’s 3-hour luxury dinner cruise, with buffet dining, Tanoura show, hotel transfers, views, costs, and practical tips.

“The only thing good about this was the boatride itself. We were expecting a more dressy attire but evan in VIP were getting water bottles thrown at us by little kids, very unprofessional crew, lots of drama going on. nobody told us there was evan a buffet downstairs till almost over, good entertainment, bad food.”

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10.Dubai Creek Cruise Dinner with Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 14 reviews · from $55

Review of Dubai Creek’s two-hour dhow dinner cruise, with buffet, Tanura show, hotel transfers, views, value, and practical booking advice.

“Well, the dhow was lovely and the wood carvings beautiful. Staff attentive and good. Now, food was mostly Indian and nothing western. Passengers were 99% Indian . They were very friendly and I felt out of place as only a few others. But as Read more”

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11.3-Hour Lotus Mega Yacht Dinner Cruise Dubai with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 10 reviews · from $99Top rated

Review of Dubai’s 3-hour Lotus Mega Yacht dinner cruise, with Palm views, buffet dining, entertainment, transfers, pricing, and practical tips.

“Amazing experience, it was close to 3 hrs with great 360* view from top. Food was amazing with lots of variety for drinks well.”

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12.Dubai Marina Dhow Dinner Cruise with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 7 reviews · from $90

Review of Dubai Marina’s 2-hour dhow dinner cruise, with skyline views, buffet dining, entertainment, shared hotel transfers, and practical booking tips.

“2 hours in traffic ,only stale Indian food although this is middle eastern country Poor quality entertainment Drinks alcoholic were not original”

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13.Lotus Mega Yacht 3 Hours Dinner Cruise with Transfers Option

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 5 reviews · from $103

Review the Lotus Mega Yacht dinner cruise in Dubai, with Palm views, buffet dining, onboard entertainment, transfers, pricing, and practical tips.

“Entire experience outstanding, wonderful service, ambience and entertainment was something not to be missed when visiting Dubai. We went VIP and great value for money,”

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14.Desert Safari with BBQ Dinner and Landcruiser Pickup

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 4 reviews · from $39

Review of Dubai’s six-hour desert safari with dune bashing, camel riding, BBQ dinner, camp shows, pickup, and practical booking advice.

“Beautiful experience. Team was co-coordinating with us all the time. This package included hotel pick up and drop off, dune bashing, camel riding, Entertainment shows, buffet dinner. Overall a great experience”

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15.Dhow Cruise Dinner in Creek with Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $115

Review of Dubai Creek’s 2-hour dhow dinner cruise, with pickup, buffet, skyline views, tanura show, pricing, and practical booking advice.

“Amazing experience of the dinner at the creek. Great views with exquisite service. Would highly recommend to all who come to Dubai”

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