Multi-day programme
Cruise + Land Package
Pre- and post-cruise nights, shore days and port transfers built around your sailing: priced per person, refundable in full up to sixty days before travel.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Party size
- 1–20 guests
- From
- $980per person, double occupancy
- Destinations covered
- Abu Dhabi
- Dubai
Read out of this programme's own day-by-day itinerary, printed further down this page.
The programme
What this trip is
Pre- and post-cruise nights, shore days and port transfers built around your sailing. One booking covers the whole itinerary: hotels, private touring, transfers and the named entries, sequenced so each day builds on the last.
Every package is adjusted to your dates, pace and taste before anything is confirmed. Tell us who is travelling and we will shape it around you.
Multi-day trips live or die on sequencing: which day to spend in the desert, when to see the mosque, where the rest day belongs. That ordering is the craft we sell.
Practicalities, handled: your driver's WhatsApp arrives the evening before with the exact pickup time; the vehicle carries chilled water and chargers; timings flex on the day if a flight, a nap or a whim demands it. Full refund up to sixty days before travel, and you can pay on the day.
In short
- Pre- and post-cruise nights, shore days and port transfers built around your sailing
- Fully customisable before confirmation
- One booking, zero logistics
- Sequenced by people who live here
- WhatsApp support before and during
- Full refund up to sixty days before travel
Line by line
Everything in this programme, itemised
Three columns and no small print: what the published figure covers, what you can add and exactly what it costs, and what sits outside the price with the reason it has to. Every line is this programme's own record; where a line is specified by another of our listings, the source is printed under it so you can go and read it.
Included in the price
Lines: 4
Included: All touring and transfers in a private vehicle
- Private Kia Carnival with professional driver
- Same driver for the whole booking
- Unlimited stops within the booked hours
- Cooled bottled water, cooled towels and free wifi on board
- All fuel, tolls and parking
What that service is, from our Chauffeur for your package (per day) listing
Included: Hand-picked hotels with breakfast
- The included room: Deluxe room (The included tier: hand-picked four/five-star comfort.)
- Accommodation covers the nights between your arrival and departure days, 6 of them on the standard 7-day shape. The exact count follows your flight times and is fixed in the written proposal.
From the room ladder for this programme
Included: Entries to the attractions named in the itinerary
- The entries covered are the ones the day-by-day programme names below. Anything you add beyond them is priced before it is booked.
Named day by day, further down this page
Included: A coordinator on WhatsApp for the whole trip
Optional, at extra cost
Lines: 5
Optional extra: Premium view room
Skyline, sea or fountain: the postcard from your pillow.
$33 per person, per night
From the room ladder for this programme
Optional extra: One-bedroom suite
Separate living room, club-floor perks where offered.
$82 per person, per night
From the room ladder for this programme
Optional extra: Professional photography
A photographer joins your tour: 40+ edited images within 48 hours.
$123 per booking
- Order it at least 24 hours ahead
- Delivered by our partner studio
Published add-on price: the same figure the booking form charges
Optional extra: Celebration setup
Cake, flowers and a decorated vehicle for a birthday, anniversary or surprise.
$109 per booking
- Order it at least 48 hours ahead
- We will ask you for: Name and occasion for the cake
Published add-on price: the same figure the booking form charges
Optional extra: Premium drinks cooler
Fresh juices, laban and soft drinks on ice all day.
$25 per booking
- Order it at least 12 hours ahead
Published add-on price: the same figure the booking form charges
Not included in the price
Lines: 5
Not included: Attraction entry tickets unless listed as included
Not included: Meals and personal expenses unless listed
Not included: Gratuities (appreciated, never expected)
Not included: Travel insurance
arranged for you and quoted separately, because the premium depends on your ages, dates and cover
Quoted in writing before anything is confirmed
Not included: Visa fees where a visa is needed
the authority sets these by passport and length of stay, and we quote them with your proposal
Quoted in writing before anything is confirmed
Travel insurance and any visa fees are quoted with your written proposal, before anything is confirmed. A premium depends on your ages, your dates and the level of cover you want; a visa fee is set by the authority and depends on the passport and the length of stay. Neither figure can sit honestly inside a headline price, so neither is buried in one, and nothing is added at the payment page.
This programme is priced per person on double occupancy, and is adjusted to your dates and party before confirmation.
Add-on
A chauffeur on the free days
This programme includes a car and driver on every touring day. For the days in between, add a chauffeur by the day, in the car you choose.
Touring days already include the car, so a chauffeur is only ever charged on days without a tour.
Beyond the car
Arrive by private jet, or land at the hotel by helicopter
Two ways to open or close this programme that skip the road entirely. Both are quoted to the day and the aircraft, so there is no fixed price to publish, only a real one once we know the mission.
Private jet charter
The aircraft chartered to your dates and party, ground handling arranged at both ends, so the programme can open or close from almost anywhere rather than wherever a schedule happens to fly.
Contact for pricingAsk about thisHelicopter, straight to the hotel
Skip the transfer entirely: a helicopter from the airport direct to the hotel's own helipad where the property allows it, arranged around your programme's arrival.
Contact for pricingAsk about this
Tailor it
Build this trip your way
Every day of the itinerary has alternatives. Flick through them with the arrows. Our recommended plan is pre-selected; bend it until it's yours.
Day 1· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Day 2· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Day 3· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Day 4· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Day 5· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Day 6· recommended
Choose 1 of 5
Choose your room
Three honest tiers. Final figures are confirmed with your dates before anything is charged.
Your 6-day plan · Deluxe room
Send my tailored trip to WhatsAppBefore you book
The practical detail
Pickups, dress, ages, money and the exact cancellation deadline. Everything here is a field on this programme's record or a policy we publish in full; nothing is softened for the page.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Party size
- 1–20 guests
- Pricing basis
- per person, double occupancy
- Touring
- Private: your own vehicle and driver throughout
- Pickup
- Your hotel lobby (pickup included)
- Guiding languages
- English · Urdu · Russian · Hindi · Bengali · Farsi · Pashto
- Confirmation
- A written proposal first, then confirmation, not an instant booking
- Effort
- Easy: suitable for all
- Minimum age
- None set. Tell us the ages and the days are planned around them
- Payment
- Pay on the day, or by card in advance
- Operator
- DET-licensed Dubai tour operator
Your transfers, and a late flight
This programme's price carries your transfers. Which of them meets you at the airport is fixed in your written proposal, and this is the service any of them runs on, including what happens when the plane is late.
Specification taken from our Zayed International to Dubai listing, which is the service this programme's transfers run on.
Read the Zayed International to Dubai listingCancelling, changing, and if a day goes wrong
- Beyond sixty days a programme refunds in full to the original payment method. From thirty-one to sixty days, 75%. From fifteen to thirty days, 50%.
- Inside fourteen days a programme is charged in full, because rooms and inter-city cars are already committed. Over Christmas, New Year and Eid that becomes sixty days, because the rooms themselves are bought non-refundable.
- If we cancel (weather, an authority closure, a vehicle problem), you choose a full refund or a free re-book, and you get the reason in writing. Partner-operated activities are held to the same standard.
- If we cannot reach you within 45 minutes of the pickup time on the day, the booking is treated as a no-show and charged. Keep WhatsApp reachable on travel day and this never happens.
What to bring
- Sunscreen and sunglasses
- Comfortable shoes
Tell us at enquiry about wheelchairs, walking aids, prams, dietary needs or anything that changes the pace. The programme is re-sequenced around it before it is confirmed, rather than apologised for on the day.
Who to call
One coordinator runs your programme from the moment it is confirmed to the airport drop, on WhatsApp. Same thread for a changed plan, a late flight or a table you would rather move; you never re-explain the trip to someone new.
Guide notes for this programme
- Book at least one hotel night before embarkation. It is the single cheapest insurance against a delayed inbound flight, and you start the cruise rested instead of frazzled.
- Gulf cruise season runs through the cooler months, typically late autumn to spring: which is also the best weather for shore days, so plan to be off the ship, not on the sun deck, when you are in port.
- A private shore day beats the ship's coach excursion on flexibility, but respect all-aboard religiously: we build the buffer in, so resist the urge to spend it.
- Keep passports, medication and a change of clothes in your day bag on embarkation day; checked cases can take a few hours to reach your cabin.
- If you disembark in Abu Dhabi with an evening flight, use the day: the Grand Mosque and a long lunch fit comfortably between gangway and gate, and it is a far better ending than an airport lounge.
Asked and answered
Questions guests ask about this programme
The questions that actually come in about Cruise + Land Package, answered against the itinerary rather than around it.
Which cruise ports do you cover?
Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi and the Dubai cruise terminals, which between them handle almost every Gulf itinerary. If your sailing calls at another regional port, ask; we will tell you honestly whether we can serve it or not.
What happens if my ship arrives late or the itinerary changes?
We monitor your ship's actual arrival, not the printed schedule, and your driver-guide adjusts the day around it. Shore days are private, so a two-hour delay means a reshuffled route, not a cancelled tour. Hotel and transfer changes on the land legs are handled by us directly.
How do you make sure we are back before the ship sails?
We plan every shore day backwards from all-aboard time with a deliberate buffer, and your driver-guide keeps an eye on the clock so you do not have to. Unlike a ship excursion we cannot hold the vessel, so we are conservative: the last hour of a shore day is always spent near the port, not an hour down the motorway.
Who handles our luggage between airport, hotels and ship?
Your chauffeur loads and unloads at every stage, and hands cases to the terminal porters at embarkation. On land legs the luggage travels with you in the vehicle, so nothing is trusted to a separate truck. Pack a small day bag for port days, as cabins are usually not accessible until the afternoon of embarkation.
Do we need a UAE visa if we are arriving by cruise ship?
That depends on your nationality and your cruise line's arrangements, and the rules do change. Your cruise line and the official UAE government channels are the authority here. Check with them before travelling. We will flag anything obvious in your itinerary, but we cannot issue or guarantee visas.
Can children join the shore days and transfers?
Yes: everything is private, so the pace is set by your family, not a coach group. Tell us ages when booking and we will fit proper child seats in the vehicle. Shore days can be tilted towards Yas Island's theme parks rather than museums if that is the better fight to pick.
Not answered here? Ask before you book, and the written proposal answers it again, in writing, before anything is confirmed.
Ask about this programme