Sightseeing in Dubai tour

A sightseeing in Dubai tour can be half an hour on Burj Lake or twenty hours in the desert, and the 68 listings on this page run from $14 to $814. Price is the first way to sort them. The second is the kind of tour: on foot in the old town, by bus or private car, on the water, out in the dunes, in the air, or a ticket to one building.

Fifteen listings here tour the city itself, and the one with the most reviews also has the lowest price of the fifteen: the Al Fahidi old-town walk, $24, rated 4.8 by 11,339 people. Local guides lead you through the alleys of Al Fahidi and the souks, with street food on the way and an abra across Dubai Creek. It is listed at 2.5 to 4 hours, which leaves the rest of the day open.

If you would rather cover the modern side from a seat, there are two ways. A hop-on hop-off ticket for one or two days is $42 and passes Burj Khalifa, the Old Souk, Atlantis The Palm and Dubai Marina Mall; the open-top one with multilingual audio commentary is $41. The guided alternative is $27 for five to six hours: Dubai Frame, the Blue Mosque, Museum of the Future, Palm Jumeirah, Burj Al Arab, Dubai Marina and a boat ride.

Entry tickets are a different purchase: one building, no guide. The Dubai Frame ticket with deck access is the lowest price on the page, $14. Burj Khalifa Levels 124 and 125 cost $51, and that ticket is the most-reviewed listing on the page: 92,696 reviews, rated 4.3. Sky Level 148 is $109, the Level 152 lounge $209, and a combo with Dubai Aquarium $87.

The desert starts at $30. For that, a four-hour safari in the Lahbab Desert has dune bashing, sandboarding and an optional quad bike, and 45,209 people have rated it 4.9. A longer listing at the same price ends at a desert camp with BBQ and traditional entertainment. Higher up the bands are a seven-hour safari in a 1950s Land Rover for $216 and a sunrise balloon flight at 4,000 feet for $280.

On the water the prices start low. A yacht tour from Dubai Marina, one to three hours with a breakfast or BBQ option, is $25; ninety minutes by speedboat past Atlantis, the Palm and Burj Al Arab is $40. An evening cruise in Dubai Marina with dinner and live music is $58. A private 50-foot yacht is $123, and private charters run up to $738.

The air is where the upper bands fill up. A helicopter ride from The Palm is $195 for 12 to 25 minutes over Atlantis The Palm, Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa and The World Islands; a 30-minute flight is $482. The skydive at The Palm is $749 with photos and video: a climb to 13,000 feet and 60 seconds of fall at 120 mph.

Two day tours go to Abu Dhabi and take the whole day. The $42 tour runs nine to ten hours through the Grand Mosque, Etihad Towers and Qasr Al Watan, and is rated 4.9 by 27,813 people; with a Ferrari World ticket it is $197. Keep those for a day with nothing else booked, and give the first one to the old town and a ticket.