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Includes airfare, fuel surcharges, great hotels, transfers, many meals, touring and more!

Dubai has been called the ultimate playground of the rich and famous. From Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Traveler and others in the know, everyone involved in travel today considers Dubai to be the hottest new destination around.

Dubai is bigger, grander, more lavish (and considerably more expensive) than any place we've ever been. The world's most expensive hotel, the Burj Al Arab, that universally recognized sailboat-shaped architectural wonder whose room rate exceeds $1500 per night, is located in Dubai. The world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai, is rising in the middle of town, and that's just for starters. An entire series of man-made islands, in the shape of palm fronds and another series in the shape of the entire world, are being created off the shore line, complete with gorgeous private villas and luxury hotels and resorts. And you definitely won't find more luxury hotels and enticing duty-free shopping anywhere. This little gem, whose metamorphosis from sleepy desert enclave to futuristic metropolis has happened in just the past 35 years, is surrounded by sand - miles and miles of sand - with rippling dunes that are perfect for 4 x 4 adventures, camel riding and even intimate dining under the stars.

There is absolutely nothing like Dubai in the world, but you don't have to be rich and famous to enjoy this amazing destination for yourself. In true Friendly Planet style, your 6-day visit to Dubai includes airfare, deluxe hotel accommodations, daily buffet breakfast, transfers, and a city tour. And all of this will cost you less than a similar visit to Las Vegas!

But don't wait to reserve your place. Space is definitely limited, and at these prices, it will surely sell out fast!

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Depart USA. Your exciting journey to Dubai begins this evening as you check in for your wide-body jet flight via Emirates Airlines, voted one of the world's 5 best.

Day 2: Arrive Dubai. Arrival this evening. Our representatives will assist you through visa and customs formalities and escort you to your waiting coach for the short transfer to your award-winning, centrally located hotel. Fairmont Hotel

Day 3: Dubai City Tour. After breakfast, your tour manager will conduct a short orientation meeting at your hotel to review the activities available during the next few days. You will have an opportunity to arrange optional tours if you wish, or spend your time in Dubai wandering on your own. After the meeting, it's time to board your touring coach and begin your tour of the city. The first stop is Dubai's picturesque Creek, which divides the city into two parts, the Deira on the northern side and Bur Dubai to the south. This is your first photo opportunity and one that gives you a magnificent panorama of the city and its amazing futuristic skyline.

Next stop is the Bastakiya district, where traditional courtyard houses, with characteristic wind towers that cleverly catch the breezes to cool the houses, line the narrow alleys. Many of the houses in this picturesque area of Dubai, previously home to the city's merchants, have been lovingly restored by proud locals who wish to preserve the unique ambience of the district.

Continue to the Dubai Museum, housed in the massive, restored Al Fahidi Fort. Inside, lifelike dioramas offer a fascinating view of life in Dubai before the discovery of oil. You'll learn the importance of the date palm to the desert culture, the maritime traditions of fishing and pearl-diving, boat building and much more. Take a walk through the bustling, exotic souks, where you'll find beautiful and bargain-priced textiles, spices and gold.

The highlight of your city tour is a chance to take one of Dubai's most reliable and inexpensive forms of transportation, the Abra Water taxi. Your touring coach will be waiting as you disembark from your water taxi to take you back to your deluxe hotel. Lunch is on your own, either at your hotel or in one of the many restaurants around town. Your hotel is centrally located so that you can explore the city's sites. Or take advantage of our optional guided tours. (B)

Day 4: Dubai. The next two days are yours to explore the city and all it has to offer. Your deluxe hotel is located near the Burj Dubai, which will be the tallest building in the world once it is completed. From your hotel, watch this historic tower take shape as it rises high into the blue sky. There is construction taking place in every part of Dubai, and it is all impressive to see. But no building is quite as amazing as this rising tower, which at its present level (136 floors) is already the world's 9th tallest building. This miracle of international cooperation and coordination will house a luxury Armani hotel, offices of some of the world's most successful companies, and for a lucky few, residences that are as high as the clouds and as luxurious as you can find anywhere in the world.

Take time to visit the Mall of the Emirates, where you'll have a chance to don ski jacket, boots, gloves and hat and take to the indoor ski slopes. The temperature here is a cool, 32 degrees while outside, it might be 100! Or, if you are in the mood for adventure, set out on an optional desert safari tour, where you'll discover the vastness and stark beauty of the sand dunes that surround Dubai. You'll also enjoy a BBQ dinner and live belly-dancing entertainment on this exciting optional tour ($76 per person). (B)

Day 5: Dubai. Enjoy another full day at leisure in Dubai. Today's optional excursion features a tour of Modern Dubai, a bonanza of visual extravagance that shows the face of modern Dubai—the city of innovation. Allow your camera to capture the opulence of Burj Al Arab, the tallest hotel built from the sea. Drive past the unique Palm Island and zip through the trendy Dubai Marina, Internet City and Media City.  Conclude your tour with a visit Emirates Hills, a picturesque venue of posh villas and lush greenery, and the renowned Gold and Diamond Park ($31 per person).

This evening, we recommend an optional dinner cruise by dhow boat on the Dubai Creek. Live entertainment and a magnificent view of both sides of Dubai Creek illuminated by night add to the charm of this wonderful way to end your stay in Dubai ($63). (B)

Day 6: Departure. Transfer to the airport to board your return flight to the USA. Arrival at JFK International Airport in New York later this afternoon. Or, continue on an optional extension to Cairo or Kenya.

Special Optional Tours Package

$130/person if pre-booked

To take full advantage of your visit to Dubai, we offer a discounted package of the most popular optional tours featured on our tour. These are not "seat in coach" tours that pick up passengers in various hotels. All the optional tours are operated for Friendly Planet groups only. (A minimum of 6 passengers is required for optional tours to operate).

Optional Tours Package includes:

• Half day desert safari (Day 4)
• Half day Modern Dubai, including Burj Al Arab (Day 5)
• Dhow dinner cruise (Day 5)

The special package price of $130 per person is available when booked and prepaid prior to departure. If you don't want to book the entire package, individual optional tours will be available once you arrive in Dubai. (When booked individually in Dubai, these tours cost $170).

Kenya Wildlife Safari Extension

Why not take advantage of your already-included international airfare and continue your tour to Kenya. A wonderful mini-safari, carefully planned to include those places where game viewing is best and most reliable so you make the absolute most of your short stay. You'll explore two wonderful game parks on guided safaris, and your expert driver-guides will make sure you experience the very best of Kenya.

Day 6: Dubai/Nairobi. Enjoy your final breakfast in Dubai, then transfer to the airport for your flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival, our representatives will assist you with passport and customs formalities and escort you to your hotel. After a pre-safari briefing, enjoy the rest of the day at leisure to explore on your own or take an optional city tour. Safari Park Hotel. (B)

Day 7: Masai Mara National Game Reserve. After breakfast, depart for your drive west, down the scenic Rift Valley escarpments and past the township of Narok in the Masai country to Masai Mara National Reserve. This park offers wonderful scenery and plenty of game viewing. It is perhaps the only region remaining in Kenya where the visitor can see animals in the same abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. Later this afternoon, set off for the afternoon game drive that will continue until sunset. Siana Intrepids (B,L,D)

Day 8: Masai Mara National Game Reserve. Continue your discovery of the many species of game in the park today on two drives, one this morning and another later in the afternoon. After lunch, enjoy some leisure time at the lodge, including a refreshing swim in the pool. (B,L,D)

BALLOON SAFARI ADVENTURE: Early this morning, you'll have an opportunity to take an optional balloon ride across the Masai Mara. Weather conditions permitting, your Balloon Safari begins in the pre-dawn hours, a time when the magnificent view over the part is most thrilling. Toweard the end of your flight, you'll rise to a height of 1500 feet for a panoramic view of the twisting Mara River and the savannah below. After an hour or so in the air, your safari finishes with a champagne breakfast in the bush, cooked on the balloon's burners.

Day 9: Kigio Conservancy. After breakfast, drive out of the Masai Mara for the Kigio Conservancy, home to Impala, Buffalo, Dik Dik, Zebra and other animals. The Conservancy also provides sanctuary for Rothschild giraffe, the most endangered of all the giraffe subspecies and rhino, which are an endangered species throughout the world. You'll arrive at Kigio in time for lunch. Later this afternoon, enjoy a game drive followed by dinner. Kigio Wildlife Camp or Lion Hill Lodge (B,L,D)

Day 10: Kigio Conservancy/Nairobi/Dubai. After breakfast, drive back to Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport to check in for your overnight return flight to the USA via Dubai. (B)

Day 11: Arrive USA. Your adventure to Dubai and Kenya ends this morning as you arrive at JFK International Airport in New York.

Cairo Flash Extension

Another way to stretch your airfare on this program is to add an extension to Cairo, where three deluxe nights, daily breakfast, transfers, a full day of touring of Cairo's most important sites and an array of fascinating and inexpensive optional tours are available. If you've been dreaming of seeing the Pyramids of Giza for yourself, this is an opportunity not to be missed!

Day 6: Dubai/Cairo. Enjoy your final breakfast in Dubai, then transfer to the airport for your flight to Cairo. Upon arrival transfer to the airport for your flight to Cairo. Upon arrival, our representatives will assist you with passport and customs formalities and escort you to your hotel. After a short briefing, enjoy the day at leisure to explore Cairo independently. This evening, join your fellow travelers on an optional dinner cruise with entertainment aboard a floating Nile River restaurant ($65). Ramses Hilton Hotel or Cairo Sheraton (B)

Day 7: Cairo. After breakfast, board your touring coach for a full day of touring, beginning at the most famous of all sites, the Pyramids of Cheops and Chephren. These monuments have stood for 46 centuries and are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, possibly the most visited monuments of Egypt. The Sphinx, a feline character with the body of a lion and the face of Khufu (Cheops in Greek) is 50 meters long and 22 meters high. Carved from a single stone, it lies just before the Pyramids, and even today its meaning and origin remain shrouded in mystery.

After lunch at a local restaurant, continue to Cairo where you'll visit the Citadel, built in the 12th century and offering magnificent views of Islamic Cairo, Old Cairo and the Egyptian Museum. This world-famous museum houses the world's greatest collections of Egyptian artifacts, with more than 136,000 artifacts from every period of pre-Islamic Egyptian history as well as the Mummy Museum containing the petrified remains of some of Egypt's greatest Pharaohs.

Tonight, enjoy an optional excursion to a spectacular Sound and Light show at the Giza Pyramids ($39). (B,L)

Day 8: Cairo. Enjoy the day at leisure. There is plenty to see and do in Cairo, including a visit to the world-famous Khan El Khalili bazaars, where the sites, sounds, spices and exotic clothing and jewelry, hand-hammered copper, ceramic ware and other treasures are waiting for your deft bargaining to win them at astounding prices. Your tour manager will gladly recommend other places where you can shop and explore independently. Or, take advantage of a special optional full-day tour to Alexandria, including lunch and visits to the Amphitheater, Pompey's Pillar, and the famed Library of Alexandria ($95). (B)

Day 9: Cairo/Evening Departure. One final day to explore Cairo on your own. An optional half-day tour of Memphis and Sakkara is also available ($59). Later this afternoon, transfer to the airport to check in for your evening return flight to the USA via Dubai. (B)

Day 10: Arrive USA. Your adventure to Dubai and Cairo ends this morning as you arrive at JFK International Airport in New York.

Optional Tours in Cairo

$145/person if pre-booked

To take full advantage of your visit to Cairo, we offer a discounted package of the most popular optional tours featured on our tour. These are not "seat in coach" tours that pick up passengers in various hotels. The optional tours package includes:

• Dinner cruise on the Nile (Day 6)
• Sound & Light Show at Giza Pyramids (Day 7)
• Half day tour of Memphis & Sakkara (Day 9)

The special package price of $145 per person is available when booked and prepaid prior to departure. If you don't want to book the entire package, individual optional tours will be available once you arrive in Cairo. (When booked individually in Cairo, these tours cost $163). *We regret that we cannot accept bookings for the pre-paid optional tours package within 75 days from departure or after final payment has been received.

Destination FAQs

Quick answers to Frequently Asked Questions about travel to Dubai.

Quick answers to Frequently Asked Questions about travel to Kenya.

Quick answers to Frequently Asked Questions about travel to Egypt.

Dazzling Dubai
Included Features

• Round trip flights from New York via Emirates Airlines wide-bodied jet service (flight schedule)
• 4 nights Deluxe hotel accommodations in Dubai at the Fairmont Hotel
• On the Kenya Wildlife Safari Extension, 1 night accommodations at the Superior First Class Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, 2 nights at the Siana Intrepids Camp, Masai Mara and 1 night at the Kigio Wildlife Lodge or Lion Hill Lodge
• 3 nights Deluxe hotel accommodations in Cairo at the Ramses Hilton Hotel or Cairo Sheraton
• Buffet breakfast daily in Dubai and Cairo; In Kenya, 11 meals including 5 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 3 dinners
• Arrival and departure transfers with meeting, assistance and porterage throughout
• Services of an English speaking tour manager throughout

TourCode: h2v-2039064

Dazzling Dubai Departures & Prices* Depart Return Book by Nov 13 After Nov 13 2009 DEPARTURES Oct 22 Oct 27 $1499 Nov 5 Nov 10 $1599 Dec 3 Dec 8 $1899 $2099 2010 DEPARTURES Jan 14 Jan 19 $1699 $1999 Feb 11 Feb 16 $1699 $1999 Mar 11 Mar 16 $1699 $1999 Apr 8 Apr 13 $1599 $1899 Apr 22 Apr 27 $1499 $1799

Tour prices are per person, double occupancy, including airfare. Prices in red reflect an early booking discount if you reserve by Nov. 13, 2009. * Prices do not include Additional Taxes, Fees & September 11th Security Fee for this tour of $99.

Taxes & Fees Service Price Additional Taxes, Fees & September 11th Security Fee +$99

Optionals & Upgrades Service Price Discounted Dubai Optional Tours Package +$130 Single Occupancy Room +$399

Optional Extensions Service Price Cairo Flash Extension Cairo Flash Extension   Dec 3 +$589 All other departures +$499 Single Occupancy +$175 Discounted Cairo Optional Tours Package +$145 Egyptian Visa Fee +$28 LAX, SFO or IAH Departure* +$180 Kenya Safari Extension Kenya Safari Extension   Dec 3 +$1,089 All other departures +$999 Single Occupancy +$350

* Because of Emirates Airlines flight schedules, passengers departing from Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Houston require an additional night in Dubai after the conclusion of the Cairo extension. This fee covers the cost of the extra hotel night.

DEPARTURE AIRPORTS Gateway Price New York Kennedy Intl (JFK) included Houston (IAH) +$130 Los Angeles Intl (LAX) +$200 San Francisco Intl (SFO) +$200

Departure airport prices subject to availability and may cost a little more.

Coming from somewhere else? Unfortunately, we don't offer departures from other cities for this tour, but you can book your own connecting flights separately.

Important Visa Information: A passport with a minimum validity of six months and a visa is required for entry into Dubai. If you are traveling on any of the following passports, you may enter Dubai on a free visa that we obtain on your behalf upon arrival: United States, Canada, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Vatican City.

All other passport holders will require a visa prior to arrival which our representatives in Dubai will arrange on your behalf. The cost for this visa is $145 per person. We will send you forms and instructions if you require this type of visa.

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No Compromise on Quality: Despite our extraordinary prices, there are no compromises on our Dazzling Dubai tours. You'll stay in well-located, Deluxe hotels in Dubai and Cairo and Superior First Class hotels in Kenya that are noted for their amenities and service. Optional tours, where offered, are priced specially for Friendly Planet groups.

Included Features: This is where comparison really pays off. Check the big-name sites to price your Dubai vacation. You'll soon see just how incredibly value-rich our package is because of the included features which cost more except when you book with Friendly Planet. Your arrival and departure transfers are all included, not expensive extras as in other tours. You'll enjoy a lavish buffet breakfast daily with lots of delicious choices to begin your day. Your package includes a comprehensive city tour and even your flights have been selected to be sure you enjoy four full days in Dubai.

Free Comprehensive Destination Guide: To help you prepare for your trip, you will receive a free, comprehensive Friendly Planet Dubai destination guide - a Friendly Planet exclusive - filled with plenty of helpful information about the destinations themselves (including history and other fascinating facts), weather, tipping, local customs, how to dress, plus insider shopping, nightlife and restaurant suggestions, organized by cuisine and cost.

Personal Service: Most important of all, the extra ingredient that makes our tours stand apart from others—the wonderful, personal attention you'll receive from our friendly staff in the USA and our representatives in Dubai, Kenya and Egypt, is completely free of charge. Compare our Dazzling Dubai programs to others, feature for feature. You'll see for yourself that ours are the very best value for money you'll find anywhere.

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TourCode: h2v-2039064