We had booked the "Private Luxury Romantic Dune Dinner Tour". The bottom line is that we have been disappointed and expected something different. Specifically, the following points: Our driver was very quiet and could barely speak English, so communication was difficult. We did enjoy the private pickup and dune bashing though. At the camel farm, we were let out without comment and a baby camel was dragged out for a photo under loud protest. Afterwards we were taken to the camp where we were offered the standard program with all the other tourists. We actually wanted to avoid this with the PRIVATE tour. The offer itself also left much to be desired (disgusting toilets, old sandboards, annoyed henna lady, 5 meter camel tour). Afterwards we were led to our dinner place (about 100m away from the camp), which was quite nice in itself, but differed greatly from the pictures. The food (from the camp) was lukewarm and served in plastic dishes (with only plastic spoons). Also, we could not smoke the shisha alone as promised, but with everyone in the camp. In the end, we went on the regular tour, only with private pickup and the dinner a few meters away. Unfortunately, this was not worth the extra charge. We have not received any feedback on our report/complaint to the management for several weeks now. All in all, we can only advise not to book with TripArabia.
