PROS
* Unique transportation method
* A practical useful method of travel between various destinations in Dubai
* Clean quiet and efficient
* Sleek classy elegant beautiful boats
* Fun
CONS
* Not frequent enough for a regular transportation option
* A slow way to get between destinations
* Stations are not prominently displayed, evident nor identifiable
* Some confusions about what goes from where to where and when
* The RTA Dubai website is notoriously unhelpful, unreliable and not user friendly with regard to water transport
* Although a journey in the Dubai Marina area crossing the water is only 3AED and from there to Bluewaters Island is only 5AED, a two hour journey to the Dubai Creek and passing the top of the Palm (passing Atlantis) is 75AED (see my “helpful” photos).
“I VISITED THIS PLACE”…
… because I wanted to experience this more of transportation. It was fun (see more “helpful” photos of the driver). I was the only other person along with a group of at least 20 young people who were raucously celebrating and singing a birthday song in Arabic; I joined in, as best as I could and they thought that that was so funny and they gave me a round of laughing applause- maybe because I was wearing a yarmulke at the time.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
The inexpensive journeys that I did in the marina were certainly worth it.
Advices
Of course, do this water, transport experience, but beware of all of the cons that I listed above