Dubai Sunrise Balloon Flight with Free Hotel Transport

The flight lasts between 30 minutes and an hour, depending on what the weather does, and takes the balloon 2,000 to 4,000 feet above the desert. Morning is the only sensible time for it: the air is cooler and steadier at dawn, which is what a balloon needs, and low sun puts colour into the red dunes that midday flattens out completely. Transport is included, and the five hours quoted covers the whole morning rather than the flight. Roughly 90 minutes of that is spent in the desert, the rest split between driving and the briefing, starting and finishing at your hotel. Dubai has no shortage of things to do at ground level. Very few of them are quiet, and none of them show you the desert edge of the city the way an hour in a basket does.