Local Taxis

The most common method of transport for Dubai Travel is the local taxi services with a variety of carriers for specialized or general travel. The cream coloured Dubai Transport Corporation taxis offer metered taxis with a pickup fee and per kilometer rates. As an alternative, non-metered taxis offer a negotiable rate which is usually far more reasonable.

Specific charted airport taxis serve to transport guests from the airport to hotels or the city centre, but most hotels supply transports for their guests as an additional service normally by shuttle.

Dubai Bus Services

Within the confines of Dubai operates a fairly reliable bus service and alternate forms of public transport, but outside the confines of the city, methods of transport are very limited and further travel is very difficult without the use of a rental car.

Dubai Car Hire

Car hire is not deemed to be particular exorbitant, but road traffic regulation is somewhat different to other places in the world, and this can be quite confusing to foreigners. Dubai seems particularly attached to decorative round-abouts that can be somewhat hazardous to travellers. Other than the initial confusion, Dubai has an impressive, well marked network of roads connect is many destinations and first class freeways linking it to the rest of the United Arab Emirates. Roads in the rest of the UAE generally compare to this standard, but some regions may be less accessible unless by plane.

Dubai Metro

The Dubai Metro (in Arabic: مترو دبي) is a driverless, fully automated metro network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The Red Line is partly operational, the Green Line is still under construction, and further lines are planned. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere. All trains and stations are air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible.

The first section of the Red Line, covering 10 stations, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM on September 9, 2009, by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, with the line opening to the public at 6 AM on September 10. The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula. More than 110,000 people, which is nearly 10 per cent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation.