Christmas Holidays in Dubai
4 DAYS | EX KOCHI · DUBAI AND ABU DHABI
EXPERIENCES:
Air Arabia Flights | UAE Visa Cost Included | Premium 4 Star Hotels | All Meals | Travel Insurance up to 70 | Malayalee Tour Manager
Seven emirates, one union
Dubai Tour From Kochi, Souks and Desert Nights
One small country holds the tallest tower on earth, a marble mosque that stops every visitor mid-step, mountains, oases, and dunes that turn copper at sunset. Fortune covers the Emirates through its set Dubai group departure ex Kochi, with private plans built around it for families and longer stays.
Why the UAE
The Foreign Country That Feels Like Family.
No place abroad is woven into Kerala life like the Emirates. Flights from Kochi land in under four hours, the UAE holds one of the largest Malayali communities anywhere on earth, and for lakhs of families a Gulf trip is equal parts holiday and homecoming. The country is a union of seven emirates, Abu Dhabi the capital among them, and it swings between extremes with a showman's timing: record-breaking towers and the world's grandest malls on one side, creek boats, spice souks, mountain roads, and silent dunes on the other. Fortune covers it as a set group departure, with the option to wrap the touring days around family time anywhere in the Emirates.
Across the Emirates
Four Faces of One Country.
Seven emirates, four broad directions, and more variety than the map suggests.
Dubai
The headline city
Where the Burj Khalifa needles into the clouds, the fountain show dances below it, and the marina, malls, souks, and beaches run the day into a late, lit night.
Abu Dhabi
The capital
Home of the white marble Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, a grand corniche, and museum districts built to world scale.
Sharjah and the Northern Emirates
The country's cultural capital of museums and souks
With Ajman's quiet beaches beyond it, the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah rising to the UAE's highest road, and Fujairah's east coast facing a different sea.
The Desert and the Oases
The country's oldest face
Where 4x4s ride the red dunes at sunset, camps glow after dark, and the garden city of Al Ain keeps its ancient palm oases.
Before you go
The UAE, in brief.
The quick read before the plan.
The building that stops the room
A Morning at the Grand Mosque.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
A Field of White Marble and Gold
In Abu Dhabi stands the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, and no photograph fully prepares a visitor for it. Eighty-two white domes float over marble courtyards inlaid with flowers of coloured stone, chandeliers heavy with crystal hang above one of the largest hand-knotted carpets ever made, and pools along the arcades double the whole vision in still water. It welcomes visitors of every faith, asks only for modest dress and quiet steps, and repays them with an hour most travellers count among the finest of any trip. Sunset is its famous moment, when the white marble takes on the colour of the sky, and the Fortune route gives the mosque its own unhurried visit on the Abu Dhabi day.
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Worth the drive out
The Evening the Country Turns to Sand.
An hour from any skyline, the tarmac gives way to dunes, and the Emirates show their older face. The 4x4s deflate their tyres and ride the red sand in long swoops, pausing on a ridge as the sun drops and the desert turns gold, then copper, then dark. At the camp, dinner comes under lanterns with music and shows, camels wait for slow rides, and the sky overhead fills with more stars than the cities ever allow. For many travellers this evening, not the malls, is the memory that stays longest.
Made your way
The fixed plan is one option, not the only one.
Our group departures suit travellers who want everything settled in advance, but that is not the only way to travel with us. If the set dates do not match your leave, if you want more days in one place and fewer in another, or if you would rather travel only with your own family or friends, tell our team what you have in mind and we will build the trip around you instead. You see the full plan and the cost before anything is confirmed, and nothing is booked until you are happy with it.
Start PlanningThe Fortune Way
Small Kingdom, Long Checklist, Handled.
20 Years of Experience
Two decades of escorted group departures from Kerala, with the systems that come from doing it a thousand times.
Permits Without the Queue
Advance online permits processed before departure, so the border is a formality instead of a wait.
Two Guides, One Group
A Fortune escort travels from Kerala, and a Bhutan government-authorised guide leads inside the kingdom.
Meals and Miles Covered
Flights, hotels, daily meals, entry tickets, and drinking water on the road, all inside one booking.
The Fortune Departure
The Set Trip That Covers the Emirates.
A yacht night on the Marina, a desert evening of dunes and barbecue, the view from high in the Burj Khalifa, and a full Abu Dhabi day of palaces and the Grand Mosque, on the Christmas Holidays in Dubai departure.
FAQ
Questions with useful answers
No. The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is the country, a union of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah, and Fujairah. Dubai is its most famous emirate and city, while Abu Dhabi is the capital. Fortune's set departure travels under the Dubai name and covers both big cities.
Four days ex Kochi with three Dubai nights: the city tour with the Burj Al Arab and Palm photo stops, the Marina yacht night, Miracle Garden, the desert safari with barbecue dinner and belly dance, entry high into the Burj Khalifa, Global Village, and a full Abu Dhabi day with the Grand Mosque and Qasr Al Watan. The complete day-wise plan sits on the itinerary page.
Yes, and on this tour the UAE single-entry visa cost is included in the package, with Fortune processing the papers alongside you. Keep your passport valid for six months beyond your return date with four blank pages.
November to March, when days are warm rather than fierce and evenings turn beautiful. Summer months run very hot, and if that is your window, the plan flips to indoor days and outdoor nights, stated honestly upfront.
A 4x4 rides the red dunes through sunset, then the evening settles into a desert camp with a barbecue dinner, a belly dance performance, camel rides, sand boarding, and a campfire under the stars. It is the most loved evening on any Gulf trip, and gentler transfers exist for travellers who want the camp without the dune drive.
Easily, and half our Gulf travellers do. Days with relatives in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, or anywhere across the Emirates sit before or after the set tour, and the desk builds the route around your family time, with the reworked plan priced before you commit.