DCAA-licensed 1-hour sunrise flight over the red dunes at ~4000 ft. Commercial pilot, gourmet breakfast, falcon show.
3 flight formats — standard, deluxe with breakfast, and premium with priority launch.
1-hour sunrise flight over Lahbab red dunes. DCAA-licensed pilot, chase crew, signed flight certificate.
Standard flight plus gourmet desert breakfast, falcon show and camel ride at the Al Khayma camp post-landing.
Premium flight slot with smaller basket group, priority launch position, extended post-flight hospitality.
A hot air balloon ride in Dubai starts in the dark. Hotel pickup is around 04:00 and the balloon inflates at the staging field as the horizon turns purple. Lift-off is the moment the sun clears the dune ridge — you rise ~4000 feet, drift roughly 10 km on the desert wind, and descend gently into a soft-sand landing zone ~60 minutes later. It is the bucket-list morning.
Flights are operated under DCAA licence with commercially-rated pilots. AED 1050 standard; AED 1350 with gourmet breakfast, falcon show and a signed certificate.
4WD transfer from your Dubai hotel. The earliest you'll ever wake on holiday.
Meet the pilot team, sign the flight manifest, hot Arabic coffee.
Watch the burners roar and the envelope fill — ~20 minutes.
Silent rise as the sun peeks over the horizon. 4000 ft in ~6 minutes.
Drift at ~15 km/h on the desert wind. Wild camels below.
Pilot lowers for a soft-sand landing near the chase crew.
Signed by your pilot; group photo at the basket.
4-course desert breakfast at the Al Khayma camp.
Live falcon flight demo in Bedouin tradition.
Back to your hotel by ~10:00.
Flights are timed so you lift off just as the sun clears the horizon.
You drift over the Lahbab conservation area, not flat scrub.
Optional falcon flight demo at the post-landing breakfast — bucket-list.
Your pilot signs a flight certificate at landing — proof of the morning.
Dubai Civil Aviation Authority — the UAE civilian aviation regulator.
All pilots are commercially rated with 1000+ hours logged.
We do not fly in winds over 8 kt or in summer months (May–Sep).
A 4WD follows the balloon, at the landing site before you touch down.
Flights are run under DCAA licence with commercially-rated pilots, full weather cancellation discipline, and chase-crew protocols. Statistically, commercial balloon flights are among the safest aviation categories.
October through April. Summer months (May–September) are too hot and turbulent for safe flights — operators don't fly.
About 60 minutes in the air. Total tour is 5 hours door-to-door including pickup, inflation, breakfast and drop-off.
You get a full refund or a free reschedule — your choice. We make the call 2 hours before pickup, via WhatsApp.
Passenger maximum is 115 kg. Minimum age is 5. Under 7s fly free when accompanied by a paying adult.
Standard (AED 1050) is the flight + water. Deluxe (AED 1350) adds the gourmet breakfast, falcon show, certificate and photo album.
Message us on WhatsApp and we'll confirm your slot in minutes.