Arabic Night

It is the most amazing night for people that have not been to Dubai before and if they have and they have done this as a tourist it will be even better. We are very good at this, and one of the few things that we are inflexible with is our standards. However there are many ways to achieve this, and whilst this is probably one of the major budget investments, it doesn't have to break the bank! The better known way is the Arabic Night described below, but we can also do fabulous dune top dinners for smaller groups and traditional Arabic Nights on Dhows....

The work involved for the standard Arabic night is incredibly extensive, set up for example starts at around 5am, decoration arrives by the truck load, the campsite is cleaned, we truck in water and generators, additional lighting, drivers dinners, staff lunches, the list goes on and on. Overall a 150 person dinner can involve well over 50 crew.

We tailor the campsites to specific group size, smaller groups smaller campsites, larger groups larger campsites and so on. All groups are different and we feel that forcing each and every group to use one specific campsite ie one that we owned is the wrong approach.

Optional entertainment here is fairly broad reaching, we recommend that you always look at taking the Arabic band and the belly dancer as the evening is just not complete without them.

Other things include fortune-tellers who we normally have to hide at the end of the evening to get the people in to the cars, then we have the camels and the henna ladies, and shisha pipes. After the belly dancer European entertainment is a good idea as the Arabic music gets to you after a while.

Along with the set up and menu is all the décor and we now do sand skiing at the site itself… much better as if people do fall over they can get under the tap straight away without having to wait for an hour or two covered in sand.

Timings - what to watch out for is the drinks bill here. Not that it's expensive but think about the total amount of time you have with an open bar - from half five to ten eleven o'clock, it's quite a long time and people have been in the desert so they are hot.

For larger numbers we utilise a different format of arrival and when we write your programmes this will be explained.

Lastly we'll be honest here, we have said before that we are not the cheapest DMC in Dubai however with this evening you really do get what you pay for, this is exactly the same set up that you would get in a hotel and in fact it all comes from a hotel. Glasses are glass and silverware is just that - we do not do plastic. There really is a bathroom attendant not a cardboard cut out and yes we brought the water tanker in too…

Lately we have been asked more and more for cut down Arabic night, we'll be the first to tell you that the actual Arabic night formula whilst looking amazing has about as much class as a stick of Blackpool rock. What we have been developing is a sunset bar / Arabic night.. Yes no campsite!

The results are stunning. imagine a five star set up on top of a sand dune... nothing else it's beautiful and costs less.

The other option here is to bin the Arabic night totally and go with what we call the expat BBQ.. it's done in the desert like the Arabic night but it's more of a dune party - like we who live here would do if we went in to the desert - large chunks of meat sizzling on the BBQ with an unplugged band strumming in the back ground... would you believe it this has been our most successful way of using the desert?

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