Dubai Water Taxi service at 18 key locations across the city

Anything Venice can do....

Phil: I love this. Having just come back from Dubai and again experienced some heavy traffic during the working week, a water taxi has to be the way forward and something I will look to experience on my next visit.

Dubai now has a competitor for the famous Venetian Vaporetti. An all-new water-taxi service has been launched between 18 key locations around the emirate including Dubai Creek, Atlantis, The Palm and Dubai Marina.

The fast, 11m boats are fitted with 11 airline-style Business Class seats, complete with seat-back LCD screens and will whisk passengers around the water front of Dubai avoiding traffic snarl-ups. Like a conventional car taxi service customers can request pick-ups on demand at the designated locations between 10am and 10pm.

A basic journey costs approx £9 (AED 50) for one stop and the boats are also available for tourist trips at £100 (AED 570) per hour. For a full list of taxi stations and costs see below.

Water Taxi service:-

The Roads & Transportation Authority – Public Trasnport Agency(Dubai) Launch  new, quick and comfortable water passenger service by launching the water taxi. This service will carry you across the creek channels and maritime routes to any site you want only what you have to do is calling RTA Call Center on 8009090.