Ferrari World Discussion Thread

[LedgyWhen I grow up, I want to breed donkeys!]

^ No one holds the place back... Don´t forget... there is an IKEA!!! just kidding

- The truth is, I agree more with your thoughts -

[RastusoA zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey.]

^^ It's easy, but does take some planning, you guys were driven there by a friend. Taxis are an option, but you are looking at about 3 hours total travel time for the round trip, and probably close to $300. Now, a coaster fanatic would pay that for a ride on the world's fastest coaster, and I was prepared to. But few tourists would do the same. Plus, I know I wasn't really sure about getting into a taxi with someone who spoke little English, and getting them to drive 80 miles for me. Some of the taxi drivers I had, it would have been fine. Some of them, no way in hell would I have asked them to do that.

Dubai is definitely the hub airport in the area, not Abu Dhabi. And all the other things, Atlantis, Ski Dubai, Wild Wadi, Burj Khalifa, world's largest malls, are all in Dubai, not Abu Dhabi. Plus, Dubai has a transit system to take you to everything.

Ferrari World is very out of the way right now. Hopefully that will change. It has to, or FW won't be around. No matter how much money they have, when I visited, workers may have outnumbered guests. That isn't a profitable venture.

-RO

[SharkTumsSite Admin]

^Actually we hired a driver and car for our Abu Dhabi Day and it was less than $150 for 10 hours. Any of the Dubai hotels can easily arrange this for you.

[RastusoA zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey.]

And that included the 150 mile round trip?

-RO

[SharkTumsSite Admin]

^Yup.

It was probably like the hotel front desk guys brother or something that drove us, but we were safe and it worked so woo!

[RastusoA zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey.]

You guys did quite good then. But using the standard taxi rate to get to AD from Dubai is over $100, iirc. Heck, going to Atlantis from the airport was $15. Getting a taxi for 10 hrs for $150, and lots of miles, seems like the deal of the century.

That tells me that there are WAAAAAY too many taxis there, and they spend most of their time waiting in lines to get fares. I always wondered about that, as we would pass the hundreds of taxis in line for fares everywhere. When I asked my hotel about taxis to AD, they were quite hesitant of me even doing it. It would require a lot of trust on both ends, and I didn't have that with some of the more Al-Queda looking drivers.

-RO

[SharkTumsSite Admin]

^Yeah, we did NOT hire a taxi for the Abu Dhabi day, it was a private car and driver, no meter or anything like that. Seems like a lot of the hotels do it though as I had a few different quotes on it.

We did taxis around Dubai as they seemed pretty cheap compared to other big cities.

[rosscoeI own the website www.donkey.com]

I was there for Christmas, my mother and myself took a taxi from Hilton Abu Dhabi to Dubai Mall total cost with tip Australian Dollars $57.00.

Dubai back to Abu Dhabi via Yas Island $64.00 Australian Dollars

To hire a driver for the day would be only about ten dollars more!

The bus fare from Abu Dhabi - Dubai $3.00 dollars. Dubai - Abu Dhabi $5.00.

A Taxi from the downtown bus station Abu Dhabi to Yas Island around 10.00 bucks. Transport is cheap and no reason not to get around the UAE.

[dubaidaveI just swallowed a whole donkey!]

sorry guysI seem to have missed the updates on this thread.

The suspended coaster looks interesting. I will have a look the next time I am down there.

As for the amount of people at the parks. they do get much busier in the evenings and weekends. Whenever I visit I alwasy go when I know it will be quiet.

I have seen Ferrari World fairly busy and all the other parks are heaving on a thursday night and friday afternon.

Taxi prices seem about right. Yes they are much cheaper than in other countries but the distances traveled are quite a long way. If you can hire a car and driver from your hotel it works out a fair bit cheaper if you are traveling a large distance, otherwise metered taxis are cheaper for short distances.

Will try to get down to Yas as soon as I can and post and update.

[O-Town77I just made a donkey in No Limits!]

^Yeah I agree. It's super easy to get to from Dubai and relatively cheap. That is not an excuse at all.

But it's cheaper to fly directly to Abu Dhabi -- which is what I was saying. Maybe I didn't phrase it correctly. I don't really trust
the taxi idea -- I've been taken "for a ride" a few times overseas....