Dubai Marina Dinner Cruise

The Marina is the right stretch of water for this — narrow enough that the towers stay close on both sides the whole way, unlike the open-sea cruises where you spend half the trip looking at dark. Dinner is a proper buffet on the air-conditioned lower deck, with Arabic and Indian dishes alongside the international spread, and there is open-air seating upstairs when you want photographs. A tanoura performer works the deck partway through. Arrive twenty minutes before departure.