Must do - This is a great overview of Dubai and a must do early on in your trip. We visited the new Dubai and the old Dubai. We bought an additional dinner cruise directly through Big Bus - however, I would don't do this cruise. The dinner was very ordinary and overpriced.

Value for money - This is always good value for money and it gives you an excellent overview of the city. We thorougly enjoyed this way of exploring the city

The best way to sightsee - The best part of using Big Bus hop on hop off is getting around to the main attractions without having to rent a car and drive there. Big bus gave me all the information I needed to learn about Dubai and explore this beautiful city of Dubai.

Great for an introduction to the city - We did the red and blue tour on our first day in dubai, it was an excellent way of seeing the city and understanding where various places of interest were located

Awesome - excellent way to see places in Dubai. It covers the old part ( Red line) and modern (blue)..Having Dubai Mall start and end is very good choice and convenient…watch dancing fountain ang Burj Khalifa come alive!!!

Excellent experience mainly because of the Driver that helped us a lot. Mr. RAM. Amazing human being! - Turn the 2 routes in 3 or 4. The blue route takes too long due to huge traffic. This would lead to less spent time.

Big bus Rock - Amazing views and friendly staff , very well planed Bus Routes . Drivers are super helpful and friendly like family

A interesting Tour through the Dubai City - Very interesting tour, you can see a lot of Dubai city and the surrounding on Dubai Palm. The bus should drive longer in the evening ( till 8:00pm).

Big Bus Company is Great, but Be Careful. - Great tour, but be sure you get back on the Big Bus. The other company’s bus is the same color and they even have a Blue route. We asked when we got on if it was the blue route and the driver said “yes.” But it went the opposite direction and we realized it was the other company’s bus. We lost an hour catching up with the Big Red Bus.

Ups, downs and round the houses - Although only staying for a couple of days we purchased the 5 day ticket as it was not much more money that the 2-day and included the sunset desert trip (the free tickets to attractions etc still need to be booked via the Big Bus app and are printed off by a conductor at the main terminal, but you can still ride the bus by showing a proof of purchase until that time). The main terminal is at the Dubai Mall/Burj Khalifa, where the routes intersect. Firstly, this is a good way to get to know the city as there is a detailed audio commentary with headphones provided, but not all sockets on the buses seemed to work. We chose to do the red route one day and the blue the next. The red route came with an hour-long dhow trip around the Creek, which was worthwhile although there was no commentary. Drinks on board were reasonable. The blue route headed to the Palm and beaches; we stopped at the Atlantis (hotel) Lagoon and Aquarium (free tickets), this was OK and I've written a separate review of this. We headed back to the Mall to get the Sunset tour bus which left around 3.45pm. The choice of bus was a bit strange as many had an partially enclosed front section, but this on was all open top which made the wind buffeting on the motorway almost painful (an hours ride each way) and space downstairs was limited. On arrival at the 'fort' (really a glamping resort, Terra Solis) the driver gave us limited instruction other than to come back to the bus once the sen had set. We cheerfully walked through the resort in to the desert to take some photos. at that point we were chased by a security guard who told us we should not be there, so we followed another path back towards the bus, only to be chased again by the same guard. Clearly bus passengers can only go to certain areas, not communicated. That said. the sunset was wonderful. On arrival back at the Mall (7.00pm), we went in search of a taxi as the buses don't run that late (!), not even a last lap to take the tour guests back to where they started their bus journey that day. In the Mall we were shocked to find a queue for the taxis of around 350 meters which took 50 minutes to negotiate, putting a real dampener on the day! Overall, this is value for money but the traffic congestion in Dubai makes it difficult to hop on/off more than twice or 3 times in a day as the traffic crawls and lots of time is wasted in jams. In hindsight, it is a good way to get acclimatised in short period, but taxis may be of a similar price and more direct for most of the sights.