Every jet ski tour worth the fuel. Dubai to the Coral Sea.
What a thirty-minute skyline run really costs. Where you can ride without a licence. Which coasts stay flat until lunch, and which operators put two of you on one machine.
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03Four jet ski rides that decide the rest of the holiday.
A lap of the Burj Al Arab, a Whitsunday passage run, the cliffs west of Palma and a circuit inside the Moorea reef. What each costs, and what the people who rode it say.
01The skyline lapJetski to Burj Arab-Atlantis w Pic, Video & IcecreamThirty minutes out past the Burj Al Arab and back along the Atlantis breakwater. Photos and video are part of the price, so nobody rides one-handed with a phone.
02The passage runWhitsundays Guided Jet Ski TourA guided run through the Whitsunday passages with one rider per machine. Turquoise the whole way, and no road anywhere near it.
03The cliff tourLos Deltas Jet Ski TourWest out of Palma to Los Deltas, along limestone that drops straight into water. Two riders share a machine on this one, so read the price as a pair.
04The lagoon circuitMoorea Solo or Twin 3 hours Jet Ski TourThree hours around Moorea inside the reef, where the water stays shallow and Mount Tohivea does the scenery. Solo or twin, your choice at the desk.
Mallorca to Lanzarote: where Spain lets you open the throttle.
Balearic limestone, Canarian black rock and a cathedral you ride past on the Palma run. Four coasts, what a machine costs on each, and where the licence rule bites.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · Jetski Tour to Palma Cathedral
MallorcaCliff runs west of Palma, cave tours off the east coast.
TenerifeVolcanic cliffs, whale water, a guide on every machine.
IbizaCoves with no road to them, and the crossing towards Formentera.
LanzaroteBlack rock and flat mornings, before the trade wind gets up.
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Spain, the Gulf, the Coral Sea: six countries that hire jet skis by the half hour.
A cathedral on the Palma run, a seven-star hotel to circle at Jumeirah, Whitsunday sand, a lagoon ringed by reef, Baja cliffs and Caribbean flats. Six countries, and the best ride in each.
Dubai turned its own skyline into a jet ski circuit.
The Burj Al Arab from the water, the Atlantis breakwater, the Marina towers and the Palm. Most runs go thirty to sixty minutes off Jumeirah, and the photographs come back with you.
From Jumeirah beach to Key West: the rides people take first.
Every jet ski review →The most popular rides on this list, and what earns each one its place.
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Jetski to Burj Arab-Atlantis w Pic, Video & Icecream
Start at Umm Suqeim Marina with a certified captain, then ride past Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj Al Arab. You share one jet ski with up to two people, receive photos and videos, and finish with ice cream or pizza at Lumiere Café. Guides include Rashid, Roshan, Fahad, Malik, and Soaib.
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Jet Ski Tour of Burj Al Arab with Photos
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Whitsundays Guided Jet Ski Tour
from $92
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Jet Ski to Burj Al Arab included Photos and Videos
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Exclusive 1HR Jet Ski Tour- Burj al Arab & Atlantis
from $172
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Jet Ski Tour with Optional Quad Trip
from $56
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Dubai 1h Jet Ski, Burj Al Arab, Atlantis, Ice Cream, Photo, Video
from $151
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Jetski Adventure w/ Burj Khalifa & Burj Al Arab Views
Jet ski rental, guided safari, or a lap of the landmarks.
A rental hands you the keys and a boundary. A guided tour puts a lead machine in front and takes you further out. A safari runs half a day and stops to swim. The gap in price between them is smaller than the gap in what you see.
What a jet ski costs, from a twenty-minute blast to a half-day safari.
Every ride grouped by price. Watch for the machines quoted per group: two of you share one ski, and the number covers both.
Twenty and thirty-minute rentals, beach-desk hire, and the shared-machine skyline runs.
The hour-long guided tours: landmark laps, cove runs and the standard island circuits.
Half-day safaris, private guides and the three-hour lagoon circuits.
Three stretches of water worth booking a jet ski around.
Turquoise is everywhere. A seven-star hotel you can ride a full circle around, a lagoon with a volcano standing in the middle of it, and an island small enough to lap before lunch are not.
A lap of the Burj Al Arab
Dubai runs its fleet off the public beaches at Jumeirah, and the standard route curls out around the Burj Al Arab before turning down towards the Atlantis breakwater. Thirty minutes covers that. An hour adds the Marina towers, the Palm and a long straight where the water finally opens up. Almost every operator films it, which is the real reason the photographs from here look nothing like holiday snaps.
- 1Jet Ski Tour of Burj Al Arab with Photos★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 3,505 reviews
- 2Jet Ski to Burj Al Arab included Photos and Videos★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,888 reviews
- 3Exclusive 1HR Jet Ski Tour- Burj al Arab & Atlantis★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,844 reviews
The circuit inside the reef
Bora Bora sits in a lagoon, so the whole island is ringed by water that stays flat and rarely gets deep. The tours run the full circumference in two to three hours, stopping on the motus, and Mount Otemanu stays in the frame the entire way round. It is the rare jet ski route where nobody is riding it for the speed.
- 1Bora Bora Jet Ski Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 370 reviews
- 2Maitai Tours Self-Drive Bora Bora Jet Ski Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 266 reviews
- 3Bora Bora Island Tour By JET SKI★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 263 reviews
The Key West island loop
Key West is small enough to circle on a jet ski, and the standard tour does exactly that: a guided lap with the Atlantic on one side and the Gulf on the other, including a long shallow crossing where you can read the bottom the whole way. Two riders per machine is normal here, and on several of these the second rider goes free.
- 1Key West Island Adventure Jet Ski Tour: Bring a Partner for Free★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,362 reviews
- 2Jet Ski Island Tour with Sandbar Stop★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 384 reviews
- 3The Original Key West Island Jet Ski Tour from Barefoot Billy’s★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 350 reviews
Four things that stop a jet ski booking dead.
Most of this gets settled at a beach desk an hour beforehand. These four do not, and each one turns people away.
- 01Jet Ski Adventure Tour (without license)Spain and the Canaries split the fleet into licensed and unlicensed machines. The no-licence boats are power-capped and have to stay with a guide, so riding off on your own needs paperwork you cannot get on the day.
- 02Jet Ski RentalA rental takes a card deposit against the machine and hands you a boundary you are not allowed to cross. Read the zone before you pay for the hour, not after.
- 03Jet Ski Safari Hour of Power and Marine LifeHalf-day safaris are called off by wind, not rain. Book one for the first clear morning of the trip so there is a second morning to move it to.
- 04Phuket Jet Ski Tour to 5-8 Islands with Pickup and TransferHotel pickup windows run wide and the departure does not move. Miss the van and the slot goes to whoever is standing at the desk.
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