# Theme parks for a company day out in the UAE

> Which Dubai or Abu Dhabi theme park suits your team, how a 9-hour group day works, and real prices from AED 410 a person excluding 5% VAT.

Guides · Published 4 November 2026 · Offsyte. Web page: https://offsyte.ae/blog/theme-parks-company-day-out-uae/

**For most UAE teams the right call is IMG Worlds of Adventure if you want a sure thing indoors, Ferrari World or Warner Bros. World if the trip is to Abu Dhabi anyway, and neither if the group is actually a family day.** A group day at any of them runs **AED 410 to AED 990 per person excluding 5% VAT**, and the park matters more than the brochure makes it look.

The parks are not interchangeable. They differ on the thing that actually decides whether the day works: how much of it is outdoors, how thrill-heavy the rides are, and whether a third of your office will spend the day watching.

## Which park actually suits your team

Four questions settle it before you look at a single price.

**Is the date between May and September?** If yes, Motiongate and the waterparks are out. [Outdoor events in UAE summer](https://offsyte.ae/blog/uae-summer-events-may-september/) stop being a comfort question and become a safety one, and a half-outdoor park is a half-outdoor problem. IMG Worlds, Ferrari World and Warner Bros. World are indoor and run the same day in July as in January.

**How thrill-tolerant is the room, honestly?** A park built around one headline coaster is a long day for the quarter of any office that will not ride it. Warner Bros. World and IMG Worlds carry more gentle and family-style rides alongside the big ones; Ferrari World leans further toward thrill.

**Does anyone have a height, back, heart or pregnancy restriction?** Every major coaster in this list carries a minimum height, typically in the 1.1–1.4 metre range, and some carry health declarations. Ask before you book, not on the coach — a non-rider with no plan for the day is the single most predictable complaint from this kind of event.

**Is the trip to Dubai or Abu Dhabi already decided?** If the day is built around Abu Dhabi for another reason, Ferrari World and Warner Bros. World are on Yas Island already. If it is a Dubai day, IMG Worlds or Motiongate keep the transfer under an hour.

## IMG Worlds or Motiongate: the Dubai choice

**IMG Worlds of Adventure** is the safer booking of the two. It is fully indoor and temperature-controlled across four zones — Marvel, Cartoon Network, Lost Valley and IMG Boulevard — which means weather, heat and shade are simply not a planning question. For a mixed-age, mixed-fitness office that wants one park and no surprises, this is it.

**Motiongate** is the Hollywood-studio alternative — DreamWorks, Columbia Pictures and Lionsgate zones built around film franchises — and it is a genuinely different day. The catch is that it is not fully indoor: some of its zones, including the outdoor play areas, sit in the open. That is fine October to April and is why we do not sell it May to September — IMG takes that slot instead.

Both run through **[Park Takeover](https://offsyte.ae/packages/park-takeover/)**, a 9-hour day for 15 to 150 people: **AED 520 per person at 15–29, AED 450 at 30–59, AED 410 at 60 or more**, excluding 5% VAT.

## Ferrari World or Warner Bros. World: the Abu Dhabi choice

Both sit on Yas Island, both are substantially indoor and air-conditioned, and both work year-round for that reason.

**Ferrari World** is the one to pick for a younger team or a genuinely competitive one — the park is built around speed and racing, and it reads that way. One honest note at the time of writing (November 2026): Formula Rossa, the park's headline coaster, is listed as closed for maintenance on the park's own ride-status page, with no published reopening date. If your team is booking specifically to ride it, check the park's live status first rather than assume it will be running on the day.

**Warner Bros. World** is the better pick for a mixed-ability group or anything family-adjacent — six lighter, character-led zones (Gotham City, Metropolis, Cartoon Junction, Bedrock, Dynamite Gulch and Warner Bros. Plaza) rather than one speed-focused identity.

Both run through **[Capital Thrills](https://offsyte.ae/packages/capital-thrills/)**, an 11-hour day for 15 to 120 people, year-round: **AED 650 per person at 15–29, AED 570 at 30–59, AED 520 at 60 or more**, excluding 5% VAT.

## Aquaventure or Yas Waterworld: the water days

If the brief is a waterpark rather than a theme park, the choice is mostly geography. **Aquaventure** at Atlantis The Palm is the Dubai option; **Yas Waterworld** sits on Yas Island next to Ferrari World. Both are outdoor, which is why the full-day version runs October to May — heat, not rain, is the real constraint once summer arrives.

**[Aquaventure Day](https://offsyte.ae/packages/aquaventure-day/)** is a 9-hour day for 15 to 100 people: **AED 680 per person at 15–29, AED 600 at 30–59, AED 550 at 60 or more**, excluding 5% VAT.

For a team that wants Ferrari World in the morning and a water day in the afternoon rather than choosing, **[Track & Tide](https://offsyte.ae/packages/track-and-tide/)** combines Ferrari World and Yas Waterworld with dinner in Abu Dhabi, 13.5 hours door to door, October to May: **AED 990 per person at 15–29, AED 880 at 30–59, AED 860 at 60–100**, excluding 5% VAT. Be clear-eyed about what this buys — two parks in one day is a taste of each, not a full day of either, which is the honest trade for seeing both.

## Why Legoland isn't on this list

Legoland Dubai is a good park and a bad fit for most corporate groups. It is built for families with children around 12 and under, so a company of working adults gets a day of rides and zones pitched a full generation below the room. We don't run it as a team day because we'd be selling you the wrong product.

Where it does belong is a [company family day](https://offsyte.ae/blog/company-family-day-sports-day-uae/), where partners and children are part of the guest list and the age mix is the point rather than the problem. If that's actually your brief, start there instead.

## How the group ticket and the lunch actually work

The thing a retail ticket cannot buy is logistics, and on a 150-person day logistics is most of what goes wrong. A group booking gets your whole office through the gate together rather than queuing individually, a reserved lunch slot with dietary options confirmed in advance rather than forty people fighting the same counter at 13:00, and wristbands and a managed meeting point so the 16:30 regroup takes ten minutes rather than forty. None of that shows up in the retail ticket price, and all of it is the difference between a day out and an afternoon of WhatsApp messages asking where everyone is.

## The drive to Yas Island, and whether it's worth it

Abu Dhabi's theme parks are a genuine commitment, not a short hop: plan on roughly 90 minutes each way from Dubai, which is why the Abu Dhabi day's pickup is 08:00 rather than IMG Worlds' 09:00. That is worth it when the destination itself is the draw — Ferrari World and Warner Bros. World are not available any closer — but it is two hours of the day spent on a coach, and a team that mainly wants "a day out" rather than "that specific park" is usually better served staying in Dubai.

## What a 9-hour day really looks like

Door to door, a single-park day runs roughly: 09:00 coach departs your office, 09:45 arrival and group registration, 10:15 entrance photograph before the crowds build, 10:30 group entry, free time through the middle of the day with a reserved group lunch at 13:00, a 16:30 regroup at the meeting point, and the coach back on the road by 17:00. The park gets about six hours of actual time once transfer, registration and lunch are accounted for — plan the brief around that real number, not the nine hours on the invoice.

## What it costs, side by side

| Package | Parks | Hours | Season | 15–29 | 30–59 | 60+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Takeover | IMG Worlds or Motiongate | 9 | Year-round (IMG); Oct–Apr (Motiongate) | AED 520 | AED 450 | AED 410 |
| Aquaventure Day | Aquaventure | 9 | Oct–May | AED 680 | AED 600 | AED 550 |
| Capital Thrills | Ferrari World or Warner Bros. World | 11 | Year-round | AED 650 | AED 570 | AED 520 |
| Track & Tide | Ferrari World + Yas Waterworld | 13.5 | Oct–May | AED 990 | AED 880 | AED 860* |

*Track & Tide's top band covers 60–100 people. All prices per person, excluding 5% VAT.

If you already know the headcount and the month, that table is the whole decision. If you don't, settle the four questions above first — the park follows from the answers, not the other way round.

## Common questions

### Does Dubai have an indoor theme park?

Yes. IMG Worlds of Adventure in Dubai is one of the world's largest indoor theme parks, fully air-conditioned across roughly 1.5 million square feet of Marvel, Cartoon Network and Lost Valley zones. It is the one park on this list that runs exactly the same in August as it does in January.

### Is IMG Worlds or Ferrari World better for a company day out?

IMG Worlds suits a Dubai-based team that wants a short transfer and a mix of thrill and gentle rides in one air-conditioned building. Ferrari World suits a team that wants the specific thrill of a Ferrari-branded park and does not mind a 90-minute drive to Yas Island. Neither is better in general; they answer different briefs.

### Is Legoland Dubai suitable for a corporate team day out?

Not really. Legoland Dubai is built for families with children around 12 and under, so a 30-year-old engineering team gets a day pitched well below its age. It is an honest, good choice for a company family day with partners and children, which is a different event from a team day out.

### How much does a company theme park day cost in the UAE?

From AED 410 to AED 990 per person excluding 5% VAT, depending on the park and group size. A single-park day at IMG Worlds or Motiongate runs AED 520 at 15 to 29 people down to AED 410 at 60 or more. A two-park Abu Dhabi day with two meals runs AED 990 down to AED 860.

## Sources

- [Park overview — opening hours and ride status](https://www.ferrariworldabudhabi.com/en/park-overview/opening-hours), Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
- [Opening hours](https://www.legoland.com/dubai/plan-your-visit/opening-hours/), LEGOLAND Dubai
- [IMG Worlds of Adventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMG_Worlds_of_Adventure), Wikipedia
- [Ferrari World Abu Dhabi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_World_Abu_Dhabi), Wikipedia
- [Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._World_Abu_Dhabi), Wikipedia
- [Legoland Dubai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legoland_Dubai), Wikipedia

## Packages mentioned

- [Park Takeover](https://offsyte.ae/packages/park-takeover/) (H-01): from AED 410 per person ex. VAT, 15 min — 150 max. A whole day at IMG Worlds or Motiongate, group rate, transport handled. Fully indoor — the easiest summer sell in the catalog.
- [Aquaventure Day](https://offsyte.ae/packages/aquaventure-day/) (H-02): from AED 550 per person ex. VAT, 15 min — 100 max. Atlantis Aquaventure with a reserved cabana base. Waterpark for the team, shade and a meeting point for everyone else.
- [Capital Thrills](https://offsyte.ae/packages/capital-thrills/) (H-03): from AED 520 per person ex. VAT, 15 min — 120 max. Ferrari World or Warner Bros. World for a day, at group rate, with the coach and the lunch handled. Fully indoor at both — a genuine summer option that is not a mall.
- [Track & Tide](https://offsyte.ae/packages/track-and-tide/) (H-05): from AED 860 per person ex. VAT, 15 min — 100 max. Ferrari World in the morning, Yas Waterworld in the afternoon, dinner in Abu Dhabi on the way home. One coach from your office, two parks, both meals, back by 22:00.