About Global Village Transport

Who we are

Global Village Transport does one thing: it gets people to Global Village and home again. We arrange chauffeur-driven cars, private transfers, vans, minibuses and coaches for families, groups, hotel guests and companies, and we write plain guides to the buses, the metro, parking and taxis for people who’d rather make their own way.

The question we hear most is always the same: how do we get home at midnight? This site answers that question, and the ones that come before it.

Every car we send is an RTA-licensed limousine with a professional chauffeur. Minibuses and coaches are arranged through licensed passenger bus operators. Quotes and bookings are handled by WhatsApp from our quote page.

Independence from Global Village

We are not affiliated with Global Village. This site is not owned, operated, sponsored, endorsed or approved by Global Village, Dubai Holding, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) or any government body. “Global Village” and related names, logos and event names belong to their owners; we use the name only to describe where our transport goes. We don’t sell Global Village tickets, VIP Packs or parking.

Our editorial team

Every guide on this site is researched, written and kept up to date by the Global Village Transport editorial team. The team:

• gathers facts from Global Village’s official visitor information, RTA announcements and UAE news reporting, and records the source and date for each one
• measures road distances and drive times itself, using OpenStreetMap routing
• checks every draft against those sources before it’s published, and removes anything it can’t support
• adds practical detail from arranging Global Village transport through the season: pickup gates, closing-time traffic, what size vehicle a group really needs
• re-checks every guide each October when a new season opens, and whenever Global Village or RTA announces a change

The date at the top of each guide shows when the team last updated it.

How we research

• Primary sources first. Opening hours, tickets, car parks and gates come from Global Village’s official visitor information. Bus routes come from Global Village and RTA, cross-checked with Gulf News and Khaleej Times reporting.
• Every guide lists its sources with dates. If our information conflicts with an official source, the official source is right, and we’ll correct ours.
• Our own measurements. Road distances and drive times are calculated with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), and we say so wherever we use them.
• Estimates are labelled. Where a number isn’t published (such as the current taxi rate per kilometre), we label any estimate clearly and explain how we got it.
• We re-check every October when a new season opens, and whenever Global Village or RTA announces a change.

How we use AI

We use AI writing tools to help draft and structure guides from the sources listed on each page. Our editorial team then checks every fact against those sources, removes anything we can’t support, and adds what we know from running Global Village transport. AI isn’t used to invent reviews, testimonials, people or statistics.

Photos

Photos of Global Village are by independent photographers who published them under Creative Commons licences on Wikimedia Commons and Flickr. Each photo is credited, with its photographer, licence and any changes we made, on our credits page, which is linked from every page. Vehicle photos are our own. We don’t use Global Village’s official images or logos.

Corrections and complaints

If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or uses material you own without proper credit, tell us and we’ll correct it, re-credit the image or remove it.