Packing Guide
Four to six hours on sand, across a 15°C swing between the drive out and home the list our drivers wish every guest had read.
If you bring nothing else, bring these. Everything past this list is comfort. Tap a card to check it off.
None of these are required. All of them get used by nearly every guest who packs them.
From November to March the temperature drops sharply once the sun goes. Nearly every guest who skips this regrets it.
Cameras, torches and group photos drain a phone fast, and the camp has few sockets.
Fine sand smears a phone lens within minutes of the first dune stop.
The single most useful thing in the bag, especially with children.
If you are at all prone to it, take one 30 minutes before pick-up. After the first dune is too late.
Left in the car. Sand gets into everything, and the drive home is nicer without it.
The desert is not one climate. Add these to the essentials depending on when you travel.
Not sure what the desert will be like when you travel? Our live desert weather forecast has the actual numbers.
View Weather ForecastThere is no formal dress code at the camps, but they are shared spaces in a conservative country. Shoulders and knees covered is the comfortable middle ground and it happens to be the most practical thing to wear on sand anyway. Swimwear is not appropriate at any desert camp.
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