Can you book a women-only taxi in Dubai?

Yes, and you do not need to live in Dubai to use it. Dubai Taxi, the company that runs it, calls it the Families and Ladies Taxi and describes what you get as a van with a pink roof and a female driver. RTA, the transport authority that sets taxi fares, lists the same service as its female taxi and names who can use it: female citizens, residents and visitors.

Who can ride, and where to find one

The two official pages describe the same taxi but not in the same words.

They differ in two places. Dubai Taxi’s rule lets families ride, so a family group that includes a man fits it; RTA’s page names women only. And Dubai Taxi lists hailing one on the road, which RTA’s page does not. For a woman travelling alone the two agree on everything that matters: she can use it, and the app or the airport rank is where to find one.

Booking it in an app

In RTA’s own S’hail app the women’s taxi is not a separate service. You book a taxi the usual way and pick the vehicle type before you confirm. Dubai Taxi names the option the Families and Ladies Taxi, with a pink roof. Bolt is listed as a channel by both RTA and Dubai Taxi; neither says what the option is called inside Bolt.

Neither page gives the number of cars on the road or a waiting time, and Dubai Taxi describes the service as running upon availability. If you need a car at a fixed hour, that is the gap to plan around.

At the airport

Both pages list the taxi ranks at Dubai International’s three terminals and at Al Maktoum (DWC). Dubai Taxi gives the base fare there as AED 25. That is a van fare: RTA’s table charges AED 25 for a van from the airport and AED 20 for a regular car. So at the airport the women’s taxi starts AED 5 above a regular car, before any distance is counted.

What it costs against a regular taxi

Per kilometre the women’s taxi is the cheaper of the two, by AED 0.26. RTA does not publish a per-kilometre rate for its regular taxi, so that comparison is against Dubai Taxi’s own figure for its regular cars. On a short app trip the difference disappears into the minimum fare, and at the airport the van base fare puts the women’s taxi above a regular car.

Everything else on what gets added to a taxi fare applies in the same way: Salik gates, the Sharjah surcharge and waiting time. You pay the same ways as in any RTA taxi: cash, credit card, nol card, Careem Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Alipay, QR code payment and American Express.

Where this page stops

It does not tell you how long you will wait, for the reason above. It does not cover Ameera, which Dubai Taxi sells separately as a luxury limousine for women. And it does not cover Uber or other luxury-vehicle apps, which sit on a different RTA list — whether Uber costs more than a taxi sets those out. If you are landing at DXB, the airport-to-city options set the taxi against the metro and the bus.

Where these figures come from

Who can ride, where to find one and the women’s taxi rate per kilometre come from RTA’s service page Transport Using Taxi Vehicles, female tab. The driver, the pink roof, the family rule, the airport base fare and the regular per-kilometre rate come from Dubai Taxi’s own pages for the Families and Ladies Taxi and for its regular taxi. The starting fares, minimum fare and payment methods are on RTA’s fare table, which lists the same app fares for the women’s taxi as for a regular one. We read all three pages directly.