The Entertainer costs AED 595 a year if you buy it outright. Several banks and mobile providers in the UAE bundle it for free as part of accounts, credit cards, or phone plans you might already have or easily qualify for. The catch is that the landscape changes fast: HSBC dropped its free membership in July 2026, which made Wio’s newly launched Entertainer benefit one of the most relevant alternatives right now. Here is every confirmed route to getting it without paying for it directly.
Key takeaways
- Wio Personal (Salary, Family or Plus plans) includes a free Entertainer membership from July 2026, built into the app.
- Virgin Mobile resident postpaid plans include a 12-month membership, renewable while the plan is active.
- UAB credit cards include a complimentary 12-month membership for new cardholders.
- Visa cardholders get partial access through the Xperience with the Entertainer programme, not a full membership.
- HSBC discontinued its free Entertainer benefit from July 1, 2026. It no longer applies to any HSBC card.
- One Heart 2026, the Entertainer’s own limited free membership initiative, has been fully claimed and is no longer available.
Jump to the option that applies to you.
What the Entertainer actually gives you
The Entertainer is a buy-one-get-one-free app covering dining, attractions, spas, hotels, fitness venues, and leisure experiences across the UAE. The standard membership gives access to over 10,000 offers, meaning you pay for one experience and the second is free. Restaurants, beach clubs, theme parks, spa treatments, and hotel stays are all included depending on the merchant. At AED 595 retail, the app pays for itself after 2 or 3 uses at restaurants you were going to regardless. You can browse current offers directly on The Entertainer’s website before deciding whether the free routes below are worth pursuing.
The value varies significantly by how often you actually use it. For someone eating out regularly and occasionally visiting attractions, it is genuinely useful. For someone who rarely eats out, the free routes below are still worth having since there is no cost attached, but it is worth being honest about whether you will actually redeem offers. Pairing the Entertainer with a cashback credit card on the paying guest’s bill is the move most regular users make to extract maximum value from each outing.
Wio Personal: free via banking app
Available from: July 13, 2026
Who qualifies: Wio Personal customers on Salary, Family, or Plus plans
What you get: Full Entertainer membership integrated directly into the Wio app, covering 600 buy-one-get-one-free offers across 200 merchants including dining, entertainment, wellness, and family attractions
Cost of the account: The Salary plan is free if you transfer your salary to Wio. Plus and Family plans have a monthly fee.
This is currently the most straightforward route for UAE residents. The Entertainer is integrated directly into the Wio app, giving customers access to 600 buy-one-get-one-free offers across 200 merchants spanning dining, entertainment, wellness and family attractions. Named merchants include Signor Sassi, Maison Mathis, Carnival by Tresind, Emirates Park Zoo, Sofitel Spa and Café Bateel.
One important caveat: Wio Personal introduced the free Entertainer membership starting July 2026 as a replacement for cashback on debit card spends, which was discontinued from June 2026. If you were using Wio primarily for debit cashback, the Entertainer is the replacement benefit, not an addition. Whether that is a fair trade depends on how much you were earning through debit cashback previously.
Virgin Mobile: free with resident plan
Available: On unlimited resident postpaid plans
Who qualifies: UAE residents on eligible Virgin Mobile plans
Duration: 12 months from activation, renewable with an active plan
What you get: Full Entertainer access covering dining, theme parks, beaches, spas, fitness, and kids activities across the UAE, accessible directly within the Virgin Mobile app
As a resident, the subscription lasts for 12 months from the date of activation. The benefits are integrated directly in the Virgin Mobile app, covering dining, theme parks, beaches, spas, fitness, kids activities and more.
Virgin Mobile also offers a version of this for tourists on unlimited data tourist plans of 10 or 20 days, though that version only lasts for the duration of the plan and cannot be extended. For residents the 12-month version is the relevant one.
Worth checking before switching: the Virgin Mobile plan itself needs to justify the cost independently of the Entertainer benefit. If the plan price is higher than a comparable e& or du plan, the Entertainer needs to cover that gap in value to make the switch worthwhile.
UAB credit card: free with new card
Available: With new UAB credit cards
Who qualifies: New UAB credit card holders
Duration: 12 months complimentary
What you get: Full Entertainer membership with access to thousands of BOGO offers across restaurants, attractions, leisure venues, hotels, spas and more
United Arab Bank partnered with the Entertainer to offer complimentary 12-month membership with its new credit cards, positioning itself as the only bank in the UAE providing full access to Entertainer offers nationwide.
UAB is one of the UAE’s older homegrown banks and less prominent than the major names, which means its credit card products are worth evaluating carefully on their own terms before applying. The Entertainer benefit is genuinely included but the card’s other rewards, cashback rates, annual fee, and minimum salary requirement all need to stack up independently. Do not apply for a credit card purely for the Entertainer access without checking whether the card is a good fit for your actual spending pattern.
Visa cardholders: partial access
Visa runs its own Entertainer partnership called Xperience with the Entertainer, which gives Visa credit and debit card holders access to a curated selection of Entertainer offers rather than the full membership. The exact offers available and how to access them are listed on the Visa UAE website directly. This is a partial benefit rather than a full Entertainer membership, so it is worth checking what is actually available before treating it as an equivalent.
Whether your existing Visa card qualifies depends on the card tier and issuing bank. Most UAE Visa cardholders will have at least some access. Check the Visa UAE portal with your card details to confirm what you can actually redeem.
One Heart 2026: the limited free membership that has now gone
Earlier in 2026, the Entertainer ran a initiative called One Heart, making a limited number of complimentary memberships available to GCC residents across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. It was genuinely free, no bank account required, no phone plan required, just a claim through the Entertainer app or website while allocations lasted.
It is worth being direct: the One Heart 2026 Membership allocation has been completely exhausted and is no longer available. If you saw it referenced elsewhere and came here to claim it, that window has closed.
What it offered while it was live is still worth understanding for context. The One Heart 2026 Membership provided users with access to a selection of buy-one-get-one-free offers from participating merchants, valid from the date of activation until 15 September 2026. It came with meaningful exclusions compared to a paid membership: bonus offers, Cheers offers, delivery offers, and the Family Member feature were all excluded. It was a curated subset of the full Entertainer catalogue rather than a complete membership.
There was also an Emirates Skywards component. All existing and new Emirates Skywards members who claimed the One Heart 2026 Membership in the UAE during the campaign period from 12 March to 12 April 2026 were entered into a prize draw. Twenty-five winners were randomly selected, each receiving 100,000 Emirates Skywards Miles. That draw took place on 30 April 2026 and is long closed.
The reason this is worth knowing about is the pattern it represents. The Entertainer has run similar limited free initiatives before, and it is reasonable to expect future versions under different names. If you want to be notified when something comparable becomes available, following the Entertainer’s social channels and checking their app periodically is the most reliable approach, since these allocations tend to disappear within hours of being announced.
HSBC dropped its free Entertainer membership from July 1, 2026. The Entertainer with HSBC was discontinued from July 2026, and while existing cardholders could use their deals until then, no new membership codes were issued from that point. If you were relying on an HSBC card for this benefit, it no longer applies and you will need one of the alternatives above.
It is worth noting this as a pattern: Entertainer partnerships with banks and telecoms providers change more frequently than most people assume. A benefit that exists when you open an account may not exist a year later, and the reverse is also true. Checking current benefit pages directly rather than relying on third-party comparison sites, which often carry outdated information, is the most reliable approach before making any account or plan decision based on Entertainer access.
