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As a rule, we would not fly on flights that arrive in the early hours of the morning, but there was little option this time.
We booked our first hotel here to start from yesterday, so we could guarantee that we would have somewhere to sleep as soon as we got there. We also told the hotel that we would be very late arriving.
We have booked four nights (including last night) at the Landmark Grand Hotel in Deira. It looks to be very central and close to the all important Metro station. We use the Metro a lot to get around.
We got to the hotel about 3.00am and they looked to be having a problem booking us in. We think they may not have read the message and thought we were not going to arrive. Eventually they said, they could let us have a twin room for that night then move us to the double tomorrow. With only four nights here, we were not particularly happy with that. Eventually, they asked us to wait a short while and they would find us a Junior suite that we could stay in for the whole of our stay.
Wow an excellent upgrade. Glad we persisted with this.
While they sorted it out, we visited the local supermarket and stocked up on drinks for the room and milk for the coffee in the morning.
The Junior suite was everything that you could want from a hotel room and more. Very spacious and a big comfortable bed.
We slept till about 10.00am, then got up to unpack. We have someone arriving at 12 midday to collect our washing. Trying out a local service. It is a lot cheaper than doing it through the hotel. He turned up at 11.00am instead, but thankfully it was all ready for them by then.
We tidied up the room then thought we would enquire at reception how much it would be for us to have a further 6 nights staying in the Junior suite. This would save us having to make the two hotel moves that we had planned. They offered us a really good price steeply discounted by around 1000 AED so we booked it and cancelled our other original bookings. The discount was secured through our genius marker on www.booking.com. We were not looking forward to the prospect
of having to pack up and move twice in any case. Nice result secured here for us.
Having sorted out the hotel, we had a short walk around the local area. We found the metro station and also the water taxi station.
Realising we were hungry as had not eaten for about 15 hours we had a look on the entertainer app to see what offers there were locally. We found the Ashiana Indian restaurant in the nearby Sheraton Hotel and had a lovely relaxed first meal lunch in Dubai.
The server gave us a BOGOF voucher for their Saturday evening buffet, so we think we shall be returning here. This has to be done really.
We are both still tired, so headed back to the hotel for a short siesta.
This evening we headed to Dubai Festival City. We had heard they had a great water and light show there. The area is not near to the metro, so it was a long tedious bus ride, but it was well worth it.
The light and water show is to a theme, and does not only cover the water area, but the sides /
facades of some of the local buildings too. It was a very unusual show.
Dubai Festival City has one of our favourite restaurants in Dubai, Shamiana, so we use another entertainer voucher and have a tasty Indian meal for dinner.
We were too tired to do much else whilst we are here, so we got a local taxi back to the hotel and called it a night.
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