Blogs from United Arab Emirates, Middle East - page 176

The next plan of action was to go and spend a few hours relaxing in the spa. They have a mixed pool and spa for ladies only. The pool is an infinity pool surrounded by floor to ceiling glass walls, with jaccuzzi, steam room, sauna. Obligitory robes and fluffy slippers and of course all the toiletries are Hermes. Unfortunately as we were talking with our concierge for our floor who was confirming the reservation for this evenings meal Paul happened to ask about dress code. We knew he had to wear trousers- no jeans alllowed ans closed toe shoes but he did not know about the long sleeved shirt policy and all his shirts are short sleeved. He had to take a taxi to the shopping mall to buy a shirt. So I swam in the ... read more

I am writing this from the Library of the Burg Al Arab whilst Paul is having a game of Pool by himself, more about that later. Saturday we left the pampered confines of our hotel and visited downtown Dubia in search of some culture. Taxi to the city, it is a bit like our Big Dig, construction everywhere. We visited Dubia Museum and had a stroll around the old town. Through Souks and alongside the creek. This place was nothing until the early 1900's when the ruler made the decision to allow foreign nationals to reside tax free here. It was a port for the many trade routes around the area trading in spices, pearls and gold. The black and white photos are amazing even until up to 1960- 70 this place was not very much ... read more

I have just discovered taht the last 2 days blogs do not appear to have been published!! Don't know why will have to give details of last 2 days later.. Having a great time, very hot and sunny 25- 30 degrees with cool breeze. Hotel palacial. ... read more

in Dubia, following an uneventful flight. In fact I was not entirely impressed with Emerates Airways at all. Spent the longest 7 hours in the smallest seat it was so small there was no room to put the arm of the seat up as seats where so close to each other. Food fine , wine horrible I poured mine back into the bottle and gave it back - Chardonnay uggh. Time to have a sleep and as we where 11 rows from the front the light from the service area was shining into my eyes. I asked for an eye mask - they had none on board. I tried to slide down into the seat to avid light but they had a bulge- lumbar support and that pressed into my thoracic spine and became numb from ... read more

How hot - in case your wondering - it's very hot, I'm not sure I’m going to actually write about Dubai as I might let the pictures do the talking about our favourite parts... Oh why not, when we arrived we didn't know where we were going to go so we jumped in a taxi and asked for a "cheap" hotel downtown, ha ha, as if there is such a thing as a cheap hotel in Dubai - so where do we end up - in a hotel/brothel, mmmmmmmmmm not exactly what I had in mind so the next morning we checked out and found some where without the assistance of a taxi driver... Our next hotel, which did not rent rooms out by the hour, did however have shuttle buses to the beach and to ... read more