Al Muntazah Plaza Hotel Doha

Haven't written anything in ages. Work is busy and I still don't have internet at my apartment but I'm latching on to a neighnours at the moment. Ramadan is nearing an end and that means a statutory holiday (Eid Al Fitr) is also coming up. For us at the university it means a week off as we close for a semester break in conjunction with Eid.
Doha, Qatar beyondwpg

neil dibiase thought that it would be great to experience Qatar for a few days. he planned for us to stay for about three days. luckily we changed our plans.

we stopped over in Doha, Qatar on our way from Bangkok to Istanbul . When we landed the pilot told us the weather. and i quote: "The current weather in Doha is dusty, 43 ...

... tired I order room service mostly just because I can. As most of you know, I don’t have high standards for accommodations when traveling so two nights in the Four Seasons was a novelty and a luxury for me.

On my Accommodations

I am provided with a furnished two/three (depending on how you configure it) bedroom apartment. In the living room are a microfiber sofa, loveseat and chair, a tv and tv stand, a coffee table and two end tables. In one ...

... it took me 45. For security, our bags were put through an x ray machine, we walked through a metal detector, then we were patted down, then we had to empty every bag indivually. Once through security, we were pushed into a gate room where we waited. Then we went through the gate into a smaller room, where we waited cramped. Then people pushed to be padded down one by one...again. Ridiculous. I don't think you could have ...

... There was no getting stuck in the sand this time around, sorry. That night I went to a small club with my cousin and friends. They had a DJ in from Dubai for the night who played some good jams. Unfortunately it became a huge sausage fest and was irritatingly pact. I felt for those poor girls on the dance floor with Arab, African and South Asian men hovering around like they've never seen the opposite sex before. Anyway, we stuck ...

... there. Since we had our own car and we managed to get pretty close to the destination on our own, a map on the back of a tissue proved to be more than enough to finally get to the hotel 2 hours after starting in its direction (about half the duration of the flight from Vienna to Qatar, by the way J). At least the hotel was worth it. Thanks to hotwire we managed to get a 5-star hotel for a very decent price and we've really enjoyed what we know it is going to ...

22nd Straight to airport (take the monorail to KL Sentral, then the Ekspress train to the airport). Bought a songket cloth for Brian & Cecilia in duty free. Fly to Bahrain. Approach to the Arabian Peninsular is very dusty and the Gulf is very shallow. We fly into a solid wall of dust and visibility drops to zero. Nice ...

... an hour while checking pretty much every decent hotel or hostel i could see. They were all apparently full. How is that even friggin possible! Forget it, I'm not bitter... The hostel I ended up in after touring Little India happened to be across the road from the first one. At this point I was ready to take the room without air con but this one saved me the possible interesting experience. I had a place to stay, woo!

... sits were separate and in the plane I found myself sitting with two elderly ladies. The one next to me was tensed and it came out that this is her first oversease trip. She is a tipycal middle class housewife with almost no English communication skill. She has children working in UAE who will pick her at Dubai Airport. Well, it should not be a problem at my end but she started to request my assistanceto find her children at Dubai. My flight schedule was a ...

... running as hard as they can and not moving! That was us. So you had to go slow to get anywhere. The view on the top was just like in all the desert movies you see, and my photos don't do it any justice. Once we got back down the dune we did some more driving around the country side. It is the desert so not much else to see but sand. Once we were done driving around we wanted to do a more local experience. So we went down to the Old Souqs ...