City Centre Hotel Residence Dubai

DUBAI! Like Vegas, only WAY more expensive.<br>The cheapest hotel within 5 miles of the Dubai Airport? $550 a night! The minibar might as well be a safe. The airport terminal is like a gleeming, brilliantly lit movie set. Dubai is home of the world's best hotel, the Barq el Arab, the only 5 star hotel anywhere. Brunch is $150, plus drinks, even alchohol! I managed to crash ...

... are everywhere you turn in Dubai so surly I could enjoy a hot/cold &#8216;shower&#8217; slip into a mall max out the credit card and live the 'Dubai dream?' Days spent watching movies, driving around in classy cars, lounging by the pool, working out in the gym, browsing through malls and sipping frothy cappuccinos in Costa I came to remember the western world. Maybe it&#8217;s ...

... was typical of airports & shops were duplicated. Denis & Juan were leaving us in Dubai & left on their flight to Munich an hour before our flight was due to depart. We meet up with them again in Rome on the 10th of June. Whilst we were waiting to board our plane for Rome a lady some how lost her balance on the escalator and fell to the bottom giving an almighty bellow to bring it to all our attention ...

... We had a snack and went to the Shell where a fancy dress competition was just ending and the bathing belle competition was about to start. Very tongue in cheek and great fun. We spent some time just taking it all in until our afternoon was rudely interrupted by a cloudburst. Fortunately it didn't last long.. We went back to the B&amp;B and got ready for the evening. Popped out early and spent all small lifetime waiting for some halfwit at Emirates Airlines to change my flight ...

... by the 'Palm Jebel Ali', five times bigger. They are now working on the 'Palm Deira', which will be ten times bigger again and will be visible from space. The 'Burj Al Arab', graded by the UAE as the world's first seven star hotel was impressive. The business area has several, seriously high rise towers under construction at the same time and the whole state is just one big building site. It's impressive, enormous, fascinating and a technical marvel - and completely ...

... and was treated by how i looked, like i had nothing. Granted I looked a little hippyish and scruffy as I came through customs but I didn't expect the treatment i received. I was pulled into a little room, had my passport removed, asked loads of weird questions about where I had been and where i was going, had the small bag i had on me rifled through and had my 'person' checked. I will leave how that went down to your ...

After 11 day we have arrived in Dubai UAE, Shipping the short distance over Gulf was ok but full of paperwork and long winded. we aranged with a shipping line in Iran to ferry chitty over to Dubia on a roll on roll off cargo ship, about the same size as the Yarmouth IOW ferry. It took 12 hours overnight looked very old indeed with a top speed of 8 knots. We were not allowed to travel with the cars and had to fly on Iran ...

... to those of non-urbanized Arabs. Furthermore, another point must be understood, the UAE is hardly Arab. The country could easily be annexed by either India or Pakistan and if a vote was held, the majority of the country would easily uphold it. Roughly 70-80% of the country is Pakistani or Indian, and it is quite evident, on a daily basis everyone you encounter from Taxi drivers to security guards to police officers to computer store salesman. This, in part, is what makes Dubai ...

... nothing like Egypt, it was purpose built and could cater for a few hundred people (see pic). Here I tried the Shisha (Arabic smokes), not really my thing but when in Rome! I met a family from the UK. They were Punjabi's and from Leicester, the Bhamra family. It was really nice talking with them and check this out for freaky! One of the girls knew one of my friends, Jindy. (Big Dav's brother), it is a small world. We were supposed to have an authentic ...