Golden Tulip Sharjah

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 ...

A shift was noticed in the marketing strategy used by hotels in the Gulf region particularly in Dubai, with more and more hotels turning to the popular social networking sites to attract more guests.<br><br>This shows the huge potential these ...

... doesn't have enough umph to push you. So there I was halfway down the slide wondering what I was going to do. I stood up planning to walk the rest of the way when around the corner came two screaming arab girls in full Burkhas. They of course collected me and after a half barrel roll I have landed on top of them. So here are these to fundamentalist Muslim girls who have never been touched by a bloke before suddenly getting molested by a giant half drunk Australian ...

... t a nice expereince. Although you know that you have nothing illegal on you you start to worry anyway. Like what if someone hid something in your bag etc. They wouldn't care, it would be straight to prison for a long long time. <br><br>In the end we only stayed one night as our minds were set on getting home and starting to build our life again. Maybe we will come back to Dubai on holdiay in the future when we look respectable.

... ything. But still, they w**e shining! Hey, can't destroy prejudices so fast, right? Mind the sand and dust, It had to be shiny, I am in the UAE! Chatting with my driv** about the Emirates, the population, faiths, etc... we w**e speeding at 160km/h to the north. Soon we exited the city of Abu Dhabi, and we w**e on a four by four lane highway, fully lit, with some traffic. Sometimes on the side, at about 50m from the higway ...

... Quick phone call home and can only wonder if my Dad has made it yet. Will all be revealed soon enough. I won't be flying into Turkey's main airport unfortunately as Air Arabia only flies to the Sabiha Gökçen Airport which lies about a 40min drive from downtown Istanbul. Hopefully the pick up I arranged will be there and we will be sweet. Anyways let us see.

After days spent in Sharjah or in Bahrain, I finally did what I was supposed to do last night--I went out to Dubai. It was a typical day, and I had many adventures I would like to share with you: First, I went to return the faulty SIM card at Carrefour. It turns out the card wasn't faulty at all; they simply couldn't activate it because, for some inexplicable reason, Carrefour gave me the store's copy of the ...

... certainly make more money. The families in Dubai are in many ways helping the lives and families of these maids who are being paid much better than they are accustomed to. The city of Dubai is a very clean city, thanks to the large labor force, whose job responsibilites even includes cleaning the outside of the trash cans! The entire city of Dubai, is filled with large shopping malls, skyscrapers, tourists from all over and every exotic car known to ...

... to construction in Dubai, and mentioned the fact that the University of Cincinnati had me well-prepared? I thought I'd escaped campus construction; I thought we were a bubble of construction-free zone-ness; but I guess I was wrong because they're tearing down the cafeteria now. This Friday. Maybe that has something to do with why Sheikh Mohammed dropped in on us yesterday in ...

... like entering a hotel foyer. From the foyer you move into the reptile exhibits. Each one is different, looking like a corner of an Arabian wadi, mountain, sand or gatch desert. All realistically furnished and lit in such a way as to enhance the scene. Every exhibit has a neat, easily read sign in English and Arabic. The information is just enough. Having looked at each jewel of a display I wanted to read about the animals inside. There are around 50 reptile/amphibian/insect ...