Mercure Grand Hotel Doha

... concerned about my weight. That’s the case here as well but I’ve definitely gained some weight since arriving. Maybe not the Doha 20 but a few pounds nonetheless. I can’t say that it’s a pull to the familiar because, with the exception of Subway, I rarely ate at the fast food restaurants in Winnipeg but maybe it’s because one knows they’re a quick, easy, and cheap option at a time when that’ ...

... weekly, monthly car rental is accomplished by paying out the nose. What I'm paying for a stripped down Chrysler Sebring would probably rent me a BMW in the states. Really need the RP so that I can lease at an 'affordable" rate. Up to this point Annette and the kids have been at home w/o a car. If this takes longer then we will have to just buck up as I fear they are getting stir crazy even though they ...

... walked in, I saw what he meant...it's like the Truman show. The mall is a model of Venice, complete with a canal and gondolas and a ceiling designed to look like the sky. Above every store are mock balconies as if you are really in a city. If you look on the wikitravel Doha page (http://wikitravel.org/en/Doha) you weill see a picture from inside the mall that I thought was an outdoor picture. If you follow the canal through the mall you arrive at ...

After landing at Doha airport, which is the exact opposite of Heathrow with only two runways and a handful of planes, I met my dad at the arrivals exit. Traffic in cities in the middle east is probably some of the worst in the world, so arriving at 5:30pm on the same day that AC Milan were sheduled to play a local qatary team, wasn't the best time to arrive. It did mean that if we got through the traffic in time, we could go ...

... going to get burnt. However, by the end of the day I got absolutely no colour. We swam and drank and swam. Finally, after I don't know how many hours, the food was ready. I got there in a jiffy because I knew they were going to run out of food. There just wasn't enough of everything. It was an amateur AYC planning but they're still new at it. Around 4:30 we packed up and left so that we could be back to the start of the dunes before it got dark. My ...

... pulled up it to deplane. This is my first taste of India. It's going to be awesome. When the gear came down, it was like the green light for everyone on board to turn on their phones. All you heard was over a hundred of them activating and message beeps sounding. I felt for those flight attendants...98% of the plane was out of control and they had to serve 144 of us dinner in 5 minutes. I will see you in Delhi. I get in at 3:30 in the morning.

... the bus. Statistically, it should be necessary to wait, on average, 22.5 minutes for a bus that comes every 45 minutes. And for me, that's exactly how it worked out: The last time I took that bus, I waited a full 45 minutes; this time I waited a full zero minutes. Given that I can expect a 45 minute wait next time, I think I'll skip the bus and just take a taxi on my next trip to the airport. I wonder, though, if that will count towards the average waiting time for the ...

... one of the Peace Towers and flew more than 100 meters at insane speeds on a flying fox from the building's apex to down near the stage. It was to be a grand spectacle. However, mere hours before the show began a storm blew up over Doha that brought gale-force winds and torrential rain. It whipped the bay up into a sea of froth and pushed onto the corniche with middle-eastern fury, testing all the ...

After six months...I am finally on my way home. So, I am currently sitting here in Dubai International Airport wondering why I decided to schedule my flight out of here 9 ½ hours after my flight from Kandahar got in. Qatar Airways doesn't check you in until three hours before the flight. I knew this. I sat in the terminal in Doha last time I went on vacation for 8 hours before I was able to check in and go to the gate. On top of ...

day 1 - Well, I'm In Doha! The first thing that strikes you about this place is the incredible heat. It's been dark here for about 2 hours now and the thing on the wall recons it's 39 degrees - which i can believe! The second thing that strikes you is what a culturally diverse airport this really is! I don't know what i was expecting to be honest, but this is pretty strange! Also I'd quite like a drink of somthing but i'm not sure they take any of the currencies i've ...