Sharjah Premiere Hotel & Resort

Hi everyone

On Friday, we visited the amazing Burj al Arab hotel for lunch. The only way you can get in is if you are a guest (it costs $1000's a night) or if you make a booking for lunch or dinner.

This hotel is the only 7-star hotel in the world, and unless we win lotto I don't think that I'll ever be able to stay a night ...

Hi every one

We arrived safe and sound in Dubai after a pretty unevenful 10 1/2 hour flight from Perth. From there things went a little south, as our hotel that mum had booked told us that they didn't have a spare room for us, but they had given us another room at the Marriot hotel around the corner - and from there things started looking up again. We were put into a massive 2 bedroom suite overlooking the Palm Atlantis hotel. So we had two ...

tausend und eine nacht.....nein, nur eine......
overnight in Dubai, hotel war gleich neben dem flughafen, 5 minuten shuttle.....
hatte leider, beim hin und her packen, um das gewicht optimal zu gestalten, total darauf vergessen, mein waschzeug und sachen zum wechseln einzupacken.....aber gott sei dank gibt es im hotel einen 24 stunden shop......haben alles ...

... was the extremely high temperatures you have those days. Hotel was very good, staff very nice, food also ok. Again a disadvantage is that in Sharjah it is not allowed to sell alcohol and in Dubai you needed to know the shops where to buy otherwise it wasn't available also.

... site. I'm not convinced that the rate of construction is healthy - who will fill the doubled amount of residential, office and hotel space in the next year or two? But, I'm not in charge here, a powerful, royal blooded Emirati Sheik is. Along with the new and shiny residences in Dubai comes a surprisingly high cost of living. Restaurants, cabs, clubs, groceries, etc. don't come with the "developing country ...

... It must be a consulting engineers dream place. Engineering technology is being stretched. We went over a floating bridge yesterday that rises and falls with the tide. We are going to have a look at the gold and silver souks[markets] today and the electronics street in the old part of Dubai.Tomorrow off to Istanbul and back to the airport which is like nothing we have ever seen. It is huge! Now some photos???

... around and watch her dance then randoms got pulled from the crowd to join in. First Scott who busted some really good moves. He was a definate favourite of the locals. Then I got forced to join in and everyone knows I hate crowd involvement. The whole thing got filmed and I'm still praying that Stu doesn't put it on Utube! The safari was a definate highlight... We had a look around 'old dubai' at the gold and spice souks on Saturday which was very different to new dubai. Got ...

... mentioned, I was too numb and torqued-out to really "get into" it. Eat up while it's fresh! You start the tour in the main lobby, which already shows you what the rest of the hotel is going to look like. Really. Click and take a look. Shudder, and move on. You climb the stairs, and there you can look up the hollow interior of the hotel, which is the ...

... Giving up I took my third tour of the Centre grounds. There are 16 closed top lozenge shaped treble units, each part of each treble is measuring approximately 12 by 14 metres and is in itself a self contained unit with water, dens and appropriate cage furniture. A 12 by 14 metre cage is decent by any standards but many of these are opened out into their full length of around 36 metres. Then there are around 10 closed top double units which measure the same. These house ...