Tamani Hotel Marina 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 ...

... if difficulty. All slides exit into the lazy river ride and there were two ways of getting up to the rides without getting out of the water. One was a conveyer belt at the end of a river which takes you up to the 2nd floor of the building. The second was a roller coaster ride which uses water to shoot you up to the third floor. The third floor rides included the Shark Attack ride which sees the last 30 seconds oftheride going through the shark pool. Of course you are enclosed in a ...

... you have free access) and did a few slides. KK lost the lense out of her sunglasses in the Shark Attack ride (you ride through a clear tube surrounded by fish and sharks), but that was the only mishap of the day. No boobs falling out, no rides shutting down, no bruises or cuts or collisions and definitely no bum hanging out of torn boardies for the world to see! LOL However, after last years water slide accident at said park ...

... great meal and got recognised by the staff from last night which turned out quite well as we got a free glass of port out of it! Wednesday 25th February Rotorua to Whitianga Left Rotorua travelling north and aimed towards Tauranga. Took a slight detour to see Mount Maunganui and managed to take a few wrong turns and go into a dead end.. A little later we were back on track and heading for the Coromandel Peninsular. We stopped at Sailors Cove, just off of the main road. Turned ...

... raining - here? Dubai? Surely not. Our bus ticket covered this but we just couldn't get a taxi, they were all full or didn't (want to) stop. Eventually one stopped and we joined the maddeningly slow (now mid morning) crawl into the centre. We showed the driver the boat location on a map and he finally got where he said it was and dropped us off. We walked along the long line of boats, many of them loading goods and after ten minutes found our jetty point - just as our boat ...

... 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 ...

... out with. They remind me of the frat boys from back home: cool jeans with a button-up dress shirt, and perfectly coiffed hair slicked back into a Ken doll style permanently fixed into place with copious amounts of hair gel. Any guy who thinks that this look equals cool is most certainly not the guy for me. It almost always screams out desperate, and usually these guys are just on the prowl for an easy woman. It didn't much matter to me, though, as ...

... of dollars from the ATM and make me wait in line! 12. The huge discrepencies in wealth between the ultra-rich, and the ultra-poor, and very little room in the middle. 13. And discrepencies between what the law states and what people actually get away with. Hedonism and hypocrisy, and me being forced to use the slanderous word "immoral" There. I think that takes care of it. Anyway, I'd like to ...

... At one point I started to laugh and looked at one of the guys who was staring and said: "OH MY GOD! IT'S A WOMAN!!!", which was received with laughter from the guys who were NOT actually looking (: haha, poor guys... I kinda wonder where all the Indian ladies are hiding in Dubai! We took an abra (little ...

... woman". Clay replied 'No, I don't think so mate'. The man apparently does it "all the time and the boyrfriends of the women don't mind". Err...well not with me you don't!! Out in the streets we could hear the call to prayer...it is the most beautiful and haunting song I have ever heard...just amazing :) I had 3 showers today and the cold tap has warm water coming out of it...*sigh*. There is just no ...