Arabian Park Dubai

... collection of our bags we were outside waiting for a cab to take us to the hotel. Approximately 40 minutes later we arrived at the Arabian Courtyard and Spa Hotel, checked in and waited for the bags to arrive in our room. We went for a quick walk to find ...

... and there were a few drops(literally) of rain, which the taxi driver got really excited about. Wednesday night we left the Arabian Park Hotel with their shuttle bus and were pleased to find we'd been checked right through to Chiang Mai and getting ...

... ’s own CN Tower. More impressive to me is how they satisfy demand for water. The city is set on the Dubai Creek which flows out of the Arabian Sea, but all of it is salt water. To satisfy freshwater 'needs’ for their hotels and false greenery, ...

... to get visa. Had fab day today in Creekside park. We saw around 30 species of bird, many in the lovely Creekside Park. Highlights included the colourful blue Indian Roller, Hoopoes, a striated heron pretending to be invisible in a bittern like way and ...

(28 Dec placemarker) Early flight back to Dubai Terrible time at airport getting Sandy's visa, losing his wallet, and getting our bargain laser pointer confiscated.... Here till fly back tomorrow, 29 Dec to Glasgow.   ...

... of our bags we were outside waiting for a cab to take us to the hotel.  Approximately 40 minutes later we arrived at the Arabian Courtyard and Spa Hotel, checked in and waited for the bags to arrive in our room.  We went for a quick walk to ...

... I was hoping to get a decent view of the Jameirah Palm and the World, 2 famous man made structures stretching out in to the Arabian Gulf. Not this time, I’m afraid! We spent a few hours in the Aquarium Zoo. This boasted the largest single pane glass ...

... 3pm for our next activity. I was crazy excited taste what the local food like, I can only think of Kebab as I don’t know any Arabian food, all I know it was going to be exotic. Then we arrived at the restaurant, and as I looked at the sign it says ...

... our beach photos of the hotel built like a sail. But we had more to see so we headed off to our next stop on this Arabian Adventure.   Our next stop was out on the Palm Islands at the Atlantis Hotel. This hotel is located at the far point of the ...

... got our beach photos of the hotel built like a sail. But we had more to see so we headed off to our next stop on this Arabian Adventure. Our next stop was out on the Palm Islands at the Atlantis Hotel. This hotel is located at the far point of the ...

... , trade, banking, land development and tourism.   And tourism is the fastest growing of these.  While Dubai sits on the Arabian Peninsula , right next to extremely conservative Saudi Arabia , all of the seven Emirates along the eastern coast ...

Our initial feeling was that Dubai wasn't for us so we chose a trip to Sharjah taking in the Arabian Wildlife park and the Aquarium without realising that Sharjah was quite a long way out of Dubai. Normally you drive around the major ...

... nice, smiling and helpful people! The old Dubai is just another world! Gold, souk, spices souk, etc...old boats on the Dubai Creek, very Arabian compared to the new Dubai that has no soul. In the afternoon we end up.......in a mall!! The Emiratis Mall, ...

... viewing windows with our mouths agape. There is something innately surreal about being in a shopping mall on the Arabian Peninsula, sipping a Starbucks latte, watching people snowboarding while the temperature outside is pushing 110 degrees! Today we ...

... else in Dubai. After breakfast we got the front desk to call us a cab so that we could go down to the huge Dubai Mall. This is also where the indoor snow park is. The cab only cost us around $10 each way and was about a 20 minute drive. The mall had lots ...

Myself and Lyall decided to take two weeks off from work and head over to the Arabian Peninsula to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates to catch up with the beach and get some sun. We flew into Dubai International Airport and then took a taxi into town. We ...

... lesson to be learned in just how much off-shore oil reserves play a part in a country's economic development, and Dubai's growth from its humble desertscape origins to its current economic powerhouse status illustrates the exploitable nature of these ...

... one to me – not bad for expensive Dubai. I just hope it works when I get back. Another shop I went to was this Arabian gift shop with very inexpensive gifts. I’ll need to come here before I take the plane back home to get any last second ...

... back to the hotel.  We had a shower and prepared ourselves for a special trip, Lynds signed us up for a seaplane flight over Dubai...if there was a place free we would get an email and could go for 1/2 price...so after receiving the email we were ...

... East but we knew the souqs and malls would still be open. Before visiting them, we decided to wander down to Dubai Creek, an inlet of the Arabian Sea bisecting the city down the middle. There were very few people about, only the water taxi drivers. "You ...