Gulf Hotel Bahrain

... admirer, since student days in London. He knew how to give a girl an experience of elite worlds and good luxurious living. Bahrain was the sacred ancient Dilmun and though a desert island had natural fresh water springs, maybe much more exciting in that ...

... headed out to see if the Hard Rock Café was open and pick up some groceries. After finding the HRC closed and the grocery store open, we finally returned home at 1:00 and went to bed.   Tomorrow - Our Hotel, Bahrain by Daylight, Second ...

... of his way to our destination. It was 107 degrees Fahrenheit. L - Land reclamation. There's a lot of it going on here. The Gulf Hotel used to be a beach front property -- now it's a mile to the water. Bab al-Bahrain (the gateway at the old customs ...

... in the breakfast room was a little above zero so it was a bit of a shock to step out of the hotel into the searing 370 heat of a Bahrain morning. Three other Australians joined us before we drove to our first destination, a genuine Islamic mosque (the ...

... and persistence in the departure hall, we were able to get some toiletry kits. After an 8BD (we probably overpaid) taxi ride to the Bahrain Int'l Hotel, we checked in to a dated, but OK room. Our toiletry kits seem to be one for a man, and one for a ...

... is more expensive than england currency. Here is RM 10 for 1, UK is only RM 7 for 1. We are stay in the hotel arrange by the Air gulf for the small rest or comfortable sleep. As the transit fly will continue at this midnight to reach paris at early ...

... the compound, so the guard raised the gate and directed me to make a U-turn. What a disappointment. I had seen Durrat al-Bahrain advertised as a “resort” and figured it would be open to the public and there would be some restaurants. More so, ...

... to Islam), and modern art (some really cool stuff - check out the pictures once I find a place with a decent Internet connection). Bahrain has been fun, though I am looking forward to moving on to India. Who knows though, as more and more money floods ...

Loved my stay in Bahrain, was amazing! Ahh were do i start? Well for starters when i arrived and had a shower the water was salty, the taps were all producing salty water which was different. With a walking distance from the Fursan hotel to the local ...

... taxi driver had put us on Tariff 2, the most expensive rate. Ten minutes and £11 pounds later we were at our hotel, wondering about the price of fuel in Bahrain. Back in Qatar, my 4x4 only cost £6.50 to fill up to the brim! The next day we took another ...

... up in a stinking flea bag after your passport has been confiscated. for a mere $30, you may opt for a five-star hotel with private limousine courtesy of gulf air. what the heck. you only go around once. go for it. the airport is a zoo but the duty free ...

... licence for Qatar. Flight back was good - half empty plane that left early and arrived early. Overall impression: Bahrain was the first of the Gulf States to "westernize". Now left behind by Dubai and Qatar. It needs another injection of funds. Might ...

... things could have gotten real ugly, the guy got his point across in very broken English. There I stood, on a dusty street in Bahrain, while a refugee from Iraq thanked me for my nations attempt to "rescue" his country. It was surreal. Whether or not ...

... ;      ; Go to the airport straight away after office on Thursday; take the mid afternoon flight to Bahrain ·           ; Have an easy and lazy afternoon in the Hotel ...

... was leaving at 1am the next day instead of 10.40pm. This would have been a disaster except that Gulf Air had provided a room in the rather sleazy Basrin Hotel, located right in the middle of nothing much. Our accommodation was modest to the point that it ...

Wednesday 26 th November 2008 Bahrain airport the sun's coming up and it's warm!   Oh the joys of travelling.  My laptop says 0334 but it's 0634 in Bahrain and it's getting light outside.  My body needs to sleep but ...

... from yellow to red. It's all very sane. The food has been quite good here. We had a wonderful Iranian meal at the Gulf Hotel on Thursday night: kebabs (my favorite was minced lamb), various types of rice, mast-o-khiya (almost identical to tzatziki), ...

... cabin! Ha ha ha. :-) We departed KWI at 3:39, 14 minutes tardy. It was a short 47-minute flight over the Persian Gulf down to Bahrain, where we again flew off the east coast and then U-turned to land from the south on Runway 30R. We arrived at 4:35, 10 ...

... 40 other passengers who missed their connecting flight to various destinations as well. Half of us were placed together in the Bahrain Carlton Hotel. Gulf Air is paying for my night's stay, transportation and 3 meals. Well, it's the very least they ...