Raffles Dubai

Raffles School areas (Umm Al Shelf and Umm Suqeim 3 areas) then Al Bursha areas

... around the hotel souk (just one of the many things that made it feel like a Vegas hotel) and then took a taxi to Raffles Dubai, another hotel complex. We enjoyed drinks on the outdoor patio of Crossroads Cocktail bar and then went to dinner at Fire and ...

... of stone statues feature monumentally amongst the glass and steel of state-of-the-art architecture. The Raffles hotel is another very extravagant 5-star hotel in Dubai - built like a terraced pyramid with a tastefully styled interior. They had created a ...

0107 - Dubai - Pharaoh's Club - Raffles - Persia Persia Woke up today not feeling that great so I went to Shakespeare's (of course) to write my blog and check on work email. Let me just say that if I were to have any concern about my value with my ...

... for families in temporary sites around the city. Also, the stores all joined in with big Shopping Festival sales of their own. Raffles were drawn daily for gold, cash and Lexus'. Fireworks were shot off in two locations each night. One of our favorite ...

check Raffles School areas then go to Al Bursha to view the ...

... can now only hear her when she is on my left side......or thats what I told her! The Wafi is an area which houses the Raffles Dubai Hotel in the shape of a pyramid and the whole area is designed with an Egyptian theme. There are three pyramids housing the ...

... show by Romanian acrobats, stilt-walkers and swimming bubbles (see photos). A couple of days later a small team of us went to the new Raffles Hotel in Wafi City to do a 10 minute uv show for an Italian-themed private banker's event. See my next entry for ...

... nbsp;don't know can trust them or not as nobody seems to know. Afternoon back to Al Barsha.  Know the building that the Raffles Teacher stay,  all one bedroom units, no 2 BR.  Anyway, have taken pictures of the entrance, next to road ...

... and squarish, 1200 sq ft, look ok, rental 160k. Overall comments still Jumeirah Lake Tower is full of construction right now,  only few blocks are completed.  Not really good to stay, further away from Green if want to travel to Raffles ...

... lovely young lady, took me to the Arab quarters of Singapore where I bought a couple of souvenirs. I took some photos of Stamford Raffles down by the Waterfront and of Mirlion (this is the equivalent of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen). We then met up ...

... seen two, or even more very different sides to this wonderful country. We started off at the world class and utterly charming Raffles Hotel Grand d'Angkor. Everything has Angkor in the name here after the temples etc - even the local beer is called ...

... from their usual busy lives in Dubai. Jeremy whisked me off to my next place to stay for the night – a house boat in Raffles Marina. That’s one of  the things about travelling that I (generally!) like, that you never know where ...

Flying in via Dubai was quite exhausting... but finaly I got to the ...

... nothing but go to Silk Street Market, eat a manky O'Briens sandwich, have a panic attack that I lost my credit card in Dubai (I didn't, it was perfectly safe) and take another evening stroll down Wangfujing. In the cheap plastic toys market, they have ...

... up. Luckily It's just my old age and not anything worse ;)) After that I walked down North Bridge Road to the Raffles Shopping Center to find a MoneyChanger. Then over to the Raffles Hotel's Long Bar to drink the legendary Singapore Sling and crack some ...