Bahrain

Trip Start May 11, 2008
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Trip End Jun 14, 2008


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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

So I arrived at the Bahrain airport after a 9 hour flight from Frankfurt. I got a rental car for the month and headed out on to the streets of Bahrain. The drivers in this city are insane (terrible). My hotel was only a few minutes from the hotel luckily. Later I would find out how bad the drivers actually are in this city.
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The above links are of my hotel.
I went to the front desk to check into the hotel when they told me I needed a credit card to reserve the room. I told them that my company (ATR) had paid in advance. The hotel advised me that I needed another card put onto my room for all other purchases (ex. Minibar). I agreed, however they wanted to put 250 diners on hold on my card ($665 USD), I went through every credit card in my wallet and had a pile of declined slips on the counter of the hotel. They guy jokingly told me he was going to charge me for all the paper I used. Finally I got it through with 60 Diners on one card (I thought everything would be taken care of, I am broke from buying a new car). So I went to my room, unloaded and went back outside to my rental car to get some stuff. When I came back, there was two girls standing outside the hotel. They told me that they where trying to meet a friend in the bar and they couldn't get a hold of him; because they weren't guests, they couldn't get in. So I agreed to help them out. As I was walking them in, everyone in the hotel lobby was staring at me. When I got to the bar door, the bouncer said, "sorry sir, we don't allow prostitutes in our bar" FUCK, what an idiot, i just helped two prostitutes try and get into my hotel bar. So I immediately told the guy what happened and ran back to my room as the two prostitutes were being escorted out.... So in 10 mins in a 5 star hotel I was able to cause more problems then they had seen all week.
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bmk
bmk on Sep 4, 2009 at 05:01AM

its strnage to meet an insane at first
hello i hope that now you will be all right and do not having another such kind of adventure at first place anyhow i want to know that why the driver was insane?
is he was driving to fast or do not know the way to your hotel

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