An uneventful seven hour flight, and we are now in Dubai. By the time we check into our hotel at mid morning, it is 36 degrees! Our hotel is the Sheraton Jumeirah Beach, in the Dubai Marina area. Nice hotel .. beach access, large pool, many restaurants etc. This will do us nicely for a couple of days, before the final journey home.
Dinner for our first night was in one of the hotel restaurants, the Peacock. This was a Chinese restaurant, and the food was excellent. Alcohol is available, but very expensive. The Pharts then went for a walk along the beachfront of JBR, the neighbourhood of our hotel. Very spectacular with the lights and lots of people, restaurants and stalls. Then it was an early night!
For our final evening in Dubai, we wondered along the beach boardwalk from our hotel, in to the nearby lively JBR area. We dined at ZouZou, a Lebanese and Turkish restaurant. I had lamb shish, Sue the Keltic Kofta, along with a rocket salad. Generous portions and good food. We then wandered along and across the foot bridge over to the Blue Waters area. An ideal viewing area for photos of a brightly lit Dubai.
Overall, a very relaxing two days in Dubai. Very hot, limiting what you can do, particularly during the day. Also, a seventeen hour fight to Auckland. Not an ideal stopover, but the urgency of our departure limited our options.
Fly home tomorrow .. looking forward to it.