Postcard from Dubai - December 2013-January 2014

 After a very smooth, if late [thanks to a crazy passenger] flight from Dubai, I checked into my nice room around 1am, and so, after unpacking, was very late to bed, although it was still early by UK time.

There were a few clouds around on day one, but I spent it by the pool on the 30^th floor as the other pool was under renovation until Christmas Eve.  On day two it rained all day [!] but after that the sun came out and I spent my days on the 30^th floor, as the ground floor pool lost the sun at lunchtime.  The days were sunny but there was a very chill wind, which kept the temperature down. 

I spent one morning on a tour of the new city of Dubai – it was an interesting tour but not very well handled.  I did at least get to the top of the tallest building in the world!

I was lucky to have the Hyatt Club Lounge to go to in the evening, as well as breakfast, where I met one or two people for chat.  Usually their food was good enough [if not brilliant!] for me not to worry about finding dinner in one of the hotel restaurants!  I had dinner one evening at Dubai’s only revolving restaurant on top of the hotel – not a bad meal but very very expensive.

A relaxing holiday but sadly not as warm as I had hoped for.  It was a challenge to get from the pool [warm water] to the sun bed without freezing in the wind!

My flight home was very comfortable as I was upgraded to First Class, although a noisy child nearby was not good news.  Thankfully it was a daytime flight.