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Just returned from Abu Dhabi and Dubai…
Just returned from Abu Dhabi and Dubai trip, I’ll start with the good stuff: 1. Flights were on time. 2. Hotels were excellent. 3. Weather was good. Bad stuff: Had to change in Istanbul, weren’t told this until a week before. This made the journey long. Arrived in AD at 1am and taken to hotel, got to bed about 3am. First thing next morning was the reps meeting where there was a reasonably hard sell, half our group weren’t taken in by the trips on offer and more to the point the prices quoted. We hooked up with another equally sceptical couple and did our own tours of AD and Dubai, cabs are really cheap and safe. Mosque in AD is amazing and entry is free (don’t get fooled by the £129 package on offer from the rep) as was the Mall in Dubai. Did the Burj Khalifa ourselves by booking tickets on my phone at the hotel, saved a fortune on the RSD price. I then googled the other ‘optional’ tours on offer (Safari etc) and they were at least a quarter of the prices quoted by the rep. The other catch is the ‘free’ tours to the carpet, jewellery and leather outlets as part of the transfer between hotels, this uses up most of the day. To avoid this we told the rep we’d make our own way by cab, this cost a fiver each and gave us the whole day on the beach at the next hotel. So basically the price of the trip is great but be savvy, google the prices and entry fees, use cabs and the fantastic metro in Dubai, take nothing the rep says at face value. If you do that you’ll have a great holiday at a great price.