Read about my Rome to Dubai afternoon flight onboard Emirates as I finish my Italian Holiday in style in the back of the bus!
Review: Emirates EK 100 Rome to Dubai, Economy (Boeing 777-300ER)
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Review: Emirates EK99 Dubai to Rome, Economy (Boeing 777-300ER)
Read about my Dubai to Rome red-eye flight onboard Emirates as I start my Italian Holiday in style in the back of the bus!
Get ready to experience Dubai with the Dubai Pass
Visiting Dubai? Or have family coming and have no idea what to do with them? The newly-launched Dubai Pass is a great way to get cashless all-inclusive entry to more than 30 of the city’s top tourist attractions.
Flight Review: 9W545 Jet Airways Economy Class, Dubai to Delhi
An okay flight with Jet Airways from Dubai. Jet Airways deploys their Boeing 737 narrowbodies to fly to Dubai from India, Here is my review of the in-flight experience, including the JetScreen IFE.
Review: Ahlan Business Class Lounge, Dubai Airport Terminal 1
The Ahlan Business Class lounge in the Dubai airport is one swanky lounge with a great food spread and lots of space. Though the best thing about this lounge is the enormous live Flightradar 24 screen. Check out all that this lounge has to offer inside!
Flight Review: 9W546 Delhi to Dubai, Jet Airways Economy (Boeing 737)
A forgettable flight with JetAirways to Dubai. Jet Airways deploys their Boeing 737 narrowbodies to fly to Dubai from India, however, this flight was marked by inept service, which I do not usually associate with Jet Airways.
Dubai Airport has new baggage guidelines!
Dubai Airport is not going to accept a lot of kind of bags, and they are going to be awesome at baggage handling going forward. Here is how!
Emirates offering paid First Class Lounge Access in Dubai
If you are an economy passenger travelling via Dubai, you will now be able to access the Emirates Lounges at the airport by paying cold cash. You can even get into the First Class Lounge if you are feeling really celebratory! Find out how!
Oberoi Dubai opens, offers special inaugural rates
Oberoi Hotels, the owner and operator of some fantastic luxury properties such as the Oberoi Amarvilas, Oberoi the Rajvilas and the Oberoi Udayvilas, inaugurated their Dubai hotel on June 15. From the pictures, it looks like a very luxurious property, something which can perhaps hold its own amongst the various other luxury hotels in the city. Have a look: The Oberoi, Dubai The rooms View from the hotel All the pictures are courtesy the hotel image gallery, here. The reason to write this post, however, is to inform you all about the special inaugural rates being offered at the hotel. The Oberoi, Dubai is currently offering a special price of AED 1,000 valid for stays till 31st August 2013. Inclusions…
Guest Post: Bidding adieu to The King of Good Times on Kingfisher’s final Dubai flight
Kingfisher Airlines has received many a good word from their frequent flyers, and almost all of them feel sad that the airline is progressively going down. I invited Arun Rajagopal, a Kingfisher loyalist based in the UAE to write a trip report on Kingfisher’s final flight to Dubai when I heard the airline was shutting down international operations. Turning over the mike to him without further delay… I’m a loyal customer of India’s Kingfisher Airlines. I first flew Kingfisher in Jan 2011 but since then I have flown them 15 times. I fly them as much as possible. I often pay a premium to fly them even when I have cheaper or non-stop flights available. I even recommend it to…
Indian Carriers now bring the widebodies to the Middle East, finally!
This has been an anomaly finally getting sorted out. While I agree and it makes sense that ports such as Dubai, Riyadh and other Middle-east posts are within the flight range of a narrowbody like a 73x or a 32x series plane, but the Mid-East carriers such as Emirates have been dumping capacity (to fly forward pax to North America etc). For the longest time they flew the B777s to India, and my expectations were set high when I first booked a BOM-DXB-BOM in 2009, without bothering to check if it was a narrowbody plane or a widebody. I was thoroughly pissed with myself for not checking up the plane when I walked into the plane to realise it was…
