DUBAI - I AM OFFENDED FOR THE POWER OF THE POWER ........
We flew to Dubai from Donetsk on January 03.2014. budget airline "FlyDubai" on the new "Boeing-737", 33 rows, 6 seats with monitors each, on which there was all the information about the flight, films, etc. Tourists from Rostov-on-Don flew with us, it turns out that Air tickets from Ukraine are cheaper for them for the whole family than from Rostov. Passport control and retinal scan took about 35-40 minutes at DUBAI airport. , the luggage had already been removed from the belt and was next to it. At the airport they changed 100 dollars. US for drachmas, since a deposit of 100 drachmas or 50 dollars must be left in hotels. USA, but will be returned to you in drachmas !! ! We chose a city hotel 4 * AURIS First Central, not far from the Dubai Internet City metro stop, the Emirates Mall, 24-hour supermarkets. They settled quickly, asked for a higher room, they gave it on the 27th floor, No. 2715. Room with a small living room, kitchen, where there was an electric stove, microwave, electric kettle, washing machine, dishes, tea, coffee, sugar. The bathroom has a hair dryer, gels, shampoo, soap. In the bedroom: wardrobe, safe, ironing board and a small dressing table. Everything suited us. To go to the beach, you need to sign up in advance in the hotel lobby at the concierge. Breakfast at the hotel - "buffet" from 6-00 am to 9 o'clock. 30 minutes. monotonous, but tolerable. If you love sausage, then take it with you. Prices for products are similar to ours and basically they are all imported. Very good juices in 2l plastic packaging cost 10.50 drachmas. It is better to change money either in shopping centers or in the subway, the rate is 1 dollar. USA = 3.65 drachmas. METRO: bought 2 "silver" cards in the operator, they are valid for 2 years, then replenished their balance either through the machine or from the operator. You have to walk a lot in the metro, so shoes should be comfortable, air conditioners work everywhere, there is an information board with the names of stations (we often used it). The card must be applied each time to the turnstile at the entrance to the metro and at the exit. We didn’t have any special impressions from the metro - it was clean and we had to walk a lot. SHOPPING. If you are in shopping centers from January to February 02 of this year, then when buying goods worth 300 drachmas or more, you go to the information center and can fill out a questionnaire for participation in lotteries based on receipts. Shopping centers are huge, use electronic information boards that will tell you how to get to a particular store, metro, bus and taxi ranks. Each store has Russian-speaking sellers. EXCURSIONS: on Jumeirah Beach, park excursions are offered for 20-25 dollars. US is cheaper than a hotel. We ordered tickets to the observation deck of the Khalifa Tower via the Internet, and then there is a machine in the Dubai Mall on the 1st floor and got our tickets there. On the beaches we were on our own at the free "Dubai Marina", where there are only changing rooms and from the hotel we went to the paid beach "Jumeirah Park" - entrance 5 dirhams + payment for sunbeds, towels. Dubai is an ultra-modern, very clean, multinational, democratic, youth city. We liked everything! Shekhs were able to give their people such social benefits that we will NEVER have them! And I want to say in the words of a movie hero: "I feel sorry for the State! "
