Fabby Abu Dhabi & Dubai Delights

As some of you know a few weeks back I was really lucky and Cruise.co.uk sent me on a trip to visit Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Before the trip I have to say Dubai was never one of my top ten destinations to visit but I have definitely been converted.

We flew out from Birmingham and as the trip was being hosted by Emirates they flew us out Business class. I have never flown business before but I can see now why people splash out and upgrade.

The lounge in Birmingham was brilliant and we soon settled down to a glass of champagne and a lovely prawn cocktail.



After a very relaxing night’s sleep in a reclining chair we arrived in Dubai. We headed straight to Abu Dhabi which was a lot closer than I had thought. It took less than an hour from Dubai Airport.

Now the main reason of the trip was to visit a whole range of hotels in Abu Dhabi and Dubai but I’m not going to go into details about all of these just yet. I’ll write in more details about each in future blogs but to give you a taster we did visit the Emirates Palace, Burj Al Arab and my personal favourite Atlantis.

Before we headed of back to Dubai we popped in to Ferrari world. It’s the world largest under cover theme park and hosts the world’s fastest roller coaster. Unfortunately the park was actually closed when we visited but our fabulous tour guides Gulf Ventures managed to persuade them to sneak us in for peak but of course we couldn’t get on the rides.

Afterwards we stopped off to see the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. This is an incredible building and I thought I was dressed quite respectfully for the visit but apparently my calf length dress was too short so I had to wear a burqa.

We really made the most of our time in Dubai visiting the Palm, Marina, Downtown for some shopping, Water taxis across the bay, SUV Dune Safari, Camel ride, Bedouin BBQ.

All of this was great but the highlights for me have to be taking the leap of fate at the Atlantis water park and watching the fountain show outside of the world largest building the Burj Khalifa and I’m already planning my next trip.