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Just got back from
13 years ago
what has to have been one of the if not the most fantastic vacation I've ever been on.
I and a lovely lady whom I had the honor to meet at Confuzzled went to Dubai for four days and three nights and for that time lived at Atlantis on the Palm Jumeirah. That was a singular hotel in just about every sense of the word.
Rather than go into lengthy descriptions of everything I'll probably post a gaggle of pictures which will go into scraps after a while.
The highlight of the stay though has to have been the lovely young lady who has me convinced that if Karma is real my actions had to have resulted in the deaths of a LOT of terrorists... or there's a reckoning in my future. :P
Unfortunately Dubai in July is pretty warm... to put things mildly. And since we were on an island the whole weekend, humidity was also rampant. As well there seems to have been a dust storm present pretty much the whole weekend. We caught glimpses of the Burj Khalifa, but there was no point in actually going up because there literally would have been no view at all from the top. Just haze. The only time we could actually get a half-way clear view of the building itself was when we went to Dubai Mall, which is all but attached.
As for the Atlantis... everything was pretty much awesome, though it got off to a slow start when they switched up the room request I'd made. We spent an extra few hours in the Imperial lounge waiting for that to be straightened out, which it eventually was, to my and her great delight.
Be warned though: The Atlantis is very family friendly. This is a warning? How so?
There are screaming children everywhere. There's actually a french restaurant at the Atlantis that almost attracted our custom exclusively through the promise that no children under 12 were allowed in. Neither of us even knows what french food actually is. My closest idea is Le Madelines. We wound up going to a steak place instead, which was fantastic by the by.
If I keep going it'll just be gushing. In summary: I went, It was good beyond rational measure, and I have returned a richer man for the experience.
I and a lovely lady whom I had the honor to meet at Confuzzled went to Dubai for four days and three nights and for that time lived at Atlantis on the Palm Jumeirah. That was a singular hotel in just about every sense of the word.
Rather than go into lengthy descriptions of everything I'll probably post a gaggle of pictures which will go into scraps after a while.
The highlight of the stay though has to have been the lovely young lady who has me convinced that if Karma is real my actions had to have resulted in the deaths of a LOT of terrorists... or there's a reckoning in my future. :P
Unfortunately Dubai in July is pretty warm... to put things mildly. And since we were on an island the whole weekend, humidity was also rampant. As well there seems to have been a dust storm present pretty much the whole weekend. We caught glimpses of the Burj Khalifa, but there was no point in actually going up because there literally would have been no view at all from the top. Just haze. The only time we could actually get a half-way clear view of the building itself was when we went to Dubai Mall, which is all but attached.
As for the Atlantis... everything was pretty much awesome, though it got off to a slow start when they switched up the room request I'd made. We spent an extra few hours in the Imperial lounge waiting for that to be straightened out, which it eventually was, to my and her great delight.
Be warned though: The Atlantis is very family friendly. This is a warning? How so?
There are screaming children everywhere. There's actually a french restaurant at the Atlantis that almost attracted our custom exclusively through the promise that no children under 12 were allowed in. Neither of us even knows what french food actually is. My closest idea is Le Madelines. We wound up going to a steak place instead, which was fantastic by the by.
If I keep going it'll just be gushing. In summary: I went, It was good beyond rational measure, and I have returned a richer man for the experience.
raze1984
~raze1984
Pretty warm to put things mildly eh? Given what temperatures you have to endure every day when working it says something about how warm it is out in Dubai, one of many reasons I will probably never go heh. Heartening to hear that you had a brilliant time though :)
CamashRed
~camashred
I'd wondered why you'd were smiling like a jackass by the end of the con... Ladyfriend get!
Cebelius
~cebelius
OP
It showed that much did it?
