"My phone rang ..."
- Immediately save us! Immediately!
Shopping in the Emirates is an inevitable thing. The simple baggage of two women tourists, in addition to numerous bales, was made up of two dimensional plasma panels and a bumper for the car. The ladies would not be able to put all this wealth on the bus for a group free transfer to the airport, and so they went to a Dubai airport by taxi. The time for sending the aircraft was suitable, but the information board did not show any signs of the presence of the desired flight. After long and worrying expectations, the women contacted our representative and found out that, firstly, they mistakenly arrived at the wrong terminal, and secondly, they were late for the flight. Women were in despair: a rare tourist can boast of a full wallet on the day of departure home, and the next flight was expected only after 2 days. Without thinking twice, the ladies waited for the arrival of the representative of the host party, grabbed hold of him “by the hand of a little white”, and said that they would not let him out until he checked them into a hotel with meals for free.
So they held him by one hand, while controlling the mobile phone with the other hand, the receiving party did not agree with the sending tour operator that he would pay for this misunderstanding and would charge the clients upon arrival. The incident was resolved, but the hand aches ... :)
Moral: There are as many as THREE terminals at Dubai International Airport. Be vigilant and clearly remember the number of "your".
- Help, they don’t let us out!
New Year, New Year! Let the champagne flow like a river ... So it was during the New Year's gala dinner in a modest Dubai hotel. At first, champagne and vodka, included in the price of dinner (in unlimited quantities), poured "river" into our dear tourists. When the spirit of the festival captured all living things and reached the red mark "to walk, so walk!" and "everyone is dancing!", an elite variety of champagne, "House of Perignon," poured into the river. Exclusive spirits were included in the gala dinner menu with separate price tags, however, in an atmosphere of unrestrained fun, our vacationers were no longer up to the nuances ... The holiday spoiled the bill presented at check-out: there was no money for a drink from the tourist, and the plane - after three hours. Noble Wine Gourmet was not allowed out of the hotel. We got into a position and borrowed money under the "honest word" ... But, they say, they are waiting for the promised three years :) 
Moral: "House of Perignon"? In the Troika? Is free? I do not believe! And you do not believe ...
- Save the grandson!
December 31, 23:45. An elderly woman cries into the phone - a sixteen-year-old granddaughter locked herself in the toilet room, accidentally broke the lock and cannot go out. It took an entire hour to rescue the grandson from forced imprisonment at the height of the gala dinner: the people in Ras Al Khaimah (the hotel was located there) were preparing to celebrate the New Year with might and main, and it was not easy to “call” the right hotel staff at that moment. As a result, the door was still safely opened, and the main New Year’s wish of a whole group of people, from grandmother to the hotel’s top manager, was the boy’s quickest rescue from "toilet captivity". Here is such a New Year.
Moral: Well, with whom it does not happen! Just a story ...
“They kicked us out of the mosque!”
An excursion to the mosque of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is a necessary, interesting business, but, like the East itself, is quite delicate. To instruct tourists, a group of seven women and one man, we started well in advance: cover our arms and legs, remove our Orthodox crosses, and behave quietly. At the entrance to the mosque, the ladies dressed in abaya, covered their heads with scarves and went to observe the beauty.
The only man in the group was so impressed with the look of the transformed compatriots that he decided to urgently capture himself against the background of the “harem”, collecting them in a pile and acquiring everyone who had enough hands, after which the whole group was expelled from the sacred walls.
Moral: Make yourself at home, but do not forget that you are visiting.
- Bring back the slippers!
Hungry for new impressions, our wonderful and curious tourist wants to be in time for everything. Therefore, the search and purchase of rubber slippers to replace those that were washed off the deck of a pleasure boat during the excursion is a serious event that takes a lot of time and effort. Imbued with the tragedy carefully laid out on two pages in a beautiful handwriting and summarizing “Return the slippers!”, We decided not to buy the slippers, but to compensate for the loss with a free sightseeing tour of Dubai. In the answer we received and written on three sheets in the same beautiful handwriting, we found out that we did not fully realize the depth of the victim’s grief, and “slippers” pulled a minimum to the water park in Atlantis. As well as a sightseeing tour of Abu Dhabi. For two ... As in that fairy tale, our enterprising tourist did not want to become a "pillar noblewoman", but wanted to be a "mistress of the sea." Well, and we decided, following the classics, to return to him the "trough", namely, "ordinary rubber slippers." That is, twenty-one dirhams.
Moral: The tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it - a lesson for good fellows. Well, you are in the know.
- I'm late for the plane!
- How! You were taken away from the hotel - our driver reported that he was taking you to the airport ... From the emirate of Fujairah to Dubai, the path is not long. The driver of our company just drove up to the hotel, as a tourist famously threw his suitcases in a car, confirmed the room number in broken English and headed to the Dubai airport. Therefore, the cries of our tourist that he was not taken from the Fujairah hotel, plunged us into a second coma. Having contacted our driver, and through him with his passenger, we learned that a tourist from Germany jumped into the car, also waiting for a transfer to the airport at the indicated hour. Halfway was passed: you won’t abandon the “stranger”, and the tourist risks being late. After finding out who was the host of the “impostor,” we “redirected” the guest who had been waiting at the hotel to our business colleagues. Here is such a castling. Yes, everyone managed on their flights.
Morality: Friendship wins. As always.
We wish you a pleasant stay! Merry adventures and happy New Year and Christmas!
