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we are going to Dubai :cloud9:
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Get in - wd MikelQuote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Excellent news 👏Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I will pop in and see them on Friday:-)
Just don't offer to buy a round. 14 quid for a pint of Heineken in the airport ffsQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
How much????Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Ffs :-(
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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Plenty of 'Happy Hours' around the city where you can get a pint for as cheap as ?8-9, just for an hour or so.
What sort of country wants to encourage tourism but allows that sort of alcohol pricing?
Oddballs...
For Heineken :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
In fairness, not much different to ski resort prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Actually, the terminal I was at on the way home had Tiger Beer which was much more palatable. I think Abu Dhabi I was paying 16 quid for a Guinness last year. And I was there for 12 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I was pleasantly surprised in Australia that it was cheaper than 14 years ago due to the exchange rate. Some decent beer as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I remember it being very cheap, but that was 20 odd years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Yeah it normally is/was but after the 2008 financial crisis the Aussie dollar was so strong for a while it was almost parallel with the pound. Now it is back to almost 2 to oneQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Is it really that much? When I was flying Emirates to India regularly in the '00s, I seem to remember buying an Indian {who was half a dhiram short} a bottle for about ?2-3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Made it clear that I was happy to buy him a drink but didn't want him thanking me for the next 4 hours. So I just drank my G&Ts and read Viz at the bar.
After 2 hours, I'm feeling better and get chatting to the Indian. Turns out he was a quantum physicist back from some academic conference and that they'd now worked out that the equations don't work with 10 dimensions but do with 11.
I'll never forgive myself for not picking his brain for the first two hours while I read Viz.
But anyway, it couldn't have been 15 quid back then. I'm too tight to buy a total stranger a 15 quid pint at a stopover bar. 2-3 quid is ok.
I don't lie about the price of a pint ggQuote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Does that mean I'm old?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Or that Dubai has stopped selling itself as having the cheapest duty free and one like UK airports where it's all about rinsing customers?
They want the right tourism. Not the one where they?re scraping Brits off the road at 5:00am, or having call to prayer disrupted by a bit of external bantz sort of thing. ?Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
They even have Victoria's Secrets shops these days. I mean who doesn't go to an airport to buy their lingerie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
It was also weird travelling through at Christmas as there was Santas, Christmas trees and decorations everywhere. Carols playing over the tannoy. What's Arabic for "selling out"?