Holidays

[pride in battle]

I’m going there in 6 weeks. Most of the bars are in 2 shopping malls it seems. One is close to our hotel so good for staggering around and home

Bars in a shopping mall ?? Rock n Roll :)

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

The influencers mostly flock to the more popular public or party areas like the malls or marina so you probably won't have a problem with them. There's a huge expat community living at the marina, it's nice and new but it's perhaps best avoided if you don't want to run into endless billionaire wannabe personal trainer type knobs from Essex.

Ignoring the really cheap businessey type hotels in central Dubai, the hotels on the Palm are probably the cheaper options as the Palm is generally quieter as there's not much there. The Atlantis is best avoided if you don't want tons of kids running around and it's expensive. The Sofitel, Waldorf or Anantara on the Palm are really nice and are much cheaper than other hotels such as those on Jumeirah Beach. As with anywhere in Dubai the hotel restaurants will still have crazy prices so you'll need to travel out for cheaper eats. The malls have the usual chains which are pretty reasonable.

If you want to eat well and don't mind being locked into a hotel on half board then a good shout is to look at the Jumeirah flavours half board packages at the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray hotel on the Palm. It's the cheapest Jumeirah group hotel and if you get onto this package then you can eat for free at loads of restaurants at the different Jumeirah hotels located throughout Dubai.

If you just want the cheaper hotel, decent beach then the above hotels such as the Sofitel are probably best. You can then travel to the malls etc for cheaper food and drink. It's doable but probably not if you do want to eat at nice places.

This is really top info. Thanks very much, Mr Inbetween.

 

[Stephen Ireland's pants]

If you mean STA Travel, they went bust in 2020.

And I probably meant trail finders.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

And so it starts.
Easyjet cancel 1700 summer flights from Gatwick

Easyjet cancels 1,700 flights from July to September

The airline axes flights to and from Gatwick airport as schools head towards the summer break.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[RobMCFC]

And so it starts.
Easyjet cancel 1700 summer flights from Gatwick

Easyjet cancels 1,700 flights from July to September

The airline axes flights to and from Gatwick airport as schools head towards the summer break.

www.bbc.co.uk

Could get very messy this summer with all those strikes.

Not flying again until the end of August, but I hope they get these strikes resolved (unlikely).

I still look back fondly to end of Summer/Autumn 2021 - for me, this was the golden age of travel. Not great for the airline industry, but airports were a lot emptier and there was even plenty of space on the aircraft. All the form filling in and mask wearing put many people off but it was a great time to travel.

Also, EasyJet prices have gone mental this year. Even though we are in the EasyJet Flight Club, we've taken far more flights on Ryanair this year.

 

[stonie]

just started our second week in Santorini ( kamari) would advise if never been and thinking about it to do it, our first time to Greece and can certainly see us booking again for next year

 

[kinkyblue]

just started our second week in Santorini ( kamari) would advise if never been and thinking about it to do it, our first time to Greece and can certainly see us booking again for next year

Was there at the end of May, beautiful place enjoy

 

[feedthegoat27]

Could get very messy this summer with all those strikes.

Not flying again until the end of August, but I hope they get these strikes resolved (unlikely).

I still look back fondly to end of Summer/Autumn 2021 - for me, this was the golden age of travel. Not great for the airline industry, but airports were a lot emptier and there was even plenty of space on the aircraft. All the form filling in and mask wearing put many people off but it was a great time to travel.

Also, EasyJet prices have gone mental this year. Even though we are in the EasyJet Flight Club, we've taken far more flights on Ryanair this year.

2021, and to a certain degree 2020, were indeed the golden age of travel.

It was a bit 'fortune favours the brave' with all the Covid rules and regs, but the deals kicking about were incredible, with the added benefit of airports being half empty, planes quarter full, hotels almost giving rooms/upgrades away.

Paying a fiver to fly to the Canary Islands and having maybe 30 people on board....didn't get much better than that.

 

[Grassland Blue]

We usually go to Cornwall or Devon for a week with our dogs. Having a change this year, and going to Dorset. Staying in a small village, Thornford about 20 miles north of Weymouth.
Any tips for must see places etc appreciated. Is the New Forest still worth a look?

It's still a place with trees....

 

[Bill Walker]

some great fossils to be found on several of the beaches down there.