We arrived in Dubai at night, after about an hours flight on the Emirates airline. It helped having a relative on the flight crew and it made it interesting for us as we imagined what her daily life was like. Emirates is a very nice airline, I can see why it’s won so many industrial awards. When we de-boarded, we noticed just how new the terminal looked and we really appreciated the ‘state-of-the-art’ luggage carousel. It has sensors that will stop incoming luggage if other luggage was in the way, then it would start up again and there was a nice gap to the side with which to grab your luggage.

We had an uneventful taxi ride to our five star hotel Dubai offers all its tourists. Our check-in was easy and fast, all in all, it only took us 45 minutes to leave the airport and get into bed of our hotel room. We were still tired from our last stop in Kuwait.

We found one interesting aspect about Dubai, which is the taxi drivers. Our first taxi ride, must have been a rare experience. But, every journey we took after that was an experience fraught with language barriers. Our hotel was located on a major road, but for some reason, we had a difficult time getting a taxi right away and where ever we wanted to go, we had to spend at least 15 minutes communicating our destination. Probably because we didn’t want to see the usual tourist sights, we were here to visit family. One member we want to visit lives in the suburb of Al Qusais, well apparently, there are four different suburbs with this name! Another issue we had was, at one of our stops located on the edge of an industrial area, the taxi drivers just didn’t think that’s where we wanted to go.

Later, we figured out that most of the taxi drivers are recent arrivals from India or Pakistan, so we would find someone who knew Farsi or Hindu to write out where we wanted to go that day. This turned out to work beautifully.

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