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Dubai maybe but why are they going to Qatar? it's pushing 45 degrees & unless you have experienced it you don't realise how horrendous it is. There's very little to do there & even the bars are all in hotels. I can think of no reason to visit i the summer unless it's for work.
Ramadan starts on May 27th so all the bars will be closed in Qatar.
Ramadan starts on May 27th so all the bars will be closed in Qatar.
I worked in Qatar over a summer a few years ago. Vowed never to go back. As others have said, it is horrendous. The heat was incredible, the humidity made it even worse.
Complete hole of a place, though I believe it's improved a little in he intervening years. I remember reading in the 'local' paper at the time that tourism had increased by 500% in one year. Sounds good until you read the figures; in 1988 there were 10 visitors, 1989 there were 50....
Complete hole of a place, though I believe it's improved a little in he intervening years. I remember reading in the 'local' paper at the time that tourism had increased by 500% in one year. Sounds good until you read the figures; in 1988 there were 10 visitors, 1989 there were 50....
Just back from Doha, visited friends for a week. We usually just hung out at the pool during the day and did duppers in the evening. Oryx Rotana does a steak dupper (4 hours of all the steak you can eat and drink you can drink) and intercontinental in the city does a nice dupper too. We hung out at The Al Sharq village at the swim up pool some of the days. 100 QAR to enter. At night time the Pearl is a cool place for something to eat and car spotting.
AdeTuono said:
Complete hole of a place, though I believe it's improved a little in he intervening years. I remember reading in the 'local' paper at the time that tourism had increased by 500% in one year. Sounds good until you read the figures; in 1988 there were 10 visitors, 1989 there were 50....
I spent 3 years there only a couple of years later..... there really was nothing there!!GT03ROB said:
AdeTuono said:
Complete hole of a place, though I believe it's improved a little in he intervening years. I remember reading in the 'local' paper at the time that tourism had increased by 500% in one year. Sounds good until you read the figures; in 1988 there were 10 visitors, 1989 there were 50....
I spent 3 years there only a couple of years later..... there really was nothing there!!Not the best time in my career.
AdeTuono said:
I was working for QGPC so spent much of my time on Halul Island with the occasional trip ashore. If you didn't know anyone in town it was pointless. No bars, nowhere to go, nothing to see.
Not the best time in my career.
I was in Umm Said building the NGL facility as part of the original North Field project. Not the best time in my career.
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