At The Top | Burj Khalifa - The World's Tallest Building

ABBEY: Like visiting Merlion Park in Singapore, you didn’t visit Dubai if you haven’t gone to Burj Khalifa. 

We booked a pair of tickets for AED280 to watch the sunrise at 124th storey of the skyscraper and we reached it in less than a minute. It was fast. No sea of clouds during our visit and we enjoyed the view from the top. The building was completed after 6 years and it houses Armani Hotel. 

Breakfast of croissant and coffee were also included in the ticket.

Burj Khalifa - The World's Tallest Building

WILL: Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world. Full stop! But well, for now. Hahaha!

We went to Chicago’s the ever first tallest building and we are amazed how tall it is! And oh my gosh! When we saw the Burj Khalifa, it seems we spend hours to see check it out from top to bottom. It is really standing tall and proud that on every other infrastructures that surround it. 

I am thinking that we might spend few minutes inside the elevetor but hey we don’t. We were shot from base to level 145 under 1 minute. A blink of an eye. Super! 

When we are at the top, all I want to do stare at magic of sunrise. For a short period of time, I contemplated how small the people were, the cars and houses from above. Murmured my gratefulness to the ALMIGHTY, when you are there, almost touching the clouds, you will remember HIS greatness. 

One tip. Take the breakfast package. It is cheaper and have a free coffee and croissant after your trip up! 

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At The Top | Burj Khalifa - The World's Tallest Building 

Book Your Ticket Here: https://bit.ly/2Dw85bR

(A)1 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Blvd - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Swissotel Al Ghurair - Luxury Hotel In Dubai

ABBEY: Swissotel Al-Ghurair became our home during our 7-day stay in Dubai. The staffs warmly welcomed us and really attended to our needs; like supplying us with bottles of water, vanity kits, and shower gel upon request. The bed is soft and comfortable as well as the pillows. What I liked the most is the shower. It feels like rain giving me a nice soft massage. It refreshed me after each working day at Gitex. We also have Nespresso machine.

Our buffet breakfast is at Liwan (3rd floor). I indulged in their omelettes and sunny side up, pineapple fried rice, stir fry noodles, cheese za’atar, cold cuts, turkey bacon, sausage, juice and coffee.

We visited the gym only once due to time constraints. But it has lots of equipments like cable and smith machines, free weights, barbell, kettle ball, treadmills, and resistant bands.

We also made our Desert Safari tour at Swissotel for 230AED per person.

There’s only one incident that I was asked if they can scan Wilma’s ID. I told the security that she was my wife. Then they apologized. I don’t know what is that for but it left us puzzled.

Swissotel Al Ghurair - Luxury Hotel In Dubai

Swissotel Al Ghurair - Luxury Hotel In Dubai

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WILL: First of all, again thanks to NEM for this wonderful trip. Hehe. And to Ms Lourdes Bermudo of Gulf Rain Travel and Tourism who applied for our visas, arranged our plane and the Swissotel Hotel booking. Lourdes extraordinarily phoned the reception and requested to give us a good view. Naks! Service to the max! 

So what about the Swissotel? The room is fine. There’s a bathroom/bathtub and still the questionable for me and Abbey is the the two different toilet bowls. This is the second time we saw this kind. 

The white sheets smell and feel clean, but the color gold cover at the bottom of the bed have a numerous stains. The towels as instructed was changed regularly and the room service is excellent.

Breakfast buffet is simple. For our stay of 7-days, I do not see something that is worthy for a second plate. 

All in all, we felt home at Swissotel. Thanks Swissotel for accommodating the NEM team during GITEX event. 

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Swissotel Al-Ghurair

(W) https://www.swissotel.com/hotels/dubai/

(A) PO Box 185060, Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, Near Fish Roundabout, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

(T) 97142933000

Gulf Rain Travel and Tourism

(W) gulfrain.com

(A) PO Box 39884 Dubai UAE |Abu Hail Centre 

(T) 04 268 0052

Emirates (Singapore - Dubai - Singapore)

ABBEY: We flew with Emirates Airlines for our trip to Dubai for Gitex Technology Week. The aircraft was Boeing 777-300 and it was huge. It was an 8-hour flight but I didn’t get bored with inflight entertainment of new movies, TV shows and documentaries. The food was also nice. I got salad, chili chicken, omellete and fish curry.

I was asked to stop filming upon I entered the plane.

There is a funny thing that happened when we checked in for our flight back to Singapore. We asked for aisle seats. Silly me, I made it plural so me and Wilma got two different seats. So we told that we only want one aisle seat. Turned out that Kathleen (Emirate staff at the counter in DBX for 7:45AM flight) gave us a window seat. Haha.

The landing is superb as I didn’t feel that the wheels already touched the ground.

Emirates' Menu for Singapore to Dubai

Will's On-Plane Request for Vegetarian Food =) 

A&W's Dubai Detour - Part 1 

Emirates' Menu for Dubai to Colombo

Emirates' Menu for Colombo to Singapore

WILL: Emirates! Wow! One of the prestigious airline in the world. Again, thank you NEM for giving this opportunity to be onboard in this plane. 

Emirates entertainment gave us a wide variety of choices. From Bollywood to Hollywood, to Filipino and European movies, cartoons, games and even live news! Oh darn! There are documentaries! Good job ICE! 

Service is excellent! Why? I didn’t send them a request, I am assuming that they will have a fish meal. Voila! They only offered beef and chicken on the flight from Singapore. So, I requested a vegetarian meal. The flight attendant went back with bowl of salad. Haha! I have this positive feeling, that came from first class cabin. Haha! Thanks Emirates! 

The seat is comfortably nice. Do not hesitate to recline the seat, it won’t bother the passenger behind you. There is enough legroom for my husband too! 

Thanks Emirates. Hope to be your passenger again! 

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Emirates

https://www.emirates.com/ae/english/