You are within walking distance of one big shopping mall (Town Center), which includes an ice skating rink. Good for me as a single 50-something male, but maybe not so for families.
#POSTCARD FROM DUBAI ARABIC FULL#
West Bay is the business area of Doha, full of embassies and government agencies. I stayed at Movenpick West Bay in the central section of the “W” on the waterfront which has an iconic Sheraton hotel at its apex. An underground railway (metro) system is being constructed in readiness for the football World Cup in 2022. Roads are good and traffic not particularly heavy except when school finishes at 5pm. I was told that the taxi fare should not be more than 80-100 QR (30-35 USD) for West Bay (where I stayed) and around 50 QR for hotels near the Museum of Islamic Arts (more about that later) at the port end of the city.ĭoha is built around a W-shaped stretch of coastline which can be covered in 30-40 minutes by car. The larger hotels have shuttles to and from the airport, only about 20 minutes out of town.
Get to your hotel around midnight and have a regular night’s sleep.
#POSTCARD FROM DUBAI ARABIC PLUS#
The Qatar Airways’ flight from New Zealand - 17 hours plus change – was not as daunting as it sounds, leaving Auckland at a respectable 2.25pm and hitting the ground at Doha about 11pm.
That’s not to say it’s a bad thing, but if you are escaping the New Zealand winter, be prepared to hit the shopping malls and hotel swimming pool during the day, rather than the beach, this time of year. Whoever said: “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”, must have visited Doha in July. What you’d rather the postcard told you, as well as “wish you were here.”
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