Awesome pickup, awesome flight and food and that’s where it ends.

Flight arrived 1hr late so missed the connecting flight however Emirates new after this weeks downpour that all flights were delayed or cancelled, but still transported you to Dubai where it was your responsibility to sort it yourself by queuing for 9 hours to rebook your flight along with hundreds of other passengers and 6 checkout staff. The people just kept surging so you couldn’t move.

Next flight to Singapore is in 3 days, so we would arrive after we are due to depart to Bali. So rebooked from Dubai to Bali in 3 days, can’t get a hotel voucher from Emirates since compooota says no, you should have been given a voucher when they rebooked your flight. So now booking our own, oh and we also have no luggage, won’t get it before we leave Dubai so it’s having a holiday on its own.

Amazingly 12 hours after we landed, Emirates posted a backdated “do not travel alert” showing the time before we were due to set-off, in full protection of the company, even though they advised hundreds of flights to take off for Dubai. Oh I can see a formal snotty complaint coming.

So awesome it is not, no clothes, delayed flight, incompetent staff, no currency. We are tired and smell. Still slightly better than some who have been in the airport 3 days.

And now the Dubai Savoy, well it’s a minor step up from a DaysInn (only just), with spectacular views of a main road and a supermarket car park.

Still off we go to explore downtown Dubai and buy another pair of undercrackers, I’ve been wearing these 3 days and they only have one more turn left in them.