Bab Al Shams a Desert Resort

It's now midnight with a 3 hour time change and an hour to get in past security !! But thats a story for later over a drink or six we are whisked into our next Emirates car and taken 70 km into the desert for a couple of nights.

As we are traveling at speeds of 150km leaving the city of Dubai on a 6 lane highway and that's just our side of the road so it's not long before we start to see desert dunes in the moonlight and Arabic people sitting on top of them cooling off in the now down to 30 deg temperatures.

Our driver tells us being Thursday night that the next 2 days is their weekend and that Sunday is a workday in Dubai.
It is just so beautifully hot and dry, very much like home but without the desert!!!!
We arrive and wow wow wow wow wow wow get the picture it's WOW I thought we were being looked after before !!!! now we are on Emirates soil theses guys know how to impress and REALY spoil you.

First night the room was amazing and as it was 2am all we wanted was a bed to crash in. The second night once we got into a room that we asked for with a shower as Sandy's knee is being a bit dicky after three months with millions of steps in Italy it was just simply gorgeous and it had a view over the desert. It is so hot here but you want to get out and explore and a soon a you sweat the heat dries you again incredible and it not even the hot season....