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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Flying with Emirates to Thailand and a stop-over in Dubai
Dear readers,
Now that China Airlines no longer has a non-stop flight from Amsterdam to Bangkok, I want to buy my annual ticket at Emirates. I think it would be nice to make a stop over in Dubai.
Are there people who can advise me whether it is worth booking, for example, 3 nights in a hotel. If so, which hotel has a good price-quality ratio? The location is of course also important, not too far from the airport and close to the sights.
Thanks in advance for the effort.
Greetings from Jan
Already made a stopover in Dubai twice (once for 2 nights and once for 1 nights). It's worth it!!! I would choose a hotel near the Burj Khalifa somewhere. Dubai is not huge, you can reach the airport in fifteen minutes if you are staying in that region! June - July - August it is sweltering there...
Don't forget that Ramadan starts in June. Even drinking water on the street is not appreciated.
No problems with this in the hotels. Food is also served normally.
Dear Jan,
Premier Inn and Holliday Inn Express, located next to each other, close to the airport and both with a free shuttle bus every half hour. Affordable for the expensive Dubai, in February 90 € per night. Premier Inn also provides a free shuttle bus service to some of the city's malls. Also walking distance to a metro station.
Hi Peter, can you tell us what kind of sights you have seen in Dubai?
Jan,
I have flown with Emirates for many years. especially to Thailand, but also to Dubai itself, where the main hub and home port of Emirates is. 3 nights Dubai seems fine to me to see most of the highlights.
I myself like to stay in the Deira district. Not far from the airport and also close to the metro. You can get everywhere with the metro and possibly a taxi, which is very cheap there.
As far as hotels are concerned, it is of course up to your own preference. What you should keep an eye on are the hotel policies. The national hotels in particular, not the international chains, sometimes want to include conditions about not allowing unmarried people to stay in the hotel.
I myself have often been to IBIS. Just opposite Deira City Center Mall. with a mall in front of the door, you also have a great place to shop, drink coffee and possibly eat.
The hotel prices are the best. an average 3 star hotel is about 50 to 60 euros per night. In the hot season between May/June and October you can sometimes stay very cheaply in a 4-star hotel. Just look at the well-known hotel search sites.
The advantage of non-stop Ams-Bkk is that you can sleep in, for example, Bus Class and, above all, sleep through the night. This also applies to those who can sleep in a different class. The flight is then made in 1 go. I have regularly done transfers via the Middle East and it is always a disappointment except vwb. the price or, for example, suddenly have to leave and no direct flights are available. Your flight is cut in half and hanging around in a desolate airport is your share. You can then fly for another 6 hours. Staying in the Middle East should attract you. Not seen me, total waste of time and money.
China Airlines will indeed stop direct flights to Bkk from Ams, but will fly directly to Taipei. I advise everyone to either fly Eva Air, this airline that I prefer to any airline on that route (Bus Class is perfect), or the KLM that I flew with 5 years ago. The Bus Class does not make it compared to Eva Air.
Incidentally, there is an unconfirmed rumor that Thai Airways now wants to fly to Ams again, because Brussels-Bangkok has never proved profitable after their departure from Amsterdam. I could have predicted that, but well, the reason for leaving then had to do with personal interests, which took precedence over business interests.
I could give advice where to get info to stay in Dubai and other places, but any self-respecting travel agency can provide that info. Good and expensive hotel, taxi transport and hop shopping is your share.
My advice: don't do it, don't even consider it.
“Incidentally, there is an unconfirmed rumor that Thai Airways now wants to fly to Ams again” I hope you're right, but yes, a rumor and an unconfirmed one almost looks like a fabrication. And what were the personal interests that took precedence over the business interest to stop flying to Schiphol? M curious.
Been there myself for 5 days in May '15, not only in Dub, also other emirates.
1. Close to the airport is nonsense - an excellent fully automatic metro has been running for several years, along which almost every hotel is located.
2.Whether it's worth it for YOU, of course, I can't say, besides, I've already seen too many countries to see a lot of excitement. PLEASE NOTE the time/year: it is really hot there in the summer, much worse if TH going outside is an ailment. However, the HTLs are much cheaper.
3. If you're flying with EK - it's their home base, so check out cheap stop-over programs first, with regular transfers to those hotels. You can also book excursions. Those are the known ones: desert surf with some camels, that 7* super-expensive hotel in the sea with a splendid view, the highest tower in the world = Bur Dubaj and shopping, lots of shopping + more shopping. There is nothing else to see/do.
4. a lot cheaper - but everyone can easily check that themselves on booking.com etc, are hotels / apartments in near Sharjah, which is very muslim (alco very restrictive) and can only be reached via traffic jams.
5.Dubai is NOT cheap, extremely modern, and actually more interesting for Arabs, Iranians, Gulfies etc because of their much looser morality and shopping. Russians also like to come / came there often.
Completely correct, especially at the airport you will "cook"
The highest torn is called Burj Khalifa, Burj Dubai I never heard of.
The 7 star hotel by the sea is called Burj al Arab.
You need to book several days in advance for both. For the Burj al Arab there is a minimum spend that will be taken from your credit card anyway.
For the Burj Khalifa, the earlier you book, the cheaper.
At the palm there is a nice water park similar to the one in HuaHin in terms of attractions.
In the center of Dubai there is the open air museum, river dinner cruises, the gold market.
Near light AbuDhabi. The mosque, the second largest in the world, is definitely worth a visit. Beautiful .
You also have the Palace Hotel there, for an expensive coffee and cake, an ATM to buy gold bars. Beautiful interior by the way.
And Ferrari land…. There is a lot to experience in the UAE.
At the beach you have a running course with bouncy street covering so that the joggers do not get injured.
It continues to fascinate.
Dear Jan,
I also flew with Emirates once (around the A380) and I didn't like that at all.
Rode;
You leave in the evening just like EVA AIR, but in the middle of the night you have to leave the plane at 01.00:2, while you should actually be sleeping (at least I do), then you can board the same plane again after 5 hours and leave in the middle of the night towards Bangkok. I was never as broken as then, people are also going to hand out food at night, so before the lights go out, it's half past five and it's also starting to get light.
A beautiful plane, very spacious, but a bit of a time to fly.
So just stayed with EVA AIR.
Greetings Nico.
You probably missed that Emirates flies twice a day, with an afternoon and an evening flight. That evening flight – which has only been operated with an A2 since February 1 of this year, departs at 380 and arrives in Dubai at 21.50. The connecting flight – never the same plane – arrives in Bangkok at 06.30pm.
The afternoon flight departs at 15.20:23.59 PM, arrives in Dubai at 12.15:XNUMX PM and arrives in Bangkok at XNUMX:XNUMX PM.
I wonder which flight you went with, because the times you mention don't add up.
It was May 2014 and yes it was an A380.
From the above departure times, it must have been the afternoon flight, because I was in Dubai around midnight and left after more than two hours with EXACTLY the same aircraft.
Had reserved seat G45 on both flights and my own rubbish was still in the wall pocket.
For me, once and never again,
I almost always fly to my final destination via another airport. That means you are indeed in a strange airport for a few hours. Take a look in advance to see what the hub harbor has to offer instead of hanging around for hours in front of a counter. I myself find hours crammed into one on a direct flight 3 times nothing. Just get out and I actually arrive very relaxed. Hardly ever arguing with time differences and various limbs starting to protest because of sitting/hanging. I don't think sleeping too much on a flight is always good either. You can also often take other flight times than the standard ones that are told here in the comments. I fly home from Bangkok on a day flight and have an early afternoon landing in Bangkok. At the hub harbor I often take a nice shower, have a nice meal somewhere and then go for a walk and that is no punishment for me. We have to take the 10000 steps a day. But opinions are divided on this. I don't often make a real stopover because I actually like to be in Thailand longer. I once went to Dubai for a long weekend and it is indeed different from Thailand. Although? They also want you to buy things there and you can bake in the sun on a bed and under a parasol. I liked visiting Ferrariworld. The fountain in the evenings at the high tower was also nice to visit. Skiing is also an option. Both on a dune or the indoor ski slope. Just take a good look around before you go and you know what suits you. Not everyone is the same when traveling or going on vacation.
I also like a stopover because the flight to Bangkok takes quite a long time. I thought Dubai was a nice place to visit and I never mind staying here for a few days. Places you can visit include the tower Burj Khalifa, high tea in Burj Al Arab (expensive but you get what you pay for), Jumeirah mosque, Al Fahidi fort and the various soukhs. If you like shopping malls, you're also in the right place here because they have some super nice malls with ski slopes, but unfortunately often expensive. Booking early in, for example, the IBIS hotel saves you high costs for the overnight stay(s). Best months to visit Dubai are actually about the same as the dry season in Thailand because in our summer it can get quite hot.
I am also interested in a stopover with an overnight stay, or a day hotel in Dubai.
It is not yet clear to me what a good hotel deal is, but I know from experience that taxis in Dubai are cheap. So the distance hotel-airport is less important.