The world famous Dubai Shopping festival is on! Woohoo.. I say Woohoo with a proper dose of sarcasm because I do not consider myself a shopper. I have never been excited at the thought of going to a mall and looking around for things to buy. On ocassion, ideas come to my head of what I need next and I go to the store, buy what I need and exit the mall and all of its booby traps.
There are positive aspects of the Dubai Shopping festival, prize give aways, I've been reading of the number of people who have gone shopping and come home with bars of solid gold, or cars, or houses, tv's, trips, etc etc. Needless to say, I have never won anything. It could also be because I have not been hanging around at the malls increasing my chances of winning. I doubt very much that I am going to win one of these great prizes by sitting at home.
There is also the vast number of concerts, performances, shows, fireworks displays that come along with the DSF. I love fireworks.. so I did venture to the mall with my camera for the sole purpose of taking some pictures of the fireworks show. I have always wanted to take pictures of one, but have never been at the right place at the right time. I did manage a few pictures of the fireworks, being my first time, I was a little shaky, but there is always next time to improve.
What are the bad parts of the DSF?? Crowds, 1000's upon 1000's of people come to Dubai from all over the world with one sole purpose in life - to shop till they drop! Why just last week I got up at my usual waking time, got ready and walked into the coffee shop to get my usual breakfast. What I saw and heard, gave me a heart attack and ruined my desire to eat at the same time, and let me tell you, it isn't easy to make me not want to eat. There were 180 middle aged women (I say middle aged because I searched for the young ones) all wearing bright red shouting, screaming, laughing and generally unable to contain their excitement of being in Dubai for the Shopping festival. Apparently some software company that was based in India decided it would be a great idea to let all their women employees and the wife's of their male employees and their mothers, sisters, aunts, etc etc to go on an all expense (except for the shopping) paid trip to Dubai! As luck would have it, they decided to settle in at the same hotel I stay at, what bloody luck! It took 4 large charter buses to take the group to the mall.
Then there is the issues with taxi's. I am going to need an entirely different post on taxi's, but let me just say that it is impossible to get a taxi in Deira (where I stay) during the shopping festival, so I hate it already. What is the point of going to the mall, when it takes you an hour to get a cab, and once you are done shopping at the mall, you realise that you have to wait 2 hours in a line for taxi's to come back home. Not my cup of tea. So there you have it, a short breif account of the shopping festival.
There are positive aspects of the Dubai Shopping festival, prize give aways, I've been reading of the number of people who have gone shopping and come home with bars of solid gold, or cars, or houses, tv's, trips, etc etc. Needless to say, I have never won anything. It could also be because I have not been hanging around at the malls increasing my chances of winning. I doubt very much that I am going to win one of these great prizes by sitting at home.
There is also the vast number of concerts, performances, shows, fireworks displays that come along with the DSF. I love fireworks.. so I did venture to the mall with my camera for the sole purpose of taking some pictures of the fireworks show. I have always wanted to take pictures of one, but have never been at the right place at the right time. I did manage a few pictures of the fireworks, being my first time, I was a little shaky, but there is always next time to improve.
What are the bad parts of the DSF?? Crowds, 1000's upon 1000's of people come to Dubai from all over the world with one sole purpose in life - to shop till they drop! Why just last week I got up at my usual waking time, got ready and walked into the coffee shop to get my usual breakfast. What I saw and heard, gave me a heart attack and ruined my desire to eat at the same time, and let me tell you, it isn't easy to make me not want to eat. There were 180 middle aged women (I say middle aged because I searched for the young ones) all wearing bright red shouting, screaming, laughing and generally unable to contain their excitement of being in Dubai for the Shopping festival. Apparently some software company that was based in India decided it would be a great idea to let all their women employees and the wife's of their male employees and their mothers, sisters, aunts, etc etc to go on an all expense (except for the shopping) paid trip to Dubai! As luck would have it, they decided to settle in at the same hotel I stay at, what bloody luck! It took 4 large charter buses to take the group to the mall.
Then there is the issues with taxi's. I am going to need an entirely different post on taxi's, but let me just say that it is impossible to get a taxi in Deira (where I stay) during the shopping festival, so I hate it already. What is the point of going to the mall, when it takes you an hour to get a cab, and once you are done shopping at the mall, you realise that you have to wait 2 hours in a line for taxi's to come back home. Not my cup of tea. So there you have it, a short breif account of the shopping festival.
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