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Poonam N.

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1 Review by Poonam

  • Travel Triangle

4/20/19

I will start my review stating that the entire trip was just a time waste for us, that too after paying a huge amount.
Our day 1 was planned to be a Dhow cruise which was around 30 min away from our hotel but took us 2 hours to reach the Dhow cruise starting point because there were around 5 other families to be picked up from 5 different locations. It started at 9 and ended at 11 and we reached back hotel at 1 AM at night and had an early morning pickup of 8 AM next day.
In these 7 hours we were to complete our sleep, get ready, have breakfast everything. Very very poorly planned evening. The cruise was not even worth it. The name of the cruise was MonaLisa, very loud music, irritating lightings. There was an open deck above but no sitting. We had to stand on the open deck as it was difficult to survive in the closed deck.
Day 2: Picked up from hotel at 8.30 and dropped to another location where again we waited until 9 45 for other families and reached Abu Dhabi at 12. Half day was already wasted. But that was not all, very very poorly planned trip, elderly people grouped together with young people, some people interested in Ferrari world some not. The mosque which was not even the main attraction for the day took 2 hours to complete because an elderly lady was too slow and took forever for everything.
By the time we reached Ferrari world it was 3 30 giving us hardly 3 hours in Ferrari world. Out of the entire day we could get only 3 hour of our day for this and we also had to have our lunch within this time. By the time we reached back it was 10 PM. Also note, no time was planned for any lunch and dinner. At the end of the trip the 2 drivers were arguing over to who will drop us to the hotel.
Day 3 was good because we were picked in the morning and left for the entire day on our own to explore ski Dubai, Dubai mall, aquarium, bhurj khalifa.
Day 4 was Desert Safari. Got picked from hotel at 2.30 and halted at a random location Midway for more than 1 hour. A bottle of cold drink here cost 20 dirhs. We were doing nothing here, absolutely nothing. The desert Safari part was the only good thing about this day. Followed was dinner, which was the worst treatment of our trip. The buffet opened at 7 45 and it was over by 8. The food was over and the buffet was closed. Around 100 people were expected to finish their dinner in 15 min. All we could get for dinner was dal rice, everything else was over and that was not even worth it. Mehendi was supposed to be free but everything was a lie. The free one was hardly a line of mehendi, for more they were charging 50Dirhams. Worst treatment ever.
Day 5 was supposed to be a city tour which was supposed to cover Dubai museum, Al fahidi fort, gold souk, Textile souk, Souvenir shops,. None of this was covered. Infact the driver did not know the plan of the day. He was just driving over the Dubai city which we had crossed like 100 times over last day. When confronted, he said he was not aware of the plan of the day, he was told to just drive across dubai. We wasted 5 hours of our day. We stopped at a random mall, not famous one, nowhere in the itenary, nobody was interested to go here, but still the driver halted and wasted time. There was no guide which was expected in a city tour.
We had no opportunity to shop or see any local market.
I don't have to say now that this was the worst organized trip.
All the major places are connected by metro and can be easily covered yourself. The best is to plan a trip yourself and not rely on travel partners.

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Hello Poonam,

As communicated by our team, your query has been resolved. Feel free to reach out to us for any other assistance.

Regards,
Aditi | Team TravelTriangle

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