A couple of weeks to go…

sure its only something like $5000 a night fir a basic room! Lol pitty any couples taking honeymoon suite!

Yeah one of the best hotels in the world if not then it is the best hotel.

Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
Is that an old sailboat down there?:confused:

I believe that would be the world’s only 7* hotel (please correct me if I’m wrong). It is in the shape of a boat’s sail, very unique.

I wish Brussels got some new longhauls:(.
Is that an old sailboat down there?:confused:

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Me and mibbe Sandy depending on his birthday arrangements.:D

I plan to go along to watch it land. an occasion like that does not deserve to be missed!

Hello,

Nice photo you’ve posted there. Upon my return, I’ll have at least 5 like that to show, with one very similar one, descending low over Bangkok… seconds before touchdown. 🙂

Hi Greekdude

My girlfriend and myslef took a holiday to the Maldives and flew EK as we’d heard how good they were, they had won so many awards we assumed we would be impressed. We flew economy on all sectors. The seat layout on the 777-300 is 3-4-3 but we were lucky enough to get row 48 on the LHR/DXB/LHR flights, rows 47 and 48 are in a 2-4-2 config due to aircraft norrowing at the rear and these seats were very comfortable and had more room. However on the DXB/MLE/DXB sectors we weren’t so lucky and ended up in the block of 4 (2-4-2 config), I had an aisle seat so it was ok but the leg room was tight, similar to other airlines so no complaints.

Unfortunately the service let them down. The crew were nice enough but it them so long to get a bar service orgainsed. LHR/DXB we waited an hour and a half for a drink. Then the meal service took a similar time. My girlfriend is veggie, she was given her meal before the rest of us, it was then 45 minutes before I was given my meal. The drinks bar offering drinks to go with the meal then arrived another 30 minutes later! We gave up on the coffee. I roughly timed it, we had our meal trays for 2 hours and 20 minutes! It was similar on all 4 sectors. We all have a bad day and things don’t come together but that seemed to be the way EK did things which didn’t seemed to go down too well with their passengers as others were commenting on it too. We were left wondering what all the hype was about!!!

Apart from all that they were fine. Their IFE is very good (the forward and downward cameras are brillaint), the taste and content of the food was great and the crew spoke many different languages which is excellant, better than BA!. I’d fly with them again and hopefully enjoy it more, I think I was expecting too much.

This is a long shot, but maybe EK will come to TPA. But, I doubt it.

Anyway, its good to see more new routes to the U.K. from DXB.

Happy birthday to you in adv.

Originally posted by Airline owner
who is going to see it land

Me and mibbe Sandy depending on his birthday arrangements.:D

Originally posted by Bmused55
ah, april 10th, what a day that’ll be 😀

You still paying a visit Sandy ?

who is going to see it land

ah, april 10th, what a day that’ll be 😀

The A330 i flew on was a fantastic flight service wise

I’ve never flown Emirates so I don’t know how their service is. Can you enlighten us as to why it was disappointing, purser? I heard their 777’s have a 3-4-3 cross section which I would think, be less roomy than the typical 9 abreast. Do the A330’s have a typical Airbus 2-4-2 layout?

Wow, that’s an amazing picture.

I recently flew Emirates LHR/DXB/MLE and back. I was very disappointed, don’t know how they’ve won so many awards. I could understand them being off on one sector but it was consistant across all 4 sectors, DXB airport is excellant though and the EK exterior livery looks stunning, I wasn’t too keen on the interior though. Their B777-300’s are very confortable but the A330 are a bit cramped.

I heard that it was twice weekly initially

That picture is AWESOME!