1st Honeymoon: Day 1 (Pullman Hotel: Mall of Emirates)

We just had our honeymoon a few weeks ago. We left on the 10th of February 2011, Destination Dubai. Why Dubai for our honeymoon you might ask? Agnes has been there twice before this will make her third time there, she loved the place so much that she wanted me to see for myself. I was quite sceptical at first, like why the dessert not hot meh? I usually don't go for trips also unless there's a long holiday. She had booked for our air tickets and hotels even before our wedding, so no choice loh have to go.

So on Thursday the 10th, I still went to work finish stuff up, tell my workers what to do for the next few days and hurried to the airport. It was a night flight, departing at 9pm Jakarta time, the flight will take 7hrs and we'll be there in Dubai at around 2am local time, there's a 3 hour time difference.

I always have difficulty sleeping on the plane, thank God there's in flight entertainment I watched Mastermind, The Social Network and a Bruce Willi's movie I can't remember the name. I treat the night like I was watching a movie marathon like I used to in Perth and after the 3 movie almost 6hrs has gone by.

Touch down at the aiport, we took a cab straight to the 1st Hotel we'll be staying for two nights. The Pullman Hotel which is located at the Mall of Emirates. All hotels in the Dubai City Area aren't cheap.

Minimalist style decor

We crashed on the bed straight away

It's got those glass bathrooms again so we can see each other take a crap

We slept till 9pm then woke up eager to see what Dubai has to offer on our first day there. Went for breakfast at the Hotel's restaurant. It was outdoors with a very scenic view of Dubai. It's Winter there so temperature was around 10-20 degrees. Quite chilly and windy, I thought it weird to wear winter clothes in the middle east, but air feels so fresh and clean very invigorating.

Eating yogurt while looking at the great view

Having breakfast there out the balcony was really relaxing, I considered just lazing around for the first day but kena force to start sightseeing by the wife.

Example of a Happy Newly Wed Couple

The Balcony

See the roads so clean and empty, in Indo how can find roads like this

The tall building behind is the Burj of Arab, used to be tallest building in the world

Then we headed down to the Mall of Emirates

It's huge and spacious

There's an indoor ski spark in the Mall of Emirates, so we went to have a look.

A bubble boy thingy you can ride down the ice slopes

It's chilly in the ski park

We didn't enter the ski park, we thought of taking a look around the whole of Dubai instead. We're actually quite bored in the Mall of Emirates, despite its size it's just a Mall with the usual fashion boutiques, there's plenty here in Jakarta. It even have a TGIF resto.

We left the Mall of Emirates for our next sight seeing destination, the Madinat Jemeirah. This will be covered in the next post.