NIGHT IN DUBAI, DHOW CRUISING

Masih lagi hari pertama di Dubai, waktu malamnya we went on the Dhow Cruise di Dubai Creek. Ini antara aktiviti MESTI kalau sesiapa ke Dubai....tak sah kalau tak naik cruise dan makan malam di atas cruise ni. Dhow maksudnya kapal atau bot besar...in English it is defined as a sailing vessel.

Kami dapatkan maklumat cruise service di kaunter hotel. Setiap hotel di Dubai pasti menyediakan pelbagai tawaran menarik untuk setiap aktiviti yang boleh dilakukan di sini....so it is advisable that we should get as much information available and ask around for the best offer.

Kadar bayaran Dhow Cruise ini tergantung pada pilihan sendiri. Nak yang paling mahal pun ada, yang murah pun ada dan yang penting pilih yang berpatutan! The rate that we got was AED109 for adult and AED75 for children from FALCON CRUISE. Actually it was advertised for AED125 but luckily we got an offer for a lower rate. It was for a two-hour cruise.

One best thing is that they will pick us up at our hotel that night. So lagi senang sebab memang masa kami sampai di Dubai Creek tu, penuh dengan kenderaan dan impossible to get a parking lot that night.

The entertainment on Falcon Cruise. You can get a "Henna" Painting (inai) free for small kids on the ship. Nadhrah memang menunggu-nunggu dipakaikan inai.

Selepas setengah jam berlayar, kami dipersembahkan dengan persembahan patung. Perasan tak patung dua orang yang melekat tu? Sebenarnya yang memakai tu seorang sahaja. Memang menarik lakonan patung yang dipersembahkan, diiringi dengan lagu Arab...memang terhibur. Kelakar pun ada.

Lelaki yang menari memakai kain kembang tu jugalah lelaki yang memakai patung dan berlakon masa persembahan pertama. Selesai makan malam, kami dihidangkan dengan tarian tersebut. Menakjubkan sebab penari tu berpusing lebih 1000 kali kut rasanya!!! Norma yang melihat sampai naik pening, penari tu selamba aje....aksi nya hanya berpusing dengan pelbagai aksi dengan kain kembang berlampu tu.....berapa banyak pusing daaaa....

Merakamkan gambar kenangan bersama penari atas kapal. Beliau masih mampu tersenyum dan melayan permintaan kami walaupun baru sahaja selesai 'berpusing' beribu kali semasa persembahan...kesian pun ada nengokkan mukanya tu...

To summarize our activity that night, let me put it this way:
Good thing...

• we got better offer for the same service
• a van picked us up at the hotel to the creek and sent us back to the hotel...
  
• the entertainment was great and enjoyable
• the experience cruising and eating our dinner on a big boat, food was okay...indian cuisine and intercontinental food
  
• the kids enjoyed the trip...or should I say..they enjoyed so much being on the boat :-)
• we enjoyed the sea breeze...the wind has so much helped to overcome our dizziness...sigh!
  

Things that can be improved...

• the boat is scheduled for sailing at 8.30 p.m., but they were (extremely) late...we started to move at 9.00p.m.! duhhh
• everyone in our family felt dizzy @mabuk, mana taknya...awal-awal seronok bukan main dapat duduk di tingkat atas bot...lepas tu mabuk pening...
• the dinner was prepared really late...at almost 10 p.m. baru boleh makan
• the food was not enough for everyone on the boat...they failed to refill the buffet!
  
• if it was rated 1 to 10, I would say the view along the river is at 7...

All in all, the dhow cruise is an activity that one could not miss when visiting Dubai!