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Hello, passionate cruisers! This is Paul and this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast I am delighted to welcome back a special guest, my cohost Cheryl.

As some of you know we are largely in the bucket list checking stage of our lives and just got the opportunity to check one off. I will warn my listeners from the cruise community that this episode is about a land trip—don’t want to be accused of inviting you here under false pretenses. Yes, we cover cruising 99% of the time but this was a rare land trip to a place that was on the bucket list to visit whether by land or sea—Dubai. You likely have heard me point out that while I live and breathe cruising, Cheryl appreciates the occasional land trip, so we have a couple planned this year. In addition to Dubai, we are going back to Vegas for the umpteenth time but this a little bit of bucket list checking because we want to see the Sphere, the $2.3 billion state of the art music and entertainment arena characterized by the venue's exterior featuring 580k sq ft of led displays.

We experienced Dubai, one of the 6 emirates of the United Arab Emirates along with a 2nd Emirate, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the Emirates about a 45 minute drive from Dubai. Our itinerary was called Dubai & Abu Dhabi: Beauty Among the Dunes, an 8-day, 6 night journey booked via The Joy Of Vacation by Dream Vacations. Our package included air from Charlotte, accommodations, all breakfasts, 2 dinners, 4 guided tours and excursions, entrance fees to certain venues like the largest Mosque in the UAE, and the Kings Palace, and transfers and transportation. For that we paid $4300. As we’ll discuss, this amount did increase unexpectantly before we ever left home, so the total price turned out to be $5000.

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