Dubai
Last minute decisions. Those are the best kind right?
Talking to a TDY co-worker that went to Dubai last year has spurned me to take action. Heck, I am probably never going to come back to Kuwait, so why not make the most of it and have one last hurrah?
Dubai is about 1.5 hrs away from Kuwait and IS considered the city of decadence. I could tack this trip on the end of my TDY in July, right before I come back to the States, just squeeze in a three night stay over at Dubai. I looked up airfares on Jazeera Airways (the airline my co-workers booked their flights) and a round trip with taxes and fees comes under $100 USD (on a side note, it costs around $1,800 for a round-trip flight from California to Dubai). The largest expense for me will be the hotel, budgeted at about $200 per night that comes to $600 total. Another $100 budgeted for cab fares and $250 budgeted for food (though most likely breakfast will be free at the hotel). That leaves me around $150 for any personal souvenirs or other stuff I might want to buy. Total budgeted is $1,200 for the trip.
These are definitely more generous estimates, so I plan on undershooting it. But I know that I have this kind of money in the bank and I haven’t taken a real vacation out of the country in a long while, so this is an awesome opportunity.
I think I’m going to bite the bullet and do it! Now I just need to rearrange my previously made flight plans back to the States and book the hotel/flight in Dubai.
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