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Tonight - Eve of the holiday Aug 20, 2006
What is the deal with bars and restaurants tonight are they open and serving drinks?And tomorrow?

No direspect to those who are celebrating Isra'a Wal Miraj, which marks the Prophet Mohammad's journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascension.

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scarlet wrote:What is the deal with bars and restaurants tonight are they open and serving drinks?And tomorrow?

No direspect to those who are celebrating Isra'a Wal Miraj, which marks the Prophet Mohammad's journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascension.


Bars, Liquor stores etc should close at sundown this evening and open same time tomorrow evening.
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Aug 20, 2006
You can still go out to eat, no alcohol though as sage mentioned.

Enjoy the holiday everyone !! its a good time to reflect on the illegal occupation of Jerusalem (my hometown) and the use of religion to control the holiest city on earth to the majority of this world's population.

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Aug 20, 2006
ooh maad , bless i wish i could visit, its a dream come true visiting Al Quds i think i will be crying all the way :cry:
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Corco hopefully one day soon you will, and it will be tears of joy :D

i just came back from there on Thursday it was a great time as usual.
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Aug 20, 2006
Hey guys, with all due respect to holiday, do you think the car dealerships will be open tonight???

Thanks DG
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dubai girl wrote:Hey guys, with all due respect to holiday, do you think the car dealerships will be open tonight???

Thanks DG


Should be business as usual for those guys tonight
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Thanks for the quick answer, S&O!!! I was just complimenting your over 1000 posts, checked back onto this post and WALAAAAA an answer!!!

Guess there will be no heavy drinking prior to looking at cars!!! Damn
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Thanks for the quick answer, S&O!!! I was just complimenting your over 1000 posts, checked back onto this post and WALAAAAA an answer!!!

Guess there will be no heavy drinking prior to looking at cars!!! Damn!!
Or maybe that will save us mucho money, lol.
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Good luck on the Car hunting.

What do you have in mind BTW?
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Aug 20, 2006
All this thread needs is a ransom note.
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Husband is having some sort of "mid-life crisis", think he wants a sports car. So I'm going with to monitor the situation! Have 30 years of vested interest in the deal, and have to keep my eyes on him!!! Have to make sure I look better than him while in car.
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Huh?
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Good luck to yah Girl,

Prefer big 4 x 4's myself, Hummer would do it :lol:
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Sorry for barging in on the post! Just thought if holiday other places might be closed. Please forgive me! Looks like we can't drink tonight, but tomorrow night we're good to go!
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dubai girl wrote:Sorry for barging in on the post! Just thought if holiday other places might be closed. Please forgive me! Looks like we can't drink tonight, but tomorrow night we're good to go!


No worries Girl, good luck to you and yours in the Car hunt.
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Aug 20, 2006
All hotels along Jumeria its business as normal - yes this include booze
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arniegang wrote:All hotels along Jumeria its business as normal - yes this include booze


Supposed to stop serving liquor at Sunset today.

Are you in Dubai Arnie?
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no but i have been at the JBH many times and they have served in past years
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arniegang wrote:no but i have been at the JBH many times and they have served in past years


arnie this holiday is not tied to a specific georgian calendar date, since it follows the lunar calendar.
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arniegang wrote:no but i have been at the JBH many times and they have served in past years


arnie this holiday is not tied to a specific georgian calendar date, since it follows the lunar calendar.


Maad, what does that mean in connection with whether or not alcohol will be served? Different if gregorian or lunar calendar holiday?
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Corcovado wrote:ooh maad , bless i wish i could visit, its a dream come true visiting Al Quds i think i will be crying all the way :cry:


Inshallah I'm sure one day you'll have the chance, I was lucky enough to go there a few months back, it was amazing.
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MaaaD wrote:
arniegang wrote:no but i have been at the JBH many times and they have served in past years


arnie this holiday is not tied to a specific georgian calendar date, since it follows the lunar calendar.


Maad, what does that mean in connection with whether or not alcohol will be served? Different if gregorian or lunar calendar holiday?


I was just wondering if arnie remembers being served on the 20th of august last year, this holiday would have been on the 10th of august las year not on the same day. Since the holiday is tied with the lunar calendar (which moves relative to the georgian one)
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Corcovado wrote:ooh maad , bless i wish i could visit, its a dream come true visiting Al Quds i think i will be crying all the way :cry:


Inshallah I'm sure one day you'll have the chance, I was lucky enough to go there a few months back, it was amazing.


ur so lucky .. the only chance i have is by getting a foreign passport so i can enter israel :( i wish i can some day before i die
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The exclusion to the rules only apply to 5 * hotels, as long as there are no permanent residences within the hotel. So for example the JBH meets the rule, however the Fairmont and the Shangri La on the SZR does not.

The Dept of Tourism grant special exclusions to all hotels that meet the requirements for alcohol and all food and beverages including Ramadan for those hotels.


It matters not when in the year any holdiays or celebrations fall, it is of no consequence.

ps: dont forget not all hotels are 5* and these rules do not apply therefore.
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Corcovado wrote:
fayz wrote:
Corcovado wrote:ooh maad , bless i wish i could visit, its a dream come true visiting Al Quds i think i will be crying all the way :cry:


Inshallah I'm sure one day you'll have the chance, I was lucky enough to go there a few months back, it was amazing.


ur so lucky .. the only chance i have is by getting a foreign passport so i can enter israel :( i wish i can some day before i die



Corcs

can you explain this please, why cannot you go to Israel ???
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arniegang wrote:The exclusion to the rules only apply to 5 * hotels, as long as there are no permanent residences within the hotel. So for example the JBH meets the rule, however the Fairmont and the Shangri La on the SZR does not.

The Dept of Tourism grant special exclusions to all hotels that meet the requirements for alcohol and all food and beverages including Ramadan for those hotels.


It matters not when in the year any holdiays or celebrations fall, it is of no consequence.

ps: dont forget not all hotels are 5* and these rules do not apply therefore.


Arnie, so you are saying you can drink alcohol in a 5* hotel during the day (before 7pm) in Ramadan ?
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Yes
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Corcs

can you explain this please, why cannot you go to Israel ???


I am assuming that Corcs is a lebanese national. If so, Lebanon and Israel are officially in a state of war and there are no diplomatic ties between them. citizens of both countries cannot go to the other. This is the case with the majority of Arab countries except the ones that signed a peace treatment with Israel (Egypt and Jordan).
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when i say yes, obviously you would have to pay 350 Dhs each to access the beach club in the case of the JBH
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