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kaw · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:

I was........ but there are the self contained flats as well.....though nowhere near the hotel....

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Come on. More recommendations ! And reasons to go there. Are there any Temperance Hotels in Bahrain ? Or places where you are not regularly propositioned by ladies of dubious virtue ?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Next time I will try the BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL. Maybe the breakfast will be edible - unlike in certain other establishments I have used !

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

Hmmm...I wonder how the Club 500 would handle Seashells? Are there any short cuts one can take? Supply one's own 'software'? Do you get a discount if you re-use that supplied in-house?

Also, does that gentleman who walks from Heathrow into London, walk across the causeway to Bahro? And how would he handle the acquisition of beverages in Bahro?

One final question: will Seashells close for Ramadan? And if so, why? After all, it only opens after dark anyway!! Confused

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

One of our colleagues has tried and recommends the Youth Hostel in Bahrain.

The walker does not go to Bahrain.

Madman · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: Bahrain International

I stayed at the Bahrain International for one night. I paid about 15 or 20d. It was pretty scruffy but the breakfast was edible. The lobby was full of drunken Saudis and rough looking Chinese and Arabian hookers. I hadn't slept for 3 days and did not get any sleep whilst I was there as the night was full of wailing hookers, grunting Arabs and the constant tap-tap on doors as the 'girls' tried to drum up more business.

I though Bahrain was a pretty dirty, scruffy and smelly place to be honest. Maybe Saudi made a puritan out of me.

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I think Madman is only comfortable in places like Milton Keynes.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

On a recent visit I showed the Bahrain International to a colleague who spent some years in Thailand. He was startled by the ambience of the place. Most shocking to him were the Saudi gentlemen from KSA in thobes with bottles of Becks Beer chatting up the barmaids !

A surreal place.

007 · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

For me London is unspeakable. I will leave that the visitors from the Middle East !

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I am sure Biffo the Bare can give us a shocker or two !

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

bit late but I got got chucked out of the Gulf Pearl....must be an ok hotel then.

EFLUndercover · Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 82

Are the Sheraton and the Golden Tulip the top of the line hotels in Bahrain?

Has anyone stayed there? If so, could you comment on the rates and servcie provided?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Not the best. There are fancier. The name escapes me at the moment. There is an older hotel from which colonial types used to watch the Imperial Airways flying boats taking off en route to India. That was when I was a young man.