DUBAI VLOG! PART ONE • anantara hotel, aquaventure waterpark & aquarium, emirates mall & pai thai
hi everyone and welcome to our first dubai vlog we've just come home haven't we so it's been the most amazing trip and you're gonna see two parts of everything we did on this amazing holiday but before we go into it and show you if you're new around here my name is brogan this is benji my partner and we went out to dubai to have a holiday that we booked a long time ago yeah last year but we didn't think it would happen because the weeks leading up to it were a huge roller coaster i basically ended up spending 11 days in hospital where they found a tumor in my heart quite a scary experience had loads of scans did loads of tests specialists involved like cardiac specialists i was lined up to have surgery um open heart surgery where to remove the tumor but in the end the cardiac surgeons decided today is best to keep it in there for now to get in there they would have to damage my heart and it might not have repaired so at the moment it's a more dangerous to try and remove it than it is to keep it in there i might be having surgery in six months i might be having surgery in six years i might be having surgery in 60 years it is literally all dependent on if it grows if it moves and how my general health is but of course before we left we asked the doctor and the specialist every question under the sun can i drink can i do sports can i go to the gym can i because the doctor the specialist knew that we were supposed to be going on a holiday yeah that was nearly cancelled but we couldn't cancel it in the end thank goodness so we tried we did try cancelling it and it ended up that we got the fit to fly for you blessing in the end so as there any medical questions we asked him obviously whether he said yes or no the big outcome was whether my mother would let me go because her opinion is up there but no as they said please don't worry we got the all clear also massive thank you to everyone that supported us on instagram um dms comments just and everything was lovely friends family and also a massive thank you to the nhs yeah they were incredible it was 11 days it was 11 hard days but they they tried to keep give us all the information they could which is that the specialist never seen a case like this it shouldn't be there there's no reason for it to be there um so yeah it's a really difficult one to navigate because we couldn't fully explain everything because we also didn't have today we didn't know yeah and then when we thought we did know they changed their mind on doing the surgery so yeah so if you did follow us on instagram and you saw all of that then we like benji said we just want to say a huge thank you um and so this trip was obviously under crazy circumstances a complete 360. we packed everything in a few hours we made the decision and we had that down time for you to relax and talk about all your options and it was just such an amazing experience to be able to do that and we do recognize how lucky we are to have been able to go so also i know it will probably seem full on because we only really record the clips where we're doing things but in between each clips like we'd do a ride lazy river or we'd go to the shops and we'd do shop shop shop let's go and grab a drink the boring stuff you won't see because it's us just chilling out taking a breather but trust me you did a lot of naps a lot of naps a lot of swimming a lot of relaxing just chilling reading it was really beautiful we had an amazing time so it was perfect exactly what we needed at the exactly the right time yeah so we hope you enjoy the vlog please do give it a like let us know in the comments if you enjoyed it and there'll be another one as well so we've split it up in half haven't we saw so much that we did um but yeah just a big thank you to everyone and um yeah enjoy the video see you later three hours later and we've got negative tests material girl oh we have fun we're through security successfully we've just arrived at yo sushi just thought it'd be a really good option that we could pick a couple of things nibble at it's actually 3 30 24 and so we can't get the information for our gate until seven so we're just gonna kill time basically it's been a breeze security was really easy um i actually need to put my braces back on i took them all off before i went through you're not jangling anymore i'm not jangly i need to put them all back on it's been really nice it's great so far and we're gonna have a little mooch in the shops and we're just so full of gratitude that we're here i just can't even i can't i have no words i feel weirdly very emotional and i won't quite believe it until we're there but this is happening when i didn't think it was happening all right the first round is a little bit sushi i've got the california rolls and benji has and i've got a bit of a rogue choice but i really love these drinks you get most of it yes i love them let's eat i've just been munching on my goza and we've got korean fried chicken and benji has a katsu curry happy boy all right this is heatro t3 and it is definitely busier than when i was in gatwick in november very busy it feels very normal so we're just gonna pop into a few shops to get the bits we need we're trying on sunglasses these are ted baker i thought i wanted ray ban but i don't own like a really nice pair of sunglasses i said to brogan that she cannot come to dubai with the sun how it is with two pound fifty primarks with no uv protection okay i agree i've been needing nice ones for a while i like these though they they've got like a different color down the side as i saw them as your name yeah no i think these are them you know i think so this is exactly what i had in mind and i like the fact i can like put them through my hair that's a big thing for me because obviously if you have the bits they get stuck in your hair it's super annoying also this is my travel outfit today i'm wearing this pink jumper was in my stitch fix box and it's super super comfortable lululemon leggings my running trainers they are this brand they are so comfortable so and the little bag was also stitch fix my suitcase is away the away luggage that we have now which i'm gonna do a whole video on our suitcases everywhere is very very busy i would recommend booking a lounge if you can we wanted to go into one because i get discounts with my monzo card but everywhere's like full and we have to pre-book so we've tried a lot of the different restaurants it's so busy because it's now five o'clock we still have two hours until we can actually go to our game so we're queuing in this huge queue to see if we can get into that we've been delayed by an hour so we're playing cards and we have our second round of drinks so we're all good here here we go dubai gate seven finally moving oh my gosh this is happening guys this is happening i don't know if you can actually you want a sun lounger gone then sitting there i don't know if you can see guys but this plane is absolutely massive no you can't appreciate it it's an airbus a380 does that mean anything to anybody oh my gosh it's huge it's definitely got an upstairs downstairs sort of vibe i love watching them do like all the luggage and stuff i just love traveling so much we bought travel scrabble which to be honest i wish i'd thought of beforehand but we saw it and we love scrabble so well we started playing it at christmas so i got that in there my mum gave me one of these masks obviously i've got loads of these ones and benji has those blue ones yeah this feels quite nice actually i feel like i can do a whole flight with this you can breathe but you feel like you're like covered you know what i mean very sad guys i didn't get a chance to do a pat on me i'm really genuinely gutted i really wanted to but we packed in like three hours and i literally vlogging was the last thing in my mind but i promise you we're gonna do loads more trips so i'll film the next one i've got a space mask i thought this could be quite nice to put on oh i'm gonna you've got my toiletries haven't you you should always pack a boyfriend because they're really good i put apple air tags in both of our suitcases and i can see mine has moved it was over here a minute ago and it's just moved to here it's happening also i can confirm that these masks they're great they are my mom was right i will link them for you i've never flown emirates before this is my first time they've just given us a little hand sanitizer and a spare mask any mobile phones or tablets should be put into flight mode we've got beef and potatoes little potato salad a salted caramel dessert all the usual bits and i've got an apple juice we can't see out the window but we can see on the screen that's so cool coming into land that is absolutely mad and then there's the plane how crazy is that i'll get over this wow my mind is blown quick summary of flying with emirates for the first time food was really really good quality i i ate all of my it's delicious the cabins are actually pretty spacious for economy legroom it's like yeah oh my god we're through security what a gorgeous arrival beautiful they quickly scanned our suitcases which is the first that's ever happened to me anyway so we're here we're four hours ahead this airport is incredible i'd never seen photos of it i had no idea what it was like let me try and show you look at this the palm trees and the screens everything is just locked we're staying in the anantara on the palm so we'll show you that when we get there but i just can't believe how beautiful this is we did actually have a transfer included with our emirates holidays package but because we had to change things so last minute and we changed the flight and everything they couldn't put us on a new transfer because it was just two last minute which is totally understandable so we are going to have to sort ourself out a taxi looking forward to getting outside and feeling the heat it's been a long long travel day and just like that we have all of our suitcases we've been given a little welcome drink i don't know what it is but it's absolutely divine a cold peach ice like clean it's delicious so we've checked in the chicken experience was so lovely the lady was really nice we are too early they're gonna text us when the room's ready so basically breakfast finishes at 11 it's 22 so we've got 20 minutes to go and get some bits i think we'll go one at a time because i don't have a lot of stuff there so you go up yeah you have a little look i feel like i'm happy i feel like i'm gonna cry because i just can't process that we're here i feel like i'm having a completely out-of-body experience the drive up here was amazing like everything was so impressive and new and modern and clean and beautiful i've just noticed that there's three magazines over there oh my gosh so this is the buffet and i need to get my head around this restaurant so we in our package we booked with emirates holidays and we got half ford included we've also got a premium lagoon access room that we paid for which has got a private swim up room my mum recommended this hotel she stayed here before so is my brother and my stepdad just got to get my head around the different restaurants there's three that we need to book um a couple that we can just walk up to actually just while i have this out i thought i'd show you this is the map and our room is gonna be over there so obviously we'll show you when we check in okay so they have a massive pancake section here oh my gosh wow and then this side is where they are making things oh my gosh i feel so overwhelmed i don't know where to go i figured i'd get a fresh omelette made in front of me oh there's just so much food i can't keep up there's like a fresh fruit section here i went for an omelette and the little potato roti things benji had a semi not full english kind of sausage and beans and whatever an omelet yeah and then i picked out some fruit and a little banana bread cake thing so first meal of the holiday look at you you happy boy true love is when he goes and gets pancakes for both of us i would have gotten fruit and everything but i didn't know where it was and i panicked that's okay is that marshmallows yeah okay i was going for my fruit here but all right they're ready for us we're going in a golf golf buggy we are ready we're doing them all okay room tour this is obviously the door we've got a big full-length mirror this i think is an interconnecting room or so like we've got friends no but there's no we're on the end aren't we no oh oh yeah no there is one end but one okay that's fine okay that's good okay first of all on the left we'll do the bathroom so it is ginormous everything is big if i remember rightly oh look at your look on your right oh my gosh there's a big bath oh oh oh how nice i didn't know that oh my gosh that's lovely when i walked in and i saw these doors so this is the bathroom then so we've got lms products there we have separate doors for the shower and toilet proper rainfall nice big shower elements products in there it's huge in there isn't it yeah and then toilet i love this how nice is this it's all separate yeah and it's all in there massive a toilet and a foot spa how good is this look is wow this is stunning isn't it so that's the bathroom i feel like that shouldn't be here i feel like we've won the lottery genuinely like i feel like what are we doing okay and then our bedroom so i'm assuming this is a wardrobe let me just have a little look quickly in here i'm not very excited oh lights up oh lovely i love stuff like this i'm gonna put my bits in okay good good good loads of storage space to put luggage it's huge the bedroom's huge so here's the bed that's over six foot long yeah that is that is a big bed and then huge tv what i just thought was decoration oh my god champagne glasses wow little fridge we've got what's this refer to minibar price list okay i might use these drawers for my makeup and hair stuff actually i'm gonna take everything out there we can put laptops and stuff on there okay yeah so good and then should we go outside then i assume oh ben they've already put towels out on the bed oh my god this is incredible wow this is just breathtaking isn't it this is absolutely dreamy oh my god i can't believe we have our own little steps this is insane bench look we can even just chill on that bit there with a birk and a drink and let me get the sun in the afternoon so it's one o'clock now is it yeah one o'clock and we've got sun here so that's good it is beautiful it is so beautiful it's absolutely everything we wanted i feel really much it's a bit different to the ccu award from several times no it's a very different holiday than we've ever done before saying three nights sorry four nights where slept am i in bed for one night slept on a plane well i didn't sleep on a plane and now here yeah that's you're not wrong we got an incredible deal on it as well like i know we keep on saying right it's really fun but it's we did get a good deal because we've got it when omicron was like uh yeah well we basically still would just come off the red list didn't we i'm going to take some quick photos and video for real and then you bet we are diving okay good okay good right we've unpacked everything we have sun creamed up you don't have to be in this video i had to shave my chest a drink every time he brings it up because for my surgery and it's not me i i've always had a hairy chest hairy anterior legs and that's fine we don't have to film your chest no i don't it isn't it's just funny seeing it honestly i think it looks fine but he's just not used to it yeah anyway we're going to get in the water now for the first time i'm just going to leave the camera very much man yeah but we don't want to burn oh no yeah i wasn't a negative that was uh well we have to yeah i wasn't going to vlog but i just thought i'd let you know that we went for a lovely swim it was divine we just left all the cameras phones everything and we just swam and veggies grin on his face it was just the best it was just the best we had our sunnies on we just felt that sweet sweet sunshine this way bobbin and then we both fell asleep on the sun lounges for like 15 minutes outside so warm we dried so quick a little power now and then i just had a shower and i uh ate a mini thing of pringles because of course because it's holiday if you're not sat on your bed with the windows closed eating english snacks like you're really on holiday tell us if you can relate it seems like different rooms obviously get different sunshine different times a day we've got a lovely spot here yeah it's really it's just dreamy honestly we're so happy but we're going for dinner in a bit so what time actually it's four o'clock now four we're going for dinner at six oh my god we were just about to leave for dinner and we noticed a cocktail man he's going to make us a pina colada it'll be much more of a vibe if we're in the pool yeah oh my goodness this is amazing this is an experience isn't it you're going to have to get in thank you very much have a good evening that's the first time that's happened for us so cheers to the first night of our holiday pina colada so just text the boy said did i need a pina colada from a man in a boat no am i gonna get one absolutely yeah cheers oh it's actually delicious all that hits good done now good soup this is my outfit i love it it looks really good on you this is not a dress i'd normally wear but benji said he loved it i tried it on and it's actually from one of my stitch fix boxes yeah um and yeah just nude accessories i'm gonna have a little like i might wear my scarf actually just around my shoulders the most important accessory in your right hand benji's outfit of the day oh that was it right we've just come down to the beach house which looks like this we are booking at six six o'clock we're a bit early but that's all they had today so we normally eat at like seven eight o'clock when we should set around six o'clock oh yeah lovely okay this is just getting better and better it's just a joke it's just insane look at this this is stunning isn't it so this chef is a three-time world pizza champion and guinness world record holder and he is having his last evening here tonight so i think i want to try one of his pizzas i'm thinking maybe the grilled pear one sounds pretty good basically yeah choosing her and then are you gonna have a burger i think so i was going to have pizza obviously because but i saw someone's burger walk past it looks amazing we can't eat here again yeah there's loads of stuff on the menu and look at this sun like incredible oh my gosh look at that sunset now it's not real is it it's like beautiful it's absolutely beautiful i can't believe this is where we're having dinner this is just insane no it doesn't it still doesn't feel real you okay just soaking it up yeah it doesn't do justice on camera but it is ginormous i've never seen the sun like that big before it's light oh hang on let me pan over there it is so for our starter we've got buffalo mozzarella and tomato so nice and light and easy but we we didn't actually want a starter but he said it was included so we went for one and the sun is now completely gone just like that got like sandy toes we took some photos on the beach this looks delicious and we've got some bread and the music's nice and it's just dreamy this is maybe the best date night ever all right benji's gone for the burger and chips and i went for a pizza that has mozzarella and pear on it i saw some and this lighting's lovely now with the fairy lights yeah i don't know if you can see it starting to light up as well over that way yeah it's crazy look at the view we finished our maze we've got our desserts now i've got a tiramisu and she's got raspberry sorbet a bit jealous actually i bet that's nice and refreshing oh the ice cream color is it sorbet that's delicious finished our meal and there is a fire show starting are you ready to see fire show please pop your hands oh we're just walking back and look how beautiful it is all lit up at night all the lights in the pool i what you right now what now oh he's he's a rebellious consumer so yeah true obviously got like half of the food it's true i liked being at the beach house i liked the little fire show i loved watching the sunset it was a really lovely first meal if you if you come if you if anyone ever comes here have a look when the sun sets time's up and try and book around then because yeah the view is just like lovely you're watching that sun that was huge wouldn't it they've just come in and they've done like a turn-down service so they've put the where'd they put the cushions then that we were lying on earlier i don't know where they've put them but they've laid out a lot of our chocolate oh that's so sweet did not expect that i didn't know they came in and i've been turned down they've even put slippers by the bed that's so cute i feel like literally tiny things like that yeah i am gonna move all of these bits of paperwork we were given like all right well we're gonna go for a swim and then yeah okay i'm coming we're gonna go for a swim and then we'll see them tomorrow adios hello everyone it's the next day and this morning we hung out in the room by the pool we had a lovely breakfast and then we went to the emirates mall so there are two malls uh the main ones the emirates more in the dubai mall the dubai mall was meant to be massive and we're going to go there when we do the burj khalifa later this week but the emirates mall is also beautiful and we had a really great time there so i'm going to show you next i forgot to intro it this morning but you're going to see us going to the mall we go to the cheese cake factory and we just had the greatest time so let's go shopping there are two major malls this one this one's a little bit smaller but the other one that we really want to go to is the dubai mall that's the one that's massive this is the one that has the ski center of it is it yeah oh we're obviously not going skiing here okay uh i totally underestimated the size of this mall it is ginormous we have walked so far and we're still going and i've just spotted bath and bodywork so obviously we're going in here so we can actually get it in the uk now and i did a whole ad for next beauty and i love this range cherry blossom but as i'm in store oh here we go he loves candles black cherry merlot oh that's delicious yeah this is just such a beautiful shop hang on i like these little anti-back holders oh okay yeah we were definitely uh underestimating the size of this it is absolutely huge and we've done our first bit of damage in bath and body works do a little haul later so the mall is so big that we found one of these little digital maps and we've just searched ski dubai you click on it it tells you where you are and then the map tells you to go down the floor and then the next floor down where to go so clever okay we're at the end of the mall downstairs and this is where skeeda buy is and we have heard well i've heard about this for years because obviously i ski and people did say to us oh you should try you should go but it just doesn't feel right to be on a hot holiday and go skiing but apparently it's meant to be amazing oh my god benj it's so cool snow bumper oh my gosh look at the chair no oh no i gotta step back look at the church it's huge we're going to cheesecake factory for lunch i just want to watch this game um do you want to get a menu see menu okay i think he's going to like it in here i don't think have you ever eaten a cheesecake factory oh it is really nice in here they've got this massive open kitchen all of the tables are like big private things i like hearing all the hubbubs from the kitchen and the plates like crafting look how beautiful it is in here it reminds me of vegas yes really really right but the menu is absolutely massive there is definitely something for everyone burgers pastas salads but i think i'm gonna go for chicken sandwiches and then a strawberry lemonade and then we'll get some cheesecake what a good day these lemonades are massive and we've got some bread and butter as well little baguettes the lighting's not fabulous in here but hopefully you can see how amazing this looks it's got like tomato sauce it's almost like a little mini pizza chicken pizza style a bit of pesto maybe that that is amazing are you happy oh my gosh it's so good like the bread's nice the flavors the chicken if you watch our florida vlogs you know how much we love the strawberry acai sri at starbucks anyway it's divine and this is so similar it's basically it's what it's like the same thing it is incredible it tastes exactly identical yeah and it was amazing and it was huge and that sandwich was absolutely incredible like so good we're both so full up but it'd be rude not to have cheesecakes 100 shared one wish we had thought of that didn't really cross our minds but we're gonna get a cheesecake to take away and then we're going to carry on much around the mall because there's just so many shops here that we love and then this afternoon we'll be back in our room and doing a little bit of afternoon sunbathing and reading our books and then we have dinner tonight at eight o'clock right we've got our cheesecake to go we'll show you that later but just sort of show you the ones in the case i went for this the cinnamon cinnamon bun cinnabon one and then you went for the dolce caramel one it was 55 pound in total 270 dirham now there's cinnabun opposite and they have tim hortons here as well honestly they have everything here it's giving me very florida mall vibes you know or especially being like this an american restaurant obviously but you just have everything you can need here so we just wanted to get some pepsi max to take that back to our room and we've just found this supermarket and the ground floor guys it's ginormous like it's absolutely ginormous it's like a huge target inside that supermarket was incredible there was like brand branding around the product or the shelf the isles of brandeis said pepsi had it all in spoilers if you loved your cooking and you lived in dubai yeah it's so easy to get everything because they're weird and good quality everything was as well like and the food today was amazing so that mall was immaculate we can set a everyone was very like friendly but like not pushy in the shops and things it was just really the service was lovely everywhere we went like when before we came to dubai everyone was like everyone says you've got to go to the bar and we're like oh okay but i get i get it now i do get it all right these are the cheesecakes they did uh wobble over in transit a little bit but we just thought we'd try them we've been for a little swim we've played catch okay hon this is so so nice love it absolutely love it peaceful now as well i thought i'd quickly show you what we got in bath and body works today the black cherry merlot candle and cause it was a deal to buy two we had two of them and then we also got it in a hand wash hand soap foaming one and then we also got antibacks so benji went for peach bellini and i got ocean and i also got a little pouch to put it in so i can clip it on my bags and it was buy one get one free so i also got this one for free which is like a wearable lanyard which could be good if i go on any cruises didn't get any clothes i didn't buy anything else i don't think i got a couple of t-shirts you did from ripco we're going to bushman's which is an australian steakhouse restaurant tonight drinks are included with breakfast but not with any lunches or dinners yeah we're just going to enjoy our dinner we last night at the boathouse they get let us have starter main and dessert so yeah that's generous i'm really excited to have three courses because we can this is my outfit of the evening just got a little play suit on that i bought for a wedding last year and it's nice and light and cool and comfortable and i've got little sparkly sandals on and i've just put my hair up in a big grip because we're going to the water part tomorrow the atlantis i wanted to go there for so long and so i didn't see the point in washing drying and straightening my hair because well it's getting wet in the morning at the water park so i just clipped it up about my face um and yeah ready for dinner we're going to bushmen so let's go so this is the front of the hotel and this is the restaurant i'm very excited this is what the restaurant looks like australia is 6 289 miles away oh this is my hot date it's so pretty in here i love it oh oh finished getting dressed we've got some bread and butter to start although we do have starters but we don't say no to bread and butter do we we've ordered cocktails this is a candy floss candy crush candy floss i'm really tired yeah okay i'm excited fruity coconutty oh okay hang on wait it doesn't taste anything like it looks like okay all right let me try this is really fresh it's good in it it's kind of like hit a pina colada yeah and then with fruit fruity that is a treat i love it it's a holiday drink right benji went for the tomato soup and i've got chicken and cheddar croquettes with lettuce wow which one should which one do you recommend i have i love this one i'll have that one then thank you thank you so much wow it actually says medium here did you say medium ah rare oh it actually says medium hair i don't know what that is and then we've got chips and i've got peppercorn sauce and you've got vanilla something nice before neither am i let's eat they verdict on dinner wow that's pretty incredible like it was so tender it didn't even like it wasn't even like a steaky texture it was amazing good nine out of ten from us the cocktail was good as well cocktail was good the only thing is we were too full for pudding it's very sad but we've got to sit and let it go down i would have had long creme brulee but too full we have had cheesecake today we have a heavy day of food to be fair but guess what we're going to do now go for a little susan swim and then we're going to get into bed and also i wanted to add this bed is absolutely ginormous so benji is six foot three so no you need to go into it into the bed like a normal person i can sit into it no normal more yeah but like how big big it is like when you're lying down okay right you're right on the edge but you could fit four people in there not that you would but you know the bed is not two beds pushed together which we often find when we go to uh hotels and the we always fall down the middle but it's beautiful the bed linen's lovely ah so yeah i'm gonna get in the pool now so i'll see you tomorrow good morning it's monday and i just thought i'd bring you outside so you can listen to the birds oh my gosh it's so lovely and she's just doing his sun cream and i'm wearing a really cute uh holiday dress today that i bought in sainsbury's in 2019 no 2020 before our caribbean cruise um so yeah so we've got like holiday things on it you know i'm wearing a swimming quasi because we're going to aqua venture at the atlantis which is a water park benji and i love water parks love them our favorites are siam park in tenerife volcano bay in florida and then maybe typhoon lagoon at disney but i'm pretty confident that this one may swoop in in our top three today because it looks so good we really want to do wild body as well but we'll see how we get on but i just feel so happy to be here i'm at that point where i'm like oh my gosh i don't want it to go fast i just want things to slow down and just enjoy each day but it's only monday we've got the whole rest of the week so um yeah i'm just so happy let's go to the water park so we're just walking past the main pool and just sort of shave it um because we're obviously not going to be swimming in here very often as we have our own pool we can come here for cocktails if we want and smoothies and well they do sliders and beers and just got an egg benedict today which looks so good how many did they actually do that here it's so good so i'm pretty sure that the hotel would be able to get us a taxi but i'm using an app called what's this called kareem all right our taxi just dropped us off here right the front of the atlantis we want to go to the water park we're going to go to the lost chambers aquarium later this is incredible isn't it so vegas how cool how's the bath and bodyworks again wow we've got one in ours we would have been buying things daily here's the entrance this is so cool we're just getting our wristbands because we've already booked it through the app get your guide so nice and easy also we have one more here in atlas village locker room changing and showers as well okay thank you so you can choose where you are are these quieter at the hand uh if you go here is a crowded area also uh but it's middle in the park so if you use here if you anywhere in the world wherever we go it's easier to get there yeah okay so the tickets i pre-booked in advance a couple of days ago were 55 pound each on get your guide and then as we checked in we decided to upgrade to the express pass you guys know we love to do this especially when we go to water parks especially when it's half term also because we can't just we can't queue up in the heat it's too hot for us yeah so we need to just be getting in the water so two express passes plus a small locker which you can't share it has to be either the men's or the women's was 114 pounds extra so definitely pricey side of things but um that's the sort of price we pay in florida too look at that shark lagoon oh this is so cool i love it it's very much like volcano bay yeah universal i was just about to disagree with you then but yeah no yeah i understand but lazy river park as well where you go through the like shark tank being on the on the big slide yeah i haven't done much much research so i don't know which rides are like the ones to do but i know they shoot you up look like that you can go up oh my god this is so cool they let you take gopros if they're attached to your arm which be a little wrist strap yeah tower off poseidon is that this i'm nervous i'm walking into here oh my god the theming um guys what the heck is that okay so we've got these slide things trident tower we want to try and go in that turquoisey one oh my god do me up this is your kind of a good day out isn't it you love a lazy river the waves are getting bigger so uh it is 20 to two we're just taking a little lunch break having some oh pasta and we've got some fruit and we've got a sprite we've done quite a lot of the rides but we haven't done the shark tank yet so we definitely want to try and get that in but other than that it's been really fun so far i've loved it yeah the sun's out um it's very big like everything's very spread out so you have to walk quite far to get to like different sections there's three main zones three towers that have that almost ride zone yeah in each tower there's like loads of different rides i don't know some people might just be happy to lazy rivers and then go in from sun lounge and sun lounge or whatever we did the rapids as well they were good yeah it's been good so far so we're probably going to spend another couple of hours here getting up done the rides we haven't done yet and then we have access to go and see the aquarium inside as well um that's what we're up to big aquarium down here another ride where we do two singles i think it's right in front of us here we actually have no idea what we're getting ourselves into every time we join a different ride not okay but it looks popular so you know let's go it is what time half three ish yeah and we're calling it a day we want to have showers we've pretty much done every ride we'll change quite a few of them twice yeah um well actually benji's already changed but there weren't any showers in my locker so i'm going to go in here yeah here we go perfect they have private showers which is very nice because i want to wash my hair it's been such a fun day but i wanted to have a proper shower because we're going to go to the aquarium and i want to take some nice pictures in there and i feel messy yeah we can wash this hair um cool all right i'll be back in a minute stop to this little gelato spot and i've got cookies and cream and veggies got salted caramel but they also have uh sushi bowls and they've got snow cones and all sorts around here oh they've even got belgium fries all right we are leaving the water park and we're going to the dubai's largest aquarium oh yeah wow look at this oh my gosh this is so beautiful oh i can't wait to go into the aquarium well that was fun i love that main tank that was so good beautiful wasn't it really really nice and we booked a ticket that was for both the water park and the aquarium so that's good and it probably takes about 20 minutes to go around so don't expect it to be massive but yeah the main tank is incredible yeah it was it was good it was a beautiful fish every time i see on instagram is people standing in here but i don't think we're gonna get a photo so that bit of the aquarium is not actually in the aquarium this is gonna sound crazy but this is just in the hotel so you don't necessarily need to buy a ticket to go into the aquarium because they have it here if you've done the aquarium in the water park you'll come out you'll finish down there so come out turn right turn right again and you'll come to this little lobby yeah which is where the massive glass is basically it's much bigger there than it is actually in the aquarium the whole thing to ourselves for like two minutes it was so full and then all of a sudden it was burns on my knees are sliding around the floors on my knees trying to go down up left right my instagram husband he did a very good job now i'm gonna sit and edit them for like yeah you got about a thousand hours it was so fun though i got so much of the fish thank you babe it was great it's now five o'clock we have dinner at seven so ideally we need to start making our way back um so that we can get ready for dinner but it's been so much fun here i really loved hanging out here today this is my evening outfit to go to what's the restaurant called benj metal mekong named after the river in thailand oh well obviously it's a thai restaurant this is my outfit i got this dress in the sale from river island and it's nice and floaty little black heels black belt and a little black bag and i've got my little tiffany neckline that benji bought me for my birthday last year your outfit of the day you look nice i thought they were black socks for a minute you haven't done your shoes up no tommy shoes welcome shorts tummy tuck thank you wow look at my hot date every day we're in these really cute little tuk tuks let me just show you look no one's out here because i don't know if people think it's chilly but it's not cold at all it's really pretty the menu was amazing we should have got a clip of the menu they had thai vietnamese and i think there was some chinese options yeah here's we have bitter leaves roasted coconut roasted nut onion lime and ginger and this one is thai chili with the palm sugar sauce cool so what you have to do just mix all together inside of the bitter lips just roll it and it all together wow thank you and she's going straight in we've never done this before no beetle leaf so you put everything in yeah sure yeah we went for a sharing platter for our starter so we've got mahi mahi fish fingers spring onion a spring rolls sorry chicken satay what are these little things toast oh yeah and then sun dried beef wow that only did we have so many that we couldn't decide to like oh just get them on the first thing at the top of the next page was to show you better yeah wow that's amazing thank you it is i went for sweet and sour chicken and veggie went for a chicken red thai curry then words which is jumble and bacon red thai red curry thai red curry sorry chicken tired guys enjoy it thank you so much i went for the banana and caramel tart for dessert and benji's got the creme brulee fruit mango mango yeah i think i might have to try a little bit of that i'm not gonna lie good morning it's tuesday and it's beautiful outside look at this so the sun is just coming around it's 11am almost and we had the most amazing lion this morning we'll go for buffet lunch today probably see what that's like and then this evening we're going to a thai restaurant i'll show you when we get there um off of the hotel it's at the jamira hotel i want to say been sunbathing it's been so lovely i've read a couple of chaps in my book um but because we missed breakfast we're gonna go for an early lunch so it's only half 12 and i've just chucked on this plain white tea and these little shorts were from m s and my havianas all right so we're having our lunch and i've gone for a little bit of salad pizza and this is a fish burrito which looks amazing look at that made in front of us so good i'm not being funny this looks like a dessert i would get in like a proper restaurant this man here just made it up for me fresh in front of me like what you'd get at the ritz after having like scones and cream doesn't it it's incredible like just look at that benji's just having curry butter chicken but like broccoli i just can't lose my pudding it's delicious back from lunch that was so good so so yummy those fish burritos were 9 out of 10. i'm going to sit outside on our little sand lounges it is 2 22 on the 22nd of the second 20-22 how's your little set up here all good yeah good i am reading my book i'm gonna go for a swimming and i'm dry now yeah you have to keep dipping in and getting back out yeah this is not the best full-length mirror and lighting but i'm wearing the most beautiful dress i think i'll try and get bench to show you again when we get down to the restaurant area but this was actually a very lovely gift from phase eight and it would make a perfect um dress for a wedding in fact i think i might wear it to a wedding we've got later this year it came with the little belt i think it looks really nice with all the pleats just like perfect evening in dubai dress thank you you look nice too look at your little outfit very suave you look very like bond like like you're you know like bonding when he's in like spain or france or somewhere in europe you look like that gingerbread gingerbread baby bench what's the name of this hotel oh wow it's beautiful so we've come in from this way because we want to get the boat this is what i imagined to be like yeah me too classic dubai hotel it's beautiful the architecture is stunning this is beautiful oh my god we've arrived down at the boat station they've put us in this tiny little tent and they've called a boat to come so obviously we'll come here and then we'll drive round we saw this on instagram and i sent it to benji so many times and i was like we need to do this i thought we saw it a while ago as well it was just one of them like oh put it on this kind of thing so we've arrived on the other side where pie ty is and this place is incredible like this looks like his own little village like on a mountain i would say i think i'd stay here if we didn't stay at antara again i think they'd like to stay here we should be right by the berjana as well and so that's next to what he wanted look where we're sat this is so beautiful so this is the menu they have a tasting menu where you can get everything or they have their mains i haven't properly looked yet but i just thought i'd quickly show you so you can pause it and read anything if you're interested wok fried dishes curries rice and noodles and then desserts cool okay that was such an amazing meal wasn't it yeah i really enjoyed that oh look at it it's so beautiful vibe of the boat and all that i think you call it it was beautiful and now we have a private one but it's one of those meals that you sort of only do once you probably we will probably won't do it ever again it was one of those special date night lovely lovely meals now we're doing something quite fun we're gonna go to the point fountain show there are two major fountain shows in dubai the point runs for three minutes every 30 minutes and then the dubai um where the uh khalifa is there's another fountain show there is this it okay i was gonna say is this it no okay we've just come upstairs to look at the view of the burj al-arab it's gorgeous it's lovely that's where we were just down there wow beautiful all right so we've arrived down at the point which is a hotel i think by the looks of it yes i think it's a hotel and we're going to try and find where to see the show and we're just gonna make the half past eight i think we've got like three minutes wherever these people are walking to i reckon that's where to go look how beautiful it is down here this is absolutely amazing and if i spin over this side we've got the atlantis there wow this feels very like vegas to me this is so cool and then the show's going to be right here which is fun wow is well that was nice that was lovely why is my nose red i caught the sun it was only three minutes long but it was nice the song was sweet the lights were nice everyone keeps telling us the the other one's better so i think we do different shows as well it says that you can vote for what show you want on wednesday 8 o'clock loads restaurants all around as well so if you wanted to come down and have dinner you could watch a couple shows yeah we're eating every half an hour it goes off so see that's the size of the atlantis yeah and the size of the water park it starts here and goes all the way across atlantis yeah waterpark yeah and then finishes there across twice the size of the actual yeah but i will say it looks huge and it was huge to walk around but it wasn't actually like wise it was quite a lot of walking between the towers like spread out and that's where all those things are but yeah between you've got a good like five minute walk between each tower and you can do what we did and we just used the lazy river as a little taxi service around the park didn't we did you just i will say we put and we didn't say yesterday but we put aqua venture just below universal's volcano bay yeah it didn't quite match it diamond park top still wasn't simon park still our number one water park of the ones we've done we are gonna try wild body tomorrow we know it's a bit smaller but you'll see that in the next vlog i think that's all right though if you know you're only going there for half a day it means that we can pop potter around a few other things around there as well so yeah we've got a fun day tomorrow so we're gonna end the vlog here it's been a really lovely half of the week so far really good day we've done loads of good things it has there's just so much to do in dubai and we are aware obviously that the expo is on right now as we're here we're not going to have a chance to do any of that here for longer or if we'd already been once and tried all the things for the first time yeah this is our plotting our areas and exploring kind of time isn't it yeah it's been amazing so do make sure you subscribe and watch our part two and yeah thank you so much for watching and we'll see you again in the next one see you later bye
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