We arrived into Dubai after doing a couple of figure 8's over Oman and circles around the airport as our flight arrived a bit early.Our gate was at the very end of the terminal so long walk to the immigration and baggage claim. T had to get a photo taken at immigration and the guy from immigration kept asking him to open his eyes for the photo despite telling him that his eyes were as wide open as they can possibly be after 20 odd hours without sleep. Our bag...

This we were awake at 6.30am and decided to get up and have some breakfast. After breakfast we went to the shopping centre connected to the hotel, Deira City Centre, and bought some bits and pieces from the supermarket there before going to the metro station to buy a Nol card as we were going to the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa and needed to use the Metro.The only ticket machine at the station was not accepting notes so we had to line up at the only ticket booth a...