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Old May 15th 2006, 3:30 pm
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Been living in Doha for 2 months now, but still have no transport. Using taxis everywhere at the moment.

Need to find a GOOD salon for hair cut and waxing, that is easy to find in a taxi, i.e. in an hotel or shopping mall. Can anyone recommend one?

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Originally Posted by shazbat
Been living in Doha for 2 months now, but still have no transport. Using taxis everywhere at the moment.

Need to find a GOOD salon for hair cut and waxing, that is easy to find in a taxi, i.e. in an hotel or shopping mall. Can anyone recommend one?

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Whereabout do u live in Doha?
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Old May 16th 2006, 5:45 pm
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Whereabout do u live in Doha?
Green Village Compound, Al Waab Street, near Qtel tower.
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Originally Posted by shazbat
Green Village Compound, Al Waab Street, near Qtel tower.
For haircut you can ask the taxi driver to take you to The Mall ... there is a Tony and Guy salon there. It is quite a way from your place ... but normally it wont be too bad to get a taxi from the mall to your house.

Royal Plaza used to have a nail bar ... i am not sure wether the place still open ... i will check it out next time i am going there.

I misses places like in Asia ... you can find beauty salon everywhere in the shopping mall, unlike here

Anything else you want to ask just let me know

PS: What do u think about the road work outside your compound???
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ahhh just found this thread.
Hubby just asked me this question this morning on Skype.
In NZ, almost every street has a hairdressers, I used to laugh at how many they have out here, surely more hair dressing salons than people??

Now hubby will be needing a haircut shortly and said he hadn't seen one yet which surprised him as we are used to seeing THOUSANDS out here.

I will tell him to go to The Mall.
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Only just been notified by email about your post!! Thanks for the info. I have now found one in Al Saad that most taxis seem to know The road works are very ugly and seem to be unnending, do you have any round your way?

Originally Posted by novita77
For haircut you can ask the taxi driver to take you to The Mall ... there is a Tony and Guy salon there. It is quite a way from your place ... but normally it wont be too bad to get a taxi from the mall to your house.

Royal Plaza used to have a nail bar ... i am not sure wether the place still open ... i will check it out next time i am going there.

I misses places like in Asia ... you can find beauty salon everywhere in the shopping mall, unlike here

Anything else you want to ask just let me know

PS: What do u think about the road work outside your compound???
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Old Jun 30th 2006, 3:50 pm
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Originally Posted by Rascal
ahhh just found this thread.
Hubby just asked me this question this morning on Skype.
In NZ, almost every street has a hairdressers, I used to laugh at how many they have out here, surely more hair dressing salons than people??

Now hubby will be needing a haircut shortly and said he hadn't seen one yet which surprised him as we are used to seeing THOUSANDS out here.

I will tell him to go to The Mall.
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Rascal DONT send hubby to the Mall. Toni & Guy only does women hair here. No unisex salons here (welcome to Doha haha!!) BUT there are loads and loads of men hairdressers. All petrol stations have mens salons, barbers etc and also theres a road in Al Mansoura full and I mean one near the other, full of mens hairdressers. The prob is women hairdressers here. Most of them are totally crap so beware. I only trust Tony & Guy wt my hair since they r all europeans(no offense). As for beauty salons all the hotels have them tho quiet expensive. Theres Marie Claire on Salwa Road which is quiet good too
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Rascal DONT send hubby to the Mall. Toni & Guy only does women hair here. No unisex salons here (welcome to Doha haha!!) BUT there are loads and loads of men hairdressers. All petrol stations have mens salons, barbers etc

Hahhahahaah just as well we aren't in Doha, could just imagine hubby's face if I told him to go the petrol station for his haircut
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Hahhahahaah just as well we aren't in Doha, could just imagine hubby's face if I told him to go the petrol station for his haircut
Wot I meant was the shops in the petrol stations

We are not as posh as u r here............
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Hahhahahaah just as well we aren't in Doha, could just imagine hubby's face if I told him to go the petrol station for his haircut
And if a man is handsome (as is Mr Malteser) he doesnt need any fancy hairdresser either......(chuckles hehe)
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Oh yeh, never thought about unisex. lol
Poor hubby would have looked daft eh?

He went to the Landmark yesterday, was well impressed.
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Oh yeh, never thought about unisex. lol
Poor hubby would have looked daft eh?

He went to the Landmark yesterday, was well impressed.
Landmark is very nice. Trendiest mall I should think. My fav too

Has he been to Hyatt Plaza, Royal Plaza is v nice too, has only been open for a year. They have the sales on at the mo.....
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Landmark is very nice. Trendiest mall I should think. My fav too

Has he been to Hyatt Plaza, Royal Plaza is v nice too, has only been open for a year. They have the sales on at the mo.....
No he hasn't been to Hyatt yet, he was saying it looked harder to get to?? Coz of diversions on D ring road etc??
He was very pleased with the Landmark though and said it would be one of the first places he takes us when we get out there.
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Seen Landmark ... superb! Got lost getting there. Detours mislead me and I found an area of shops, shops and more shops but couldn't tell you its name. Got shunted in the backside of the car by an impatient arab in his big 4x4 who thought I'd been waiting too long. I got out and saw no damage and literally outstared the arab before he drove off. wasn't able to find TGI Fridays (where is it?) but I did see BHS & Marks and Sparks (didn't go in as I know I will literally be spending hours and hours walking round them when Rascal arrives. I'm sure I will develop Farmersitis with them for sure ... ask R what I mean here!)

Seen Hyatt Centre. Superb too! Had a nice Beef Stirfry meal there are the chinky beside the kids zone. Forgotten its name. Found the big supermarket store there which sells everything, bit like the NZ The Warehouse but with supermarket foodstuffs too .... Landmark well impressive, 'cept I asked security guard if I could pixs of inside for the missus (Rascal you reading this?) but I was told 'no photographs' even though the spot I was taking had no people there.

Seen Royal Plaza. OK. Nice. Tidy. New and plush and posh. Very close to apartment which is on Wadi Mushereib close by Jeddah FO.

Lulu is my local! I work opposite on other side of D Ring Rd and go most lunch times to get lunch and rations (so far made QR 3250 reimbursed flight money last ... got QR 1650 left after three weeks). A NO-NO is shopping at Thursday night as it FULL of thousands of people jam packed hussle bustle trolleys in every direction. No room to move or breath. Products grabbed from your hand when you pick them up. :scared: Scary!

Been to Food Palace at Jeddah FO beside Home World. Fairly cheap but limited stock and full of Sri Lankans and Indians. I have nothing against them but it is the first place I've been stared at like I'm out of place. FP is good for cheap utensils and toiletries and stationery and electrical goods etc. It has a section dedicated to these items ... but limited on most food stuffs. However it has a brilliant spices section and a brilliant salad and veg section.

(where is hair salons in all of this?)

Seen hair salons too on my travels but cant say where. Hair getting a little long now ... will try petrol station for a No2 or No3!! (Yes R you've read it first here. I'm planning to go real SHORT! I can tolerate the heat without a problem. NO issue with the temperature at all, just that when I sweat hair gets wet and perspiration runs down into eyes/hair looks mess etc etc. If I have it cut short I will still look professional minus the wet sweaty hair! Ritual will take place not this weekend but the next one or maybe after 24th so it can be witnessed by R and the event broadcast on the internet as a significant event as it will be the shortest I've ever had it.

Maybe we could start a sponsored Rascalmate haircut? All funds for a chosen good cause? Views please. Think no hair will match me designer Souq sunnies better than bedraggled sweaty messy hair eh? Mind you still not bought the sunnies yet ...!!!

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Seen Landmark ... superb! Got lost getting there. Detours mislead me and I found an area of shops, shops and more shops but couldn't tell you its name. Got shunted in the backside of the car by an impatient arab in his big 4x4 who thought I'd been waiting too long. I got out and saw no damage and literally outstared the arab before he drove off. wasn't able to find TGI Fridays (where is it?) but I did see BHS & Marks and Sparks (didn't go in as I know I will literally be spending hours and hours walking round them when Rascal arrives. I'm sure I will develop Farmersitis with them for sure ... ask R what I mean here!)

Seen Hyatt Centre. Superb too! Had a nice Beef Stirfry meal there are the chinky beside the kids zone. Forgotten its name. Found the big supermarket store there which sells everything, bit like the NZ The Warehouse but with supermarket foodstuffs too .... Landmark well impressive, 'cept I asked security guard if I could pixs of inside for the missus (Rascal you reading this?) but I was told 'no photographs' even though the spot I was taking had no people there.

Seen Royal Plaza. OK. Nice. Tidy. New and plush and posh. Very close to apartment which is on Wadi Mushereib close by Jeddah FO.

Lulu is my local! I work opposite on other side of D Ring Rd and go most lunch times to get lunch and rations (so far made QR 3250 reimbursed flight money last ... got QR 1650 left after three weeks). A NO-NO is shopping at Thursday night as it FULL of thousands of people jam packed hussle bustle trolleys in every direction. No room to move or breath. Products grabbed from your hand when you pick them up. :scared: Scary!

Been to Food Palace at Jeddah FO beside Home World. Fairly cheap but limited stock and full of Sri Lankans and Indians. I have nothing against them but it is the first place I've been stared at like I'm out of place. FP is good for cheap utensils and toiletries and stationery and electrical goods etc. It has a section dedicated to these items ... but limited on most food stuffs. However it has a brilliant spices section and a brilliant salad and veg section.

(where is hair salons in all of this?)

Seen hair salons too on my travels but cant say where. Hair getting a little long now ... will try petrol station for a No2 or No3!! (Yes R you've read it first here. I'm planning to go real SHORT! I can tolerate the heat without a problem. NO issue with the temperature at all, just that when I sweat hair gets wet and perspiration runs down into eyes/hair looks mess etc etc. If I have it cut short I will still look professional minus the wet sweaty hair! Ritual will take place not this weekend but the next one or maybe after 24th so it can be witnessed by R and the event broadcast on the internet as a significant event as it will be the shortest I've ever had it.

Maybe we could start a sponsored Rascalmate haircut? All funds for a chosen good cause? Views please. Think no hair will match me designer Souq sunnies better than bedraggled sweaty messy hair eh? Mind you still not bought the sunnies yet ...!!!

HAHAAAAA RascalMate that made me laugh....

Well I dont know if u know where Al Mansoura is. Its opposite Al Bidda park on C ring. Theres a road there full of mens hairdressers. My DH and DS go to a turkish guy (Very good) in one of the petrol stations, Al Waab petrol station I think.....Al Waab is where I live, where the American School is.

Hahaaa Im still laughing......
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