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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Beach clubs are very expensive, and getting more so every year. See if your employer has a corporate deal going with any. They are really only good value for money if you are there all day every weekend. And yes, you still have to pay for drinks and food, although most give a discount for members.
If it is mainly a gym you are after there are better and cheaper alternatives and most buildings/complexes have one anyway. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by Border Reiver
(Post 5853712)
Beach clubs are very expensive, and getting more so every year. See if your employer has a corporate deal going with any. They are really only good value for money if you are there all day every weekend. And yes, you still have to pay for drinks and food, although most give a discount for members.
If it is mainly a gym you are after there are better and cheaper alternatives and most buildings/complexes have one anyway. I just got confirmation about 5 minutes ago - Dubai is 100% for certain now, so this is no longer a theoretical exercise, I'll be there in 6 weeks! |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5853728)
I was thinking of it as a socializing spot and a good way to meet people in Dubai, but at that rate, I can go pick up dozens of the Russian girls discussed earlier in this thread... ha-ha!
I just got confirmation about 5 minutes ago - Dubai is 100% for certain now, so this is no longer a theoretical exercise, I'll be there in 6 weeks! congratulations by the way... |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by MataHari
(Post 5853737)
beach clubs always strike me as a bit boring...same faces every week...
congratulations by the way... |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by MataHari
(Post 5853737)
beach clubs always strike me as a bit boring...same faces every week...
congratulations by the way... MM, xx |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5853748)
OK - so what ARE the good spots?
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by lionheart
(Post 5852213)
I have an MBA and it didn't do me alot of good...
£35k seems optimistic though... |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by typical
(Post 5853831)
My MBA did me a world of good... after all, I'm in Riyadh, aren't I? :D
£35k seems optimistic though... |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5853985)
£35k? for what?
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by typical
(Post 5854101)
Ah, my misreading. Yes, £60k seems rather more like it for a decent MBA. Depending where you go and the lifestyle you live, of course :)
I had initially planned on starting in the coming September, but I think the Dubai offer is too good to miss - even if I waited 2 years to start, I'd still be about a year under the average student age. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5854127)
As of right now, I'm basing it on INSEAD, ESADE and Oxford's Sa3id (for those of you who haven't learned this yet in Dubai, '3' is the 'throaty' Arabic vowel :-) ). They are 10-14 month programs. The US programs would be slightly higher costs and last a full 2 years.
I had initially planned on starting in the coming September, but I think the Dubai offer is too good to miss - even if I waited 2 years to start, I'd still be about a year under the average student age. The US programs give the chance to earn during their summer break, but then there's the opportunity cost of the extra time studying. Wait two years to enter and you'd be one of the older Brits at INSEAD (as indeed I was), despite still being slightly younger than the average for the population as a whole. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by typical
(Post 5854314)
I never went back and calculated how much I spent at INSEAD. I don't think I want to. :)
The US programs give the chance to earn during their summer break, but then there's the opportunity cost of the extra time studying. Wait two years to enter and you'd be one of the older Brits at INSEAD (as indeed I was), despite still being slightly younger than the average for the population as a whole. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5854335)
Actually, I'm not a Brit... I'm a Lebanese who spent ages 15-25 in the US (yes, I have the Yank accent, sorry!) and the last year in London! INSEAD is my first choice!
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5854335)
Actually, I'm not a Brit... I'm a Lebanese who spent ages 15-25 in the US (yes, I have the Yank accent, sorry!) and the last year in London! INSEAD is my first choice!
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
INSEAD are opening a "campus" in Abu Dhabi this year, whether its the usual UAE pants uni/scam I'm not sure? might be worth checking out though
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by Cham128
(Post 5854393)
sho ya3ni INSEAD?
It's very possible they'd open a Abu Dhabi campus, likely it would not be for the MBAs, but rather that PhDs doing research... I'll check it out! |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
The Centre for Executive Education and Research in AD has already opened. The clue to what it does is in the name ;)
No MBA degree from there. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by Cham128
(Post 5854393)
sho ya3ni INSEAD?
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Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by welrifai
(Post 5855022)
Cham128, INSEAD is a business school, MBAs and PhDs. Inta min Cham, shu hal ism?
It's very possible they'd open a Abu Dhabi campus, likely it would not be for the MBAs, but rather that PhDs doing research... I'll check it out! ismi? mish mittel sharm bi suriyya... lol cham pronounced Kaam. ok i hadn't heard of INSEAD, i was looking at LSB as they've just opened a join london/dubai MBA course... only about 32k as well. lol JVR i thought you were fluent already? |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by Cham128
(Post 5858385)
ana inglizi bas, be7ki shway arabe... fosa wa lubnaani...
ismi? mish mittel sharm bi suriyya... lol cham pronounced Kaam. ok i hadn't heard of INSEAD, i was looking at LSB as they've just opened a join london/dubai MBA course... only about 32k as well. lol JVR i thought you were fluent already? so my knowledge is restricted to things like, American Idol, at-talatah aal hadiyat-ashra' amasaa'n wa al-ashra' KSA, aala Dubai One, and suchlike :p |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by jvr20
(Post 5858422)
not at all - i was hoping before i got here that i'd pick it up, and i'm sure that if i had spent the last year in an actual Arabic speaking country, Jordan, Egypt etc, then I would be reasonably good by now... but I don't deal with any Arabs at work or in the evenings, so the only input i have is the voice-over woman on MBC/Dubai one :eek:
so my knowledge is restricted to things like, American Idol, at-talatah aal hadiyat-ashra' amasaa'n wa al-ashra' KSA, aala Dubai One, and suchlike :p |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5853649)
Jumeriah Beach Hotel's club costs 55k (maybe a bit more now) for a family, so for a single person would be a bit less, but I know the waiting list is long. Le Meridien Mina Seyahi's list is closed...Ritz Carlton Beach club is around 70k I think, it may be more, someone did tell me it was 90k but i'm not sure if this is correct...
MM, xx what a rip off. |
Re: Expat package comparable to £120,000/yr
Originally Posted by expat.brat
(Post 5859346)
what a rip off.
MM, xx |
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