Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
Apr 28th 2007, 6:44 am
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Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
Hello forum, long time no speak! Apologies, we have been busy piling on the pounds like most newcomers to Dubai!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Apr 28th 2007, 6:46 am
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Re: Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
Hello forum, long time no speak! Apologies, we have been busy piling on the pounds like most newcomers to Dubai!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
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Apr 28th 2007, 8:04 am
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Re: Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
Hello forum, long time no speak! Apologies, we have been busy piling on the pounds like most newcomers to Dubai!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Apr 28th 2007, 8:21 am
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Re: Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
Hello forum, long time no speak! Apologies, we have been busy piling on the pounds like most newcomers to Dubai!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
Anyway, now we are all sorted and have bought vehicles, I am interested in driving to Doha or Bahrian from Dubai.
Has anyone got previous experience of doing this, or do you know of any paperwork that is required or what pitfalls etc that lie before me?
My wife and I like long road trips, we drove from our home in Cheltenham to near Salzburg in Austria for a 10 day holiday. With a little help from doing 140mph on the Autobahns we managed 14hrs door to door!
How's things at MP?
Apr 28th 2007, 8:32 am
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Re: Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
By the looks of things, road transit visas are the only ones they're likely to have a chance of getting without actually having business in Saudi and being invited there.
Quote from Arab Net :
"Road transit visas
These are relatively straightforward. People driving between Jordan and either Yemen or Kuwait are normally given three-day transit visas. These are usually issued only by the embassies in Amman or Sana'a. You are required to go to the embassy with your carnet and a visa for the country at the other end of the trip.
People driving between Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE and Jordan are often given seven-day transit visas.
People driving between Oman and Jordan are required to get the transit visa in Abu Dhabi.
However, bear in mind that all of this information is unreliable, as it appears to be the Saudi nature that there are no hard and fast rules regarding transit visas. Stories are legion of individuals who obtain visas in their country of origin only to find them invalid at the Saudi border, or who arrive at the Saudi border having been instructed by their local Saudi embassy that this is the appropriate place to source a transit visa, only to be told that only an embassy can issue a transit visa.
The basic rule, then, is to double-check all of your facts with your local Saudi embassy and, if possible, with the authorities in Saudi Arabia."
The bigger issue, though, is why would any Westerner want to drive through a country where they could easily end up being shot at, and which is officially considered to have the most dangerous driving in the world (based on deaths per kilometre of road)?
Quote from Arab Net :
"Road transit visas
These are relatively straightforward. People driving between Jordan and either Yemen or Kuwait are normally given three-day transit visas. These are usually issued only by the embassies in Amman or Sana'a. You are required to go to the embassy with your carnet and a visa for the country at the other end of the trip.
People driving between Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE and Jordan are often given seven-day transit visas.
People driving between Oman and Jordan are required to get the transit visa in Abu Dhabi.
However, bear in mind that all of this information is unreliable, as it appears to be the Saudi nature that there are no hard and fast rules regarding transit visas. Stories are legion of individuals who obtain visas in their country of origin only to find them invalid at the Saudi border, or who arrive at the Saudi border having been instructed by their local Saudi embassy that this is the appropriate place to source a transit visa, only to be told that only an embassy can issue a transit visa.
The basic rule, then, is to double-check all of your facts with your local Saudi embassy and, if possible, with the authorities in Saudi Arabia."
The bigger issue, though, is why would any Westerner want to drive through a country where they could easily end up being shot at, and which is officially considered to have the most dangerous driving in the world (based on deaths per kilometre of road)?
Apr 28th 2007, 9:34 am
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Re: Road Trip DXB > Bahhrain or Doha
driving down to the Oman was bad enough for me! so boring. If you want a long run out why not try driving down to Salalah.
