We leave for Dubai on Friday, January 6, 2017 from
Bloomington, IL on Delta Airlines at 11:42am and arrive in Atlanta at
2:27pm.
Then we board an Air France
plane at 8:50pm and arrive in Paris at 10:50am Paris time. It will be an 8 hour flight. Then at 1:25pm we will depart Paris on
another Air France flight to Dubai, landing in Dubai at 11:20pm. This flight will be a 6 hour 55 minute
flight. Dubai is 10 hours ahead of our time at home!!
We will be met at the airport by a transfer service and
driven to the Marriott Habtoor Grand Resort, Autograph Collection Hotel in
Dubai.
The next morning, we will have a tour beginning at
9:00am. Hopefully by the end of day on
Sunday, January 8, I will fill in the blog.
We will travel from Dubai by car to Abu Dhabi and board the
Celebrity Constellation on Wednesday, January 11. This is the same ship that we took the family
on in 2015 and we were also on it in Turkey, Croatia and the Greek Islands.
From Abu Dhabi, we will sail to Mumbai, India, Goa, India,
New Mangalore, India and then to Cochin, India.
The next stops will be Colombo, Sri Lanka and Phuket, Thailand before
ending our 15 night cruise in Singapore.
In Singapore, we will stay for several days before flying
home on Sunday, January 29 from Singapore to Tokyo, to Atlanta and finally to
Bloomington arriving at 10:20pm, still on Sunday – now that’s a long day!
Enjoy our trip with us.