$1,200 Luxury Villa in the Desert. 🇦🇪

Where better to escape to in these perilous times than somewhere remote? I see that the big travel vloggers like Kate and Nate are all living in RVs or camping in tents.

My accommodation in the UAE's desert was something like a tent. Well the roof was like a tent anyway.

The Ritz-Carlton Al Wadi dessert is the most I've ever spent on a hotel room. Well, not a hotel room but a detached and secluded luxury tented villa with a private swimming pool. Such things don't come cheaply in the United Arab Emirates but I was celebrating a very special occasions and such things are worth spending a little extra on.

Being in the middle of the desert there were the typical desert animals roaming around. Mostly camels and oryx. I got on a lot better with the camels than the oryx as you'll see in the video.

Again, I was smart to bring my own mini bar supplies. It seems that all the hotels in the UAE have removed their mini bar items as part of the current 'rona restrictions to reduce the number of contact points. Okay, the real reason was that I didn't want to pay 10 times the price for my Coke Zero but the previous point is still valid.

I really enjoyed the private swimming pool in the villa more than anything else. I had complete privacy and was able to reenact my experience at the nudist hot springs in Sumatra (after the camera was turned off!) The water wasn't quite as hot as the hot springs but the pool was temperature controlled so that it stayed at a constant 29 degrees C.

Unfortunately the pool has a huge metal handrail that really gets in the way of swimming. If there were one thing I could change in the hotel it would be to get rid of that. There were other things I wasn't too happy about such as huge stains on the carpets and chairs and a wooden floor that was all scratched - you expect better than that in this standard of hotel. In fact at that price you expect everything to be perfect.

The hotel is actually a resort and there's loads of desert activities that you can do there. Being the middle of summer it was just too bloody hot though. The only thing I did was go play with a hawk for 5 minutes and then came back to my villa with a t-shirt that was soaked through with sweat.

So was the villa worth the money? Of course not. How can any accommodation be worth that amount? But for a special occasion I was happy for the luxury experience.

0:00 Ras Al -Khaimah Desert
0:40 Saying Hi to the Camels
1:58 Encounter with an Arabian Oryx
3:11 Ritz-Carlton Al Wadi Desert
4:53 Tented Villa Tour
12:03 Yer Man's Mini Bar
14:13 Private Swimming Pool
20:03 Yer Man's Book
21:44 Yer Man's Bike
25:11 Falcon and Hawk Show
28:33 Arabic Food
35:53 Feline Visitor
39:31 Thoughts about the Villa

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