Posted by: Nepali_American August 3, 2012
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Slightly off topic, but following up on Krishna's post above, I have to say my experience with Gulf Air and Bahrain stopover were not that good.
It took 2 hours for Gulf rep to come to his desk so that he can call the hotel shuttle for us.
The hotel, Golden Tulip, looked ok from outside and the lobby/restaurants looked nice. However, Gulf Air transit passengers - mostly Nepalis - were not allowed to eat there. We were directed to a room in the back where they had laid out a buffet of 4 or 5 stale items, mostly indian food. That really looked quite discriminatory, granted it was a free.
The room itself was small and not that remarkable. It was more akin to what you would find in a Super 8 or Motel 6.
What really pissed me off was that on the way to Nepal from Bahrain, their business class cabin was only half full. So they selected only the European looking people and upgraded them.
I am not going to fly Gulf Air again.
It took 2 hours for Gulf rep to come to his desk so that he can call the hotel shuttle for us.
The hotel, Golden Tulip, looked ok from outside and the lobby/restaurants looked nice. However, Gulf Air transit passengers - mostly Nepalis - were not allowed to eat there. We were directed to a room in the back where they had laid out a buffet of 4 or 5 stale items, mostly indian food. That really looked quite discriminatory, granted it was a free.
The room itself was small and not that remarkable. It was more akin to what you would find in a Super 8 or Motel 6.
What really pissed me off was that on the way to Nepal from Bahrain, their business class cabin was only half full. So they selected only the European looking people and upgraded them.
I am not going to fly Gulf Air again.