{"id":445,"date":"2010-06-24T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2012-02-24T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:19:59","slug":"does-emirates-provide-hotel-for-dubai-layover-and-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/does-emirates-provide-hotel-for-dubai-layover-and-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Emirates provide Hotel for Dubai layover and what&#8217;s the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates is the only airline that I flew that provided me a hotel (Millenium Airport Hotel) in Dubai for a night even though I flew Economy. I had booked my travel through emirates.com and called them to ask for this voucher. Initially they were hesitant but later agreed to provide a voucher. For Business\/First class flyers, Emirates provides Visa and Food Vouchers as well as a better Hotel. Since I carried an Indian Passport, I had to get a Visa. This involved paying at the bank, getting my retina scan and showing all the receipts at Immigration. <\/p>\n<p>The process was not too bad. Only thing was the uncertainty. So here&#8217;s how it all happens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call Emirates and make sure they have you in their system to receive a Hotel Voucher. Call again and verify.<\/li>\n<li>While flying you only have the eTicket.<\/li>\n<li>Upon arrival in Dubai&#8230;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>You might have to ask around to find the right Emirates Desk that provides the Voucher. I remember it being somewhere on the lower level.<\/li>\n<li>You might need to get a (Transit) Visa (Pay at the bank, Complete Retina Scan etc.) &#8211; US Passport holders don&#8217;t need a visa<\/li>\n<li>Proceed to Passport Control and clear immigration<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully you will have your bags are checked through to your destination, otherwise claim your bags<\/li>\n<li>You are now free to visit Dubai<\/li>\n<li>Economy passengers can find the Millenium Airport Hotel bus outside the Arrivals Terminal (Might take some time to get there)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did have friends in Dubai so I was able to meet them and also bought a tour from folks at the hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates is the only airline that I flew that provided me a hotel (Millenium Airport Hotel) in Dubai for a night even though I flew Economy. I had booked my travel through emirates.com and called them to ask for this voucher. Initially they were hesitant but later agreed to provide a voucher. For Business\/First class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}