you don't need a booze licence to drink in your own home.
the piss permit allows you to purchase booze and transport to your home provided it is for consumption by you, your family or friends and not a national.
if you buy your plonk elsewhere you don't need a permit although it could be argued (by a pedant) (mustnag???) that without a permit you cannot transport it to your home.
at least, that's how the fine print in the permit reads..........
halas, driving the car is one thing and I don't know the legalities and neither, I suspect does anyone else in the UAE.
but being covered by the rental company's dodgy (as with everything else) insurance is quite another thing. recent reports indicate foreign or international licence holders mightn't covered, at least as far as the rental company is concerned.
who's right? who knows... whoever knows the shake, i spose. hey that rhymes.....
Last edited by Muttley Crew; 27th June 2004 at 20:16.