Just to add to the balance between the astounding increasing costs of everything in Dubai, and decreasing contractual entitlements, supplements or whatever you can call them to try to make yourself feel better, you should know that now hotels have been told that if you don't arrive with the crew at check in, they can keep your room for you, but it's goodby allowances!
Increases + decreases equals balance! right?
Apparently I missed that snippet among the 100's of non operational emails I have received in the last few months, or perhaps it was in among the countless contractual or employer, sorry typo, employee handbook changes?