Trumpet_trousers wrote:
Tut tut, such a second-rate establishment, you should have been downtown in the Sheraton (or was it the Hilton?)
Well, we started in the Hilton at Bahrain, then moved to the Holiday Inn (some tight git scammed breakfast included in the room cost). When the squadron relocated to KKIA, we indeed started off in the Sheraton in Riyadh, but then after the war started and there were no civvy pax needing the airport hotel, we moved there - and were 2 to a room. Much nearer the airport and easier to guard - and less exposure to the driving 'skills' of many of the locals.
There was an attempt to move us all into some wretched 'compound', but after it was learned that the septic tanks hadn't been emptied for 2 years - and a comment to the effect that "The damn place just needs an 'Arbeit macht frei' sign and a few goon boxes to complete the illusion!", that stupid idea was quietly dropped.