Spent a couple of nights in the mess in Sharjah around 1972. As we'd just spent 2 weeks in Masirah with its salt water showers it seemed like luxury.
When did Sharjah get fresh water showers? In 1959 - 61 we washed, shaved and showered with brackish water and seawater soap, then washed off the salty residue with the daily bucket of fresh water. Quelle luxury.
Like Khormaksar, Sharjah was not officially an "air conditioned" station, which was why I spent so much time there with a Twin Pioneer. As the only single pilot on 152 for a high proportion of my two year tour I did most of the Twin Pin flying out of Sharjah as my LOA only dropped from three shillings to one and sixpence, whereas married crew members dropped from seven pounds fifteen shillings to one and sixpence as they and their families were entitled to a much higher LOA due to air conditioning costs, but only when they were present in Bahrain!