Dubai & Abu Dhabi, UAE: Itinerary and Budget

Gong xi fa cai, readers!

We just completed our 2nd trip with baby Gabby to my dream country the UAE. It has always been my dream to visit Dubai since I read the commencement of Burj Khalifa in the newspaper when I was a little girl. On the other hand I made a promise to visit places that I've had transit before and one of them was Abu Dhabi which was a transit on the way to Amsterdam in 2014. 

Hubby chose to go on Chinese New Year as he hwas having a long holiday and the weather at Dubai was pleasant in January.

Our initial budget was about 10k for the entire family.  As Gabby is still under 2 everything is free including flight. No more privilege next time. However after shopping at one of the most luxurious cities in the world our damage totalled up to a whooping 30k. Food is twice expensive here compared to our homeland 

Baby Gabriel's first birthday on Christmas 2024 at Cocoon+ Kid's Cafe Bayan Lepas Penang

 Happy New Year everyone!

Wow can you believe it's already 2025! And we almost forgotten that the beginning of Covid-19 was 5 years ago. While the world was having a bad time some of us were having a fun time being on lockdown. I appreciate having my husband 24/7 with me as he does all the chores while I brushed up my cooking skill. Fast forward 2023 we had a post covid baby boy! And he just turned one last Christmas but technically he was born on Boxing day but we prefer to celebrate on Christmas. Earlier that year we took the premium birthday package from Cocoon+ Kid's Cafe while they were having a roadshow at TLM Baby Expo.

Credit to my long time close friend Jiun Pei for this wonderful photo. I love her phone it looks really professional.

The package totaled up about RM8k with some add ons. 80pax with free 5pax set meals, unlimited concoction, theme deco, balloons, 2-tier cake, macarons, fruit tarts, photographer, videographer and some booze. The theme was Labubu Christmas but hubby decided we should tone down on the Labubu to avoid copyright infringement.

Will upload more when we get the photos . Meanwhile here's a short video