![]() Once back in Doha in the early evening, we visited the famous Souq Waqif. Boy hangs at Desert Falls Water and Adventure Waterpark, Salwa Beach Resort, Qatar We soon learned that everything is pretty close in Doha.Ĭleverly designed as a desert canyon to shade the sun, there’s a good full day’s worth of fun times to be had here for all ages, cooling off in the best way on the 30 rides and slides, plus the lazy river, which the boys and I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s around an hour’s drive from Doha and about as far as you can go before leaving the country. We started our adventure on day one appropriately at the Desert Falls Water and Adventure Waterpark at Salwa Beach Resort. We arrived in October, and it was still sweltering, with average temperatures hitting 35-plus, which came as a welcome warm-up for us again after being in chilly London. While we didn’t steal a glance of the diva herself, the fabulous hotel certainly did not disappoint, and my family loved the opulent gold design, next-level style and comfort and, yes, the fantastic people-watching. There was even a rumour that Mariah Carey was staying at our Fairmont Doha hotel. Given it was Formula One (F1) weekend when we arrived, Doha was buzzing with celebrities, F1 lovers and influencers who had hit the town to soak up the high-octane roadshow this annual three-day spectacle brings. Would the famed ‘World’s best stopover’ live up to the hype? ![]() While Karryon has worked with Visit Qatar and Qatar Airways for a couple of yea rs, I had never had the chance to visit until now, so I was curious to experience it through my family’s eyes. Bassam (Aka Qatar’s Vin Diesel) takes us for a sandy spin It was the last day of my family’s four-day stopover in Qatar, and we were ending it on an adrenalin-fuelled high. Karryon founder Matt Leedham puts the newly upgraded Qatar Stopover program to the test with his wife and two sons (aged 14 and 9) after a European holiday en route back to Australia.Īny misgivings I may have had about taking my family on a desert safari melted faster than my wife’s foundation in the Qatari heat after our 4×4 driver and guide, Bassam, told us he was once a rally driver who competed in the legendary Paris-Dakar rally.Ĭut to six minutes later, and we were all laughing and howling as we bumped and bounced across the undulating dunes in Bassam’s Land Cruiser, thanks to Qatari’s Vin Diesel performing spin after expert spin through the drifting sand.
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