26 May 2007
For Honoured Guests
Doha Stufital is not the Paranormal, and never will be. In fact it's a pretty dismal place with expensive beer (double the Para happy hour prices), a no-cash bar (you have to buy beer-tokens in the lobby), typically a 30:1 male:female ratio, toilets a roach would run from, and, following last month's refurbishment, a roped off V.I.P. seating area. This last passeth all understanding. Surely we all know that when His Royal Highness has a burning urge to boogie on down to the Filipino band he prefers to come in mufti and blend in with the lads from Kerala? Don't we all?
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ReplyDeleteIf you can drop the Stufital in Doha. Despite looking everywhere there is no place like the paranormal. Cheap, cheerful place where you can have a laugh with the girls and not like a nightclub. Is Qatar in general in terms of the bars as dull as the one you are mentioning?
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. The Paranormal really is an under-rated gem. In Qatar, there is nowhere that even comes close. There are, as you describe, a couple of noisy nightclubs, a few ex-pat drinking dens, heavily male-dominated, and the usual 5-star glitz palaces. This is going to be a challenge!