At every port on a cruise in the United Arab Emirates, it’s obvious that each of the Arab sheikdoms are playing top this with their newly built soaring skylines, their supersized yachts and their over-the-top palaces.
So, by the time we reached Abu Dhabi and were promised a tour of presidential palaces old and new, the question was: can you top what we’ve already seen?
But an afternoon in the marbled halls of Abu Dhabi’s newly built palace followed by an evening at a newly created gala festival around the city’s original palace turned into the most amazing afternoon on a week of fascinating excursions from Costa Cruises’ newest ship Costa Toscana.
Read it all in The Cruisington Times