Clean and dirty cars

Written by Fiz (again)

Let's face it, despite what everyone would say about Dubai, it is what it is - a city in the middle of the freakin desert. Sand is everywhere and top that with construction dust - whew - that's a lot of sand.

The cars and villas are covered with sands. No wonder people here hire part time maids! Just to help them with the cleaning. Im praying the fact that I am in an apartment cuts the cleaning in half compared to villas. Villas are nice and all, but I could not be bothered with the extra space and cleaning maintenance. Ive got a life, people.

So, you can imagine cleaning is big here. After 3 weeks of driving my car, it was TIME to clean it. I could see handprints and sand everywhere. So, I took it down to a petrol station. OMG.

I saw the MANUAL WASH section and I thought, hmmm great. I can clean my own car here. Perhaps that could save me money and Im so used to cleaning my own car anyway. But no.... there are people cleaning the car for you in the MANUAL WASH section. Come on! There is an automatic wash section as well. Much quicker too. Will definitely use that one next time.

Im not used to being 'helped' this much. We don't even fill up our own petrol. There are people doing that for us.

But I must say, the cleaning was quite good. They fully washed, wiped and vacumed the car for us. The inside of my car was also detailed and smelled lemony fresh.

I am impressed. Totally did not expect it. The level of service was quite good too.

So now, I can drive my car around with pride. It is clean!