Thanks Chaps!
I want to do this on the quiet as a birthday present and we need to go before she gets too fat and can't walk so sooner rather than later is best I think..
Looks like I need to get my cousin to do a fair bit of work to host us though...
I've been to Dubai many times in transit but only once when the Icelandic cloud came down I got stuck in Dubai back in April 2010.
I'll have a poke on emirates and see if I can get a nice long weekend next month, only bloody issue is will we have the flaming passports back from the UKBA!!
Tone