Malling in Qatar...Open up Qatar malls

how unfortunate but that's their rules then live with it..they have their own unique understanding when they define family ..

xpressodoc, don't tell them the secret!

Souqs and Lulu don't have it.. Thanks to them

much better than city center and villagio...

Nope. Don't want to go to a place where I am not welcome anyway but I am sure you can help a lot of them changing the entrance everytime.

How many different men can a woman get into the mall? Anyone willing to test this with me on Friday?

true :)

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I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise

their rules make me sick.. we also been there on a family day with my husband and his guy friend the guard allow us to enter but his friends is not..whew.

What to do? we look for another entrance.. wallah.. we got in...

so everytime we we went there with friends we always take the back entrance... :P

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Thanks Xena, you are a sweetheart :)

on a weekend... call me and I will go with you... let them try to stop you then.... will have me to deal with;-P

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It's totally unfair on these guys, like honeybunch states, they have to work all week in horrendous conditions and the only day they get to do their own thing and they're completely restricted. As a woman, it's not ideal having men gawping at you, but if you look at it from the other side of the fence, it's the only light hearted relief they get. I never see security guards at the entrances in the car park at CC only at the main entrance, which is even more disheartening because these men have had to walk or get public transport and then they are being turned away :-(

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do every nonsence you like but not let the other do.....yes this is a proof of their freedom

honeybunch....as what you stated in your last paragraph...may be that could be one of the reasons behind family day when the locals can have these ladies to stare at just for themselves...lol ________________________________________

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bachelors who leave their families all the way back home here to work. One day they get off. To cut their loneliness & have a little good time away from work they try to visit places & every wer the tag of family is fixed...then why dont the govt create places for bachelors & not let in families there...

i dont really blame the security guards as they do what they are asked to do. Most of the guards belong to Nepal....If some one is showing their dirty fingers to them i think the guard is better literate than.

I wonder y they allow stupid ladies walk in with deep necks,showing clevage, mini skirts, tight clothes etc...atleast the bachelors are dressed....now this is discrimination

Darude...thanks..

navdak... seems how physically close the bachelors can be in the malls may be the concern for them, but in any case its pure simple stupid.

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The rule is pretty stupid anyway. Why do they think these "Bachelors" can harrass their women in Malls only. The whole of Qatar should be made Family only and all the bachelors should be put in prison or thrown into the sea during weekends. Infact why don't just stop giving out bachelor visas. I know now I will get the standard reply, If you don't like, leave Qatar. Haven't met anybody responding well to criticism so far.

yea something like that 50-50

Darude... you mean to say they dont trust their females or are Indians (if say specifically) too handsome for them to handle or is it something else...

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lol.. One of my friends actually asked them when we were allowed in on a weekday. Do you know Martial Arts, the guard said no. My friend replied you better learn fast if you want to avoid getting beaten up badly some day..

speaking of which , did you notice how skinny and pale those security guards are?!?!?

they need real guards to protect them :D :D :D

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sir dolly don't talk sense around here, we have to teach that security guard a lesson ;)

don't want to be a nag here , but people..do you really want to be in a mall on a friday?!?!?

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Ok mallrat I didn't know he is running the Mall. I thought the policy maker of the mall won't stand outside at the entrance whole day but hey guess what I was wrong. So typical of human race, when they can't do anything about it, they just let out their frustrations on someone who isn't in a position to retaliate.

Just to keep their females safe while shopping roaming in the malls.

navdak, that poor guy gets to decide and approve who he will let in......

so i guess he deserves that finger very well:)

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Sorry to blow up your story but Indian bachelors don't get to go in.. Anybody got any doubts about that, I will show it to you tomorrow.

set d rules,but he did let hes fellow indians & others get in!he should have gotten 2 dirty fingers!

Qatar Idols that poor guy didn't set the rules. If you have got so much anger, why don't you go and give the finger to the Qatar government officials who came up with it. WIll you give them a finger???

I went once, my first weekend in Qatar, got denied. Since then I have never been there on weekends.

gosh QI, now i'll remember not to piss you off in the future... :P

u know wat i did mjamille....? i drive my big cart towards him until i hit him so hard. i know wat i did was hard bcoz of anger... he moved from where he stands. and swear, i didn't talk. i just looked at him, eye to eye... saying remember this face few hours ago... then i gave him the dirtiest finger everrrrrhhh!

that's all.

well, knowing QI, im sure it was just an oversight on his part and unintentional... :)

i don't think this policy will ever change, that's why whenever we can, we help our fellows get in..

I don't know MJ but it could have easily been mentioned that the security guard at CC and not Indian security guard at CC. Anyway good if he doesn't want to bash any nationality.

me myself also confuse of thats rule i cant see any reason or benefit for the mall..but im sure the management of mall also want that rules to be change first they are loosing customer for those shops out there...

sandee, i don't think he intends to start one,....

i guess there are so many things that need to be opened before the olympic committee approves their bid...such as allowing the bachelors in the malls on weekends.

...anyway for now we can only frustrate ourselves in blogging and posting in QL - thanks QL for being there!

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Qatar Idols I am an Indian and they didn't let me in either but if you want to indulge in Nationality bashing then go ahead.

lol QI, you should've approached him and asked, "remember me?" batting your eyelashes at the same time... ;)

LOLZ Qi

i hate this damn idea every time a day turned into a Friday. or just like the recent holiday.

i tried my luck several times in entering City Center, and last week was eid holiday. the indian security hold me and say of course, today is family day. in just a seconds, a group of indian guys arrived and straightly go inside the mall without any question. followed them are group of arab nationilities who doesn't have family. next is one white guy and i don't know wat kind of nationality he is... that's the time confronted him. you know what he respond to me: "arabic nationality, no problem." damn it! i said. that made me go to other entrance and fortunate that i enter. i went to grocery, i shop a lot and came back to this guard which i love to slam on his face all the things i bought inside... this is terrible, horrible and it was truly a very disappointing life in Doha. so don't hope you'll get the 2022 olympic games... never! bwahahaha!

I thought initially every mall is one big night club here, that's why no stag entry for boys allowed.

they don't stop women from getting in.. thank goodness for that, or else it's gonna be big trouble if they do.. :P

only family...!!! nyahahaha but sisters can get in..!

All around the world....Only here in Qatar you can found like this rules.....

Only having woman are they called as family...

All Brothers are not allowed w/o woman.

Even you show your RP as evedence that you are both brothers but still they are not bothered...because you are not family....

LOL.....what is this stupid Rules...like this little think they can have.....

sampung riyal to the guard got me inside city center before even if family day..their scared of others ei..

yes a lone woman can get in.. i've had no problems going to the mall on a friday or a saturday by myself..

dima, because a guard gets timid in front of these other nationalities, he's scared that they will give him grief if he dares to stop them..:P

Can a lone woman go to the malls on "family days" or do you have to be a part of a couple? Basically, I guess what I'm asking is if "family day" at the mall here is like the "family room" in restaurants in Yemen where a woman can go either alone or part of a group.

i wonder y they let some nationalities get in even if their bachelors..

a never-ending issue... last saturday, i went to city center with my mom, my daughter, and my cousin.. as usual, the front entrance was filled with bachelors who can't get in, a guy approached us and even before he opened his mouth, we already knew what he would ask, that is, if he could walk with us just so he could get in.. so i let him hold my daughter's hand and we just walked straight in...

This is not new here,it has been like this for a very long time now,

I SAY NO MORE....

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