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EW GURU

Latest post on 13 October 2012 - 19:23

Thanks a ton, Belinda! Very useful info!!!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 13 October 2012 - 11:51

Stil I pass Wajaja border ( Hatta) 2 times a month and DH every week. Costs still 50 dhs for me as he is not my sponsor. They never ask for a hotel booking, I don't have it. Either I visit our workshop in Sohar and drive back the same day or I go and stay a few days in the company villa. Never any problems there. However for Dibba Musandam there are changes!! The Sharjah police will not let you go in Dibba Oman if you don't have a exit permit. The exit permit you can only get by an Omani tourism company in Dibba. So the time of drive up and go camping behind the Golden Tulip are over, for the moment as the Omani's are fighting this! Sultan Quaboos might visit there during Eid to see what's going on....so fingers crossed it will be solved! http://www.timesofoman.com/echoice.aspx?detail <em>edited by Belinda on 13/10/2012</em>

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EW GURU

Latest post on 13 October 2012 - 11:36

Anybody got any recent info? Had a thread but it vanished...??? Want to cross at Kalba probably. Heard rumours u have to have hotel bkg and Borderpost has to have your passport info (from the hotel...?!? Anybody? <em>edited by MaiTai on 13/10/2012</em>

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 22 October 2011 - 08:45

I cross the Hatta border 2 times a month, Residence visa UAE PRO, costs at the border 50 dhs. The DH crosses every week also 50 dhs. However last week I took our overseas guest and they were free off charge. ( We are all Dutch) Crossing the border with visa stamping at the border depends if your nationality is in the list of stamp on arrival. Having UAE residence doesn't make difference if you have the wrong nationality or the wrong job title. We have staff who are sales and Indian, they don't get visa, we changed proffesion in the visa to technical engineer, now they get in.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 21 October 2011 - 23:57

How long do you have to normally wait at the border on a 'regular' weekend? DC We went on Friday, it took may be 40 minutes or so, just because our group was about 70 people.

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EW MASTER

Latest post on 21 October 2011 - 19:57

it can take a while to get through. last time my boy went with the school they were delayed for a few hours getting across the border from mussandam then they had a prob with the gearbox on the coach in dubai, and in the end were 8 hours late getting to abu!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 20:01

How long do you have to normally wait at the border on a 'regular' weekend? DC

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EW GURU

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 16:23

Thanks for the clarification. So the good news is that my friend won't need to pay for a visa if we go whithin 9 days of her arrival, but I'll still have to pay 200. Grrr. This is twice the amount if hubby and I were to go. Unfortunately he can't go with us. I was thinking of borrowing a male friend, but my visa would show who my sponsor is. It might work out cheaper if we both fly to Jordan.

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EW MASTER

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 16:18

Kalba was certainly 6am when we went through - not sure about Hatta! I was charged Dhs200 when I went through last week because I did not have my sponsor (my hubby) travelling with me - was horrified because I have always paid Dhs50 before!!! the school is going up to khasab for their usual school trip in a few weeks, just be informed that the cost of the visa is 200dhs. the prices have recently changed. obviously they will not have their sponsors with them only the school!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 16:14

Kalba was certainly 6am when we went through - not sure about Hatta! I was charged Dhs200 when I went through last week because I did not have my sponsor (my hubby) travelling with me - was horrified because I have always paid Dhs50 before!!!

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 16:13

Back to the point of the cost of the visa. Hubby and I went a few years ago and the visa was 50 each. Someone said on here that if you're travelling with someone who is not your 'keeper' or hubby that the visa is 200 dirhams?????????? I was planning on going with a female friend next month. She's coming to visit UAE (Me :-p) and we were planning on Going to Oman. If it's going to cost us 200 each, that's really exorbitant. :( If overseas visitors with a UAE visa travel to Oman within something like 9 days of arrival in the UAE there is no charge for the Oman visa. This is a joint UAE -Oman tourism initiative. My sister (UK passport) visited In Dec last year and we went to Oman. They did not have to pay for their Omani visas.

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Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 15:50

Back to the point of the cost of the visa. Hubby and I went a few years ago and the visa was 50 each. Someone said on here that if you're travelling with someone who is not your 'keeper' or hubby that the visa is 200 dirhams?????????? I was planning on going with a female friend next month. She's coming to visit UAE (Me :-p) and we were planning on Going to Oman. If it's going to cost us 200 each, that's really exorbitant. :( yes it depends on your nationality but if you are british then it will be 200dhs.

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Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 15:43

Back to the point of the cost of the visa. Hubby and I went a few years ago and the visa was 50 each. Someone said on here that if you're travelling with someone who is not your 'keeper' or hubby that the visa is 200 dirhams?????????? I was planning on going with a female friend next month. She's coming to visit UAE (Me :-p) and we were planning on Going to Oman. If it's going to cost us 200 each, that's really exorbitant. :(

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 15:39

Thanks Ladies, this is really useful! Do you think we should go via different route and try to avoid Hatta?

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 15:14

I was through the border last week and needed a visa - have never been through without needing one but suppose this might depend on your nationality and residency status. Just FYI, we have queued for over 5 hours before over Eid and would recommend that you get your visa beforehand if possible to cut the time down a little although last year it was absolute chaos at the border - we went through Kalba which wasn't as bad but the rest of the family went through Hatta and they were there for nearly 6 hours! It is advisable to get up and get there as early as possible to beat the insanity (border opens at 6am). Do you mean the Kalba crossing opens at 6am.I thought that the Hatta border was open 24 hours. We have certainly been through in the early hours of the morning.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 15:12

plumz, to que for 10 hours on eid is a bit over exagurating!!! you will que for maybe 2 hours max. Ive been many times to the tibbat border oman. and yes you do need a visa which you can get on arrival at the border if your british passport holders or european. If you go to musandam / Dibba side then no visa required as you are still within UAE waters as its over the other side so its just a check point where you will need your passports or youe NAtional ID Jojo24, i can assure you that I am not exaggerating. We had a friend who went to Muscat by bus for an Eid holiday and she was actually 11 hours between the 2 border crossings. This was 2 years ago. We left home at 11.30pm at night and went through the border quite quickly in the early hours of the morning and then just camped in the hills off the side of the road on the Oman side. During our holiday we went to the Shangri-La to meet friends and met several families with small children who had had the most dreadful 8-10 hour ordeal getting through the border. The only reason they did not give up and go home was that they had already paid for their hotel. Maybe things have improved more recently but whenever we have been at a busy time it is chaos with noone giving people information about which queues they need to be in. Also, to anyone driving, make sure your insurance is valid for Oman and take it into the Oman border post with you. If not you can stop and buy temporary insurance on the right just before the first Oman checkpoint. There is also an office where you can buy insurnace within the large Omani border post building but at busy times there is a huge queue here too.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 14:49

I was through the border last week and needed a visa - have never been through without needing one but suppose this might depend on your nationality and residency status. Just FYI, we have queued for over 5 hours before over Eid and would recommend that you get your visa beforehand if possible to cut the time down a little although last year it was absolute chaos at the border - we went through Kalba which wasn't as bad but the rest of the family went through Hatta and they were there for nearly 6 hours! It is advisable to get up and get there as early as possible to beat the insanity (border opens at 6am).

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 13:09

plumz, to que for 10 hours on eid is a bit over exagurating!!! you will que for maybe 2 hours max. Ive been many times to the tibbat border oman. and yes you do need a visa which you can get on arrival at the border if your british passport holders or european. If you go to musandam / Dibba side then no visa required as you are still within UAE waters as its over the other side so its just a check point where you will need your passports or youe NAtional ID

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 13:04

If there is any way that you can get to the Omani Embassy in Bur Dubai next week and apply for your visas in advance you will save an awful lot of time.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 13:03

Div, just be aware that the Hatta border post ( both the UAE one and Al Wajaja? on the Oman side) is absolutely manic over the Eid holiday. People have been known to queue for 10 hours!!!

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 11:43

A woman and her KEEPER? hahahah that's how I will start calling my DH from now on :) We want to drive to Muscat for this Eid.

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EW EXPLORER

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 11:40

It depends where you go - we go camping in Dibba and have to pass into Oman but it isn't a proper border that we go through so they just glance at the passports, no stamp or visa or anything. But when I flew into Muscat airport we had to buy a visa. UAE resident visa holders can have the GCC resident visa which I think was approx 50 dirhams - however if you are a woman not travelling with your keeper like I dared to do then you get charged the full tourist rate which is 200 dirhams.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 11:18

How about if you drive to Oman? Couple of English guys told my DH that we do not need any visa, that we just drive to the border, show them our passports with residency and they let you go. We hold British/EU passports.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 11:01

Yes, you do need a visa. Cost varies according to your nationality. Free for kwis. Free for children. Last time I went I think it was 60 dhs for me on British passport.

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EW EXPERT

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 10:59

every time i've been (through the airport) you have to first queue up to get your visa (think it's 100 dh) then you go through passport control and they stamp you.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 20 October 2011 - 10:57

I have heard that they don't even stamp your passport on the border - is it true?

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