Aww, bless…

There are many reasons you might wish to visit one of Dubai Municipality’s customer service centres. But as one tourist discovered, a lunch date isn’t one of them.

The story of how a French tourist mistook Al Kifaf Centre near Zabeel Park for a shopping mall has been gleefully recounted on Dubai Municipality’s social media accounts.

Apparently, the man and his wife recently entered the impressive building “looking for a restaurant”, thinking it must be one of the city’s shopping centres.

But instead of finding a delicious lunch, the man found himself becoming an unwitting poster boy for Dubai’s civic body.

. نجح مركز الكفاف التابع لبلدية دبي في تحقيق مفهوم خدمة 7 نجوم من حيث النظافة والنظام والاهتمام التام بمعايير الجودة التي يتطلبها مفهوم الخدمة إلى الدرجة التي جعلت سائحاً فرنسياً وزوجته يدخلان إلى المركز بحثاً عن مطعم فخم لكي يتناولا طعام الغداء بعد رحلة في حديقة زعبيل ظناً من السائحين أن المركز هو أحد مراكز التسوق الفخمة في إمارة دبي. Dubai Municipality’s AlKifaf Center succeeded in achieving the concept of a 7-star service in terms of cleanliness and high quality services’ standards where a French tourist and his wife entered the center looking for a restaurant to have lunch after a trip in Zabeel Park where the tourists thought that the center is one of Dubai’s shopping centers. #دبي #بلدية_دبي #مركز_الكفاف #Dubai #MyDubai #Dubaimunicipality #AlKifaf_Center

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Dubai Municipality said the tourist’s blunder was clear evidence that the centre had “succeeded in achieving the concept of a 7-star service in terms of cleanliness and high quality service standards”.

It shared a photo of the man grinning sheepishly, accompanied by a Municipality official.

It’s not the first time a tourist has been dazzled by Dubai’s swanky government buildings.

As Khaleej Times reported last month, an Arab tourist and his wife mistook Al Muraqqabat Police Station for a fancy hotel.

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