Hi,
I have just received my alcohol license I was refering to in this post.
To get the license you need to be a non-muslim, you need to have a proper job with a salary that can be proven. If you meet all these requirements, its pretty easy actually. Here is what I did:
I went to the Alcohol store African and Eastern at the Dubai Marina Walk, got the application form and filled it out. I then made a copy of my passport, my drivers license and VISA page. With all this, I went to our finance department and asked for a Non Objection letter which states that my company does not mind me having an Alcohol license. Are you laughing yet? Then, I went to the Dubai Municipality and asked their non-objection statement for getting the license. Once I had the blessings of the Dubai Municipalities, I needed a salary certificate from the same office, and off I was to submit my application. It took 3 weeks, the Dubai Police signed off on it, and the Liquor store called me to have the license picked up.
The cost of the license is 160 Dirhams (~50 USD), and for the same value I got a voucer that can be used at African and Eastern. This actually makes the alcohol license free, and to have it is indeed very necessary in Dubai, should you be ever confronted for drinking.
This is how it looks like, cheers:
October 25th, 2008 at 11:48
Congratulation on the re-design! Great to see you have nice time in Dubai and have fun with the new licence…:-)
October 25th, 2008 at 12:05
Hey man, long time no see. Lets get in touch, would like to hear from you. Will write you a mail.
Cheers
December 24th, 2008 at 00:44
Hey man. I got some questions about the iphone and hungary. Is it for sale there? I got my girlfriend there atm and I’m considering telling her to buy one for me. I’d appreciate a whole lot if you could throw me an email telling me how it is. Where it can be bought, if it can be bought and so on. Also, as you might understand, one demand I got is that it’s possible to buy the phone unlocked.
Thanks in advance.
(It’s really hard finding any people from .hu to talk to… that’s why you are getting this rather strange message
December 24th, 2008 at 05:32
Hey Rob, indeed its a little strange message specialy at the Alcohol lic section
, but here we go anyways.
You can buy it in Hungary from T-mobile but it is locked and they require you to subscribe for 1 or 2 years of service. They usually offer it without any subscriptions, but then it would be substantially more expensive. Ask your girl to go in and check it at any T-mobile shop. I don’t live in Hungary currently so cannot help further, good luck with the buy.
Oh and by the way, an unlock is coming soon for the 3G iPhone, probably in another week or so. Monitor http://www.hackthatphone.com for updates,
Cheers
Ben
April 15th, 2009 at 13:30
After reading through the article, I just feel that I really need more info. Can you suggest some resources ?
August 2nd, 2009 at 14:03
Hello there,
What do you mean by needing more information? Regarding the Alc lic or the iPhone unlocking?
Ben
December 27th, 2010 at 18:54
Hi,
How can a visitor visiting Dubai get a license? Can Muslim get a license too??
January 1st, 2011 at 10:19
Hi there,
You cannot get a license as a Muslim unfortunately.
To get a license you need to go to AE or MMI and apply. The store will send your application to the police and they’ll check you out and approve in about a month’s time.
Cheers,
Ben