Where to stay for the job

3 job sites · the run to the gate, the border if there is one, and whether the place pours

Every hotel app assumes your destination is the fun. For most working trips it is a yard gate at seven in the morning, an office park off a highway, or a plant down a coast with more security barriers than restaurants. The real question is not what is near the sights. It is where you sleep so the morning run is sane, and so there is dinner and a proper pint on your own two feet at the end of a twelve hour day.

These pages answer that for specific sites. For anywhere else, open the map and type the job.

1. Sembawang Shipyard
   The hotels a booking site offers you for the Sembawang job are mostly in Malaysia, and it will not tell you that.
   Singapore
2. Kuala Belait
   Brunei does not sell alcohol. Miri, thirty kilometres away in Sarawak, does, and the crossing between them is one of the easy ones.
   Brunei
3. Ruwais
   Ruwais is about a hundred and seventy kilometres west of Abu Dhabi in a straight line, and further by the E11. It is not a different trip. It is a longer Tuesday.
   Abu Dhabi, UAE