IKEA Qatar -10 days celebrations from March

Join us from March 10 -19 to enjoy lots of activities; this includes magic shows, face painting, and much more! pic.twitter.com/XtcMARc1p5

— IKEA Qatar (@IKEAQatar) March 4, 2016

WE had lunch there on Friday . It was full of customers ! The lunch was very tasty but not cheap at all - QR45 for a plate of food - there were beef steaks ,shrimps in tomato sauce and lamb with mashed potato .It was reasonably priced to say the least . Considering the self-service style and that we had to queue  - By the way -this style is unique in Qatar nowadays . We got a rock band playing while we were having our meal . They were Filipino  guys playing old hits . They were OK . When we were leaving we saw the great celebration - a large cake was cut to celebrate the 3 years in Qatar  . Then it was distributed very nicely ,quickly  -four waiters serving the kids .
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Happy  Anniversary Ikea ! If only I could forget our sofa bed experience !
It was nearly 2 years ago that expecting a guest to our home we decided to buy a sofa bed . We asked for an assembly team to do it as we had bought previously a desk , and a chest of drawers and it was very difficult job to make it up ! The team arrived just one day before our guest .  They broke a part of  the sofa  - it could not be used but it was the end of the day and the end of the week  -they have the right for a peaceful weekend . They left us with a broken sofa  - and it was quite embarrassing to ask our guest to stay somewhere else until it was fixed . After the weekend they came again changing only the broken part . It looked OK . When we wanted to open it in the evening it turned out -that part the can be pulled to transform the sofa into bed does not work well . It is not attached to the sofa when it is pulled out . So we got a little bed and a sofa . When complained we were promised a team would come to fix it ! Then we never heard about them again !
 That was the story of our sofa bed with Ikea .
We are not skillful  at assembling furniture  but their team is not either ! Too bad !