The new highway from Al Khobar that passes through Al Uqair and then Salwa has greatly reduced travel times.<\/p>\n
The Qatar trip used to be a solid, long road trip, especially with that Hofuf detour.<\/p>\n
This highway isn’t just a game-changer for Qatar trips. It has actually reduced travel times to and from the UAE as well, especially for people living in Sharqiyah and Bahrain.<\/p>\n
You could just keep going on the highway after Salwa and reach the Batha border in just a little over 3 hours from Al Khobar.<\/p>\n
Basically, getting everywhere around the Gulf has now become super easy. Founding Day long weekend plans sorted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new highway from Al Khobar that passes through Al Uqair and then Salwa has greatly reduced travel times. The Qatar trip used to be a solid, long road trip, especially with that Hofuf detour. But now? Boom! You’re looking at just a smooth 2-hour ride. And get this: there’s even a vlogger out there … ","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,2157],"tags":[],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":41400,"id":41400,"title":"17 (1)","filename":"17-1.png","filesize":374685,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/latest\/you-can-now-reach-the-uae-from-al-khobar-in-about-3-hours-thanks-to-new-highway\/attachment\/17-1-2\/","alt":"","author":"402","description":"","caption":"","name":"17-1-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41399,"date":"2024-02-24 09:10:10","modified":"2024-02-24 09:10:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":700,"height":350,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1-medium.png","medium-width":250,"medium-height":125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1.png","medium_large-width":700,"medium_large-height":350,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1-large.png","large-width":700,"large-height":350,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1.png","1536x1536-width":700,"1536x1536-height":350,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1.png","2048x2048-width":700,"2048x2048-height":350,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1-120x60.png","small-width":120,"small-height":60,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/24121010\/17-1-700x200.png","custom-size-width":700,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","ad_square_right":"","summary":"","flexible_content":false,"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_ads":false,"slots_script_override":"","ad_horizontal_top_desktop":"","ad_vertical_left_desktop":"","ad_vertical_right_desktop":"","ad_horizontal_top_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_bottom_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_1":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_2":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_3":"","article_ad_infeed_slot":"","ad_square_podcast":"","disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_tiktok":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_sponsor_name":"","legacy_sponsor_website":"","legacy_sponsor_content":"","legacy_sponsor_image":"","featured_for_app":false,"is_guest_user":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"MohammedMirza","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}