CONGRATS!!!! That's awesome! Not sure if you've flown EK in First before or not, but either way you are gonna love it. My wife and I have flow twice now on EK F and have had the opportunity to fly International long haul first class on many of the world’s greatest products in the sky...EK, TG, SQ, EY, LH and JL. All have been a total experience and we treat it as a vacation in itself. If I were you, you want to experience all of it from the lounges, pre-flight, inflight dining, inflight drinks, fully flat bed at 40k feet...and on and on. So, what we usually do is if my flight were departing at 11pm, I would purposely change my sleep schedule a bit or get a really good nap in the day of so at 11pm my body is thinking it's actually 11am. That way we can enjoy a full 5-7 course meal for 3 hours or so, then get a 2-4 hour sleep, wake up and get a 3 course breakfast. For us it all part of the experience. A lot of folks on here will think I'm nuts, and that’s ok, I know what we enjoy, and I know that I plan and save points just for times like these. The only real downside to the 11pm flight and trying to get in the full meal experience is that the cabin will be dimmed for the other pax, not really an issue as you are still able to enjoy your suite as you wish, but I always wish they'd just leave the lights on, everyone already has the eye masks so what’s the point??

Not sure if I read it, but are you gonna have a layover in DXB? Think I read the F lounge is closed at the moment??? Maybe they'll get it open by the time your there, but it is impressive to say the least. Again, a lot of folks don't like it because it's so dang big and open, but I loved the seclusion and privacy. Anyway, congrats again on sticking with it and finding the tickets, enjoy the flight!!!