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Would you visit Dubai ?

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  • #92
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Why the fcuk would you go abroad to a place like Dubai if you didn't want to experience their culture? WHy the fcuk would you want it to be like everywhere else?


  • #93
    PostHack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭PostHack


    Winty wrote: »

    I have been to the Emirates and did not like it; they want our money but look down at us for our way of life.


    Well that's typical of Arsenal anyway.


  • #94
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    SV wrote: »
    No, I don't want to be surrounded by muslims.
    If you go to Dubai, you won't be surrounded by Muslims: the locals are the minority there, outnumbered by Westerners, far outnumbered by workers from South Asia.

    I've been there twice (2003 and 2006), and have no problem believing that workers are exploited there, though I didn't see it myself. Yet, at the same time, workers are queueing up to go and work there, and pay agents in their own countries for the privilege. Bad as those jobs are, they are still in demand.

    I only went because I had friends there, and those friends now live in the USA, so I don't think I'll be going back by myself. Not unless someone there offers me a job, that is - there's nothing else there for me.

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #95
    ronaldoshaky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭ronaldoshaky


    Winty wrote: »
    Hello

    With a new story every week in the press about the behaviour of westerners, would you visit Dubai or do you feel it’s not worth the hassle when you have to always act the way you are told.

    Now before the flood gates open “it’s their culture and you must obey it” and "if you don’t want to respect their traditions don’t go”

    I understand it’s the way they do things over in their country, I feel they are trying to establish a tourism industry and like Vegas they should put the customer first or if not just ban all non Muslims like they do in Mecca and Medina.

    I have been to the Emirates and did not like it; they want our money but look down at us for our way of life.


    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/british-tourist-faces-jail-over-kiss-on-cheek-2099240.html

    I think a lot of Emiratis look down on our way of life. But there are some Emirati's who are more open minded and tolerant than you think.

    My friend she is native to Dubai.


  • #96
    ronaldoshaky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭ronaldoshaky


    Wibbs wrote: »
    One of the main reasons I wouldnt go either. That and it should be a dictionary entry for the definition of hypocrisy.

    Didnt Europe and America have a slave trade?


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  • #97
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    I wouldn't say never, but it's not high on my list of places to see. Until very recently, I worked for a company that had an office in Dubai, and just about everyone who went there and worked in Dubai had a negative opinion of it. Our CEO's wife (he was from Kuwait, she was from Japan), refused to go because of the modern day slavery issue.

    Also, I grew up and live in the Orlando area, so if I want to go to a really hot tourist trap full of concrete and very little history, I can just hop in my car, get on the highway and drive for about half an hour and I'm there.


  • #98
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    This alone would put me off going there.


  • #99
    Thomas828
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    No, I wouldn't go. In fact I wouldn't go anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. There are no natural features but desert and bare mountains. If that region wasn't so rich in oil it would be the most sparsely populated region in the world after Antarctica. It's as if God has just abandoned the place.


  • #100
    ronaldoshaky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭ronaldoshaky


    metaoblivia wrote: »
    I wouldn't say never, but it's not high on my list of places to see. Until very recently, I worked for a company that had an office in Dubai, and just about everyone who went there and worked in Dubai had a negative opinion of it. Our CEO's wife (he was from Kuwait, she was from Japan), refused to go because of the modern day slavery issue.

    Also, I grew up and live in the Orlando area, so if I want to go to a really hot tourist trap full of concrete and very little history, I can just hop in my car, get on the highway and drive for about half an hour and I'm there.

    What about Cape Canaveral?

    There is the history of Islam surely in Dubai. For anyone one with an interest in Arab history, there is bound to be museums and places of interest to go to see

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Museum


  • #101
    Thomas828
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    SV wrote: »
    No, I don't want to be surrounded by muslims.
    You don't? I live in Walthamstow and I see Muslims every day.


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  • #102
    metaoblivia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    ronaldoshaky wrote: »
    What about Cape Canaveral?



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Museum

    I assume you mean Cape Canaveral for history? Cape Canaveral is not Orlando, it's about 45 minutes east. I'm not saying that all of Florida has no history - it does and it's a very interesting history at that. The same can be said of the UAE. But Orlando and Dubai are cities built for tourists and have very little to offer outside of that.


  • #103
    FLCP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭FLCP


    ronaldoshaky wrote: »
    What about Cape Canaveral?

    There is the history of Islam surely in Dubai. For anyone one with an interest in Arab history, there is bound to be museums and places of interest to go to see

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Museum

    A little bit Harry Enfield, but i like this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sck1nXyseCc&feature=player_embedded
    There is one museum in Dubai - rest of history is pretty well hidden under the surface. Sharjah on the other hand, has loads of good museums.


  • #104
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Best thing about Dubai: superb Indian food.


  • #105
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    no
    it just looks like a concrete jungle
    and i have a friend who lived there for ages who hated it, not much to do and too strict when you're accustomed to western ways. now i'm not someone to judge another place on what other's say but i couldn't be affording the trip to find out

    plus its way too hot


  • #106
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Best thing about Dubai: superb Indian food.

    If that's the best thing about it, would a trip to India not make more sense? :p


  • #107
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    landsleaving wrote: »
    If that's the best thing about it, would a trip to India not make more sense? :p

    It probably would, or the north of England either.


  • #108
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I would never go near Dubai, it's like a whole other country.

    Can only drink in certain places, no public showings of affection (for fear of prison..wtf!) and even over the counter medical prescriptions are considered illegal.

    It's a well backwards country. If I went there I would probably only have a 50/50 chance of getting back out alive.


  • #109
    ronaldoshaky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭ronaldoshaky


    plein de force wrote: »
    no
    it just looks like a concrete jungle
    and i have a friend who lived there for ages who hated it, not much to do and too strict when you're accustomed to western ways. now i'm not someone to judge another place on what other's say but i couldn't be affording the trip to find out

    plus its way too hot

    After this freezing winter 36 degrees sounds just about right!


  • #110
    SuprSi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,001 ✭✭✭SuprSi


    I'm heading there for a week in June with the missus. Not a stop-over, but a proper week in a 5* hotel. Can't wait!


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