Dh still wants to book a holiday to dubai in Oct?

I’d be looking elsewhere if I were you!

I visited Dubai 19 years ago, for a few days on the way home from somewhere else. Before the big explosion of younger ex pats and influencers. I was quite young and impressionable back then, even so I felt quite uncomfortable with the place despite the glam and the good weather. I can’t imagine how much worse it is now. I hope people get home safe but I wouldn’t go back there if you paid me.

Quite.

The privlidge of this is off the scale. Absolutely ridiculous thst anyone would want to do this. You think its going to be over by october.??? Never mind it's only 160 miles from Iran , what stops me from going is the fact it's built on slavery. Appalling treatment of migrant workers with modern day slavery and no rights. Yes privileged westerners flock like flys round s#!£t.

Wait a while. You could get the bargain of the century if bookings are low, and who knows, maybe the Emirati government might even pay you to go. If flights resume that is. This could be your moment! 😊

It’s never been a place that I want to visit so for that reason alone HIBU

"He think this will all soon blow over"

And Putin thought he'd have Ukraine in the bag within a fortnight. What if it takes months / years / decades?

It's all very well to hope for the best, but it's considerably more sensible to plan for the worst. I'd be looking for another holiday destination.

And then have their passports taken and can’t return.

Can’t they also receive assistance from the uk government due to the common travel area?

I would never have gone there anyway. But I’d never considered how close it is to Iran.

At least the Brit’s have a plan. There are 22,000 Irish there with no plan.

No way, I think recent events have just serviced to highlight what a dangerous position Dubai is actually in. No need to travel to that part of the world with the current level of risk.

Watching a country being bombed and planning a holiday there

the delusion is bizarre.

Man is not fit to be allowed out in public without a minder.

I wouldn't book a holiday there at any time, but definitely not in the foreseeable future!

Well, it'll probably be cheap .....🤷‍♀️
I went to Egypt the year after all the terrorist bombings and stayed for 14 nights in possibly the best hotel I've been to in my life for £700 inc flights!
2yrs later, tried to book same hotel/holiday and it was £6k per person 🤦‍♀️

You could not pay me enough to go to Dubai (my husband worked there on and off for years and absolutely hates the place)

And from what I’ve heard I wouldn’t recommend getting into financial difficulty in Dubai even as a Westerner.

It’s an awful place where morality went to die on so many levels.

An ode to consumerism in the desert.

I can’t understand the mentally of anyone who goes there on holidays, particularly when we are spoilt for choice closer to home.

Are we now on the -it's not really that bad in Dubai curve because other immigrants go there to send money home to their (poor) families. Not really sure that that's the flex you think it is

That doesn't negate the appalling human rights record some countries have. It might be unpalatable for some people to talk about but personally I'm quite glad these threads exist

Because there are too many people - including people I personally know (fitness instructors) who just jet off to places like Dubai and who don't know far less care about human rights

Then they come home going on about how feminist they are and how their brands "empower women".

People can knock themselves out and go on as many holidays as they like to wherever they like - but let's not pretend that some of these countries treat westerners very differently to how they treat their own people. Particularly women.

Oh bless you and your beautiful naivety. My friend chose to go there from Pakistan having been sold/marketed a fake dream.

He was treated appallingly in a highly skilled white collar role. Passport taken, squalid overcrowded living conditions, 20 hour days, fear of spurious criminal charges to name just part of it.

He will never return, but did say their treatment compared to blue collar workers was so much better.

He does and did indeed then, send money home. But does that now from a well paid UK role.

Do probably don't realise that many of these migrant workers are uneducated, and consequently do not understand the full implications of thier future situation..confiscated passport, (occasional) physical abuse, withheld wages, unsanitary / cramped living conditions. But then again it was their choice right??

Are they? How.

And the labour market in these places are undergoing massive reform and improvements.

It’s not that simple: https://www.ecdhr.org/the-hidden-cost-of-progress-human-rights-violations-of-migrant-workers-in-the-uae/

He is an idiot. You won't be able to get travel insurance for one thing as insurers don't insure for places that the FCO advises against travelling to.

Wait to see if the situation changes and then book a holiday would be the intelligent thing to do.

You do realise that the vast majority of the immigrant workers (mostly from India and Pakistan) CHOOSE to go there for work, so that they can send money home to their families?