Would you go to Saudi on holiday to visit six flags theme park ?

[AceKitten]

It looks like it’s going to be so good, opens end of this year

but I’m but wary of going Saudi
been abu dabi and Dubai not problems

Not for a fucking pension.

For me it comes down to the fact that I fight for womens rights in the UK, I am part of campaigns again violence against women and girls (having been a victim myself) and fundraise for Refuge, I fight for greater justice for rape and sexual abuse victims.

How on earth could I ever look at myself in the mirror again if I gave my money to a regime that allows no independent rights to women, has legal state inflicted violence against women and girls and flogs rape and sexual abuse victims as fornicators or adulterers?

I would never sleep an undisturbed night again.

Fuck that, I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than go to Saudi. HTH

Flogging rape victims as adulterers would be up there for me.

But each to their own I guess.

Big nope for the same reasons as other posters

No

There are Six Flags parks in the USA

That's not a custom though.

Absolutely not. I’d rather go to the U.S. the home of 6 flags. Disney is far better tho imo.

Something can be a law and a custom at the same time.

But you continue with that wilful ignorance if it helps you sleep at night.

No, been there, (not to a theme park mind), but wouldn't go again by choice. Did not enjoy my time there for so many different reasons - and I've travelled a lot.
Saudi is really pushing the tourism agenda but I could not put money into the pockets of that country with any conscience.
Sure, lots of people can have a perfectly fine life there...but equally lots don't. And not much they can do about it.

There's a long, long list but for starters the death penalty for apostacy and homosexuality, and guardianship for women giving adult women no more legal rights than minors (indeed fewer rights than minors have in many countries).

https://www.letwomenspeak.org/free-your-faces

Read the comments.

We flew through Abu Dhabi earlier this year and my DD went nuts.

Arab states have poor reputations for human rights, animal rights, women's rights and pretending to be liberal when they are not.

I worked in Dubai for a short time. On my last day I went into the hotel pool. It was busy. An Arab mans arm came into contact with mine when he was playing in the pool with his child. He apologised so much I thought he was going to cry. That's how scared he was that I would accuse him of something untoward. Liberal places, my ass.

Do what you want with your money it's your choice, but def not something I'd spend my hard earned cash on.

Not in a million years.

Been to both Dubai and Abu Dhabi but I would swerve Saudi. MBS (the crown prince and absolute ruler) tries to put a liberalised face on it. However women's rights activists have been detailed and imprisoned even though they have not broken Saudi law. Ive even travelled solo in Iran but would not feel able to do so in the kingdom.

That says it all then, doesn't it.
As long as you were alright in your lovely compound. All good. 🙄
As for the OP, a massive "hell no' from me.
For all the reasons mentioned.

Wow, those comments. Its rare I cry, but yeah, doing it now.

Find KJK on YouTube post this event talking to about all the comments she has received from around the world. Absolutely heartbreaking.

What made you feel safer in Iran than you think you would be in Saudi?

I've been to the two and agree. I'll just say Iran is a far, far more welcoming and interesting place.
I had a long post typed out and deleted it, because I actually thought against it. Call me paranoid.

Dear God no. You want to take your daughter?! There is no amount of money you could pay me that would persuade me to take my daughter to that place, for any reason, but especially for something so trivial.

No chance lol.

Wonder how many construction workers died in the building of that area? Wonder what the rights of the workers were?

I can't imagine it. You're one innocent interaction away from spending time in jail there.

Isn’t Saudi one of those places where as a rich Westerner you are okay until you aren’t and as a poor migrant worker you are fucked from the start?

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