Would you choose Dubai as a holiday destination?

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Colleague told me excitedly she has booked to go to Dubai with her family for two weeks. I said ‘Oh wow!’ But really I was thinking 😬
I realise we all like different things, but just curious if you’d choose to spend your money on going to Dubai? I can personally think of some really lovely places to go for that amount of money, especially over Christmas

It’s built on modern slavery. Workers are regarded as subhuman.

I don't think it's the type of place I'd enjoy. I'll probably go there once in my life for winter sun, even if it's just to confirm it's not for me.

I was in Muscat a few years ago and did not like it. The modern part of town reminded me of descriptions of Dubai - soulless, full of malls, high-rises and motorways, few locals. So I doubt I'd like Dubai either.

No, but only because I lived in Oman for several years.
I visited Dubai and it was shit in comparison.

I definitely wouldn't go. I have a friend who has suggested it as a destination for one of our 'girls ' holidays on a number of occasions. I'm not usually one to shoot ideas down, but on this occasion I do. I think she's finally given up suggesting it.

No, doesn't appeal to me.

Some friends have been and enjoyed it, but they were visiting their anglo-arab friends that have lived there for decades and they did a lot of visits and activities organised locally. Other friends have been for a more conventional Dubai holiday, and quite frankly it sounded about as appealing as a fortnight in Meadowhall.

Eww. No. Are they investing in crypto and getting their teeth done whilst there?

Absolutely would not go there.

Don't fancy it myself but each to their own. I would rather chew my own arm off that go camping, some people love it though.

No, I had a friend that lived there for years and I always had the offer of free accommodation but never took her up on it because I have zero desire to visit Dubai.

I'd rather spend a holiday in Slough than in Dubai.

Not for me, not the type of place I would personally like to holiday. I want to visit Dubai less than I want to visit Vegas. But each to their own.

No, it’s absolutely not my cup of tea in terms
of what’s there but I also don’t want to give my money to fund that part of the world either. No thank you.

Just be careful you aren't sexually assaulted in Dubai as a woman or a man as it could be you who goes to prison.

It's a hellhole in dessert run by scummy hypocrites, with a horrendous seedy sick underbelly.

But who cares about that when you can get luxury brands under one roof!!!!

Yes, Dubai is brilliant. Wouldn’t want to go every year, but. Have been a a considerable number of times and never fail to have a brilliant time. All depends what you want from a holiday hence why I intersperse visits with trips to other places.

No. Because: Ethics. Environment. Soulless. Interesting to read the posts from people who have lived there.

No wouldn't go for a holiday, not even keen on changing planes there but you haven't always got a lot of choice to some destinations without spending far more. Such an odd place to choose - i would go to Oman for instance as that has more culture and history

If you had to pay NOT to go to Dubai, I'd cough up without a murmur.

No. We went to visit once when I was a kid as my Mum's friend was living there. It's very plastic and fake and run mostly on slave labour. I wouldn't go again and I wouldn't support the regime. Some people think it's glamorous though for some reason.

I like it - I've been for work and would happily holiday there. The mad architecture is really interesting and I absolutely hate humidity, so the desert heat is perfect. Plus it's about the only warm place on earth where I haven't been bitten to death by mosquitoes the second I got off the plane.

Not in a billion years.

Lots of people do go and enjoy it but it's not for me. I need far more nature and 'landscape' than it seems to offer.

Plus, I spent some years in Saudi as a child/young teen - not too far along the coast from Dubai and don't have a huge desire to go back to that part of the world.

No I won't ever go. Aside from everything else, I definitely don't want to be on holiday surrounded by Brits, shopping centres, and apartment blocks.

Never. For ethical reasons.

I'm amazed that anyone would want to go there - particularly a woman. Why would you choose to go to a place where you are deemed to be a second class citizen and face discrimination? To me, it's akin to being Jewish and deciding to visit Nazi Germany - or black and holidaying in Alabama in the 1950s.

Bizarre to think of paying large sums of money to go somewhere like that. I'm not funding that kind of regime.

Nope, would much rather go to a country that needs my economic support like Cuba, Sri Lanka etc.

Couldn't think of anything worse than going to Dubai.