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

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He think this will all soon blow over

Reasons for going there, it's not too far to fly, the sea is nice and warm, and the beach nice, nice standard of hotels and restaurants

If we follow that line of thought, no one should set foot in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin. Or London.

It's very classy!

Wait as I think prices for hols will be slashed

Dubai is an amazing holiday destination and October is a good time to visit weather wise but I think it’s madness to be considering booking a holiday there at the moment. Nobody knows how this will pan out. Leave it until much closer to the time, or book somewhere else.

What about Ukraine instead? I hear that's lovely and hot in the summer? . Idiot!

Your husband is an idiot. Sorry OP.

Dubai is metaphorically a house of cards built on the sewage of slavery and exploitation. Why anyone would want to go there anyway is beyond me 🤷
He sounds like an optimist though so yay for him.

There is plenty of time still, but booking something right now would be, so to say, unwise. At least wait till the situation is solved one way or another!

The current situation is just yet another reason I would never go.

We went to Lanzarote in October and it hit nearly 40 one day. Lovely place and wasn't so busy at that time of year.

If you apply this logic to the rest of the world no one would visit anywhere or buy anything ever again. It’s silly

Your husband at best is being an ostrich.

I would wait quite a while if it does blow over quickly the price is likely to drop significantly.
Cyprus will as well.

There is a good chance the current strikes will be over in a few days but I suspect people will actually look at a map before they start booking their next holidays in Dubai.

to be wanting to book while all of this is going on. Totally mad.

I wouldn't want to go there anyway, least of all now.

You have to follow the home office travel advice don’t you? I mean if you book to stay in a war zone then be prepared not to be covered in term of your travel insurance because you are supposed to sort that at the time of booking. Surely you know this though right?

By October anything could have happened. Just make sure your travel insurance covers resorts in war zones.

This! Good luck getting insured.

in a sense you can say about many countries and how they were originally built etc

Just highlighting this little gem 🤣

I have no interest in Dubai but do people really think this is still going to be an issue in October?

Tell him he’ll be going alone and there are plenty of other places where the sea is warm.

Completely agree. I was just responding to a (now deleted) post of particular stupidity. It was the poster who wrote "Go to Spain, at least they are on the right side of history" that I was responding to. Sometimes you have to call out ignorance when it's on that level 😉

Aside from the fact that it is an absolutely insane idea, what does he propose to do about insurance, there is no way any insurer is going to provide cover now when it is not being advised to travel there.

It’s the most soulless dystopian place ever. I don’t know who would want to go there even in normal circumstances.

It's the fashionable thing today to bash Dubai.

OP, Dubai is an interesting place. (ETA: You can also go for day trips to other emirates.) Your DH isn't unreasonable to want a holiday there, but I'd wait a few weeks and see what happens.