Dubai has never been on my travel bucket list. In my mind it’s one rather gloriously vast airport. Fly in, take a quick look at duty free lipsticks in strange six pack combinations, and fly out to Europe a few hours later.
And then I stopped over. I rolled my bag outside the sliding glass doors, hit some serious heat, and actually STOPPED OVER.
For four nights I slept in a huge bed in the United Arab Emirates and explored the city of Dubai by day and by night and my first thought every morning when I woke up was ‘my kids need to see this’.
Because I know unique family holidays are where memories are made, and Dubai is a city you will not forget.
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Personally I couldn't get past the women in niqabs trying to eat (always wondered how they did it) and for the one girl in a burkini on the water slides there was about 1000 extremely unfit, pasty guys in boardies....weird
Wow. Talk about pulling the wool over the eyes of the tourist. Dubai is not a melting pot where different cultures flourish and are celebrated - the majority of non-expat, non-local "residents" are desperate foreign workers who exist in glorified work-camps, where they were shipped in from SE Asia to build Dubai's gilded towers and indoor ski-fields. These workers live in complete squalor outside of Dubai, exist on salaries that are not paid for months on end, and often have their passports seized to ensure they do not flee home until the construction job is completed. Do not support this human-rights violating nation (UAE).