Anonymous wrote:It's fine. Dubai is super safe. We lived there during Arab Spring and everything was fine. Dubai will protect tourists 100%

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Anonymous wrote:OP you’ve gotten a lot of terrible comments, I’m sorry.

I liked Dubai, it’s fun to visit, and I think if the airspace is open by the end of March I would still go for spring break. They’ve already offered free hotel stays for everyone who is trapped and will do everything they can to keep tourists safe and business open. So, absent missiles flying like now, I would go. And, though you didn’t ask, would ask people with lots of travel experience and/or foreign service and/or expats and/or those that have lived there in person rather than DCUM in the future. Save you the crazy but offer you varied perspectives.

The comments are justified, because tourists don't get a pass. Tourists from all over the world have a long history of trying to be decent in their daily lives and then everything goes out of the window when they vacation. They give their hard-earned money to the worst places on earth with a smile, and try to come up with the most preposterous generalizations (like ones we saw here on this thread) as to why their pleasure comes first. It doesn't.

One of my BILs worked briefly in the Middle East. He didn't like it there. He saw rich sheikhs and businessmen import young women from Russia and set them up in luxury apartments, away from their families. When you see a middle aged man caress a pretty 18 year old in a tight minidress in a luxury hotel restaurant, it puts you off your dinner. It's Epstein to a degree that you can't imagine.

He went out for a jog and was pelted with stones by kids - he's Asian, not white.

Migrant economy: maids routinely get their passports confiscated and become slaves for the families they serve. They're lucky if they don't end up as sex slaves. They are largely uneducated and naive and often their own home countries willingly participate in the scheme and create career centers for these young women to apply to, who send them to the Middle East. It's state-sponsored human trafficking on BOTH ends.

You are defending OP because you partook yourself of the glitz, and are now in denial of what's underneath. I hope one day you can come to terms with the reality.

Anonymous wrote:OP you’ve gotten a lot of terrible comments, I’m sorry.

I liked Dubai, it’s fun to visit, and I think if the airspace is open by the end of March I would still go for spring break. They’ve already offered free hotel stays for everyone who is trapped and will do everything they can to keep tourists safe and business open. So, absent missiles flying like now, I would go. And, though you didn’t ask, would ask people with lots of travel experience and/or foreign service and/or expats and/or those that have lived there in person rather than DCUM in the future. Save you the crazy but offer you varied perspectives.

Anonymous wrote:OP you’ve gotten a lot of terrible comments, I’m sorry.

I liked Dubai, it’s fun to visit, and I think if the airspace is open by the end of March I would still go for spring break. They’ve already offered free hotel stays for everyone who is trapped and will do everything they can to keep tourists safe and business open. So, absent missiles flying like now, I would go. And, though you didn’t ask, would ask people with lots of travel experience and/or foreign service and/or expats and/or those that have lived there in person rather than DCUM in the future. Save you the crazy but offer you varied perspectives.

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I don't have any sympathy for non-diplomatic families, non-relatives, who go to Dubai or anywhere else in that region. These are autocratic countries, built on current, not former, slave immigrant labor, with a piss-poor record for treating women of their own nations like secondary citizens.

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I don't have any sympathy for non-diplomatic families, non-relatives, who go to Dubai or anywhere else in that region. These are autocratic countries, built on current, not former, slave immigrant labor, with a piss-poor record for treating women of their own nations like secondary citizens.

Slave immigrant labor? Who do you think washes your dishes, slaughters the chickens you eat, picks your avocados, and rakes your leaves? Get a grip lady. What a hypocrite!

The imported working class in Dubai is nothing like the immigrants in the US. The suffering by workers in Dubai is horrific. And your tourism supports that.

I’m always baffled by the Dcumlandia Faux-activists who pontificate about DEI and equality in the USA but brag about their vacations to places like Dubai where human rights simply aren’t “a thing.”

The point is, neither place is great. Human rights aren’t really a thing in the USA either. We treat immigrants despicably. So there’s really no difference whether you go to Vegas or Dubai honestly.

My father worked in the Emirates for decades and this is very, very wrong. Why do people post these things when they have no idea??

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I don't have any sympathy for non-diplomatic families, non-relatives, who go to Dubai or anywhere else in that region. These are autocratic countries, built on current, not former, slave immigrant labor, with a piss-poor record for treating women of their own nations like secondary citizens.

Slave immigrant labor? Who do you think washes your dishes, slaughters the chickens you eat, picks your avocados, and rakes your leaves? Get a grip lady. What a hypocrite!

The imported working class in Dubai is nothing like the immigrants in the US. The suffering by workers in Dubai is horrific. And your tourism supports that.

I’m always baffled by the Dcumlandia Faux-activists who pontificate about DEI and equality in the USA but brag about their vacations to places like Dubai where human rights simply aren’t “a thing.”

The point is, neither place is great. Human rights aren’t really a thing in the USA either. We treat immigrants despicably. So there’s really no difference whether you go to Vegas or Dubai honestly.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine. Dubai is super safe. We lived there during Arab Spring and everything was fine. Dubai will protect tourists 100%

Remnants of a missile hit terminal 3 at the Dubai airport today (Emirates terminal, so likely lots of international travelers). 1 confirmed killed already. They’ll try to keep people safe but there’s only so much they can do.

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I don't have any sympathy for non-diplomatic families, non-relatives, who go to Dubai or anywhere else in that region. These are autocratic countries, built on current, not former, slave immigrant labor, with a piss-poor record for treating women of their own nations like secondary citizens.

Slave immigrant labor? Who do you think washes your dishes, slaughters the chickens you eat, picks your avocados, and rakes your leaves? Get a grip lady. What a hypocrite!

The imported working class in Dubai is nothing like the immigrants in the US. The suffering by workers in Dubai is horrific. And your tourism supports that.

I’m always baffled by the Dcumlandia Faux-activists who pontificate about DEI and equality in the USA but brag about their vacations to places like Dubai where human rights simply aren’t “a thing.”

The point is, neither place is great. Human rights aren’t really a thing in the USA either. We treat immigrants despicably. So there’s really no difference whether you go to Vegas or Dubai honestly.

You can't seriously think immigrants in the US are treated as poorly as those in Dubai.

Actually, in some ways, they are treated better in Dubai. They are given visas and have legal work authorization, and are not forced to work under the table illegally, always subject to constant fear and deportation. They are treated more humanely in the Gulf, even if expected to work long hours.

Vegas was a really bad example. Most of th hotel staff in Vegas is unionized. There are other issues with your points but thought I’d at least make that one.