Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:48     Subject: Re:There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?


+10

I understand people going for the Hajj or people going on a pilgrimage trip to Israel. Other than that, I cannot imagine intentionally going anywhere in the Middle East.

I have never transited there and cannot imagine that either.

The Middle East has been a continuous mess at least since before the 1968 war, maybe even starting before 1946.



So you've never been there, but you know it's "bad."

Disparaging things you know nothing about is not a great look.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:45     Subject: Re:There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?



DP, not rich, but my kids absolutely loved Dubai.


lol. “Not rich” by DCUM standards…your kids have been to Dubai. You are plenty rich.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:36     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If kids are teenager, their idea of fun includes food and spas, and you've got the money to stay there, Dubai is a great choice. But travel insurance for any international travel is a must.


If that's your thing, then save yourself a 14-hour flight, and go to Vegas or Scottsdale.


As if Vegas isn’t high on the list for soft terror targets.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:35     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:The OP has go to to be a troll.


Sadly, I don't think they are.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:34     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:Was booked to go end of March with family of five. No travel insurance; booked everything noncancellable. Damn.


Act of War would have been excluded from travel insurance, anyway.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:33     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.”


Cite your sources for both of these claims.

NP= Here you go.
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/united-arab-emirates/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/03/questions-and-answers-migrant-worker-abuses-uae-and-cop28
https://www.ecdhr.org/the-hidden-cost-of-progress-human-rights-violations-of-migrant-workers-in-the-uae/
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/dubai-apartments-migrants-rent-cost-b2797130.html
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:30     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai


This has got to be the most tone-deaf thread title of the year on DCUM.

There's a war in the Middle East, hundreds of elementary school girls have been bombed to death, and OP complains about losing her vacation in a city that depends on modern human trafficking and slavery to serve its tourists.







Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:28     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Was booked to go end of March with family of five. No travel insurance; booked everything noncancellable. Damn.


I'm pretty sure Dubai International Airport will be operating normally by the end of March, and likely much sooner. Iran is already crippled. The war won't go on for much longer. And the entire world needs the Dubai airport to function. It's a global hub.

Hello George W. with your early Mission Accomplished. You might be right, but you might just be bringing up the ghost words of the 2003 war hawks.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:20     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:I do find this an odd choice for a family vacation.How old are your kids?

On a brighter note, would insurance even reimburse you when the cause was an “act of war?” I think that is normally exempted from coverage.


It would not be covered.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:19     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Non-refundable with no insurance was perhaps a bold choice.


Depends on how much you travel. It we bought insurance for every trip we took we would be deep in the negative.


travel insurance doesn’t cover acts of war.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:17     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:The stench of putrid, reeking privilege is over the top here. We just started a war, over 100 little girls were slaughtered by our bombing, and you’re worried about your Dubai vaycay?


Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:12     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
The stench of putrid, reeking privilege is over the top here. We just started a war, over 100 little girls were slaughtered by our bombing, and you’re worried about your Dubai vaycay?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:11     Subject: There goes our spring break in Dubai
The OP has go to to be a troll.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:07     Subject: Re:There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?


+10

I understand people going for the Hajj or people going on a pilgrimage trip to Israel. Other than that, I cannot imagine intentionally going anywhere in the Middle East.

I have never transited there and cannot imagine that either.

The Middle East has been a continuous mess at least since before the 1968 war, maybe even starting before 1946.


So you acknowledge you’ve never been there. Why should we listen to you again?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2026 14:05     Subject: Re:There goes our spring break in Dubai
Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?


+10

I understand people going for the Hajj or people going on a pilgrimage trip to Israel. Other than that, I cannot imagine intentionally going anywhere in the Middle East.

I have never transited there and cannot imagine that either.

The Middle East has been a continuous mess at least since before the 1968 war, maybe even starting before 1946.