Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

Advantages: A Bustling Nightlife, Very cheap Shopping with a huge array of different popular retail stores, Beautiful Hotels, Beautiful Beaches, Pleasant weather between October and April, Brilliant service in restaurants across the board, Lots to do
Disadvantages: Alcohol is generally quite expensive, Ramadan (holy month of ramadan means that you must not eat or drink in public during the day)

* Initial Note * Dubai is an absoloutley gorgeous city, rich with culture and history, complemented with the huge modern shopping malls and brilliant service that Asia is famous for. As a lot of people that I have been in correspondance with over the months whilst at CIAO, will know, I spend a lot of time in Dubai. Although getting hot now (Being April), Dubai is definately worth a visit! I would recommend it over any other destination, as I will ...
...not a new Ibiza, but Dubai is growing so fast, that I wouldnt be suprised one day that the cultural style and diversity that pushes on the development of Dubai, will soon allow the club culture to surpass of those more popular clubbing destinations in the Meditteranean today. Dubai, unlike some of the other popular young places to visit such as Ibiza, Malaga, and Ayia Napa, it maintains an heir of class, a cut above the rest is the best way I can ... Read review

Advantages: Dubai is a safe place with very good quality of life. There is universal brotherhood everywhere.
Disadvantages: None for me, but the hot weather for tourists who are not used to this.

...when I first landed at Dubai International Airport by Kuwait Airways. The airport looked small with sand stretching on the sides. I had left my motherland for the first time and I felt a twinge in my heart for leaving my dear ones back at home. There was a sandstorm while I was moving along the roads of Dubai and my spirits further descended to low ebb. But that was the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Days transformed into years and my family ...
...my decision to come to Dubai for greener pastures. Because Dubai made me, and Dubai is in me. Better known as the Pearl of the Gulf, Dubai is one of the seven emirates that form the United Arab Emirates and is a paradise on earth. It stretches 72 km along the Arabian Gulf and has an area of 3885 sqkm. Dubai is the second largest emirate. Dubai creek, on the banks of which Dubai is located, divides the city into two parts: Bur Dubai and Deira. There ... Read review

Advantages: Nice Weather, beaches, food, destinations, shopping!
Disadvantages: Can be too hot if you go between June-August!

I've been to Dubai twice now, once when I was one, too young to remember anything, and again three years ago. All I got to say is WOW! I didn't know what to expect when we decided to visit family in Dubai, I had no idea what is was going to be like, but assumed for some reason it was going to be similiar to India. ~~The Journey~~ We flew with Emirates, and the jounrny took about six hours from London Heathrow Airport. I was really looking forward ...
...for some reason I assumed Dubai was a developing country and was quite poor, so was half expecting to see homeless people on the streets...boy was I wrong, on our journey way down to my uncle's home, the scenery was so modern! Beautiful buildings, the architecture, the cleaniness of it all. ~~Places to visit~~ There is so much you can do in Dubai, and very easy to get to, apparently there is a saying that everything is only 20 minutes away from ... Read review

Advantages: Clean, safe, sophisticated, very friendly, modern, shopping! Offers the best of East and West
Disadvantages: None (At present I really cant think of any..just hope too much tourism doesn’t kill the place in 10 years time!)

...developing and sophisticated city of Dubai in the Middle East. I recently had the opportunity to visit Dubai on return from my journey to India and was pleasantly surprised by this modern hi-tech city that manages to combine the best of the West whilst retaining the best of the East’s charm, culture and friendly emirate hospitality. Although I spent only a couple of days in Dubai, it was enough to give me a feel for the place and explore much of ...
...2010. So, where is Dubai? Dubai is the second largest of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From UK, it is just 7 hours away and from Asia just 3 hours with an abundance of direct flights. I will discuss the essential travel details of visiting Dubai at the end of this opinion (should you be tempted!) On first impressions of this city, I was pleasantly surprised to see how clean, modern, and sophisticated the city looked. ... Read review

Advantages: Time Flies and one falls in love with the place
Disadvantages: Too Hot

Dubai Experience I have been travelling on Emirates from 2001 and me and my wife had accumulated about 30,000 skyward points. Of this about 13,000 were to expire on End-Sept-2005 and I thought it may be a good idea to use them. There was a London to Dubai offer for 20,000 points to be used in October and I picked it up. We flew from London Heathrow by EK006 on 28-October-2005 and came back on 2-Nov-2005. The Investigation:- I used the internet ...
...information that I got on Dubai from the site was great and very up to date. But as it is a paid site all cannot get the information from there. The Money:- I made a big mistake of taking UAE Currency from the UK. I bought AED 6.16 for a £ from Lloyds Bank, Thomas Cook was giving at AED 5.73 / £. When I landed in Dubai, the exchange rate at the airport was AED 6.49 / £. Thus I lost almost 5 % value because of my mistake of getting the currency ... Read review