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the glass of wine is incidental, but it is what the media and detained in Dubai people are clutching too.
I've just checked their visa rules and if you're from the UK you can just get a free 30 day tourist visa upon arrival, which if she was just visiting friends for five days would be perfectly fine. So how could she have got that so wrong?
The story just doesn't add up on this reporting. I'm not a fan of the place myself but have only been through the airport on the way to other places so can't really judge. But it does seem to be one of those outrage stories like they often run about Muslim countries, the EU, or killer animals in Australia. I bet there wouldn't be as much fuss if something like this had happened going into Israel...
Some bloke broke in and straight up took her.
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I can't find the original source I had seen, but to quote the news.com.au link posted further up in this thread:
"She is also said to regularly fly over for weeks at a time to carry out beauty procedures such as Botox."
Dubai IMO is a horrible place, but they have no issue with alcohol consumption in the allocated places - hotels and bars, airports and planes.
Not a place I would recommend for a holiday. I'd sooner go to Blackpool.
If I went, I’d have to be constantly telling myself not to be myself..
Sounds like a shit life.
Dubai is a monument to fakery. hypocrisy and braggarts. Its just not a nice place. Heck, even the beaches are fake.
Where people can get into trouble is when you forget that it is actually a strict muslim society that tolerates western social elements in order to bring in money.
And yes, the treatment of lower skill immigrant workers is bad, but that's true of several middle eastern countries.
No, I've never understood the appeal of holidays in Dubai. If its about the heat, there are plenty of places that are sunny and warm outside of our summer months that are much more relaxed, cultured, genuine and interesting.
Depends what you like I suppose. However, the prospect of staying in a gawdy hotel on a purpose built resort, surrounded by flash harries and wannabes does not appeal in the slightest.
Dubai is not actually a strict muslim society for the most part. Sharjah is far more strict, and KSA is another level above that.
It's not perfect but it's not the hellhole you seem to think it is.
No they don't. There is a general "no PDAs" rule, but that doesn't mean no hugging - just no prolonged kissing (or anything worse!). Noone gets arrested for giving someone else a peck on the cheek. And have you ever seen arabs dance? It's amazing and terrifying and glorious. They love it.
You don't go to jail for drinking. You go to jail for doing something really fucking stupid *while drinking*, and they add a drinking charge on top. I have never heard of anyone being arrested simply for drinking alcohol. It just doesn't happen.
On top of that, I have (and all residents can get) an alcohol licence which basically means I won't get arrested for drinking. But i'm still able to arrested for doing stupid shit while drunk, just like everyone else everywhere else.
@stickyfiddle yeah, I don't doubt there are plenty of restaurants and that, but there is little culture to be had, come on! I didn't just stick to the hotel either, was working there for a bit, not long though.
Man, there is not a lot to it apart from the bling. Certainly not compared to say Muscat. Its an Emirate, they are built on cash and they put on a tolerant front, provide tax breaks to attract money and foreign investment etc. You go a few miles inland from the skycrapers and you're in miles of desert. The "old" bit is small and pretty limited.
Of course its strict - you can get done, badly done, for displays of affection, being drunk, huggin your mates, or posting the "wrong" stuff on social media! Yes, I know most people come and go without incident, but my point is, its got a tricky underbelly and you can get into trouble with the authorities relatively easily. And once you are in trouble, you are on your own. Sure, its no Saudi Arabia, but its certainly not a liberal place.
I still don't think that people's views and criticisms of the place as a holiday destination justify outrage at somebody doing something wrong and getting into trouble for it.