Traveled to Dubai before? Please let me know about your travels and what the city has to offer? Safety issues?

Question

Is this city safe? A friend told me that you if you get arrested there (god knows why that would happen) you can be made a slave to the country and the US cannot pull you out... is this true?

Answer 1

Dubai is very safe and a great place to visit. Unless you misbehave, drink liquor in public, get drunk (and go in public), take drugs, or do other normally illegal acts you should be ok.

Dubai is mainly a huge shopping city. Shops are open till 10.00 pm and night life until much later.

Tourist things to do: go on a Desert Safari, go to the Wild Wadi (great water theme park), ski on the man made snow slopes, taste food from all over the world, get a neck pain looking up at all the very tall buildings, ride the lifts at the Dubai Twin Tower hotel (the glass lifts have great views and fall 1 floor per second), visit the gold souk (gold market), go on a boat ride at the Abra.

Answer 2

Dubai is a safest city in the world. Anybody who commits a crime will get arrested regardless of which city they are in. if the law enforcement is good only, then that city can be called safest city. If they allow criminals to go free, then that city can't be safe for others. Making accident and killing people, eating outside (the house) during the month of Ramadan, etc are some eg. and again they won't make anybody slave. You will have to pay fine, ofcourse heavy. For other things, you can see site dubaitourism. Dubai is a tourist heaven. Dubai dutyfree shop is ranked the world's no.1

Answer 3

LMAO... your friend must be on crack!

This is one of the safest cities on the planet. The law enforcement officers are one of the best I've encountered. You can go strolling at time, even in the middle of the night without having to worry about your safety.

As in any country, you do get arrested here if you commit a serious crime. But you face penalties and fines just as you would in any other civilized country.

Answer 4

Dubai is a safe city... think it ranks 3rd or 4th in the world.  Don't think you would be made into a slave if you got arrested, but they can detain anyone for 30 days without cause... and this can be renewed every 30 days indefinitely.  So, just stay out of jail... don't commit any crimes, and you should be fine.