time to pull this out from storage
[QUOTE=Denny]I'll be visiting Dubai on the 23rd to the 29th - right in the middle of Ramadan. What's the situation going to be like over there? Any advice or help would be really appreciated.[/QUOTE]Anybody who has read the forum knows that EVERYTHING stops for Ramadan.[list][*]Actually, there's a pre-ramadan roundup, currently going on, to cull out the easy catches.[*]ALL girls head home for a month's vacation.[list][*]Aeroflot leases an Antonov An-225 to get their girls out - worth going out to the airport to see the plane itself.[*]Chinese just lay on extra flights.[*]Africans send ships.[/list][*]Any player that can also leaves.[*]Once ramadan starts, Saudi Arabia contributes by sending 2 divisions of Mutawa as [i]street cleaners[/i]; 1/2 division goes to Abu Dhabi, the majority to Dubai (have heard their saying for this year is "There's a reason why our citizens go to London on holiday").[*]Although clubs/bars may seem to be open, if you enter, there will be a contingent of Mutawa to question you as to why you are such an infidel dog. Anyone enquiring as to "opening hours" is taken away for [i]re-education enlightenment[/i]. And be especially cautious about Cyclone; it's set up as a honey trap: they actually use cardboard cutouts of women inside the patio to lure passing drivers to stop and take a look. If you try and use the excuse of "going to American hospital emergency ward", you had better have a bleeding passenger (common knowledge if a backseat passenger smashes himself in the mouth to cause said bleeding, EVERYONE in the car owes him a beer post-ramadan for his self-sacrifice. If the rear seat passenger is punched by another, then only the "puncher" has to buy).[*]The ruling family likes it because it adds [i]perspective[/i], as in "this is how it [u]could[/u] be, so shut-up".[/list]
Well, that's what I've heard. What I've EXPERIENCED, as reported here, every year, life goes on, just a bit more subdued.
My advice would be to search the reports of distinction for "ramadan".