Easily the worst place I've been.
Extremely superficial. Zero culture. Modern day slavery in plain sight with with South Asians being bussed into the city for cheap labors. You can observe them being shipped back to their camps in the desert come the evening. You can google all the human rights violations. It's horrible.
All customer facing service positions are Filipinos. They are so overly nice (Yes Sir/ma'am at the end of every sentence) it's annoying. They got the brown dudes in the back doing all the dirty work. Cism within cism.
These fat Emirates pulling up to the mall, wives strolling behind them, then the Ethiopian maid all the way in the back with their kids. These pieces of shyt go to eat IN the restaurant and make the maid sit and wait outside and don't even have the courtesy to send her the menu or a plate of food.
I'm not the kind of person that can over look shyt like that. It was really hard to stomach.
Spent my time over tipping all service staff(they were fantastic to my family and I). This one door man at our hotel ran ONTO the street to flag a taxi down. Cleaning staff would do origami with the towels, so we'd come back in with a towel swan on the bed. Little one loved that shyt. Left them a big tip and a written hand note to the manager to let them know how pleased we were.
Aside from that, it's fukk Dubai. 1/10 only because the food was fire.
