FANTASTIC post jumbo1...best advice ever: try before you buy!
@propjet72: Dubai's absolute strongest quality is MARKETING! Same goes for Emirates. Do not believe the big $$ slick produced DVD's, shiny brochures and advertising! Anyone with enough money can pay a (Western) production company to glitz up anything! Someone else summed up nicely: a Third World country with a thin veneer of First World.
Or to put it more simply...a gold-plated turd is still a turd.