britoverseas

Well yeah I wasn't expecting anything like the costa del sol lol. Fair play to those of you that live there, but I couldn't live in a non secular country.

Spugsy

Ah well it's a 6 month lease so we'll see how it goes.

What's wrong with it?

Spugsy

there's loads to do, plenty of great bars and clubs, good djs, loads - its just not like the UK where you get so hammered you can't walk or end up getting off with slappers at the bar.

Grace O Malley

All bars/discos are in hotels thats the way it works here. I am sure your mate will know where to take you, but as the others have said this is not Dublin or Amsterdam where on a stag nite anything goes.

Saying that i have seen plenty of people off their faces in the bars etc. You'll be grand, just watch it when u are leaving the hotel, IE out on the street etc

MataHari

well there's nothing wrong with it, it's a nice area and some great houses...it's just that I personally wouldn't like to be the 'only' non Arab in the area if I had a choice.
A couple I know have been in that situation (although that was in Sharjah so that is different) and they have literally had to move as the neighbours all around them were bullying them out...
It's what I love about Mirdif, the mix of locals and other nationalities...but then I guess you can have crap neighbours of any nationality anywhere...

Spugsy

aye well we'll see, we have a belgian family above us who are sub letting the downstairs of the villa to us, it's an amazing place but yeah, it seems mainly locals, and the few indians we saw just stared at us.

MataHari

omg...Belgian

Spugsy

heh, I'll be popping up for beers and frites when I come home pissed.

MataHari

and some nicely cooked mussles...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Grace O Malley

You never would have survived my initiation into the middle east. I stayed with my sponsor for 4 months in a villa on his compound, what an eye opener and insight to the religion/culture, fascinating, wouldn't have missed if for the world ..... I was like their new toy...After about a month, I desperately wanted a bacon or ham sandwich, i used to get the driver to take me to spinneys. I'd buy a loaf of bread, some ham and scoff then on the way back...

MataHari

well, it's a bit weird of me to think like this I agree, but it's just that I would be afraid they wouldn't be happy with me living there...not the other way round...maybe I think that locals that live in 'my' area, which is mixed, chose to live there because of that fact, and the ones that stick to the other areas prefer to live amongst Arabs...but that's just a guess on my part.
Also because I have witnessed those friends episode with the neighbourhood, I would just prefer to live where I do now...

Sky Blue

Its ok over here mate, but I have never heard of it as a stag destination!! Particualrly AD... I would have thought there are many a better and cheaper call for whatever you are after Whatever takes you fancy really, if you get desperate then ask Spugsy about his local "Biggles'" - Now thats a den of iniquity...

Spugsy

hookers, football and stella, surely all you need on a stagg night?

Sky Blue

Kareoke band on a Thursday night too fella?

commander

Surely there are no Hookers in Biggles??

just a dodgy bloke parachuting from the roof??