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Packing for the UAE means dressing for heat and for a Muslim country at the same time, and taking the medication rules seriously before you fly rather than at the border.
Moving around the UAE is easy and mostly cheap. The emirates are close together, the roads are good, and the only genuinely demanding driving is in the mountains.
The British government advises against travel to no part of the UAE. What a visitor needs is the law, and the law is not the same in all seven emirates.
The UAE has an enormous international restaurant scene and a much quieter Emirati one. Finding the second takes a little intent and is the more interesting half.
The UAE is used to visitors and generous with them. It is also a Muslim country with laws behind several of its customs, and the balance shifts as you move between emirates.
The UAE year has a fixed half and a lunar half. National Day and the cool-season programme can be planned a year ahead; Ramadan and the Eids cannot.
The UAE is one of the most demographically international societies on earth. For a traveller interested in diaspora, the subject here is migration itself rather than ancestry.
Almost everything a visitor uses in the UAE was built recently to modern standards, and the Dubai metro is genuinely step-free. The archaeological sites and the mountains are not, and we say so.
The UAE suits an older traveller unusually well. The distances are short, the infrastructure is new and the healthcare is excellent. The desert excursion and the mountain road need a decision.
November to March is when Qatar is comfortable outdoors. Outside that window the heat is not a discomfort to work around, it is the thing that decides your day.