Last week I went to Dubai for business trip. Last time I was there around May last year and I can say that the city changed a lot.
However, the worst thing I have experienced is not changing city but the heat that makes you suffer everywhere. It's is probably a demo version of hell and how you will get boiled in hell... but it is sufficient demo version. The temperatures there reach 50 C with humidity at 90% or so. This makes feeling like being slowly boiled or like a chicken on the grill. Walking 20 seconds from taxi to hotel is sufficient to make clothes wet. Just because the body explodes with sweat. I really wonder how people can live there... Getting to the street side is even worse. The temperatures next to the roads are crazy.  read more »