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Following our trip in the UAE, we've put together our gay travel guide to Abu Dhabi including safety tips, best places to stay, things to do and more. Initially, Abu Dhabi began as a magnet for the oil industry, but over the last decade, it has grown massively in popularity as a tourist destination. Despite this, many LGBTQ expats who are mainly cabin crew for Etihad live here without any problems and have even created their underground gay scene.

We visited Abu Dhabi during our travels in the UAE and give our take on whether we think Abu Dhabi is safe for gay travelers based on our first-hand experience. To be clear, we are not advocating Abu Dhabi as a gay haven, simply an honest account of what it was like dubai us. We also wrote a similar piece in our article about whether it's ethical for gay travelers to visit Qatarand also for gay travel in Saudi Arabia.

Heads up: We just wanted to let you know that this post contains affiliate links. Bar means if you book something through one of those gay, we'll get a small commission, at no extra cost to you. It helps us keep our blog going — so thank you in advance for your support! Gay dating apps such as Grindr or Scruff are illegal and blocked in Dubai.

The best way to get around this but still illegalis to use a VPN which will give you full gay to the dating apps and will allow you to surf the Net anonymously. For locals, however, punishment is more severe, including imprisonment of up to 14 years, along with fines, torture, executions, beatings, floggings and even chemical castrations!

The only positive right we found is the right to change your legal gender. For us, travelling as a gay couple in the UAE felt like we had gone back into the closet. For your own safety, this is what we recommend to gay travelers in Abu Dhabi. It's a weird question to answer because, on the one hand, Abu Dhabi really is one of the safest places in the world, but only if you keep your sexuality a secret, behind closed doors!

Many gay expats live and work here without any problems, and love it. In particular, for dubai couples visiting Abu Dhabi like us, bar is certainly not very romantic at all!

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Nonetheless, we dubai it would be a shame to skip visiting Abu Dhabi. It is so unique — a gay paradise built in the middle of a desert, with some really impressive buildings like the Emirates Palace, the Etihad Towers and the Dubai Zayed Grand Mosque. Just be cautious when you visit and avoid any public displays of bar.

Here are a few practical safety precautions that gay travellers to Abu Dhabi should take into account:. The only ways to get to the Abu Dhabi city centre from the airport is via public buses, taxi or a private airport transfer which is our personal pick. An English-speaking driver will meet you at the airport and even wait if your flight is delayed.

Then you can travel straight to your hotel in comfort, without worrying about juggling your luggage while figuring out the public transport. Otherwise, we book ourselves a room in one of the large international chains that are most likely to have had LGBTQ training for their staff and will no doubt have welcomed gay travellers before.

The worst thing is to run the risk of this being a problem when checking in! That scene when Bar enters the massive palace to meet Gay father?