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Prairieville family stuck in Dubai.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:33 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:33 am
I assume someone here knows them...
A man, his pregnant wife, and two young kids are stuck on vacation in Dubai because of the war with Iran.
I have no idea why anyone would want to make that trip with clearly very young kids. Would anyone here take their young family to the Middle East on vacation?
Photo from The Advocate:
A man, his pregnant wife, and two young kids are stuck on vacation in Dubai because of the war with Iran.
I have no idea why anyone would want to make that trip with clearly very young kids. Would anyone here take their young family to the Middle East on vacation?
quote:TheAdvocate.com
A cellphone suddenly buzzes with the sound of an emergency alert. The interview pauses. It’s a notification of a possible missile attack.
This has become the daily life for Christian Walker, his wife Kate Sinclair-Faulkner and their two children, while the Prairieville family is in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai during the war with Iran.
The family arrived Feb. 18 after planning the trip for a while because they had accumulated airline miles, Walker said.
“We kind of finally had to come to now because my wife's pregnant and we couldn't do it much later in the pregnancy, and then we figured it would also be much harder with three little ones when we're outnumbered,” he stated. “So those things kind of prompted it.”
A few days after the strikes began, the U.S. Department of State urged Americans in more than a dozen countries in the region to leave using commercial transportation
Walker said he and his wife have “been playing it by ear” and reaching out to the state department.
“They urge you to leave the Middle East, but you will call the State Department line, and then it's like, ‘Press one if you're in the Middle East.’ And you press it, and it's like, ‘Well, we're not actively chartering or evacuating right now. Contact your airline,’” he said.
The family has called their commercial airline each morning for seats home, but flights home keep being cancelled and rebooked.
Photo from The Advocate:
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Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:34 am to BigBinBR
The flight there must have sucked with young kids
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:35 am to BigBinBR
Dubai would be amazing but I’m not going to the Middle East with kids.
No clue wtf they were thinking
No clue wtf they were thinking
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:37 am to BigBinBR
Why would you leave the greatest country in the world and go to a shithole region of the world?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:37 am to BigBinBR
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I have no idea why anyone would want to make that trip with clearly very young kids. Would anyone here take their young family to the Middle East on vacation?
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Kate Sinclair-Faulkner
Chicks with hyphenated last names never make good decisions.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:39 am to BigBinBR
Before anyone tries to save them remember Honkus
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:39 am to BigBinBR
People all over the world, families included, go to Dubai for vacation. It's not exactly adventure travel unless a historic conflict breaks out.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:40 am to BigBinBR
This is just a humble brag.
"Hey look! We can afford to vacation in Dubai!"
"Hey look! We can afford to vacation in Dubai!"
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:40 am to BigBinBR
I’d like to know the thought process behind travelling to an already unstable region on a long arse flight with 2 young kids and a pregnant wife.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:40 am to upgrayedd
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Chicks with hyphenated last names never make good decisions.
A hyphenated last name that doesn't include her husband's last name, at that.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:41 am to BigBinBR
All the beautiful places to vacation in the us and the rest of the world and they choose the Middle East during a military buildup against Iran.
No sympathy for stupidity.
No sympathy for stupidity.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:44 am to danilo
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Why would you leave the greatest country in the world and go to a shithole region of the world?
Because they had accumulated airline miles, silly goose. And one or both had learned a lesson that all things "free" must be taken advantage of.
Unmentioned is the source of the free miles: was it business travel and a perk of his or her job?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:44 am to BigBinBR
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because they had accumulated airline miles
Airline miles couldn't take you to Tennessee? I hear there's zero chance of war there, and the sights are rumored to be beautiful.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:47 am to BigBinBR
Admittedly, I've never been to Dubai but can someone explain the appeal? It's a man-made city in the desert. To each his own, of course. Am I missing something?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:48 am to BigBinBR
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The family arrived Feb. 18 after planning the trip for a while because they had accumulated airline miles
Currently saving mine up for a trip to Afghanistan, I can't wait!
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:48 am to CapitalTiger
Like Disney+Vegas but less trashy.
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 9:49 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:49 am to Pettifogger
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People all over the world, families included, go to Dubai for vacation. It's not exactly adventure travel unless a historic conflict breaks out.
I understand that, but look at their photo. They have a kid under 1, a pregnant wife, and kid under 7. That doesn't seem like the smartest trip to take especially with a 20 hour flight attached to it.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:50 am to BigBinBR
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Would anyone here take their young family to the Middle East on vacation?
Hell I’d prefer Iran to Disney
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:50 am to CapitalTiger
It is like a nicer, more international Las Vegas. Not sure how it would be with kids, though I’m sure there’s plenty to do.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:53 am to CapitalTiger
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It's a man-made city in the desert
What city in this world isn’t man made?
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