Where do you live? How does cost compare to SA? Food? Drink? Availability?
Special rules and regulations?
Things you should never do there? Like in Thailand where it is forbidden for instance to greet and talk to the monks?
How do you handle the heat?
Weekends?
I work and live in Dubai. The problem is trying to compare UAE things to SA things. First as a SA visitor it is expensive as the ZAR is almost 4 to 1 Dirham. The second is I earn Dirhams and spend it here so the moment you compare it to the ZAR its either expensive for you or cheap for me.
You can buy alcoholic drinks at the bottle store but need to have a license and you pay super tax on the drink. Or you can buy when entering Dubai at the duty free shops without a license. Basically all the hotels serve alcohol, so no probs for who want a drink. In the neighboring Emirates like Ajman or Umm Al Quwain you can buy drinks without having a license.
Any type of food always available, pork items in selected stores only. Meat from Brazil, Aus, New Zealand, UK and SA.
Don't ever drive under the influence, when you are caught you WILL go to jail and get a hefty fine can be like 20000Dirhams!
Don't flick someone the bird.
Don't say anything derogatory about the government or their leaders.
The heat is not my biggest problem but the humidity is the killer. Summer can be like 45 - 48 degrees C with humidity of 70% and up.
Weekends lots of stuff to do or experience like bike riding, camping in the desert in winter, sight seeing, skydiving, hot air ballooning, scuba diving, you name it you can do it.