I think it depends all on you , what do you find entertaining or not .
I don't find it that boring. But I'm satisfied with less.
You can to a lot of things here. You can do almost every kind of sports here, if you a sports guy.
You can have a boat trip , fishing, diving , you can go to the beach go swimming,jet skiing.
Camel riding, horse back riding , tons of cats here if you like animals !
You can book a safari, go see the sand dunes, drive around.
You can go ice skating, shopping till you drop . You can get a all types of food here, you can meet all types of people here.
you can go to bars, events now and then, go watch movies. If you look around you will find something to do here.
We got kids so we do a lot with the kids, tons of fun here for kids:)
I don't know , about jeddah, but Doha isn't all that bad!