Carlton Tower Hotel Carlton Tower Hotel

We rested at the Carlton Tower in February 2008. Cozy rooms (each floor has its own design), good service, helpful attentive staff, delicious and varied food and amazing desserts at lunch (tiramisu has never been tastier anywhere! ), breakfast is normal in general, it’s not necessary at times, sometimes the assortment was smaller , sometimes more, fruit salad is delicious at breakfast; the pool on the roof of the second floor (protruding) is large, you can swim normally, from the area near the pool there is a beautiful view of the Dubai Creek (this is their channel). The hotel bus takes you to and from the beach. Cons: strong audibility in the rooms, you can hear people talking in the next room or the phone rings, etc. We were first settled in a room on the second floor, above the nightclub, it was very noisy, and we moved to the 6th floor.
The contingent in the hotel is mostly foreigners, Russians (in the sense of all Russian speakers), probably 15 percent. Go to the Greek restaurant in this hotel, they beat plates for good luck and then dance, according to the Greek custom. People from other hotels also came there, they say it's cool.
The hotel has a very convenient location, right next to Dubai Creek and Nasser Square, there are many shops, including branded ones (although there are some with fakes! , we saw it ourselves), as well as fur coats. As the guides advised, it is better to buy fur coats and equipment on Nasser Square.

It’s better to shop in terms of clothes in malls, they are huge there, we went into the store at 11 am and left at 10 pm without having time to get around everything. Most of all I liked the Mall of the Emirates, which is adjacent to the Ski Dubai ski resort, you can watch the Arabs frolicking in the snow (mostly they are there) through the glass wall. Lots of cafes. From the hotel to get 12 dollars.
There were often problems with a taxi, it is very difficult to catch on the street, there are huge queues for taxis at the exit of the malls. It is better not to travel with private traders, they charge unrealistic prices. Some other taxi drivers do not like to travel short distances (for example, from a hotel in Deira City Center), they should probably offer an overcharge on top of the meter.
We were during the shopping festival, there are big discounts everywhere. We read in advertisements that the Emirates Mall has discounts all year round in every second boutique. You can buy cool branded items.
We shopped in the malls of Deira City Center (cool, 5 minutes drive from the hotel, by taxi 3 dollars in terms of dirhams), Bar Juman (also good, 10 minutes), Lamsey Plaza (10 minutes, democratic, many cafes), Wafi (in pyramids, pretentious, there is a cool Marks and Spencer store, 10 minutes).
From the excursions we went to Abu Dhabi, on a jeep safari (it’s not at all scary, just bring warm clothes with you, you can jackets, it’s very cold in the desert in the evening) and to the water park. All liked it!
7 days was not enough! With our love of shopping and their amazing stores-)