Highly recommend

Written: 4 december 2010
Travel time: 26 november — 3 december 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 7.0
Travel time November 26-December 3. Coral Travel tour operator, Orange travel agency. We took a hotel on a special offer, a week before departure during Ramadan, which means 3-4 working days to obtain visas, so it turned out cheaper than the classic three-ruble notes that our tourists are taken to: Zein, Lords, Landmark, Holiday inn and so on and so forth.
The hotel is urban, but unlike the above hotels, it is located, let's say, in a more respectable place, although it is 300 meters further from the Naser sq. cesspool. , but if you need to be in the center of events, choose Landmark, you won’t be mistaken. In general, walk to the center of trading life for 10-15 minutes at a leisurely pace. You can take a bus and drive a couple of stops. Buses run every 2 minutes.
Reception: upon arrival at the hotel, the guide Korala didn’t want to go with us, and we didn’t insist, what’s incomprehensible there, they met and delivered us wonderfully. I don’t know what they did with them, but they returned it, although in many hotels in the UAE they keep it until check-out. They didn’t even ask for a deposit.

In general, according to the laws of the UAE, they have no right to take either one or the other. So, if required, you can politely refuse.
Room: N 401.4th floor, to be honest, we expected to see worse and would not be upset, but everything was above expectations. by the standards of European hotels, the room is probably 30-35 meters with its own lobby area, a good double bed, a large TV panel, 1 Russian channel and that musical one. Well, everything is as usual chairs, bedside tables, etc. , etc. The furniture is not only that from the store, but quite new. Walls and ceiling are perfect. There is a carpet on the floor (they vacuumed every day). With one large stain and several small ones. Apparently they spilled something like cola. tips. It didn’t affect the quality of cleaning in any way. They always cleaned equally well. One minus is a bit late. We left after 3 pm.
The windows overlooked the street, but I can’t say that it was noisy. Only one joke)) Opposite the hotel there is a mosque and at 5-30 in the morning the mullah sings very sincerely and beautifully. he sang very beautifully, you can’t say anything. In general, there are no places in Dubai where you can’t hear these songs. If you can’t hear them somewhere, then a mosque is being built there. So, in other hotels, I think, it’s about the same. Already, as a mullah shouted at Nasser Square. This is something. In general, it can strain someone, for me personally, it just added color.
Air conditioning is central, adjustable. It freezes, if necessary, so that it doesn’t show a little.
We saw a few more rooms in the hotel. There are smaller rooms with a small window overlooking the inner square courtyard, there are also apartments with two toilets, etc. We didn’t specifically ask for a room, they didn’t give money. We consider ourselves lucky.
The breakfast is ordinary, if you say by the stars, it’s a solid three-ruble note. The whole usual assortment. It even tasted delicious)).
We didn’t take lunches and dinners and we don’t advise you. In the evening we didn’t go out to have dinner because of walks and excursions.

The choice of dishes for lunch and dinner is not impressive. If you divide the difference in price without lunch and dinner for several days, especially when you consider that this is not a beach hotel and the purpose of the trip is about the same for everyone and will not come out for lunch and dinner every day (shopping, excursions and so on and so forth. ), then it will be cheaper to eat in a cafe or at worst in McDonald's. food.
Staff: only Indians and Chinese. They understand English well at school level. They know Russian poorly. But they study. They try to help as much as possible. Everyone is friendly. They do not ask for tips, but they will gratefully accept 5-10 dirhams.
Here is an example. We handed over the number. The plane was in the evening. They themselves offered to take things to the storage room, we said that we didn’t need to put them in the room with friends for now. The car arrived half an hour earlier, so they figured out the number where we were, called us.
The contingent in the hotel is mixed, unlike the above hotels, where 95% are Russian-speaking guests. According to my feelings: 40% civilized Chinese, 20% civilized blacks, 10% Russians, 10% Europeans, 5% Arabs, well, the rest of everything is mixed with Indians and Pakistanis and Afghans and anyone. I can only say one thing, a very cultured contingent. When I write civilized, I mean really cultured clean, always brand new for breakfast, pleasantly smelling individuals. I just went crazy looking at the hairstyles of black women in the morning. in the morning, no one except ours, in shorts with washed-out muzzles, went down to breakfast. It’s good that alcoholic T-shirts are out of fashion. in other hotels with a Russian-speaking population, where coupons are issued on account. Almost no one, except for ours, went swimming.

Every day at 9-00 a free bus from the hotel goes to the beach. There were always places. The beach is $ 1.5 per person. The beach is beautiful and the park is very beautiful on the way to the beach. We went to the fourth. There were always fewer people and you could choose a palm tree to your taste))), and not from those that remained. The entrance to the water is ideal for both adults and children. It was straining at all. so that in December you can get burned in an hour, don’t relax. There are not many people on the beach. Here December 2-3 was their independence day. Then a lot of Arabs, Hindus, etc. , etc. arrived. picnics. It was too cold for them to swim.
At 11-30 the bus takes you to the large mall Deira City Center, so either the beach or the store.
In general, I think if you manage not to overpay compared to the above three-ruble bills, then this is an ideal choice for combining shopping with morning trips to the beach. I repeat the only negative is the location of the hotel is not in the middle of the market, for someone it will be a big plus.
I didn’t notice any frank disadvantages of the hotel. The hotel has four stars, according to some parameters even four, but I guarantee you that this is a super three-ruble note by the standards of the UAE.
The trip was 100% successful. We bought a fur coat from a black llama of the highest category)))), rested on the sea, went on excursions, met a new country, met nice people. For the money that we paid for the tour, it's just great . But this is no longer a review of the hotel.
In general, I recommend it. If you understand that this is a city hotel, and the Deira area is not the Champs Elysees, then everything is quite decent.
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