Hotel with cockroaches

Written: 15 january 2011
Travel time: 30 december 2010 — 5 january 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 4.0
When choosing a hotel, I was guided, among other things, by reviews. Since they were not terrifying, I considered it possible to stay in the indicated hotel. I strongly do not recommend the hotel to tourists traveling to Dubai for the first time (spoil the impression of the city, I remember the shock of such "newcomers"). I will explain why - it is stated that the hotel is located on Rigga Road (this fact influenced my choice - I was in Dubai for the third time and I knew this street). So, the hotel is located not far from Rigga Road, namely in a slum district (it’s hard to explain even to taxi drivers, we just took a taxi to the metro and walked, fortunately nearby), there are some spare parts shops around, dirty Pakistani Indians, at night I heard music and by no means DanBalan's hits - apparently there are "business places" nearby (for prostitutes). The people in Egypt have not seen such poverty-dirt everywhere! The rooms are similar to the pictures, but the pictures do not show the shabby bathroom and the dirty, stained window in it, the dust in the folds of the lampshade. But the most impressive for me turned out to be - COCKROACHES, I killed 15 of them in a week, half of them are adults (cockroaches like Russian, not Egyptian beetles). Moreover, the corpses of dead cockroaches lying on the carpet under the door were never removed (it seems that no one tried to vacuum my single 2m by 2m). Linen poorly washed - stained (but judging by the changing stains, they changed it often - almost every day).
I appreciated the food for the sake of formality - I ate only on the day of arrival (lunch), Rigga is full of restaurants, so why choke?
Oh, and one more thing, they take your passport at the reception - they give it back when you check out, for me - it's so uncivil!! ! All normal hotels make a deposit (they take bucks or block a certain amount on a bank card). Maybe free 100 dollars is more important for you, but without a passport you feel like some kind of guest worker (by the way, you don’t need to carry it with you, you can have a copy - sometimes ID is asked at the entrance to a nightclub).

P. S. Prior to this visit, I stayed at the Jumeirah Rotana, Towers Rotana and Emirates Grand Hotel. The latter is highly recommended (newly built, rooms are awesome studios, located on Sheikh Zayed Road next to the metro), and unlike my dearly beloved Rotan is much cheaper. The choice of hotel is up to you, but my advice to you is to overpay and find something more decent (it's worth it). Have a nice holiday!
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