Отель неплохой, а страна помойка The hotel is good, but the country is a dump

The territory of the hotel is small. The rooms are large and clean. Service normal four. The food is normal.
Of the sports, a tennis court, a small swimming pool and a very small gym.
The Emirates is a completely extreme case, if in winter you want to go to the sea / sun, but a darn is not far away. Because this is of course a garbage dump and a construction site. We took the car and looked around the whole country, including neighboring Oman. Garbage.
Dubai is a big goofy metropolis. Construction is everywhere. The main entertainment is shopping. But it needs to be a big fan. The area around Jumeirah is more or less clean, but construction cranes are visible from every crack. All major so-called. sights can be seen in half a day. The beaches are different, but clean. Even urban ones, not to mention hotel ones.
Sharjah, Abu Dhabi are smaller metropolitan areas. But all too.
Ajman, Ras al Khayyam, Fujairah are just little dirty villages with a few tall houses, wastelands and garbage dumps.

We lived in Ras El Khayyam at the Hilton RAK. That is, in Ras el Khaimah there are two Hiltons - one in the city. And one on the beach. The one on the beach is called the Hilton Spa resort. And from the city Hilton they take you to the beach by bus. Approximately 5 minutes.
City Hilton - regular Hilton, 4 stars. Excellent breakfasts. For dinner, you can take the so-called. Swedish table for 20 dollars or dinner on the menu. The menu is extremely limited. There are a couple of restaurants in the hotel and next to the hotel. It's quite difficult to go into the city and find authentic cuisine. Everything more or less authentic is dirty eateries with oilcloth on the tables and plastic utensils.
And the city is not really a city. These are several tall buildings and wastelands around...
Hilton Spa Resort is a very decent place with a really nice, clean beach. The sand is just white powder. Very pleasant. But! Right next to the hotel there is a large construction site of the hotel complex. You can go further along the beach, but in any case, you will observe the operation of the cranes and the sound of the fender.
Both Hiltons have good tennis courts and gyms. The Hilton Spa has an excellent children's room. Playgrounds, animators are engaged in children. All sorts of competitions, dances. . . My 8-year-old daughter had a wonderful time there with German and English svesniks. Excellent language practice.
The main occupation in the evening is to go to the local Mega, to walk around the same shops. For children - slot machines, swings / carousels.
Renting a car is not a problem. automatic transmission, it is impossible to find a mechanic. Prices from 30 USD per day. NOTE! Since 2007, Russian tourists have been given cars according to INTERNATIONAL rights. This is not due to the inability to drive. And with the fact that insurers do not cover the risks of drivers with other rights than international ones.
There are two options - either go to the traffic police and get a temporary permit. At the same time, look at the Arab officials from the inside. Or pay a little more and take a car from a company that, as it were, covers insurance risks.

Roads are awesome. Logical interchanges, pointers everywhere. I had a road map of the emirates - I used it only once. Petrol pennies. There are only 95 and 98. a full tank - 20-25 dollars.
Excursions:
She wrote about Dubai and Sharjah. Dreamland Aquapark http://www.dreamlanduae.com/ is a cool place. Note: Towels are not available for rent. You can buy in a shop for 10-15 dollars. And you can take from the guests. Absolutely all payments (except for the entrance ticket - they take a visa) for cash. Drinks and food are not allowed. Bags are checked. But they watch without prejudice.
Fujairah - very unpleasant, gray sand, and even if the beach is clean, the feeling of some kind of dirt...
We went to the mountains. These are rather conditional mountains. Unfortunately, we did not find any waterfalls, and just a little bit pleasing to the eye landscape.
Jeep safari - Zekinski. Rides from the heart.
For some, the emirates are paradise. But I think. that there are places on earth that are truly worth visiting. Emirates is not one of them. and I'm a little sorry for wasting time here.