The hotel was chosen on the advice of friends. When we arrived, we were met very friendly by a Russian-speaking hotel worker. I liked everything, the elevator corridors were all fragrant with cleanliness and beauty. The room was perfect, the window had a view of Sharjah, TV, refrigerator, air conditioning, etc.
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The hotel was chosen on the advice of friends. When we arrived, we were met very friendly by a Russian-speaking hotel worker. I liked everything, the elevator corridors were all fragrant with cleanliness and beauty. The room was perfect, the window had a view of Sharjah, TV, refrigerator, air conditioning, etc. The room was cleaned daily. The food (we had only breakfast) varied. Large selection of dishes. The state of the UAE really impressed me. A fairy tale!
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Literally today I returned with my wife from Dubai, the air carrier was FlyDubai - it's just a nightmare. We were sympathetic to the fact that meals and drinks on the company's aircraft, as well as watching movies on the screens built into the headrests, are paid. After all, the airline is a budget carrier.
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Literally today I returned with my wife from Dubai, the air carrier was FlyDubai - it's just a nightmare. We were sympathetic to the fact that meals and drinks on the company's aircraft, as well as watching movies on the screens built into the headrests, are paid. After all, the airline is a budget carrier. However, what awaited us at the Dubai airport crossed out all the positive with which we flew there. We (about 1000 people) were herded like sheep into a stall along with passengers from African countries and other not more advanced regions, where we together spent a little more than 2 hours in line. I do not suffer from racism, but I was a little worried about the cough of the Afghans in national costumes, who stood nearby. However, 50% of the passengers were dressed in exotic national costumes. Here I remembered the Bible story about the Tower of Babel. I admit honestly - one of the reasons for the trip is to see the Burj Khalifa in Dubai with my own eyes.
At first I thought that such a queue was created due to the retinal scan, but on the way back the retina was not scanned, but stood in line for 3 hours. Now I understand why the tour operator brings tourists to the airport 4 hours before departure. The airport staff are clueless and very, VERY, slow. I was frankly surprised that there was no telescopic ladder for our plane at the airport, passengers are transported by buses as in old regional airports. Maybe this is an exception for our tourists and passengers from Africa and other poor countries, since they were the vast majority there.
There are no comments to the hotel, the hotel is not the first freshness, but very good. The first thing that struck the hotel is the scale of the rooms, they are just huge. We had an ordinary double, which consisted of two rooms, one of which is a living room, and the second is a bedroom.
Each room has a 42 "LCD Sony TV, as well as a telephone (the telephone was even placed in the toilet). I was very pleased with the electric kettle and the tea, coffee, cream and sugar that came with it. All this can be used free of charge, you only pay for what you took from the refrigerator We only spent the night and had breakfast at the hotel, but we were completely satisfied with the breakfasts. The rooms were cleaned daily, everything you needed (shampoo, shower gel, body lotion, brushing and shaving kits, etc. ) and even more were also changed daily .
We, among other things, also had a very beautiful view of the bay from the window, if you ask at the reception, they will arrange the same for you.
Breakfast is from 6:30 to 11:00, I advise you to wake up early and book a trip to Mamzar beach, the best that the hotel offers. The beach looks like in the Bounty advertisement, the entry into the water is excellent. Buses to the beach leave at 10:00 and 11:00, and back at 14:00 and 15:00.
We were once denied a transfer at 10:00 due to lack of seats on the bus, we had to go at 11:00. If you have come to the UAE only for the sake of a beach holiday, you will have the opportunity to be convinced of your mistake. It's like going to Paris to swim in the Seine.
Although, we spent about 2 hours on the beach for the whole holiday. The rest of the time was spent in Dubai. We visited the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa, spoiling the impression of the city. Because from a height the city looks just depressing. However, it needs to be seen: sand, wastelands, construction sites. Much more struck by its beauty singing fountain. It turns on for 5 minutes every half hour, but it's something. I really liked the aquarium in the Dubai shopping center, but we still didn’t dare to walk through the tunnel in it for $ 20 each, because all the fish were quite successfully examined by walking along the perimeter of the aquarium. And yet, I advise you to ride the subway.
It is completely new and very interesting, one of the latest achievements of Japanese scientific and technological progress. At the same time, it is also worth walking to the notorious Parus Hotel and through the old city in order to feel the spirit of a real Arab city, and not the achievements of European and American architecture sheathed in glass.
At first I thought that such a queue was created due to the retinal scan, but on the way back the retina was not scanned, but stood in line for 3 hours. Now I understand why the tour operator brings tourists to the airport 4 hours before departure. The airport staff are clueless and very, VERY, slow. I was frankly surprised that there was no telescopic ladder for our plane at the airport, passengers are transported by buses as in old regional airports. Maybe this is an exception for our tourists and passengers from Africa and other poor countries, since they were the vast majority there.
There are no comments to the hotel, the hotel is not the first freshness, but very good. The first thing that struck the hotel is the scale of the rooms, they are just huge. We had an ordinary double, which consisted of two rooms, one of which is a living room, and the second is a bedroom.
Each room has a 42 "LCD Sony TV, as well as a telephone (the telephone was even placed in the toilet). I was very pleased with the electric kettle and the tea, coffee, cream and sugar that came with it. All this can be used free of charge, you only pay for what you took from the refrigerator We only spent the night and had breakfast at the hotel, but we were completely satisfied with the breakfasts. The rooms were cleaned daily, everything you needed (shampoo, shower gel, body lotion, brushing and shaving kits, etc. ) and even more were also changed daily .
We, among other things, also had a very beautiful view of the bay from the window, if you ask at the reception, they will arrange the same for you.
Breakfast is from 6:30 to 11:00, I advise you to wake up early and book a trip to Mamzar beach, the best that the hotel offers. The beach looks like in the Bounty advertisement, the entry into the water is excellent. Buses to the beach leave at 10:00 and 11:00, and back at 14:00 and 15:00.
We were once denied a transfer at 10:00 due to lack of seats on the bus, we had to go at 11:00. If you have come to the UAE only for the sake of a beach holiday, you will have the opportunity to be convinced of your mistake. It's like going to Paris to swim in the Seine.
Although, we spent about 2 hours on the beach for the whole holiday. The rest of the time was spent in Dubai. We visited the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa, spoiling the impression of the city. Because from a height the city looks just depressing. However, it needs to be seen: sand, wastelands, construction sites. Much more struck by its beauty singing fountain. It turns on for 5 minutes every half hour, but it's something. I really liked the aquarium in the Dubai shopping center, but we still didn’t dare to walk through the tunnel in it for $ 20 each, because all the fish were quite successfully examined by walking along the perimeter of the aquarium. And yet, I advise you to ride the subway.
It is completely new and very interesting, one of the latest achievements of Japanese scientific and technological progress. At the same time, it is also worth walking to the notorious Parus Hotel and through the old city in order to feel the spirit of a real Arab city, and not the achievements of European and American architecture sheathed in glass.
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Just got back from a week long vacation in Sharjah. Impressed by what you see! I really liked the hotel. We took only breakfasts, bought products for lunch and dinner ourselves in stores, prices are cheaper than ours. The room has a kettle, tea, coffee, sugar-free. We went to the beach by bus, no problem.
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Just got back from a week long vacation in Sharjah. Impressed by what you see! I really liked the hotel. We took only breakfasts, bought products for lunch and dinner ourselves in stores, prices are cheaper than ours. The room has a kettle, tea, coffee, sugar-free. We went to the beach by bus, no problem. We took a taxi twice and went to Dubai, paying by the meter. Around the hotel there are many different shopping centers and shops. Near the embankment with an evening show of fountains, a very colorful sight! Tourists dress differently, but the local population does not approve of open clothes. I can answer all questions by phone 8-912-793-79-74. Allah.
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Hello to everyone who is going to visit this wonderful country! We were there with a girlfriend for the first time, we liked it very much! visa, money back 100% only if you are INSURED ABOUT NO DEPARTURE! The agency does not offer it, ask yourself (450 RUB), otherwise, if there is any money and return the problem! In general, this company will not fly again! and who whines has nothing to eat, sit at home and drink tea with a cookie! A bus meets you from the airport, a Russian girl works at the reception, you can ask your questions! About booking a bus to the beach: if you want to get to the beach at 10 am, sign up at 6.
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Hello to everyone who is going to visit this wonderful country! We were there with a girlfriend for the first time, we liked it very much! visa, money back 100% only if you are INSURED ABOUT NO DEPARTURE! The agency does not offer it, ask yourself (450 RUB), otherwise, if there is any money and return the problem! In general, this company will not fly again! and who whines has nothing to eat, sit at home and drink tea with a cookie! A bus meets you from the airport, a Russian girl works at the reception, you can ask your questions! About booking a bus to the beach: if you want to get to the beach at 10 am, sign up at 6.40, if you want to get to the beach at 11 am, sign up at 7.00-7.20, otherwise you have to sunbathe on the roof and swim in a small pool. The pool opens at 9.00. Taxi to the beach 40-45 AED, 1 AED 8 rubles. The beach to which they take Al Mamzar, the entrance is 5 AED, it consists of 3 lagoons, in the middle there are most people, we went to the far one, it is calmer there, and there are more free palm trees under which you can hide in the shade. Near the hotel there is a lagoon with a park, in the evening there at 22.00, at 22.30 includes color, musical fantan. While walking around the lagoon, the Ferris wheel was charred, it is large and glowing, there are many other carousels near it, including for children! There is a large selection of excursions, we took it on the beach, this is not Egypt, they will not throw it for sure !! ! We do not recommend taking it to the Indian Ocean, painted beautifully, but believe me, it's not worth it, you won't see fish like in the Red Sea here and the water is unclear here, although if you need a Persian carpet, and they are just awesome, you can only get this excursion, it's very far and expensive by yourself! We we thought that now we’ll go out, look at the rugs for 10 minutes and go further along the excursion, forty minutes was not enough until the floor of the bus bought carpets! , the main thing is to dress as stipulated by the law in the CARTOON: girls have closed shoulders, navel, knees and do not overdo it with a fine of 250 AED from the neckline!! ! In Dubai, you can drink and dress as you like! in detail, we have already watched more than one fantan dance and not naked as with a guide! In general, the hotel is good, the beach is good, the country is just super, I didn’t want to leave! (although I was afraid to fly there just horror). if anything, ask, I will answer
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We rested for the first time in the UAE with my husband at the Holiday Inn in April 2011. We liked the rest very much. They put us in a great room on the 11th floor overlooking the bay. The hotel has very friendly staff and even though we had a language barrier because we do not know English, we understood each other because if you are culturally related to people, then only positive things come back to you.
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We rested for the first time in the UAE with my husband at the Holiday Inn in April 2011. We liked the rest very much. They put us in a great room on the 11th floor overlooking the bay. The hotel has very friendly staff and even though we had a language barrier because we do not know English, we understood each other because if you are culturally related to people, then only positive things come back to you. Therefore, if you know English, communication will be much easier. Shopping is awesome!! ! Since we were the first time, we didn’t really understand what to look for, but it turns out that branded items in discounts can be very cheap. By the way, if you want to go shopping, then this hotel is what you need, there is a large shopping center nearby and they take you to Dubai from 11 to 15 to the shopping center, who wants to go to the beach from 10 to 15. But if someone likes a beach holiday, it’s better not to settle in city hotels, and in hotels on 1 or 2 lines near the sea. Because in this case, you either go to the sea or go shopping, because you won’t get to the sea on foot, and it’s expensive to take a taxi - 20 dollars. roundtrip. The food here is good, we had breakfast and dinner, but one breakfast is unprofitable because eating in a cafe is a little expensive. And for lunch in the market you can buy something for tea, as we did, there is a kettle in the room, tea, coffee, cream, sugar, all this is supplemented as it decreases. Cleaned in the room every day. We went on excursions to Abu Dhabi and the Indian Ocean (Musandam) very much. On the second day after arriving home from a vacation, we began to plan a trip back to the UAE next year (although at first we thought that we would go see it once and that's it). If we go during the beach season, we will look for a hotel near the sea, and if we arrive in January-February for a shopping festival, we will be happy to settle back in Holiday.
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I liked the hotel, everything is fine, except for two remarks: I rated 8 - 1 point, I took off for the first horror movie - delivery to the beach. This is a disaster: the buses are small, crowded, no one observes the queue, we came first several times, but it didn’t help - they climb over our heads, pushing them with our elbows.
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I liked the hotel, everything is fine, except for two remarks: I rated 8 - 1 point, I took off for the first horror movie - delivery to the beach. This is a disaster: the buses are small, crowded, no one observes the queue, we came first several times, but it didn’t help - they climb over our heads, pushing them with our elbows... I was shy for the first couple of days, I didn’t push, and I had to wait 40 minutes for the next bus. By the way, the first one left at about 10.20 (if you climb into it, you manage to take a place “under the fungus” on the beach), the second at about 11.00 (a few palm trees remain free on the beach for shade), the third at 11.40 (no more mushrooms, no there are no palm trees left and you have to roast in the sun). I deducted another 1 point for the elevator - but there is no way to fix it, 2 elevators live their own lives, we waited 4 times for 10 minutes, and although my husband explained to me the principle of operation, this did not speed up his arrival. In the end, I started running up the stairs - faster, and the nerves are intact, and it’s good for the figure : ))) But everything is fine: the hotel is beautiful, the rooms can be said to be huge, the beds are also rather big, it’s very comfortable to sleep. They found one Russian channel on TV, but they didn’t watch TV at all - there was no time. They feed well, at the same time I looked, if I had something to feed preschool children - it would be. But few tables. True, there were always places for dinner - around 10 pm we came for dinner, but in the morning we sometimes had to wait, but not for long. Cleaning and change of towels every day. Hairdryer, shampoo, shower gel, soap, it's all there. For those who want to smoke - all floors, except for 5 and 6, are smoking. The room has an ashtray and my husband quietly smoked right in the room (we lived on the 7th floor). People also smoked at the entrance to the hotel, there is a special urn there. Upon check-in, they took a deposit of $200, they were stapled to the receipt, and when they left, they gave banknotes with paper clip holes. . . They said there was a swimming pool upstairs, but we didn’t get to it))) But people said that it was beautiful and the view from there was wonderful.
In general, I liked the rest, but next time we will go directly to Dubai, because there is not much to see in Sharjah, and in Dubai all the most beautiful and famous sights. There is a metro in Dubai and you don’t have to spend money on a taxi - for example, a taxi from a hotel to Deira City Center costs about 50 dirhams (a hotel bus also takes you there at 11 am and picks up at 15.00). But 20 dirhams (1 dollar = 3.66 dirhams) of this cost is for nothing, just when crossing the emirate, 5.5 dollars are added. About the metro: for the whole day the card costs 16 dirhams, but you can pay for the number of stations (minimum - 3-4 dirhams), there is an info-aunt in English (by the way, everyone knows English, from taxi drivers and sellers to comrades who clean in rooms). There is also a bus from Dubai to the hotel, it travels from Nasser Square (the market that has "everything") to the City Center in Sharjah, which is not far from the hotel. 7 dirhams per person. Two-storied. If we didn’t know where to go, we asked the taxi drivers - they all answered in great detail, free of charge and politely.
The Emirates is a wonderful country, especially considering that about 40 years ago they did not know what shoes were and there was only one well in the whole of Dubai... Now everything looks cool: skyscrapers everywhere, and separately the Burj Khalifa, and the subway without drivers, and the coolest dancing fountains in the world, and a shopping center with a huge aquarium. We will go there again, at least, for sure - there is still a lot of unknown, for example, we did not climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa and did not go to Abu Dhabi))) Have a nice vacation!! !
In general, I liked the rest, but next time we will go directly to Dubai, because there is not much to see in Sharjah, and in Dubai all the most beautiful and famous sights. There is a metro in Dubai and you don’t have to spend money on a taxi - for example, a taxi from a hotel to Deira City Center costs about 50 dirhams (a hotel bus also takes you there at 11 am and picks up at 15.00). But 20 dirhams (1 dollar = 3.66 dirhams) of this cost is for nothing, just when crossing the emirate, 5.5 dollars are added. About the metro: for the whole day the card costs 16 dirhams, but you can pay for the number of stations (minimum - 3-4 dirhams), there is an info-aunt in English (by the way, everyone knows English, from taxi drivers and sellers to comrades who clean in rooms). There is also a bus from Dubai to the hotel, it travels from Nasser Square (the market that has "everything") to the City Center in Sharjah, which is not far from the hotel. 7 dirhams per person. Two-storied. If we didn’t know where to go, we asked the taxi drivers - they all answered in great detail, free of charge and politely.
The Emirates is a wonderful country, especially considering that about 40 years ago they did not know what shoes were and there was only one well in the whole of Dubai... Now everything looks cool: skyscrapers everywhere, and separately the Burj Khalifa, and the subway without drivers, and the coolest dancing fountains in the world, and a shopping center with a huge aquarium. We will go there again, at least, for sure - there is still a lot of unknown, for example, we did not climb to the top of the Burj Khalifa and did not go to Abu Dhabi))) Have a nice vacation!! !
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I liked the hotel, the location is convenient, not far on foot from the embankment of the bay, the city center, and you can walk to the mega mall on foot (if not too lazy). the staff is friendly, only one Russian speaker (a guy from Armenia) is Edgar, everyone else communicates in English. . . didn't bother me.
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I liked the hotel, the location is convenient, not far on foot from the embankment of the bay, the city center, and you can walk to the mega mall on foot (if not too lazy). the staff is friendly, only one Russian speaker (a guy from Armenia) is Edgar, everyone else communicates in English. . . didn't bother me. . . rooms are clean, cleaned every day, safe in the room. . at the reception a deposit of $ 200, the kitchen is quite decent, the first few days there were not very many people at breakfast, then many tourists arrived, and it became comfortable to have breakfast somewhere around 9 am : ) for the same reason, it became difficult to go to the beach, so took a taxi to the beach. . it turned out not expensive and without the hassle that the tourists themselves essentially create: pushing each other with their hands, scandal and scolding each other for the fact that they came to rest. . when we arrived, there was only one bus, everyone fit in, after a couple of days it was already 2, and then even 3, I never heard or saw that the bus forgot to pick up someone (I read somewhere on another site that forgot to drive tourists on the beach, etc. ). . it’s just that our tourists love to take a walk and think that if you hang around somewhere, then everyone should be waiting for you. . we were with a child and everyone considered it their duty to add their three kopecks with the phrase: stay at home with the children, and not wander around abroad!... tired, and you will hear this only from compatriots. . I really liked the vacation with the child, because in this country (except for our former and present compatriots) the attitude towards children is of the highest degree tolerant, tenderness and help at every step. . .
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Of the pluses, it should be noted good rooms, excellent food and a very beautiful winter garden inside the hotel. The service is excellent - sheets and towels are changed daily. Of the negative points, I would like to note the presence of a port near the hotel, so the beach is sometimes dirty and, in addition, constant noise, even in the room.
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Of the pluses, it should be noted good rooms, excellent food and a very beautiful winter garden inside the hotel. The service is excellent - sheets and towels are changed daily.
Of the negative points, I would like to note the presence of a port near the hotel, so the beach is sometimes dirty and, in addition, constant noise, even in the room. The windows in the rooms do not open, there are no balconies, and it is simply impossible to ventilate the room, and the ventilation and air conditioning system does not provide a sufficient supply of fresh air.
Of the negative points, I would like to note the presence of a port near the hotel, so the beach is sometimes dirty and, in addition, constant noise, even in the room. The windows in the rooms do not open, there are no balconies, and it is simply impossible to ventilate the room, and the ventilation and air conditioning system does not provide a sufficient supply of fresh air.
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