симпатичная гостиница с массой недостатков nice hotel with lots of flaws

Rested in August 2013. It is +50C outside, and the water in the pool is not cooled (the water temperature is almost the same). Almost all Russian speakers lived in the hotel, and the staff speaks only English. WiFi is paid, it cost about $2/hour, the speed of the Internet leaves much to be desired. C / a in the room and the pool was with mold and fungus. From our room, the temperature of ours and two neighboring rooms was regulated, i. e. when there was a comfortable temperature in neighboring rooms, we had +14. . . +15C. The hotel is located 300m from the beach, but in the mornings we were taken by a free transfer to another beach of a five-star hotel (of the same hotel chain), there was a good beach and a pool with cold water (towels and a deck chair for free). At 17:00 every day there was a free bus to the center of Sharjah and to Dubai (we went every day! : ). The cost of our room included breakfast, which was already boring on the second day (the assortment is boring and not tasty). Every day there was not a high-quality cleaning of the room, they took out the garbage and covered the bed. Hair was found in the bedding, the mattress was stained, and nails were sticking out of the bed. The safe in the room did not work, the second door (with stained-glass windows that overlooked the pool) was with a broken lock. In fact, anyone could get into our room. Both the safe and the door looked like they had been repaired, but nothing had changed.
About 10 excursions were provided from the hotel (from $ 30 to $ 130), the details of the excursion were not told.
1. "Jeep safari". . . about $50 We liked it very much. From the beginning we went around the dunes in a jeep, and then brought to the city in the desert, there was a buffet with local food, camels, photos in a burqa, local dances, free hookahs and much more.

2. A trip to the water park "Atlantis" on the Palm Jumeirah ($80). The territory is huge, there are many beautiful places to take a photo, but only three slides!..... was wasted money (the water park in Kirillovka or Berdyansk is much more extreme)
3. A trip to the emirate of Fujairah (about $65). Cool trip!! ! 1.5 hour trip around the emirates, swam in the Indian Ocean (like the Black Sea), had a delicious dinner... all this was in a classy Fujeila Hilton 5 * hotel... we really liked it.