We went to this hotel in the company of friends. Check-in was very fast, the rooms are lower than average. The humidity in the rooms is high. The air conditioning system is bad, clogged with fungus and mold. Everything was good with the food, the dishes changed. The beach is not very wide, there are stones with sand, many cats on the beach.
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We went to this hotel in the company of friends. Check-in was very fast, the rooms are lower than average. The humidity in the rooms is high. The air conditioning system is bad, clogged with fungus and mold. Everything was good with the food, the dishes changed. The beach is not very wide, there are stones with sand, many cats on the beach. Around the hotel - Iraq, some huts, there was at first, even, scary, no infrastructure. We were saved by wonderful excursions, so the rest was successful.
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In general, I liked the hotel. Let's start with the fact that we are a young couple, we flew together, we took full board. Those who took the "all inclusive" were unhappy that in fact alcoholic drinks were not given out in the amount that we would like, so we did not regret that we did not overpay for it and took three meals a day.
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In general, I liked the hotel. Let's start with the fact that we are a young couple, we flew together, we took full board. Those who took the "all inclusive" were unhappy that in fact alcoholic drinks were not given out in the amount that we would like, so we did not regret that we did not overpay for it and took three meals a day. The choice is not very large, but meat, fish and chicken were always there. The cuisine is specific, almost everything is spicy, but if you are traveling with a child, you will find at least one dish for him at every meal. Speaking of children, there is a small playground and a children's slide in the small pool.
The pools are not heated, they are filled with cold water, so the sea was warmer than the pool, but the children's was a little warmer. The pools, like the rest of the hotel, are kept clean.
There is no animation at the hotel (but they were going to introduce it when we left). The only entertainment for free is 1 night crab fishing trip (loved it! ) and a boat trip to Flamingo Island. There is nothing else to do in the hotel, as well as in the emirate itself - there is nowhere to walk (not far from the hotel there is a museum and there is a Lulu market - an ordinary two-story supermarket, but they went there by taxi).
The territory is small, the sea is right on the territory of the hotel. So if you are just going to lie on the beach - this is the place for you. There are sun loungers near the sea and near the pool, we always managed to find a place for ourselves. There are special beach towels, so you don't have to bring your own.
The room is not bad (although it all depends on your requests). The room has a kettle, mugs (tea bags and coffee are replenished every day), every day they put 0.5 bottles of water. Soap, shower gel, shampoo were constantly put in the room (they were never used, as they were our own, so I can’t say anything about their quality). Wi-Fi in the room did not catch - it catches only around the pool, in the restaurant and at the reception, and then every other time. There is no one at the reception of Russian speakers, only the hotel manager (but you will not contact him constantly for any questions).
The sea is transparent, shells are destroyed on the shore, which gradually become sand.
In general, if you are traveling with a small child or like to fish or just go to sunbathe in the sun and do not want to overpay - this hotel is perfect for you!
The pools are not heated, they are filled with cold water, so the sea was warmer than the pool, but the children's was a little warmer. The pools, like the rest of the hotel, are kept clean.
There is no animation at the hotel (but they were going to introduce it when we left). The only entertainment for free is 1 night crab fishing trip (loved it! ) and a boat trip to Flamingo Island. There is nothing else to do in the hotel, as well as in the emirate itself - there is nowhere to walk (not far from the hotel there is a museum and there is a Lulu market - an ordinary two-story supermarket, but they went there by taxi).
The territory is small, the sea is right on the territory of the hotel. So if you are just going to lie on the beach - this is the place for you. There are sun loungers near the sea and near the pool, we always managed to find a place for ourselves. There are special beach towels, so you don't have to bring your own.
The room is not bad (although it all depends on your requests). The room has a kettle, mugs (tea bags and coffee are replenished every day), every day they put 0.5 bottles of water. Soap, shower gel, shampoo were constantly put in the room (they were never used, as they were our own, so I can’t say anything about their quality). Wi-Fi in the room did not catch - it catches only around the pool, in the restaurant and at the reception, and then every other time. There is no one at the reception of Russian speakers, only the hotel manager (but you will not contact him constantly for any questions).
The sea is transparent, shells are destroyed on the shore, which gradually become sand.
In general, if you are traveling with a small child or like to fish or just go to sunbathe in the sun and do not want to overpay - this hotel is perfect for you!
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it’s better not to go out of the territory dirty village the food is monotonous to horror a lot of unnecessary animals on the territory the only plus nearby is the fish market where you can buy seafood cheaply and cook them at the hotel and of course the price of the tour and don’t go in any case you will
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it’s better not to go out of the territory dirty village the food is monotonous to horror a lot of unnecessary animals on the territory the only plus nearby is the fish market where you can buy seafood cheaply and cook them at the hotel and of course the price of the tour and don’t go in any case you will regret it
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We went to the hotel on the advice of my wife's sister, who had a rest there 2 years ago, carefully re-read a bunch of reviews. We are not very pretentious people, we do not require super comfort, for us the ideal vacation is apartments, but this year we had such a situation that we had to go to a hotel. However, the rest.
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We went to the hotel on the advice of my wife's sister, who had a rest there 2 years ago, carefully re-read a bunch of reviews. We are not very pretentious people, we do not require super comfort, for us the ideal vacation is apartments, but this year we had such a situation that we had to go to a hotel. However, the rest... hmm, confused even us, undemanding and calm. Impressions are very ambiguous. Well, then - why.
1. The work of the tour operator.
The sending party - News Travel as an operator and "Let's Go With Us" as an agent - there were no questions at all, everything worked like clockwork, special thanks to the girls from the Poltava office of "Let's Go With Us" on Gogol 32 - everything was wonderful. But the work of the host "Al-Khalidiya" - I can not unambiguously evaluate it. It will not be 5 but 4 - the lousy work of the hotel guide Natalia spoils everything. But more on that below.
2. Transfers. They flew by Al-Arabiya from Kharkov to Sharjah and vice versa. Flying is like flying - nothing special, keep in mind that Al Arabiya is a low-cost airline and take food with you on the flight because the prices for food on board are extortionate. In addition, keep in mind that pilgrims of the Kharkiv Muslim community often fly on this flight for the Hajj - and we managed to take vouchers just for the time of the holiday of the end of the Hajj and the offering of sacrifices - in general, the plane "there" was half-occupied by pilgrims who prayed in all convenient places . But with us in the row of chairs sat a very colorful and worthy uncle, who had flown for the Hajj for the sixth time already - so it was thanks to him that we reacted very calmly to all this. A conversation with him is a separate and very interesting topic, such good people are rare, I’ll tell anyone who is interested. We were taken from Sharjah to the hotel without delay, but the return transfer was a special song. We left early in the morning at 4-30, since the flight departed at 8-25. At 4-30 - there is no transport. Together with us, Muscovites were taken to the Dubai airport - they left on time, and we are waiting. We call Natalya twice - she stupidly drops calls. We call the office - thank God they answer us that they say the driver was a little late and he is on his way and will be in 10 minutes. 10 minutes later he's gone. We call the office again - they say that he will be in 5 minutes. Again he is gone... in general, he appeared about 15 minutes later - and we left at 5-10 instead of 4-30, in addition, this son of Shiva turned on the tunes of his native land at full power and did not respond to requests to turn off the radio. In general, we arrived and in time, but the lousy sediment remained (there was another nasty situation, about it, too - below).
3. The hotel itself. Located on a small peninsula at the northern end of the capital of the emirate Umm Al Quwain and a patch between the fishing port + towing base and a cement plant with its own bulk port. At the time of our rest, there were two bulk trucks there - "Red Sea Pearl" and "Beauty ov Pershia" under loading. The hotel itself consists of a large two-story building, similar to the letter G with squiggles. The territory is very green, a lot of gardeners look after the grass, plant flowers, cut bushes. There are a couple of nice ponds and a fountain, which was turned on for the holiday. There is a pool for adults, which is constantly cleaned. There is also a clean pool for children. The beach is very small, sand and shells, but at the entrance to the sea there are small stones and sometimes hedgehogs crawl out, so in my opinion, bathing slippers are necessary. From the plant, the beach is closed by a boom wall at the base of which are huge stones covered with corals, so if you take a mask with a snorkel, there will be something to see - fish, corals, hermit crabs, crabs. On the side of the fishing port, there is its own pier - 4 hotel boats moor to it - they take guests on a free excursion to the islands of flamingos and crab fishermen who come to catch crabs. From the same pier, tourists who come here with fishing rods fish. I'm not a fisherman myself, but I saw that people were catching dorado, and someone managed to grab a small grouper on the top-trap. There are sun loungers on the beach, but . . unfortunately 10-15 percent are broken and they are not being repaired. The water on the beach is very quiet, there are no storms, but there are strong currents at high and low tide - be careful and swim only in the area fenced with a rope - it will blow you away. Quite often, boats with fishermen and tugboats for work in the bulk port pass by the beach, so you should not swim behind the safety ropes. By the way, fairy tales about “a clean beach and a beautiful sea on the other side of the peninsula, 10 minutes away” - and there are fairy tales. Yes, it’s not long to go there - to the right from the hotel gate along the road without turning anywhere, 10-15 minutes at a brisk pace, but the path passes through such slums that the hair stands on end and the “clean beach” is a wide sandy strip, polluted with the remnants of picnics of local residents and puddles of all sorts of rubbish from the parking lot of Pakistani truckers, plus the construction site of the Radisson Umm Al Quwain Hotel. In short - you can go there, look and leave. There is nothing good there.
The rooms in the hotel - for the most part - a standard room with two huge double beds, a mini-fridge, a table and two chairs, a TV (they didn’t turn it on, I don’t know what the channels were, there was a list in the room - I didn’t even look at it. ) There is a bar in the mini-fridge. People - remember that it is PAID, do not take anything from it - our people very often pierce on this. But we were scammed on another one - upon departure they began to demand money for supposedly drunk beer from there. Although we did not touch these bottles, and drinking in the heat of +34 is utter stupidity. I had to pay God knows what for 18 dirhams, remember - IN FLAMINGO BRED WITH MINIBAR. We did not count the bottles upon arrival, relying on the honesty of the staff and cruelly pierced. So - upon arrival, immediately notify the manager so that you do not intend to use the minibar and require it to be sealed. Yes, you will not have access to a refrigerator, but you will not be separated upon departure. The bathroom is simple, there is everything you need, and the disadvantages are a poorly adjusted toilet tank, no brush and hot water instead of cold + boiling water instead of hot from all taps. In addition, healthy cockroaches from the sewerage climb in the room + it periodically stinks of hydrogen sulfide, so that the fan does not save. Air conditioning - works, but the temperature and blowing speed control does not work, so we turned it off periodically because it was difficult to sit at a temperature of +20 degrees in the room. And even more sleep. But during the day we were never in the room, but at night we had to get up a couple of times to turn it on and off. Complaints were ignored - Shiva's children abruptly ceased to understand English, and I do not speak Hindi and Urdu. The air conditioner grates - overgrown with dirt, generally dirt and shabby - were everywhere in the room. Remember, in the hotel in most rooms there are English electrical sockets, you need an adapter for our electrical appliances. I brought mine.
More about the beach. Please note that in October, the migration of jellyfish to this bay for breeding begins - we just fell into this period. Swimming becomes completely impossible - the bite of this creature is very painful and tentacles come off from it, which are not visible in the water but sting strongly. So for cooling you will only have a pool.
The hotel has paid Wi-Fi - 20 dirhams per day. The password changes every day, they don’t let you enter it, they ask you to give your device to enter it yourself. Wifi works at the reception and 10-15 meters from it.
If you live in a hotel for more than 4 days, they take you three times a week for free shopping in Dubai to the Deira City center and twice a week go boating to flamingo camps. Registration is at the reception.
4. Food. We took the HB table. Breakfast - normal, like in other hotels - everything is fresh. The choice is small - 2-3 types of cheese, 2 types of boiled sausage, olives, butter, porridge, all kinds of vegetable dishes, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, pancakes, tea and coffee. Coffee - instant, when there were few guests - from a thermos, it became a lot - from a jar. Dinner - stronger, meat - chicken-beef-mutton in the form of different stews. Get ready for the fact that the cook and kitchen are Indians, there is a lot of curry in all dishes, but the fact that they make the dishes mild is already an achievement. Sometimes they give crabs - closer to 9 pm. By the way, dinner is held on the beach. I won’t say anything about lunch, but it costs 75 dirhams per person - this is a lot, as for me for such a hotel. Buying something at the hotel is very expensive. Cooking too. They prepared grouper and shrimp bought at the fish market for 50 dirhams and twisted their noses very much that we did not clean them at the fish market. But they cooked deliciously - do not find fault, the food was excellent. You can cook by yourself - but on independently purchased barbecues and coals, the hotel now gives barbecues only to Indian or Arab guests, the rest - nevermind. People bought barbecues and coals at the Lulu Indian supermarket (4.5 km from the hotel, by taxi - 5 dirhams), we did not take it, because there were very few days, and we were in the UAE for the first time. Water and juices can be bought in a Pakistani shop, 100 meters to the left of the hotel entrance, products - Lulu for 5 dirhams by taxi, Carrefour for 10 dirhams by taxi, fresh fish and vegetables - at the fish market, also 5 dirhams . Pay exactly these prices, they do not change, drivers will try to breed you - stand your ground. Five dirhams and no mo. 8) By the way, according to the experience of communicating with taxi drivers, Arab drivers behaved very worthy, and Pakistanis and Indians were rare nits. But more on that in the next part.
5. Staff. I only understood why the hotel was such a mess when I arrived home - after talking with my wife's sister. 2 years ago, the entire staff of the hotel consisted of Filipinos and the hotel was in order. Now - 90 percent of the Indians, who do not climb out of the house, but here... We, for example, didn’t bring towels a couple of times, we had to go and pick them up ourselves, and when we asked for a standard bath mat, the answer was “Tu mani guest at I wanted, sorry, zeriz but sach tavlz "- pah. Two days before departure, we were surprised to learn that we should have a table and two chairs in our room - they brought them to us and we remained standing with our mouths open. Moreover, these idiots started repairs with painting in front of guests. Dead jellyfish from the beach - were not removed, the garbage there - too, well, lightly raked into heaps with rakes. For any problems, they turned off English. Two Filipinos who worked as waitresses - it was two bright spots, two suns, against the backdrop of the all-conquering Indo-Pakistani invasion. A good Filipino boy was like a porter - but... it was he who demanded money from me for beer drunk by someone unknown. I think that he is not to blame for this situation, that there the children of Shiva were in a hurry, and he already looked bad because of them. About the “famous” Zakir - he is a normal person, I didn’t see what they said about him - and I bought the Internet from him and talked to him - a normal young guy, polite to him - and he is polite. He does not like familiarity, which many of our tourists sin, so I agree with him in this - rarely anyone will like it. So - contact him on hotel matters, he will help. On the eve of the holiday, two Sikh security guards drove to the hotel, who asked my wife and me questions “where are you from? do you live here? ” - this despite the fact that, in principle, there can be no foreign Europeans there - the hotel is small and the receptionists know all the guests by sight. On a purchased sightseeing tour to Dubai from the company, the guide Tahir was very pleased - for a long time I have not heard such a good and detailed story about the country, customs, people and everything, everything, everything, I advise everyone to get on his tour, it's worth it. The hotel guide Natalya - we can’t say anything - good, in the sense - she ran in, sold the excursion, oh, I’m in a hurry! - ran away. Although - she told, yes! and about “beautiful sea 5 minutes away”, “they give you barbecues here”, “everything is cheap in Sharjah”. Well, the situation described above at the exit is a big minus for her.
6. Hotel visitors. The hotel is filled mainly with tourists from Russia, mostly Muscovites and Petersburgers, very normal people, "tagill" is not found here, - older people from 30 to 70 years old, sedate and very friendly. There were few people from Ukraine, but they were all the same - not lovers of noise and din. In general, my wife and I went for a quiet place. And we organized our own adventures. On Fridays and Saturdays, many Indians and Arabs come to the hotel - all local. So, if the Arabs are very normal and well-mannered people whose mothers look after their children and there is no yelling and noise, then Indians, and especially their children, sometimes become a little uncomfortable. Indian children stole and broke a pack of cigarettes from our friend, while the Indian mother did not react at all to this. In general, we weren’t at the hotel during the day, so they didn’t bother us much - but in the morning they started their cries by 10 o’clock. In addition, they stare at our women and behave completely boorishly until they get rebuffed . . , Filipinos and Indonesians are still coming - but I can’t say anything about them at all . . well, they come and come, people themselves and people. There were a few more Englishmen - so they also behaved very normally. In addition, organized crab fishing groups come to the hotel every evening - they are taken on hotel boats to catch crabs, then the caught crabs are boiled in the hotel kitchen, given to hunters and treated to hotel guests. The problems were precisely on a local holiday, when many crab fishermen arrived and among them, the ex-USSR part was especially “distinguished”, rushing to take places for dinner - having filled almost half of the hotel tables with their things and were very offended when these things were set aside, since there was no place for the hotel guests to eat. But it was on a holiday, my advice to you - do not go to this hotel during Muslim holidays - it is packed with local visitors and this is not always convenient for those who come with a tour.
Well, in general, that's all about the hotel. The hotel is very inconsistent. It has big pluses but also big minuses. The category of vacationers who will definitely like the hotel is fishermen. Here everything is tailored for them - you can even rent a boat for the time you want - our neighbor did this, fish are caught here and you can even cook it yourself. There is a bar with alcohol, which apparently attracts locals. It may make sense for mothers and grandmothers with children to come there - but children can only swim in the pool, a small and well-groomed area, but the condition of the rooms....Maybe - for people like us, use the hotel as a base for traveling, but keep in mind that Umm-al- Kuwain for many taxi drivers from Dubai and Sharjah is the "back of the world", and Flamingo Beach - all the more so, not every taxi driver will go there - we have already checked it... Everyone else, in my opinion, has nothing to do there.
1. The work of the tour operator.
The sending party - News Travel as an operator and "Let's Go With Us" as an agent - there were no questions at all, everything worked like clockwork, special thanks to the girls from the Poltava office of "Let's Go With Us" on Gogol 32 - everything was wonderful. But the work of the host "Al-Khalidiya" - I can not unambiguously evaluate it. It will not be 5 but 4 - the lousy work of the hotel guide Natalia spoils everything. But more on that below.
2. Transfers. They flew by Al-Arabiya from Kharkov to Sharjah and vice versa. Flying is like flying - nothing special, keep in mind that Al Arabiya is a low-cost airline and take food with you on the flight because the prices for food on board are extortionate. In addition, keep in mind that pilgrims of the Kharkiv Muslim community often fly on this flight for the Hajj - and we managed to take vouchers just for the time of the holiday of the end of the Hajj and the offering of sacrifices - in general, the plane "there" was half-occupied by pilgrims who prayed in all convenient places . But with us in the row of chairs sat a very colorful and worthy uncle, who had flown for the Hajj for the sixth time already - so it was thanks to him that we reacted very calmly to all this. A conversation with him is a separate and very interesting topic, such good people are rare, I’ll tell anyone who is interested. We were taken from Sharjah to the hotel without delay, but the return transfer was a special song. We left early in the morning at 4-30, since the flight departed at 8-25. At 4-30 - there is no transport. Together with us, Muscovites were taken to the Dubai airport - they left on time, and we are waiting. We call Natalya twice - she stupidly drops calls. We call the office - thank God they answer us that they say the driver was a little late and he is on his way and will be in 10 minutes. 10 minutes later he's gone. We call the office again - they say that he will be in 5 minutes. Again he is gone... in general, he appeared about 15 minutes later - and we left at 5-10 instead of 4-30, in addition, this son of Shiva turned on the tunes of his native land at full power and did not respond to requests to turn off the radio. In general, we arrived and in time, but the lousy sediment remained (there was another nasty situation, about it, too - below).
3. The hotel itself. Located on a small peninsula at the northern end of the capital of the emirate Umm Al Quwain and a patch between the fishing port + towing base and a cement plant with its own bulk port. At the time of our rest, there were two bulk trucks there - "Red Sea Pearl" and "Beauty ov Pershia" under loading. The hotel itself consists of a large two-story building, similar to the letter G with squiggles. The territory is very green, a lot of gardeners look after the grass, plant flowers, cut bushes. There are a couple of nice ponds and a fountain, which was turned on for the holiday. There is a pool for adults, which is constantly cleaned. There is also a clean pool for children. The beach is very small, sand and shells, but at the entrance to the sea there are small stones and sometimes hedgehogs crawl out, so in my opinion, bathing slippers are necessary. From the plant, the beach is closed by a boom wall at the base of which are huge stones covered with corals, so if you take a mask with a snorkel, there will be something to see - fish, corals, hermit crabs, crabs. On the side of the fishing port, there is its own pier - 4 hotel boats moor to it - they take guests on a free excursion to the islands of flamingos and crab fishermen who come to catch crabs. From the same pier, tourists who come here with fishing rods fish. I'm not a fisherman myself, but I saw that people were catching dorado, and someone managed to grab a small grouper on the top-trap. There are sun loungers on the beach, but . . unfortunately 10-15 percent are broken and they are not being repaired. The water on the beach is very quiet, there are no storms, but there are strong currents at high and low tide - be careful and swim only in the area fenced with a rope - it will blow you away. Quite often, boats with fishermen and tugboats for work in the bulk port pass by the beach, so you should not swim behind the safety ropes. By the way, fairy tales about “a clean beach and a beautiful sea on the other side of the peninsula, 10 minutes away” - and there are fairy tales. Yes, it’s not long to go there - to the right from the hotel gate along the road without turning anywhere, 10-15 minutes at a brisk pace, but the path passes through such slums that the hair stands on end and the “clean beach” is a wide sandy strip, polluted with the remnants of picnics of local residents and puddles of all sorts of rubbish from the parking lot of Pakistani truckers, plus the construction site of the Radisson Umm Al Quwain Hotel. In short - you can go there, look and leave. There is nothing good there.
The rooms in the hotel - for the most part - a standard room with two huge double beds, a mini-fridge, a table and two chairs, a TV (they didn’t turn it on, I don’t know what the channels were, there was a list in the room - I didn’t even look at it. ) There is a bar in the mini-fridge. People - remember that it is PAID, do not take anything from it - our people very often pierce on this. But we were scammed on another one - upon departure they began to demand money for supposedly drunk beer from there. Although we did not touch these bottles, and drinking in the heat of +34 is utter stupidity. I had to pay God knows what for 18 dirhams, remember - IN FLAMINGO BRED WITH MINIBAR. We did not count the bottles upon arrival, relying on the honesty of the staff and cruelly pierced. So - upon arrival, immediately notify the manager so that you do not intend to use the minibar and require it to be sealed. Yes, you will not have access to a refrigerator, but you will not be separated upon departure. The bathroom is simple, there is everything you need, and the disadvantages are a poorly adjusted toilet tank, no brush and hot water instead of cold + boiling water instead of hot from all taps. In addition, healthy cockroaches from the sewerage climb in the room + it periodically stinks of hydrogen sulfide, so that the fan does not save. Air conditioning - works, but the temperature and blowing speed control does not work, so we turned it off periodically because it was difficult to sit at a temperature of +20 degrees in the room. And even more sleep. But during the day we were never in the room, but at night we had to get up a couple of times to turn it on and off. Complaints were ignored - Shiva's children abruptly ceased to understand English, and I do not speak Hindi and Urdu. The air conditioner grates - overgrown with dirt, generally dirt and shabby - were everywhere in the room. Remember, in the hotel in most rooms there are English electrical sockets, you need an adapter for our electrical appliances. I brought mine.
More about the beach. Please note that in October, the migration of jellyfish to this bay for breeding begins - we just fell into this period. Swimming becomes completely impossible - the bite of this creature is very painful and tentacles come off from it, which are not visible in the water but sting strongly. So for cooling you will only have a pool.
The hotel has paid Wi-Fi - 20 dirhams per day. The password changes every day, they don’t let you enter it, they ask you to give your device to enter it yourself. Wifi works at the reception and 10-15 meters from it.
If you live in a hotel for more than 4 days, they take you three times a week for free shopping in Dubai to the Deira City center and twice a week go boating to flamingo camps. Registration is at the reception.
4. Food. We took the HB table. Breakfast - normal, like in other hotels - everything is fresh. The choice is small - 2-3 types of cheese, 2 types of boiled sausage, olives, butter, porridge, all kinds of vegetable dishes, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, pancakes, tea and coffee. Coffee - instant, when there were few guests - from a thermos, it became a lot - from a jar. Dinner - stronger, meat - chicken-beef-mutton in the form of different stews. Get ready for the fact that the cook and kitchen are Indians, there is a lot of curry in all dishes, but the fact that they make the dishes mild is already an achievement. Sometimes they give crabs - closer to 9 pm. By the way, dinner is held on the beach. I won’t say anything about lunch, but it costs 75 dirhams per person - this is a lot, as for me for such a hotel. Buying something at the hotel is very expensive. Cooking too. They prepared grouper and shrimp bought at the fish market for 50 dirhams and twisted their noses very much that we did not clean them at the fish market. But they cooked deliciously - do not find fault, the food was excellent. You can cook by yourself - but on independently purchased barbecues and coals, the hotel now gives barbecues only to Indian or Arab guests, the rest - nevermind. People bought barbecues and coals at the Lulu Indian supermarket (4.5 km from the hotel, by taxi - 5 dirhams), we did not take it, because there were very few days, and we were in the UAE for the first time. Water and juices can be bought in a Pakistani shop, 100 meters to the left of the hotel entrance, products - Lulu for 5 dirhams by taxi, Carrefour for 10 dirhams by taxi, fresh fish and vegetables - at the fish market, also 5 dirhams . Pay exactly these prices, they do not change, drivers will try to breed you - stand your ground. Five dirhams and no mo. 8) By the way, according to the experience of communicating with taxi drivers, Arab drivers behaved very worthy, and Pakistanis and Indians were rare nits. But more on that in the next part.
5. Staff. I only understood why the hotel was such a mess when I arrived home - after talking with my wife's sister. 2 years ago, the entire staff of the hotel consisted of Filipinos and the hotel was in order. Now - 90 percent of the Indians, who do not climb out of the house, but here... We, for example, didn’t bring towels a couple of times, we had to go and pick them up ourselves, and when we asked for a standard bath mat, the answer was “Tu mani guest at I wanted, sorry, zeriz but sach tavlz "- pah. Two days before departure, we were surprised to learn that we should have a table and two chairs in our room - they brought them to us and we remained standing with our mouths open. Moreover, these idiots started repairs with painting in front of guests. Dead jellyfish from the beach - were not removed, the garbage there - too, well, lightly raked into heaps with rakes. For any problems, they turned off English. Two Filipinos who worked as waitresses - it was two bright spots, two suns, against the backdrop of the all-conquering Indo-Pakistani invasion. A good Filipino boy was like a porter - but... it was he who demanded money from me for beer drunk by someone unknown. I think that he is not to blame for this situation, that there the children of Shiva were in a hurry, and he already looked bad because of them. About the “famous” Zakir - he is a normal person, I didn’t see what they said about him - and I bought the Internet from him and talked to him - a normal young guy, polite to him - and he is polite. He does not like familiarity, which many of our tourists sin, so I agree with him in this - rarely anyone will like it. So - contact him on hotel matters, he will help. On the eve of the holiday, two Sikh security guards drove to the hotel, who asked my wife and me questions “where are you from? do you live here? ” - this despite the fact that, in principle, there can be no foreign Europeans there - the hotel is small and the receptionists know all the guests by sight. On a purchased sightseeing tour to Dubai from the company, the guide Tahir was very pleased - for a long time I have not heard such a good and detailed story about the country, customs, people and everything, everything, everything, I advise everyone to get on his tour, it's worth it. The hotel guide Natalya - we can’t say anything - good, in the sense - she ran in, sold the excursion, oh, I’m in a hurry! - ran away. Although - she told, yes! and about “beautiful sea 5 minutes away”, “they give you barbecues here”, “everything is cheap in Sharjah”. Well, the situation described above at the exit is a big minus for her.
6. Hotel visitors. The hotel is filled mainly with tourists from Russia, mostly Muscovites and Petersburgers, very normal people, "tagill" is not found here, - older people from 30 to 70 years old, sedate and very friendly. There were few people from Ukraine, but they were all the same - not lovers of noise and din. In general, my wife and I went for a quiet place. And we organized our own adventures. On Fridays and Saturdays, many Indians and Arabs come to the hotel - all local. So, if the Arabs are very normal and well-mannered people whose mothers look after their children and there is no yelling and noise, then Indians, and especially their children, sometimes become a little uncomfortable. Indian children stole and broke a pack of cigarettes from our friend, while the Indian mother did not react at all to this. In general, we weren’t at the hotel during the day, so they didn’t bother us much - but in the morning they started their cries by 10 o’clock. In addition, they stare at our women and behave completely boorishly until they get rebuffed . . , Filipinos and Indonesians are still coming - but I can’t say anything about them at all . . well, they come and come, people themselves and people. There were a few more Englishmen - so they also behaved very normally. In addition, organized crab fishing groups come to the hotel every evening - they are taken on hotel boats to catch crabs, then the caught crabs are boiled in the hotel kitchen, given to hunters and treated to hotel guests. The problems were precisely on a local holiday, when many crab fishermen arrived and among them, the ex-USSR part was especially “distinguished”, rushing to take places for dinner - having filled almost half of the hotel tables with their things and were very offended when these things were set aside, since there was no place for the hotel guests to eat. But it was on a holiday, my advice to you - do not go to this hotel during Muslim holidays - it is packed with local visitors and this is not always convenient for those who come with a tour.
Well, in general, that's all about the hotel. The hotel is very inconsistent. It has big pluses but also big minuses. The category of vacationers who will definitely like the hotel is fishermen. Here everything is tailored for them - you can even rent a boat for the time you want - our neighbor did this, fish are caught here and you can even cook it yourself. There is a bar with alcohol, which apparently attracts locals. It may make sense for mothers and grandmothers with children to come there - but children can only swim in the pool, a small and well-groomed area, but the condition of the rooms....Maybe - for people like us, use the hotel as a base for traveling, but keep in mind that Umm-al- Kuwain for many taxi drivers from Dubai and Sharjah is the "back of the world", and Flamingo Beach - all the more so, not every taxi driver will go there - we have already checked it... Everyone else, in my opinion, has nothing to do there.
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I do not specifically write the English name of the hotel, since the last word in the name of the hotel, in Russian, absolutely accurately indicates its purpose. Beach, in the old Russian language meant punishment. It is better to come to the hotel at night, then you can’t see the heaps of garbage surrounding the hotel, the dilapidated huts of local residents, the fence with barbed wire that separates the hotel from the ship repair office, which occasionally deafens the neighborhood with a sledgehammer battle against the side of an empty barge.
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I do not specifically write the English name of the hotel, since the last word in the name of the hotel, in Russian, absolutely accurately indicates its purpose. Beach, in the old Russian language meant punishment.
It is better to come to the hotel at night, then you can’t see the heaps of garbage surrounding the hotel, the dilapidated huts of local residents, the fence with barbed wire that separates the hotel from the ship repair office, which occasionally deafens the neighborhood with a sledgehammer battle against the side of an empty barge.
The friendly Hindu eyes behind the hotel reception look at you pitifully with deep sympathy.
When you open the door to your room, don't be alarmed, you didn't find yourself in a museum of used furniture, just the owner of the hotel wants to plunge you into the exotic life of the ancient Arab culture. Do not try to easily open the cabinet doors, you can overstrain or even worse get a splinter. The dim light carefully hides pieces of peeling paint and traces of someone else's cold.
Morning. A joyful discord of feathered beggars greets the rising sun loudly, anticipating hearty leftovers from tourists. The hotel will delight you with the constant monotony of the menu: breakfast, lunch and dinner - which you paid in advance, and as a gift, a herd of bald skinny cats surrounding you during meals is ready to share their bouquet of sores with you.
If you, nevertheless, managed to cram breakfast into yourself, hurry to the sea until your comrades in misfortune captured the sunbeds that remained intact. Heavy memories of Soviet resorts on the shores of the Black Sea make you throw a bunch of towels on sunbeds to indicate your ownership of sunbathing throughout the day.
Having taken a lounger, you will enjoy watching a flock of fishing boats proudly defile past you, carrying a bunch of nets and baskets, with a reliable return in the evening with a catch.
Meat fishermen, going to sea, cheer themselves up with the sight of naked female bodies, and the absence of striptease in the Emirates makes their weather-beaten faces break into a blissful smile.
Noon. The sun rises above the horizon and from behind the fence, driven by a refreshing breeze, spinning, a cloud of cement dust falls out from a nearby factory. The mournful voice of the muezzin, amplified by powerful speakers, calls you to prayer. Near the hotel there are many mosques and a cacophony of singing voices, interrupted by the faint cawing of crows. It's hot in the sun and you want to be in the shade, it's cold in the shade and you want to wrap yourself in a towel. Lunch time, but the memory of breakfast does not cause a great desire to eat.
By lunchtime, “white people”, local Arabs in white clothes and a camel rope on their heads, are pulled up to the hotel territory. It's the local elite who's come to get their fair share of striptease and beer. If lunch time falls on Friday, then by this time flocks of multilingual groups with large trunks seep into the hotel territory and, driving guests from sunbeds, capture the beach and a small pool. Friday is Arabic Sunday, when heat-worn Arabs, Hindus and other households strive for water.
Regardless of the day off, “husbands” also pull themselves into the shade to drink a bottle, a second free whiskey or vodka. Muzhi is a special kind of hotel guests who, driven by their wives, with a downcast look, came to no one knows where and why. They have one problem - how to quickly cure a hangover. They create an unforgettable entourage of a roadside tavern with shadows wandering aimlessly and spewing fumes.
Evening. The sun is setting and with the last rays, on the small territory of the hotel, every day, a landing of crab fishermen is landed. The crab fishermen are other hotel guests who have arrived by bus in search of an easy evening's entertainment in the murky waters of the shallows.
In their own way, they capture everything that you can sit on, waiting for the engine of a fragile boat to “grunt”. The male half of the crab fishers hangs along with the "shadows" over the bar. "All inclusive" means everything and you have to drink.
The motor “grunted” and with a cheerful laugh, the crab fishers dissolve into the night.
This is not the end, but only a prelude. They will return and then, the feast of greed will begin with the division of one crab for ten and a lively fight at the buffet, set for the guests of only one hotel, without taking into account the presence of crab fishermen.
The hotel has only two advantages: the presence of the sea and the sun, although in the Arabian Peninsula this goodness abounds in other places.
It is better to come to the hotel at night, then you can’t see the heaps of garbage surrounding the hotel, the dilapidated huts of local residents, the fence with barbed wire that separates the hotel from the ship repair office, which occasionally deafens the neighborhood with a sledgehammer battle against the side of an empty barge.
The friendly Hindu eyes behind the hotel reception look at you pitifully with deep sympathy.
When you open the door to your room, don't be alarmed, you didn't find yourself in a museum of used furniture, just the owner of the hotel wants to plunge you into the exotic life of the ancient Arab culture. Do not try to easily open the cabinet doors, you can overstrain or even worse get a splinter. The dim light carefully hides pieces of peeling paint and traces of someone else's cold.
Morning. A joyful discord of feathered beggars greets the rising sun loudly, anticipating hearty leftovers from tourists. The hotel will delight you with the constant monotony of the menu: breakfast, lunch and dinner - which you paid in advance, and as a gift, a herd of bald skinny cats surrounding you during meals is ready to share their bouquet of sores with you.
If you, nevertheless, managed to cram breakfast into yourself, hurry to the sea until your comrades in misfortune captured the sunbeds that remained intact. Heavy memories of Soviet resorts on the shores of the Black Sea make you throw a bunch of towels on sunbeds to indicate your ownership of sunbathing throughout the day.
Having taken a lounger, you will enjoy watching a flock of fishing boats proudly defile past you, carrying a bunch of nets and baskets, with a reliable return in the evening with a catch.
Meat fishermen, going to sea, cheer themselves up with the sight of naked female bodies, and the absence of striptease in the Emirates makes their weather-beaten faces break into a blissful smile.
Noon. The sun rises above the horizon and from behind the fence, driven by a refreshing breeze, spinning, a cloud of cement dust falls out from a nearby factory. The mournful voice of the muezzin, amplified by powerful speakers, calls you to prayer. Near the hotel there are many mosques and a cacophony of singing voices, interrupted by the faint cawing of crows. It's hot in the sun and you want to be in the shade, it's cold in the shade and you want to wrap yourself in a towel. Lunch time, but the memory of breakfast does not cause a great desire to eat.
By lunchtime, “white people”, local Arabs in white clothes and a camel rope on their heads, are pulled up to the hotel territory. It's the local elite who's come to get their fair share of striptease and beer. If lunch time falls on Friday, then by this time flocks of multilingual groups with large trunks seep into the hotel territory and, driving guests from sunbeds, capture the beach and a small pool. Friday is Arabic Sunday, when heat-worn Arabs, Hindus and other households strive for water.
Regardless of the day off, “husbands” also pull themselves into the shade to drink a bottle, a second free whiskey or vodka. Muzhi is a special kind of hotel guests who, driven by their wives, with a downcast look, came to no one knows where and why. They have one problem - how to quickly cure a hangover. They create an unforgettable entourage of a roadside tavern with shadows wandering aimlessly and spewing fumes.
Evening. The sun is setting and with the last rays, on the small territory of the hotel, every day, a landing of crab fishermen is landed. The crab fishermen are other hotel guests who have arrived by bus in search of an easy evening's entertainment in the murky waters of the shallows.
In their own way, they capture everything that you can sit on, waiting for the engine of a fragile boat to “grunt”. The male half of the crab fishers hangs along with the "shadows" over the bar. "All inclusive" means everything and you have to drink.
The motor “grunted” and with a cheerful laugh, the crab fishers dissolve into the night.
This is not the end, but only a prelude. They will return and then, the feast of greed will begin with the division of one crab for ten and a lively fight at the buffet, set for the guests of only one hotel, without taking into account the presence of crab fishermen.
The hotel has only two advantages: the presence of the sea and the sun, although in the Arabian Peninsula this goodness abounds in other places.
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I would like to start with the fact that we went to this hotel on the advice of a friend who had a rest in it in early October. Maybe our bitter experience is connected with the season, February is generally a difficult month.... I would like to start by arriving at Dubai airport, somehow they forgot to warn us about the retinal scan, and this whole procedure made me want to return to Kyiv by the same plane.
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I would like to start with the fact that we went to this hotel on the advice of a friend who had a rest in it in early October. Maybe our bitter experience is connected with the season, February is generally a difficult month.... I would like to start by arriving at Dubai airport, somehow they forgot to warn us about the retinal scan, and this whole procedure made me want to return to Kyiv by the same plane. A huge queue lined up, the angry Arabs fenced off the people standing in it, you had to stand strictly one at a time, if you stood next to your husband, an Arab came up and started yelling something aggressively. Women with small children, cat. they went to ask if there was a shorter queue for people with children, they didn’t let them back behind the fence to their husbands, but forced them to stand at the very end of the queue. To be honest, it was very unpleasant, and even a little scary. Since the departure from Kyiv was delayed for 3-4 hours, and we also arrived later. The meeting driver had to follow us 2 times. Well, thank God, we were met and brought to the hotel. It was already 11 pm Saturday, and there were no rooms. As compensation, they gave us a suite on the first floor. When I entered the room, I wanted to cry.... which I did. Two dark, damp, smelly rooms with 50-year-old plush upholstered furniture. Shower without hot water and terrible hair dryer. Yes, I forgot to say, crowds of noisy natives with children come to this hotel on Friday. All the railings were hung with shorts, towels and other things. The people buzzed, had fun and cursed almost until the morning. In the morning, thank God, we were given a regular room on the second floor closer to the bay, and it seemed to me heaven on earth, even the water was hot. Breakfast in the huge canteen was disgusting. The hotel area is very small, Chernobryvtsy grow everywhere against the backdrop of palm trees, an ambivalent feeling.... The beach is small, but half empty and quiet. The pool is small but also empty. For 10 days of our stay, we observed such a gratifying picture at most 5 times. During this time, we saw: a matinee of Muslim high school girls - all Sunday, a corporate party of Pakistani middle managers - for the whole day - with songs, dances, games and prize draws from morning until late at night; just an invasion of Malaysian families by the pool, and numerous Indians on the beach. All this could have been nothing, and even in a sense, fun and instructive, if these people did not occupy absolutely all the free sunbeds, and once did not even lie down on our own towels when we went up to the room for a while. February, it seems they are not in season, and the owner rents rooms for rent to everyone who misses. Another little note - both schoolgirls and Pakistani women swim in a small pool in all their clothes. From the good, I can note very decent dinners that are served on the beach. . . if there is no strong wind. . . but we often had not just a strong wind, but almost a hurricane. Yes, there are also a lot of thin, hungry, impudent and shabby cats that jump on the tables and quietly steal your dinner. And in the morning and afternoon, huge birds encroach on the prey of cats. All this is very interesting to watch. . . just some primitive world. On the day of our departure, a wild wind arose. it got very cold, and a huge tanker entered this tiny bay. Maybe it, of course, was a cargo ship, but I didn’t want to swim there anymore. . . for some reason. . . Another good thing was the absolutely amazing singing fountains in the Dubai Mall, and a Persian carpet for 200 bucks, bought during an excursion to Oman. That's all. In this emirate, we no longer have a foot. Even despite the very good and inexpensive rum bought in a liquor store next to the hotel by four. . . all taxi drivers know the address. . .
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I do not want to repeat myself, a lot has been written in previous reviews. I will add information: the hotel consists of several buildings. One building is the reception, restaurant (breakfast), kitchen and conference room. The second is the S-shaped residential building itself. The building is two-story, on each floor there are 26 rooms (101-126 first floor, 201-226).
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I do not want to repeat myself, a lot has been written in previous reviews. I will add information: the hotel consists of several buildings. One building is the reception, restaurant (breakfast), kitchen and conference room. The second is the S-shaped residential building itself. The building is two-story, on each floor there are 26 rooms (101-126 first floor, 201-226). The third building is an extension to the main building (changing rooms, a toilet, an Ayurvedic massage room). Cons of the hotel: 1) old, 2) located on the outskirts of the industrial zone, 3) on Fridays and Saturdays it looks like a swarm of natives (guests from neighboring districts and countries come to the so-called picnic, 60-70 people with children, completely out ! , 4-lack of animation AT ALL! , 5) lack of sun loungers (10-12 pieces for the entire beach, it is convenient to lie in them only on the back (solid and not laid out). Beer is sold in the city only non-alcoholic, in the hotel bars you can buy alcohol and beer, but the price is not small (beer 17.5 dirhams = $ 5), so I give good advice - stock up on alcohol, and if it's over, then contact the taxi drivers, they can take you to a store where alcohol is sold (hotel-shop-hotel-15 dirhams) . Well, everything seems to be... There will be questions, please contact!
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Were in this hotel from 18.02 to 01.03. 2011. I will say right away the Emirates - this is our first trip abroad, before that we always rested in the Russian south. I'll tell you about the hotel: located in the Emirate of Umm al-Quwain (there is no oil in this emirate, it is poor). . in general, about this Emirate I will say the following: it is a fishing village.
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Were in this hotel from 18.02 to 01.03. 2011. I will say right away the Emirates - this is our first trip abroad, before that we always rested in the Russian south. I'll tell you about the hotel: located in the Emirate of Umm al-Quwain (there is no oil in this emirate, it is poor). . in general, about this Emirate I will say the following: it is a fishing village. . stands on the shore of the bay. . There are shops, a market, but I did not observe any entertainment. The hotel stands on the outskirts of the Emirates. The hotel itself is very even considering that 3*. The territory is well landscaped, a swimming pool, a jacuzzi, a children's pool, a volleyball court, a pier (where you can fish, crabs, and very successfully), then you can cook fish and crabs yourself on the grill (provided for free). I would say the room is great! 2 double beds, table, 2 chairs, TV (one Russian channel), bathroom, in general a good room. About food: we had included breakfast, lunch and dinner! I will say this in 12 days that we had dinner only 4 times as we went on excursions to Dubai, Sharjah. Breakfast: cheeses, tomatoes, cucumbers, sausages, scrambled eggs, sausage, pastries, tea, coffee, pancakes, juices, etc. . Dinner: soups (crab, chicken mostly), rice (sooo delicious), potatoes, fried eggplant, vegetables, salads 4-5 kinds, battered seafood, turkey, meat on the bone (No pork - Muslims don't eat it!! ) , beef stroganoff, chops, and so on, fruit (in short, a man will not die of hunger), we were full. There is no animation on the territory of the hotel (that is, not a hotel for parties), we didn’t need them, we were traveling as a family with a 4 year old child. The sea was cool due to the constant ebb and flow, but the son swam day and night. . the sun did not seem to be hot, but in an hour we immediately tanned (negroes returned). There are free transfers to hotels Dubai 2 times a week they will be brought there in the morning and taken back in the evening, and also to Sharjah, as well as 2 times a week a free boat ride to the flamingos. In general, we liked everything. . the only negative is a sufficient number of Russians, Ukrainians in the hotel (although someone likes it). There will be questions to tell.
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My husband and I were in the Flamingo Hotel 3 * for a week, we liked it very much, worthy for our 3 stars. The food in the morning was always the same, but lunch and dinner were quite varied. The hotel is outdated, but the rooms are very clean and the bedding and towels are changed almost every day. Very friendly staff, money and documents can be safely handed over at the reception - for free.
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My husband and I were in the Flamingo Hotel 3 * for a week, we liked it very much, worthy for our 3 stars. The food in the morning was always the same, but lunch and dinner were quite varied. The hotel is outdated, but the rooms are very clean and the bedding and towels are changed almost every day. Very friendly staff, money and documents can be safely handed over at the reception - for free. Hotel near the beach, free transport 2 times a week to Dubai and one to Sharjah, free boat trips to the mangroves and flamingos, super. For those who want to hang out - this emirate is not suitable. Rest in the hotel and the emirate as a whole - family, calm and good. The hotel area is small, but very beautiful and cozy, walking in the evening is a pleasure. You can buy booze in the Drinkshop (very cheap, at least twice as much as ours). Excursions are expensive, but in Dubai you must take it. They also provide beach towels, you need to ask - for free.
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