our impressions

Written: 16 january 2012
Travel time: 20 — 27 december 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
DUBAI HOTEL City Max Bur Dubai 3*
Every time I go on vacation I read the reviews. All, both positive and negative.
After all, they may contain useful information. For the first time I want to write myself.
First of all, to everyone who takes the time to write reviews, thank you so much!
Now about the hotel and Emirates. First time in Emirates.
Liked the hotel. The most important thing is the location. This is, firstly, a clean area of ​ ​ ​ ​ villas and a view from the windows of skyscrapers, which are 15-20 minutes on foot. Clean, quiet, day and night. This is not Deira for you (dirty, noisy, typical streets of Istanbul)!
Yes, they clean the rooms purely symbolically. But you only sleep there. For 3 tolerably.

It is very convenient that there is an electric kettle in the room, Nescafe coffee, Lipton tea, cream, sugar are updated daily. Water can be bought a stone's throw from the hotel (on the left, a small, not expensive supermarket). Yes, someone wrote that you can drink tap water. Silly, absolutely not! Their water is desalinated. The room has a safe, air conditioning. Everything works. There is no deposit. The room is better with a view of the road, noisy, but very nice.
After a whole day of running around, it doesn't really bother me. There is a swimming pool on the roof. To be honest, we never swam in it. There is a gym, sauna and something else. . . we didn't use it. Russian channel (60). Most importantly, the room has wired, free internet. Very convenient for people leaving home business.
There are two Russian-speaking girls at the reception (though not very kind).
To the free beach, four flights (round trip) of the free bus, 5 minutes, or 12 dirham taxi ($ 2.7). The beach is clean and big. The sea in December is not very, 22-23º , but you can swim. And then, Dubai, it's not just a vacation by the sea! The main thing is excursions and shopping. It is not customary for them to lie on the beach all day. After lunch at the hotel. Then - the city, shops. The metro, Al Karama station, is not far, but we did not use it. If you travel alone, not a very big savings. Taxi is not expensive there (by city taxi - Toyota Camry with multi-colored roofs) to Dubai Mall and fountains - 20 AED ($ 5.5), to Nasser Square - 16-18 AED.
I will not describe the food in the restaurant. Normal, not hungry. We deliberately paid only for breakfast, knowing that in the afternoon we would still be leaving either for the city or for excursions. In addition, to the right and right of the hotel, 300-400 meters, 24-hour supermarkets. You can buy whatever you want. Compose the freshest salads by price
1.9 AED. for 100 gr. Take fresh chicken or meat there. The city has a network of fish restaurants Golden Fork (near Jumeirah Beach, in Deira near the Landmark Hotel), not expensive and very tasty. Recommended! The whole assortment of fish, and in the soup (very tasty) and in the fish platter!

Yes, regarding excursions! Since we were the first time, our task is to see more. Tune in to the fact that this is not Turkey and Egypt for you. No one grabs you by the hand, and does not call you on excursions. We are all used to the fact that the guides of the meeting party have more expensive excursions, yes, honestly, they are not very interested in it, no one was particularly interested in us. The excursions that we wanted were offered in 4-5 days (for example, a survey). There were cases that tourists were forgotten at the hotel (on the Indian Ocean).
To be honest, only by the evening of the 5th day, we already knew exactly where we wanted to go to the malls, and
what excursions. On the beach, one of the tourists gave the phone number of Russian workers
in Dubai, in the tourism business, only this helped us (write it down, write SMS there, they will immediately answer you - +971505387852, this is Valya).
We managed to go on a jeep safari (highly recommended - an unusually beautiful desert at sunset and a feeling of a safari in the sands on a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser jeep).
I really liked the beautiful, informative excursion to the Indian Ocean. Good, panoramic, but it's better to order it in the morning (they also say on a 2-story bus) and with the ascent to the Burj Al Khalifa (if it's not dark yet).
I won't talk about shopping. Everyone has their own interest. After all, we bought fur coats not in the 9 floors of the Abrazh Center (only 1-2 and 9-6 floors were passed there), but in the Deira store, opposite the Landmark Hotel (there are a lot of carpets on the 1st floor), on the second floor at Mr. Phillips (I recommend, good models and discounts).
Yes, from our hotel, in the afternoon, a free bus to Dubai Mall every day there and back, but from a neighboring one at 9 am, a bus to Outland Mall (out of town with branded items that were not sold over the summer in all malls and at big discounts). This is interesting.
That's probably all. There will be questions, write, I will answer.
Yes, girls, at the airport, in addition to the spirit, there is also a very good selection of chic face creams of all kinds of world brands, not expensive, I recommend,
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