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Rooms:
6.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
8.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
7.0
I want to say right away who is picky, he will still find fault with something. We rested in Turkey and Egypt (and everywhere 5 *, with All Inclusive). Here they were set up for the worst, but it turned out much better than expected.
Hotel: very good, pulls on 3+. Located on a small street (quiet), but at the same time, the metro station (Al Rigga) is a 3-minute walk. During our stay (on the 2nd half of February) there were 90% of Russian-speaking guests: Russians, Kazakhs, Belarusians ...The staff is friendly, although they do not speak Russian.
Breakfasts: although not very diverse, you can eat up (porridge, scrambled eggs, sausage cheese, toast, cereal, fruit salad, honey jam).
Lunches are much tastier and more varied, it costs 35 dirhams - a buffet (soup-puree, 3-4 types of second, 3-4 types of side dish, salad, pickles, yogurt, cake, juice, tea-coffee). Dinner - menu. I really liked the waiter Jerwin. Originally Filipino, but tries to speak Russian, always smiling and friendly.
I've always been happy to tip him.
Rooms: plasma, refrigerator, air conditioning, wardrobe. Cleaned every day, bed linen changed every day too. They are different in size: there are small ones (somewhere 3x3, not counting the entrance part), there are more (corner ones). Some have bathtubs, some have showers. Shampoo, gel, soap - please. There is a hair dryer.
We lived on the 3rd floor, the music from the disco bar was heard, we first wanted to change the room on the floor above. But to be honest, because of the climate (in Dubai, the percentage of oxygen is less than everywhere else), you fall off your feet in the evening, and you don’t even notice any music!
Were in the pool on the roof. Of course, small, but clean. Sun lounger, towel, umbrella will be offered free of charge.
Transfer to the beach: the bus made 3 trips (there were so many tourists). You do not take coupons, if there are places, you sit down and go. The first bus is served at 8.30-8.40. If it is full, it leaves (if not, it will still go at 9.00). Picks up these tourists at 13.00. The second picks up at 14.00.
If you got back at the wrong time, the tourists themselves can land.
As for food: who wants Russian cuisine, there is a restaurant "Arbat" around the corner on Al-Rigga, there are borscht, dumplings, cutlets. There are even manti, lagman, beshbarmak. Dinner for two is 100-120 dirhams, but regular customers get a 10% discount. As for dinner, I advise the restaurant "Danial", located on the 3rd floor of the "ROLEX" building, 5 minutes walk from Nasser. Take the elevator up, exit and go all the way to the left. Buffet 50 dirhams per person, but the choice of everything is huge: beef, chicken, seafood. Salads of 15 kinds. Sweets are about the same. Fruits: apples, tangerines, oranges, grapes, bananas.
Beaches: entrance 5 dirhams. Usually they take them to Al-Mamzar, on Friday and Saturday - to Jumeirah Beach. I liked Al Mamzar better. There are breakwaters, so there are almost no waves. On Jumeirah, in addition, palm trees grow further from the coast (for shade). Of course you can rent.
Umbrella - 5 dirhams, sun lounger - 15 dirhams. There are 4 beaches on Al-Mamzar. At first, we followed everyone to the beach, which is on the left from the entrance. There were a lot of people there (everywhere Russian is spoken). On the penultimate day, we decided to go right. It's quiet, there are few people. You can even leave your bags to swim. But be careful: sea urchins! It is better to swim in slippers.
A little further there are pools. One for children, two for adults (depth from 1.5 m to 3.1 m). There sunbeds are free. Entrance - 10 dirhams, tickets must be taken at the entrance to the park.
Transfer to shops every day from 17.00 to 21.00. They carry, of course, to the nearest shopping centers, but nevertheless.
The well-known Nasser Square: the patch itself is now fenced off, a metro station is being built. The stores that follow him are mostly Chinese - so be careful. Perfume is cheaper there, but there is no guarantee that it is fake. What I bought turned out to be just that.
Excursions: it is better to take on the beach.
Representatives of "Aladdin" and "Arabian Knight" stand at the entrance and distribute booklets. They just have big buses (with air conditioning). The best trips are three: Dubai ($25), Abu Dhabi ($55 with dinner), Indian Ocean ($55 with lunch). Neither one nor the other offer discounts. I ordered the Indian Ocean from some, Dubai from others. So the vaunted "Arabian Night" calls in the morning on the day of the tour and reports that the guide is ill and the tour is cancelled. Of course, after that I did not contact them again.
As for Aladdin. I want to warn you right away: visit not all the places that are indicated in the booklet, and what is said "gallop through Europe. " But you won't find better anyway. They offer "free" video shooting on excursions (buy a disc anyway for 15 dirhams), but the quality of the shooting is terrible, and shooting with your participation (a total of one and a half minutes) is already inserted into the finished montage. Of course, whoever is without a camera, this will do.
Indian Ocean: I’ll make a reservation right away, you won’t be taken to Coral Island to swim with fish and, moreover, they won’t be filmed there, as it is written in the booklet. The best thing is that they will take you on a banana in the direction of Coral Island, ride for 5 minutes, and that's it! They promise scooters, but scooters they call small torpedoes half a meter long, with which you swim for half a minute in the pool, and after 15 minutes they run out of battery. The fact that they promise to visit Oman there is nonsense! They will leave the motel for 10 minutes, stop near the mosque - here it is the Sultanate of Oman! As a Muslim, I still wanted to take a picture against the background of this mosque, but the bus began to honk, so the pictures turned out to be unimportant.
Abu Dhabi: decided to go without travel agencies. We got to the bus station in Bur Dubai (it cost 17 dirhams by taxi). We bought a bus ticket to Abu Dhabi (20 dirhams per person). The bus is just super: air conditioning, display, seat belts.
Volvo with leather seats that slide out in all directions. Even in the business class of our Airbus-321, the seats are worse. We reached the capital in one and a half to two hours. They just hired a taxi around the city. The taxi driver (Pakistani) was not bad, he told (naturally, in English) which buildings we pass, which places. He took me to Emirate Palace, Ferrari Park, Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Hilton Bainuna hotel with an observation deck on the 31st floor (admission 20 dirhams). Everywhere they went, filmed on camera and photos, no one was in a hurry. All in all, it took about 2.5 hours to ride. "Naticalo" 160 dirhams. We paid 50 bucks, the taxi driver was satisfied.
Burj Khalifa: Buy your tickets as early as possible. We went on Tuesday, cheap tickets (100 dirhams) were only on Friday and then only from 10 pm. At other times, tickets are 400 dirhams.
At night, look only at the lights and that's it.
Singing fountains: class! ! ! They work from 18.00 to 22.30 every half an hour. Compositions (3-4 minutes) and music are different every time.
Classical, Arabic, Jackson,...I do not advise you to stand near the exit from the Dubai Mall, as all the spray from the fountain will fly in your direction with a draft.
Metro: Worth a ride. Composition without driver - computers. The cars are clean and bright. The first car for the holders of the "Golden" card - they will not let you in. The second one is for women and children only! The rest is possible for everyone. If you want to ride a couple of times, then buy a red card. If several times, then silver. The fare depends on which part of the city you are going to. On average, 2.5 dirhams. The card must be applied to the turnstile both at the entrance and at the exit. Money is debited upon exit, so if you are several people, you will not be able to use one card.
These are the Emirates! Some pluses, but there is one big minus that we had to face - the lack of luggage storage at airports!
Well, that seems to be all. There will be questions, ask. I will answer.
Hotel: very good, pulls on 3+. Located on a small street (quiet), but at the same time, the metro station (Al Rigga) is a 3-minute walk. During our stay (on the 2nd half of February) there were 90% of Russian-speaking guests: Russians, Kazakhs, Belarusians ...The staff is friendly, although they do not speak Russian.
Breakfasts: although not very diverse, you can eat up (porridge, scrambled eggs, sausage cheese, toast, cereal, fruit salad, honey jam).
Lunches are much tastier and more varied, it costs 35 dirhams - a buffet (soup-puree, 3-4 types of second, 3-4 types of side dish, salad, pickles, yogurt, cake, juice, tea-coffee). Dinner - menu. I really liked the waiter Jerwin. Originally Filipino, but tries to speak Russian, always smiling and friendly.
I've always been happy to tip him.
Rooms: plasma, refrigerator, air conditioning, wardrobe. Cleaned every day, bed linen changed every day too. They are different in size: there are small ones (somewhere 3x3, not counting the entrance part), there are more (corner ones). Some have bathtubs, some have showers. Shampoo, gel, soap - please. There is a hair dryer.
We lived on the 3rd floor, the music from the disco bar was heard, we first wanted to change the room on the floor above. But to be honest, because of the climate (in Dubai, the percentage of oxygen is less than everywhere else), you fall off your feet in the evening, and you don’t even notice any music!
Were in the pool on the roof. Of course, small, but clean. Sun lounger, towel, umbrella will be offered free of charge.
Transfer to the beach: the bus made 3 trips (there were so many tourists). You do not take coupons, if there are places, you sit down and go. The first bus is served at 8.30-8.40. If it is full, it leaves (if not, it will still go at 9.00). Picks up these tourists at 13.00. The second picks up at 14.00.
If you got back at the wrong time, the tourists themselves can land.
As for food: who wants Russian cuisine, there is a restaurant "Arbat" around the corner on Al-Rigga, there are borscht, dumplings, cutlets. There are even manti, lagman, beshbarmak. Dinner for two is 100-120 dirhams, but regular customers get a 10% discount. As for dinner, I advise the restaurant "Danial", located on the 3rd floor of the "ROLEX" building, 5 minutes walk from Nasser. Take the elevator up, exit and go all the way to the left. Buffet 50 dirhams per person, but the choice of everything is huge: beef, chicken, seafood. Salads of 15 kinds. Sweets are about the same. Fruits: apples, tangerines, oranges, grapes, bananas.
Beaches: entrance 5 dirhams. Usually they take them to Al-Mamzar, on Friday and Saturday - to Jumeirah Beach. I liked Al Mamzar better. There are breakwaters, so there are almost no waves. On Jumeirah, in addition, palm trees grow further from the coast (for shade). Of course you can rent.
Umbrella - 5 dirhams, sun lounger - 15 dirhams. There are 4 beaches on Al-Mamzar. At first, we followed everyone to the beach, which is on the left from the entrance. There were a lot of people there (everywhere Russian is spoken). On the penultimate day, we decided to go right. It's quiet, there are few people. You can even leave your bags to swim. But be careful: sea urchins! It is better to swim in slippers.
A little further there are pools. One for children, two for adults (depth from 1.5 m to 3.1 m). There sunbeds are free. Entrance - 10 dirhams, tickets must be taken at the entrance to the park.
Transfer to shops every day from 17.00 to 21.00. They carry, of course, to the nearest shopping centers, but nevertheless.
The well-known Nasser Square: the patch itself is now fenced off, a metro station is being built. The stores that follow him are mostly Chinese - so be careful. Perfume is cheaper there, but there is no guarantee that it is fake. What I bought turned out to be just that.
Excursions: it is better to take on the beach.
Representatives of "Aladdin" and "Arabian Knight" stand at the entrance and distribute booklets. They just have big buses (with air conditioning). The best trips are three: Dubai ($25), Abu Dhabi ($55 with dinner), Indian Ocean ($55 with lunch). Neither one nor the other offer discounts. I ordered the Indian Ocean from some, Dubai from others. So the vaunted "Arabian Night" calls in the morning on the day of the tour and reports that the guide is ill and the tour is cancelled. Of course, after that I did not contact them again.
As for Aladdin. I want to warn you right away: visit not all the places that are indicated in the booklet, and what is said "gallop through Europe. " But you won't find better anyway. They offer "free" video shooting on excursions (buy a disc anyway for 15 dirhams), but the quality of the shooting is terrible, and shooting with your participation (a total of one and a half minutes) is already inserted into the finished montage. Of course, whoever is without a camera, this will do.
Indian Ocean: I’ll make a reservation right away, you won’t be taken to Coral Island to swim with fish and, moreover, they won’t be filmed there, as it is written in the booklet. The best thing is that they will take you on a banana in the direction of Coral Island, ride for 5 minutes, and that's it! They promise scooters, but scooters they call small torpedoes half a meter long, with which you swim for half a minute in the pool, and after 15 minutes they run out of battery. The fact that they promise to visit Oman there is nonsense! They will leave the motel for 10 minutes, stop near the mosque - here it is the Sultanate of Oman! As a Muslim, I still wanted to take a picture against the background of this mosque, but the bus began to honk, so the pictures turned out to be unimportant.
Abu Dhabi: decided to go without travel agencies. We got to the bus station in Bur Dubai (it cost 17 dirhams by taxi). We bought a bus ticket to Abu Dhabi (20 dirhams per person). The bus is just super: air conditioning, display, seat belts.
Volvo with leather seats that slide out in all directions. Even in the business class of our Airbus-321, the seats are worse. We reached the capital in one and a half to two hours. They just hired a taxi around the city. The taxi driver (Pakistani) was not bad, he told (naturally, in English) which buildings we pass, which places. He took me to Emirate Palace, Ferrari Park, Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Hilton Bainuna hotel with an observation deck on the 31st floor (admission 20 dirhams). Everywhere they went, filmed on camera and photos, no one was in a hurry. All in all, it took about 2.5 hours to ride. "Naticalo" 160 dirhams. We paid 50 bucks, the taxi driver was satisfied.
Burj Khalifa: Buy your tickets as early as possible. We went on Tuesday, cheap tickets (100 dirhams) were only on Friday and then only from 10 pm. At other times, tickets are 400 dirhams.
At night, look only at the lights and that's it.
Singing fountains: class! ! ! They work from 18.00 to 22.30 every half an hour. Compositions (3-4 minutes) and music are different every time.
Classical, Arabic, Jackson,...I do not advise you to stand near the exit from the Dubai Mall, as all the spray from the fountain will fly in your direction with a draft.
Metro: Worth a ride. Composition without driver - computers. The cars are clean and bright. The first car for the holders of the "Golden" card - they will not let you in. The second one is for women and children only! The rest is possible for everyone. If you want to ride a couple of times, then buy a red card. If several times, then silver. The fare depends on which part of the city you are going to. On average, 2.5 dirhams. The card must be applied to the turnstile both at the entrance and at the exit. Money is debited upon exit, so if you are several people, you will not be able to use one card.
These are the Emirates! Some pluses, but there is one big minus that we had to face - the lack of luggage storage at airports!
Well, that seems to be all. There will be questions, ask. I will answer.
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