My first trip to the UAE

Written: 7 july 2013
Travel time: 19 — 28 june 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
This is my first visit to the UAE. I traveled with two children (12 and 4 years old) and my mother. First, we stopped for a short time in Atlantis (I left a review about it), after which we moved to Jumeirah Beach. Our main holiday was here. I liked the hotel as a whole, though there is no service on the beach like in Madinat hotels. Perhaps because of the large number of vacationers, or maybe it was not provided here initially. A big plus is that you can take a buggy and go to Mina's beach in peace. The beach there, for me personally, is better: there are very few people, towels are brought and laid by the staff, we cleaned up after ourselves, in gratitude. We rode boats there, wandered around the market, went to the children's club, there is a slide for kids, fountains, it's fun for the kids to run there, it's lonely, almost no one is there. As for Jumeirah Beach, rooms overlooking the bay, updated, lighting, curtains - everything is automated. Our room was on the 21st floor, without a balcony, with panoramic windows. In the morning you wake up, open the curtains on the remote control without getting out of bed and before your eyes: an endless bay and on the left Sail. The room is good, the service too, cleaning, change of linen, compliments (fruit, chocolate) - according to the schedule. The room has everything you need. The food (we had HB) was decent, we came for breakfast, lunch or dinner. We ate at the same restaurant, out of habit, on the ground floor, to the left of the reception, we did not visit others. There is a free shuttle from the hotel to the Emirates Mall, you can get a timetable at the reception, but we never managed to use it for interest. We went by taxi to the Dubai Mall, watched the fountains, at the Emirates Mall, at Nasser Square, fought off all sorts of "helpers" with great difficulty, it's just stupid impudence when they follow you on your heels, follow you into a boutique and say that it turns out they brought you here, don't they have any control over them? It seems to be indecent to swear with grown men, you explain politely and persistently - well, on the drum. It seems to be a civilized country, with strict laws (? ). There are simply no words. spoils the whole impression of Dubai. I looked at fur coats there, specifically went into several boutiques with decent fur coats (I liked Braschi), Gold Bough, (I wanted to buy a diamond ring, but I didn’t choose anything there, I wasted my time - Italian gold, which I didn’t like, but stones, as I understand it, Belgian cut, South African, I liked the stones, unlike gold and the quality of the products themselves, there was no desire to buy. Indians or Pakistanis, but they immediately lag behind when they see that they are not required, unlike those on Nasser from the former Soviet republics, I deliberately do not talk about nationality, I don’t want to offend the whole people. I succeeded, they scared me with the heat - in vain, you can swim in the sea, in the pool, observing elementary preventive measures against sun and heat stroke. In Turkey, last year, I would say, it was also 40 degrees at that time, I remember there on the second day after arrival, the youngest was ill, I think he had a heat stroke, but here, in the Emirates, it cost. It is more comfortable, of course, in the Emirates: by flight (not a charter, a regular flight of the national airline), by the level of service in hotels. This is for those who, like me, have been deciding for a long time: Turkey or the Emirates?
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