Palaces from the tales of Shaherazade - palaces and places from tales about Harun al-Rashid and Sinbad the sailor

Written: 16 november 2017
Travel time: 4 — 7 november 2017
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
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After the hotel in the desert https://www.turpravda.ua/ae/dubay/Bab_Al_Shams_Desert_Resort___Spa-h16421-r272032.html
our tour operator, as Shahrezad provided us with a short tour of another fabulous hotel Jumeirah Mina A'Salam located in the Madinat Jumeirah complex (from the Arabic Madinat Jumeirah - City of Jumeirah) a city that is more like palaces and cities from fairy tales about Caliph Harun al-Rashid told Shahrezad to her beloved King Shahriyar, and perhaps Madinat Jumeirah is the palaces or city of King Shahriyar and Shahrezad himself.
And Shahrazada said: It has come to me, O happy king, that there was a king in the city of Peace ...at the same time he had three hundred and sixty concubines, and he arranged a room for each of them (and these rooms were inside the palace), and built twelve palaces, according to the number of months per year ...

And they walked without stopping until they reached the vaulted gate, the vaults of which were of marble, and the girl opened the gate and entered, and Sharr-Kahn with her, and they went a long passage, with a vaulted ceiling in the form of ten arches, and under each the arch was a lamp of crystal, burning like a ray of fire. Around them stand a bed, facing each other, and above them are lowered curtains, bordered with gold embroidery, and the floor is lined with colorful marble of various kinds, and in the middle of it a pond with water, in which twenty-four golden fountains, and from them flows water like silver. The story of King Omar ibn al-Numan and his son Sharr Kane, and another son of Dau al-Makane, and the miracles and wonders that happened to them)

Madinat Jumeirah has 3 Jumeirah Al Qasr, Jumeirah Al Naseem, Jumeirah Mina A 'Salam and 2.2-storey Jumeirah Dar Al Masyaf and luxury Malakiya villas, more than 60 restaurants, Talise Spa, Madinat Jumeirah Shopping Mall, Madinat Arena and Talise Fitness, Wild Wadi Waterpark.
Madinat Jumeirah is called the Venice of Dubai, because through all this complex with hotels villas restaurants spa bars and fitness center oriental bazaar and other buildings is water canals surrounded by beautiful parks and gardens, water canals travel to see all the beauty of this fabulous complex on Arabian boats arba.

"It is also said that Caliph Harun al-Rashid loved Sitt-Zubaydah with great love. He arranged a place for her to walk and made a pond with water and brought a fence of trees and let the water into the pond on all sides, and the trees were woven over it so that if anyone approached the pond to wash, no one saw him through a lot of leaves on the trees "(The Tale of Harun al-Rashid)
Jumeirah Mina A 'Salam (from the Arabic Peace Harbor) is located in the heart of Madinat Jumeirah, with its carved balconies and carved towers and small towers in the hotel's design, carved bridges and bridges, oriental interiors, oriental-style furniture with Arabic circles. . with pillows and bright fabrics and carpets, it really looks like an Arabic palace from fairy tales 1001 and 1 night. Perhaps Sinbad's ships were in this peaceful harbor

"And we went by sea and reached an island similar to the Garden of Eden, and the master of the ship came to this island and dropped anchor and released the ladder, and all who were on the ship went down to this island" (The Tale of Sinbad the Sailor) )

The room called Arabian room was given immediately, the very name Arabian speaks of the style and design of the room itself.

The room is large, the room has 2 single beds that can be converted into a double bed, sofa, tea table and everything you need for tea or coffee in the room also has an LCD TV, carpet with carved pattern in the Arabic style. Bathroom in oriental mosaic tiles with a mirror as small shutters of oriental windows, two washbasins with a carved wooden pedestal, with a box that looks like a jewelry box, with cosmetics for the bath and shower. Separate bath and shower with trendy tropical rain shower in UAE hotels.
The food is excellent and the choice of dishes is like at the feasts of Shahrezadh's fairy tales, and only Shahrezadh with King Shahriyar or the hero of several fairy tales Harun al-Rashid with all his harem can visit 60 restaurants in Madinat Jumeirah. We had HB, we chose breakfast and dinner, some guests took breakfast and lunch.
Hungry between breakfast or dinner is definitely not free to bring to the beach and by the pool fruit on ice, ice cream and water, the room always has a plate of fruit.
There is also an option to eat for free between breakfast and dinner, if you have children, we met a family from Lviv with 3 children 12 years, 10 years, 5 years, so children under 12 in all restaurants eat for free as many times as they want per day, even if you only paid BB. Sincere thanks to the children Darussa, Teresa and Andriychik and their parents who always made sure that their parents and friends all tried all kinds of chicken skewers, sweet cakes, oriental sweets and various snacks from the beach restaurant Shimmers or Sicilian pizza from the restaurant Kalsa
We visited for breakfast and dinner a restaurant located on the ground floor of the Hanaaya Hotel, for breakfast there were different types of cheese, sausages, eggs, omelets, muesli, fruit salads, pastries and oriental sweets, for dinner traditional Arabic cuisine.
And once we signed up for dinner at Tortuga Restaurant, a bright restaurant with live Latin American music performed by the Mariache ensemble, all guests wore colorful sombreros, ate the most delicious burritos that are not inferior in taste and sharpness to a real Mexican storm. The restaurant liked that you can dress very simply without a certain dress code, you are always warned about the dress code when you sign up for restaurants, so without an evening dress and with slaps for the beach and sneakers we would not enroll in most restaurants for dinner.

As we drove from Souk Madinat Jumeirah we saw that next to the Italian restaurant Toscana, a lively restaurant, took a traditional carbonara pasta and a delicious dessert ice cream sorbet. Here you can also eat dinner in a democratic dress code.

The beach is big, clean, the sand is as it is always said about the beaches of Cleopatra in Turkey, I think if Cleopatra knew about this beach, she came here. Sunbeds are located at a distance so that guests do not interfere with each other. Sunbeds near the red hotel, which seem to burn at sunset and dawn.

"It occurred to me, O happy king, that Sitt Zubeida once came to the pond and began to look at its beauty, and she liked its radiance and the way the trees were woven over it. And it was a very hot day, and Sitt-Zubeida took off her clothes and went into the pond and got up there. »(The Tale of Harun al-Rashid)
The complex has a luxury spa Talise Spa, located among water canals, 26 rooms for spa therapies and treatments, special beach houses for massage, saunas and individual yoga classes. More affordable and very much we liked were Indian massage and short facial therapy.

"… And the cup began to rub his hands, and the nurse rubbed his legs" (The Tale of Harun al-Rashid)

After a lot of food and attentive service you really want to relax, you can go to the fitness center, climb the artificial wall for climbers - climbing wall near the fitness center, do yoga, walk almost 2 kilometers of beach and take pictures near Burj Al Arab, visit and ride. at Wild Wadi Waterpark.
Wild Wadi Waterpark is free for guests of Jumeirah Mina A'Salam, our Lviv family with children went there every day, for children and adults an incredible pleasure.
For children and adults, it will be very interesting to go to the Jumeirah Al Naseem Hotel, which has an open rehabilitation center for sea turtles. In the lagoon with sea water you can see turtles that were once injured, you and the children of the center will tell the turtles how to treat them.


As Madinat Jumeirah is very large and surrounded by numerous canals, you can travel by traditional Arabian boat. The area along the banks of the canals is very picturesque with magnificent parks, gardens of incredible trees and plants and gardens of stone, with landscaping as in a fairy tale:
"… Until fate threw us to a beautiful island, where there were many trees, ripe fruit, fragrant flowers, singing birds, and clean streams And the captain came to this island, and the merchants and travelers came out to the island and began to look at the trees and birds that were there. »(The Tale of Sinbad the Sailor)
Take advantage of the free shuttle service to go out to see the Mall of the Emirates and the ski resort in that center, then drive to Dubai Mall to see the city from the Burj Khalifa tower and the singing fountains.

The pleasure of staying at the magnificent Jumeirah Mina A'Salam Hotel and the Madinat Jumeirah complex was short-lived, but these wonderful memories will remain with us to return to the fabulous hotels palaces 1001 and 1 night Madinat Jumeirah.

"And Shahrezad was caught in the morning, and she stopped the permitted speeches"
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original

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