Непутевые заметки про Эмираты... Unlucky notes about the Emirates...

Only now I managed to write a review. . . It was my first trip to the Emirates, we went together with a friend for outdoor activities. . . After browsing the Internet for information about the country and hotel reviews, we settled on the Emirate of Dubai and at another hotel. . . but. . It can be seen that the month of March is the season and the travel agency did not confirm the booked hotel for us... Therefore, our choice was stopped at the Versales Hotel, where there were empty seats... and, of course, the tour operator's advertisement indicated our choice... REVIEWS rpo this hotel were different, so I'll be objective...
So, we are at the famous Dubai airport. . . Our flight from Kyiv arrived without delay at 19.03. And here was the start of our surprises....The airport met us with huge crowds of passengers, we were especially impressed by the huge crowd of migrant workers from Bangladesh, India and other Hindu countries... The eyes stood in line for a retinal scan for more than an hour and a half! I must say right away that there is a separate queue for women and children, on the far right . . Next, passport control... We stood in line for about four hours... It was horror! There was no queue nearby, but it was "Only for Arabs and their families"....We got to the hotel late at night (ordered a taxi from the airport - 30 dirhams)... At the hotel we were settled in a room after 10 minutes. taking the passports. The hotel is located in the Deira area (this is the working area of ​ ​ Dubai, around the construction-construction-construction...
Pluses of the hotel: the room was cleaned every day, no complaints, everything is clean and tidy. Bedbugs and cockroaches were not seen, plumbing and furniture are new, as the hotel was recently built. . .

A polite girl on excursions (we took 2 excursions from the Arabian Knight company to the Indian Ocean and Al Ain, 55 and 65 dollars), we were satisfied with the excursions (guide Vladimir).
Cons: paid internet and very poor quality; lack of a kettle and tea and coffee sets in the room (after a reminder, they gave us a kettle, tea coffee was forgotten... ; there is no adapter on the outlet (it took us a very long time, for 2 whole days); poor food (we only took breakfast, but then what was served was impossible, we bought everything in a nearby supermarket or ate at the Golden Fork cafe (cheap and tasty) - 10 minutes from the hotel... There are a lot of Indians in the hotel, discos, at night there were drunk songs right in the corridors . . Music in the bar played until the morning. . . it was impossible to sleep. . . In the morning, the muezzin woke us up for prayer. . . a disgusting transfer to the beach. . . the bus was small, and there were many active Russian women who wanted to. . . We went to the beach 2 times by taxi (Mamzar Park beach, taxi 23 dirhams, entrance 5 dirhams + 40 dirhams 2 sunbeds + umbrella). I must say right away that it is better to be on the beach before 14.00. After that it is filled with a mass of Asian-looking people... We visited the Dubai Mall on our own , Bourges, singing fountains, Nasser Square, took a ride on the subway, were at the spice market, a fish market, a flower supermarket and many other places. . . The city caused a double impression - it seems to be beautiful, but somehow everything is artificial, a large mass of Asians, rudeness of taxi drivers, construction sites at every step, concrete dust and the rumble of construction cranes are striking. . .
I think if you want a good holiday in this country, you need to carefully choose a hotel, read reviews... That's all for now... .