The place for the perfect beach holiday

Written: 2 february 2012
Travel time: 25 — 31 january 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 3.0
There were no problems with the transfer there and back. Provided a personal taxi. The drive from the airport to the hotel is about an hour and a half. The territory of the hotel is well-groomed. The rooms are cleaned daily, leaving coffee, tea, sugar, half a liter of water; change towels. There is an electric kettle, an adapter. The beds are very comfortable and soft, the duvets are warm. There are two Russian-language channels on TV - shanson and RBC, there are about 30 channels in total, several with English-language films. We felt hot water in the shower only once, on other days it was warm, but in principle we did not freeze.
Fed every day the same, but the range is quite large, you can choose, not tired. Canned fruits - peaches, apricots, pears, one very tasty, but unknown; fresh - pineapples, watermelons, melons. Pastries are very tasty, cottage cheese, sour cream. The tour included only breakfasts, they didn’t buy at the hotel, for lunch and dinner they ate what they brought from Ukraine (take sausage  ), went to the supermarket in the port (30 minutes). Dirhams were paid everywhere. One and a half liters of water 1.5 dirhams, a liter of milk 6 dirhams, juice 8-12 dirhams. We went to Dibba to the Lulu hypermarket (15-20 minutes by car). The store itself is rather boring, nothing unusual, there is no entertainment. Walked in the city, beautiful and interesting.
The hotel has free billiards, a small fitness room, free internet, wired on one computer. The pool is small, 1.5 meters deep, about 10 meters long. The bottom and sides look not very clean in places, but the water is clean and warm. Beach towels, sun loungers free of charge in any quantity. The sand on the beach is clean, there is a warm shower. At the bottom of the bay, flora and fauna are poor. But I always swam with a mask, it is so convenient to squeeze jellyfish, which sting very unpleasantly. The presence of these jellyfish in the water is a serious drawback that makes you completely abandon bathing. But in dangerous quantities they were only a couple of days, and not throughout the day. When they do not float on the surface, but sink to the bottom, it becomes possible to enter the water. We still do not understand what the increased number of jellyfish depends on. The water is clear, but on windy days with some green mist. The temperature is around 20 degrees. Once you get used to it, you can swim for a very long time. The sun is gentle in winter, but you should not abuse it.

The hotel staff understands English. Unfortunately, we could not agree on free transport to Dibba from the hotel, although other tourists said that they traveled for free. We called a taxi, it came out at 40 dirhams one way, divided by the number of passengers. Once we went to Dubai by car from the hotel, 7 people, it came out at $ 25 per person. The driver took us wherever we asked, stopped so we could take pictures. We stopped at the Dubai Mall for three hours. Travel time to Dubai is an hour and a half. We arrived at the hotel around midnight.
There are not many people in the hotel, which we really liked. True, a tour bus came three times a week, it turned out from 13 to 16 full of people, which was a little annoying. Friday is a day off - disco. On other days there is no entertainment program. In general, if you are not a fan of a purely beach holiday and quiet reading of books, you may be bored. But we remembered what the temperature is in January in Ukraine, and that this vacation is so fleeting and we just got high!
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