Nice hotel but greedy

Written: 8 january 2014
Travel time: 29 december 2013 — 6 january 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 6.0
The meeting company was Desert adventures, everything is very worthy - transfer - a brand new Lexus back and forth Hyundai, but also not bad, and for two of us there is a separate car (and this is considered a group transfer)!
Fujairah hotels (Rotana, Miramar and Meridian) are lined up along the beach. At first glance, everything is about the same, perhaps Rotana is a little worse (subjective opinion). Territories are very small, there is nowhere to go - around the desert. Dubai is very far away, about 200 kilometers, even on their super roads - at least 2.5 hours.
The room is large, good, with a large balcony, plumbing is tired, but working. There are tiles on the floor in the room, but on the 2nd day, without any requests, they brought a huge carpet so that it was not cold to walk. They put free 2 bottles of water and a tea set (black, green tea, sugar). The room has an ironing board and iron.

The beach is good, the sand, the water is crystal clear, but there are no interesting things. If you stand facing the sea, then on the right is something like an island - a rock, they take snorkeling and diving to it for crazy money, but you can safely walk and swim on your own (I did), it’s more interesting, of course, there are a lot of various fish, but nothing more than natural . The beds and mattresses are good, comfortable, the towels are large and fluffy.
Food - breakfasts are simply shameful (in Meridian it is clearly better), dinners are even nothing, there is a variety, especially since every day there is a different cuisine (Arabic, Mediterranean, Asian, etc. ), the only fruit is not enough. We celebrated the New Year, I have never seen such a variety of food anywhere (everything that flies, swims or runs), but the program was very weak and ended immediately after NY, and they have Moscow time, i. e. in Kyiv, for example, NG only after 2 hours.
There is something like a night club, but it is microscopic, dark and terrible, a kind of nest of debauchery in Arabic.
SPA is good, but expensive (like everywhere else).
Live music plays in the lobby in the evenings, there is a place to dance, there is a hookah bar with sofas, it is very pleasant to sit.
Currency - dollars are accepted everywhere, but euros are not, but it is interesting that in the exchange office in Dubai the euro costs (hand over) 4.9 dirhams, in the hotel - 4.5, and if you pay by card, then 5! Those. Paying by card is definitely more profitable.
A trip to Dubai - a free bus runs 2 times a week, but ATTENTION, it takes more than 2.5 hours and brings not to the Dubai Mall, but to the Mall of the Emirates, respectively, if you want to see the Burj Khalifa, fountains and the aquarium (which is all in the Dubai Mall), then you still need to take the metro. Accordingly, forget about shopping right away, you just don’t have enough time, and besides, the prices there are not much lower than in Kyiv and much higher than in Milan (personal experience). Buy tickets for Burj Khalifa from Ukraine, because. there is no chance to buy them on the spot, except that dealers are 3 times more expensive. Everything that is said about separate cars for men and women in the subway is complete nonsense, everyone travels mixed up, not only tourists, but also locals. A day ticket on the metro costs 16 dirhams.

Climate - warm during the day, even hot, cool at night, the water is warm, but on 06.01 it suddenly started to rain and get colder, probably winter began, although the driver said that this was rare.
No oil, jellyfish, etc. we have not found.
Another important thing is that there are several airports in Dubai, and if you have DWC on your ticket, then you should know that this is a recently built completely empty airport, i. e. there is no normal duty-free, so souvenirs, etc. buy in advance.
The greed of the hotel - the Internet is paid everywhere (even in the lobby), and the paid one is very expensive, ice cream - $ 1.2 balls. For dinner, all drinks are paid, for example, fresh juice - $ 6. Alcohol of any kind, but not cheap.
In general, the hotel is good, but absolutely for a seal rest, it is difficult to withstand more than a week.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original