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Rested at 28.10. 2011-04.11. 2011 with wife and 15 year old daughter. The impression of the rest is formed not only from the hotel, so I will describe everything that I remember. Hope the review is helpful.
Travel agency "Let's go with us". Travel agency rating 7 (out of 10) - made me nervous with paperwork.
Host "Desert Adventure" - 3/10. At the airport, we were already met on the street on the way to the taxi stop. Many other companies met "their" immediately upon exiting the plane. The fact is that Sharjah is a major transit point on the way from Europe to India. In this regard, the main flow of people from the plane immediately rushed to land further. We remained in the middle of the terminal, frantically reading signs on signs. Some random representative of a completely different company helped. He showed us the queue for an eye scan (it was the first time in my life, there is no such procedure in Ukraine).
Then, passport control (they check the passport and put a stamp in the passport and on a copy of the visa), then some kind of passport control check (again they took passports and checked for stamps), then, baggage claim, then, most likely, customs (again, things shine through and "shmanat" pockets). At the exit, we met - you think the representative of the meeting party, it was not there - another "lost" tourist. And only when we left the airport with the intention of catching a taxi, as if from under the ground, a man "DA" appeared and handed us envelopes with hotel reservations and escorted us to the bus. The representative of "DA" who came to the hotel (Miroslava) was also not happy - she strongly offered excursions at fabulous prices. And I love to travel around the country myself. Therefore, he pestered her with questions - how best to get there and where the nearest metro station is and in which supermarket it is better to buy groceries.
Realizing that you won’t earn money on me, she answered questions reluctantly, in the style: “stop a taxi and say the address. ”
One last thing, before moving on to the description of the hotel. The flight Kyiv-Sharjah-Kyiv was with Airarabia. Everything is super, except for one thing - everything is paid on the plane, including all food and drinks, it remains to make paid toilets. Expensive and tasteless. You can save some money (according to the ads) by ordering food from them at www. airarabia. com before the flight.
Hotel. Urban. On the beautiful waterfront. A wonderful hall, where, as it turned out, live music in the evenings.
Russian-speaking girl Anya quickly and without additional stimulation issued a room overlooking the lagoon. But (do you also think that I'm nitpicking? ) for some reason I forgot to say when and where breakfast is and that there is a transfer to the beach and to Dubai. Thanks to this site.
The room is very good (1105), on the non-smoking 11th floor. Amazing view from the window. New furniture. All in the same style.
Several mirrors, a chest of drawers, a table, a wardrobe, a chair, an armchair, bedside tables, a TFT TV, air conditioning, a safe, an iron with an ironing board, scales, a kettle the paper will run out at an unexpected moment), a bathroom with a shower, a bidet. Everything is at its best. Among the shortcomings: the lack of a balcony and a small fungus in the corner in the bathroom, as a result of insufficient ventilation - the windows do not open, only air conditioning and an extractor hood - swimsuits hardly dry. Just VERY expensive internet. I was with a laptop, but I have never used it - I can not evaluate the quality. They brought a holey cot for the child, which folded as soon as I sat on it. Therefore, the three of us slept on 2 beds, fortunately, they are very wide. The cot was asked to be taken out of the room immediately.
Apparently, the lack of a 3rd bed forced the cleaners not to report the 3rd bottle of water and the 3rd set of towels daily, although I didn’t even buy 2 + 1, but 3 full adult vouchers.
Beach. As you probably already understood, the hotel is urban, that is, you need to go to the beach by transport. I must say that there is almost no urban transport in Sharjah - the country is rich and everyone gets there by their own cars. The streets are not intended for non-walkers - there are few sidewalks and almost no crossings and traffic lights. Crossing the road is history. In short, you need to go to the beach - either a hotel bus transfer or a taxi. Drive 5-7 minutes. Transfer at 8 and 9 am to the beach and back at 13-00. Tourists are mostly ours. We arrived in the UAE to bask on the white sand. There is a crush near the bus. Unpleasant. Taxi option to the beach - 10 dirhams (rate 3.66 dirhams for $ 1 in the exchange office and 3.48 at the hotel)
We were taken to the beach of the Beach Shardja Hotel. The sea is clean, 28-30 degrees. The sand is white.
To get towels, you need to receive special coupons at your hotel every day before leaving and hand them over at the beach hotel. The beach is busy, but the "boys" rush along the beach. So you won’t be left without a sun lounger or mattress. Once we just did not have an umbrella.
The contingent of the hotel, as mentioned above, is mainly from the CIS countries. But there are Germans, Arabs and others. Increased attention in these others and some kind of negativity or disregard for Russian-speakers was not noticed. Always impeccable courtesy.
Nutrition. We only had breakfast. I can judge the art of the cook only by the reviews of other tourists. Delicious but spicy. Breakfast was exactly the same 7 times, but rich and tasty. Better than any "Egypts / Turkeys" definitely. From Europe, perhaps the best breakfast I ate in Germany, and then at the expense of fried pork sausages, which cannot be here by definition.
You are met at the entrance to the restaurant, seated at a table, poured juice, coffee, tea. Dirty dishes are cleaned very quickly. When there were few people, a Korean boy ran for us to get scrambled eggs. There are 4 rooms in total - 2 on the 1st and 2nd floor. All in a different style. Were in 3 of them. Pleasant music. Definitely "+". Self-catering is possible in many restaurants and eateries. We ate mostly fast food. Once we were in the restaurant "KAZAN" near the beach. Cooking quality is average. The price is high. Service is good. They don't accept cards - cash only. The shops are full. Any stall is called a supermarket. They accept bucks everywhere, but everyone has their own exchange rate and not in your favor. Try to pay with a card or change in shopping centers. We preferred to go to "Carrefour" - 10 min from the hotel. Dinners at the hotel for 3 people for 7 days would have cost us an extra $500. We ended up spending $200 on food.
Consider for yourself whether it is worth fooling around or better off immediately to the hotel.
Additional entertainment. There is no animation. But I don't need it, and it's even great that it is. The hotel has 2 private pools on the 3rd floor, Finnish and Turkish saunas, "rocking chair". Was once. Nothing remarkable. Nothing compares to the beach. On the beach of the "extortionists" - jet skis ($30 for 20 minutes), skiing ($30 for 15 minutes), fishing ($65 per person).
And further.
Were in the water park "WildWadi". AED 205 adult ticket + AED 25 for luggage box if needed. Water and food are confiscated at the entrance. Everything can be bought inside, but, accordingly, expensive. There are a lot of people - it's easy to be left without a sunbed, it's better to arrive early. Take a free shuttle from our hotel (departs at 11-00.17-00 and 21-00) to Deira City Center, then by metro to the Mall of the Emirates station (from our bus stop, cross the road and walk 100 meters further - descent, as in an underpass, the inscription is already inside "Train"), then by taxi.
Or from the "Deira City Center" immediately by taxi.
"Singing Fountains" (from 18-00 every half an hour for 1 composition), Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world), Dubai Mall (shopping, aquarium) - Take a free shuttle from our hotel (departs at 11-00.17-00 and 21-00 ) to "Deira City Center", then by metro to the station "Burj Khalifa / Dubai mall".
And further.
In the evening we missed the last hotel bus (departs from Derra City at 21-30). And I was already ready to fuck off the taxi driver for a trip to the neighboring emirate, but my wife found the best solution (and why, otherwise, wives are needed). We just found a bus of an unknown hotel in Sharjah, standing near Deira City. Tourists do not know each other anyway, the driver, especially. They drove to someone else's hotel in Sharjah, and from there a taxi to their own. All pleasure 10 dirhams))). So if you are late, do not despair, the buses of the "Seef beach hotel" and several others leave at 22-00.
Outcome.
I liked the rest, but there is room for improvement. Write, I will answer questions.
Travel agency "Let's go with us". Travel agency rating 7 (out of 10) - made me nervous with paperwork.
Host "Desert Adventure" - 3/10. At the airport, we were already met on the street on the way to the taxi stop. Many other companies met "their" immediately upon exiting the plane. The fact is that Sharjah is a major transit point on the way from Europe to India. In this regard, the main flow of people from the plane immediately rushed to land further. We remained in the middle of the terminal, frantically reading signs on signs. Some random representative of a completely different company helped. He showed us the queue for an eye scan (it was the first time in my life, there is no such procedure in Ukraine).
Then, passport control (they check the passport and put a stamp in the passport and on a copy of the visa), then some kind of passport control check (again they took passports and checked for stamps), then, baggage claim, then, most likely, customs (again, things shine through and "shmanat" pockets). At the exit, we met - you think the representative of the meeting party, it was not there - another "lost" tourist. And only when we left the airport with the intention of catching a taxi, as if from under the ground, a man "DA" appeared and handed us envelopes with hotel reservations and escorted us to the bus. The representative of "DA" who came to the hotel (Miroslava) was also not happy - she strongly offered excursions at fabulous prices. And I love to travel around the country myself. Therefore, he pestered her with questions - how best to get there and where the nearest metro station is and in which supermarket it is better to buy groceries.
Realizing that you won’t earn money on me, she answered questions reluctantly, in the style: “stop a taxi and say the address. ”
One last thing, before moving on to the description of the hotel. The flight Kyiv-Sharjah-Kyiv was with Airarabia. Everything is super, except for one thing - everything is paid on the plane, including all food and drinks, it remains to make paid toilets. Expensive and tasteless. You can save some money (according to the ads) by ordering food from them at www. airarabia. com before the flight.
Hotel. Urban. On the beautiful waterfront. A wonderful hall, where, as it turned out, live music in the evenings.
Russian-speaking girl Anya quickly and without additional stimulation issued a room overlooking the lagoon. But (do you also think that I'm nitpicking? ) for some reason I forgot to say when and where breakfast is and that there is a transfer to the beach and to Dubai. Thanks to this site.
The room is very good (1105), on the non-smoking 11th floor. Amazing view from the window. New furniture. All in the same style.
Several mirrors, a chest of drawers, a table, a wardrobe, a chair, an armchair, bedside tables, a TFT TV, air conditioning, a safe, an iron with an ironing board, scales, a kettle the paper will run out at an unexpected moment), a bathroom with a shower, a bidet. Everything is at its best. Among the shortcomings: the lack of a balcony and a small fungus in the corner in the bathroom, as a result of insufficient ventilation - the windows do not open, only air conditioning and an extractor hood - swimsuits hardly dry. Just VERY expensive internet. I was with a laptop, but I have never used it - I can not evaluate the quality. They brought a holey cot for the child, which folded as soon as I sat on it. Therefore, the three of us slept on 2 beds, fortunately, they are very wide. The cot was asked to be taken out of the room immediately.
Apparently, the lack of a 3rd bed forced the cleaners not to report the 3rd bottle of water and the 3rd set of towels daily, although I didn’t even buy 2 + 1, but 3 full adult vouchers.
Beach. As you probably already understood, the hotel is urban, that is, you need to go to the beach by transport. I must say that there is almost no urban transport in Sharjah - the country is rich and everyone gets there by their own cars. The streets are not intended for non-walkers - there are few sidewalks and almost no crossings and traffic lights. Crossing the road is history. In short, you need to go to the beach - either a hotel bus transfer or a taxi. Drive 5-7 minutes. Transfer at 8 and 9 am to the beach and back at 13-00. Tourists are mostly ours. We arrived in the UAE to bask on the white sand. There is a crush near the bus. Unpleasant. Taxi option to the beach - 10 dirhams (rate 3.66 dirhams for $ 1 in the exchange office and 3.48 at the hotel)
We were taken to the beach of the Beach Shardja Hotel. The sea is clean, 28-30 degrees. The sand is white.
To get towels, you need to receive special coupons at your hotel every day before leaving and hand them over at the beach hotel. The beach is busy, but the "boys" rush along the beach. So you won’t be left without a sun lounger or mattress. Once we just did not have an umbrella.
The contingent of the hotel, as mentioned above, is mainly from the CIS countries. But there are Germans, Arabs and others. Increased attention in these others and some kind of negativity or disregard for Russian-speakers was not noticed. Always impeccable courtesy.
Nutrition. We only had breakfast. I can judge the art of the cook only by the reviews of other tourists. Delicious but spicy. Breakfast was exactly the same 7 times, but rich and tasty. Better than any "Egypts / Turkeys" definitely. From Europe, perhaps the best breakfast I ate in Germany, and then at the expense of fried pork sausages, which cannot be here by definition.
You are met at the entrance to the restaurant, seated at a table, poured juice, coffee, tea. Dirty dishes are cleaned very quickly. When there were few people, a Korean boy ran for us to get scrambled eggs. There are 4 rooms in total - 2 on the 1st and 2nd floor. All in a different style. Were in 3 of them. Pleasant music. Definitely "+". Self-catering is possible in many restaurants and eateries. We ate mostly fast food. Once we were in the restaurant "KAZAN" near the beach. Cooking quality is average. The price is high. Service is good. They don't accept cards - cash only. The shops are full. Any stall is called a supermarket. They accept bucks everywhere, but everyone has their own exchange rate and not in your favor. Try to pay with a card or change in shopping centers. We preferred to go to "Carrefour" - 10 min from the hotel. Dinners at the hotel for 3 people for 7 days would have cost us an extra $500. We ended up spending $200 on food.
Consider for yourself whether it is worth fooling around or better off immediately to the hotel.
Additional entertainment. There is no animation. But I don't need it, and it's even great that it is. The hotel has 2 private pools on the 3rd floor, Finnish and Turkish saunas, "rocking chair". Was once. Nothing remarkable. Nothing compares to the beach. On the beach of the "extortionists" - jet skis ($30 for 20 minutes), skiing ($30 for 15 minutes), fishing ($65 per person).
And further.
Were in the water park "WildWadi". AED 205 adult ticket + AED 25 for luggage box if needed. Water and food are confiscated at the entrance. Everything can be bought inside, but, accordingly, expensive. There are a lot of people - it's easy to be left without a sunbed, it's better to arrive early. Take a free shuttle from our hotel (departs at 11-00.17-00 and 21-00) to Deira City Center, then by metro to the Mall of the Emirates station (from our bus stop, cross the road and walk 100 meters further - descent, as in an underpass, the inscription is already inside "Train"), then by taxi.
Or from the "Deira City Center" immediately by taxi.
"Singing Fountains" (from 18-00 every half an hour for 1 composition), Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world), Dubai Mall (shopping, aquarium) - Take a free shuttle from our hotel (departs at 11-00.17-00 and 21-00 ) to "Deira City Center", then by metro to the station "Burj Khalifa / Dubai mall".
And further.
In the evening we missed the last hotel bus (departs from Derra City at 21-30). And I was already ready to fuck off the taxi driver for a trip to the neighboring emirate, but my wife found the best solution (and why, otherwise, wives are needed). We just found a bus of an unknown hotel in Sharjah, standing near Deira City. Tourists do not know each other anyway, the driver, especially. They drove to someone else's hotel in Sharjah, and from there a taxi to their own. All pleasure 10 dirhams))). So if you are late, do not despair, the buses of the "Seef beach hotel" and several others leave at 22-00.
Outcome.
I liked the rest, but there is room for improvement. Write, I will answer questions.
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