Новая грань Эмиратов A new facet of the Emirates

Opened the Emirates from another side. I did not think that there are hotels of this level. Although it is difficult to call IT a hotel, it is rather a roadside motel, but not a three-star one. When they brought him from the airport, the tourists who were traveling with us to the Radisson SAS shuddered. It stands near the road leading to the port, the exit to it is not paved, but is sand with small pebbles. The motel consists of houses, such as "barracks", located in a lowland, and only red roofs, similar to warehouses, are visible from the road, so that it would be more noticeable to tourists, they installed a tower with a box at the top, along which they found where to turn. Many taxi drivers are not even aware of its existence. We go inside, the hope is glimmering that it will be more decent inside (as in the photo in the advertisement). But the way to the room lies through the utility room, part-time with the kitchen, judging by the trash cans, buckets of rags and the smell of flies.
The door to the room also did not bode well. The room is spacious, but the tiles on the floor (without carpets) are the same as in the bathroom. Cabinets, apparently inherited from Soviet hotels in the mid-80s, along with a layer of dust on the upper shelves. On the TV, electrical tape is glued in the corners, apparently they dropped it and the panel with the kinescope does not hold well. At that time it was not so hot and air conditioning, praise be to Allah, was not needed. Otherwise, you would have to choose stuffiness or smell from the conder. The bathroom had a kind of ventilation - a hole in the wall, and a propeller in it, a great view of Sharjah! And from Sharjah. : )) Under it is a toilet, with a non-working drain system, i. e. water flows, but little goes inside. Toilet lid won't stay up. You can’t really wash in the sink, because the faucet is located so that the jet flows close to the sink. Shampoo bags that can only be opened with scissors. And the finishing touch, black mold in the corners of the tub.
Dining room (this is not a restaurant! , because in some Russian school canteens both food and furnishings are better) as they say in the advertisement, with Russian cuisine. For the first time we got to dinner and there was some kind of shock - the buffet included cutlets, pasta and two cucumber salads, cut in different ways, and one of them had onions, and the second was seasoned with sour cream. And water. Everything. On other days, the ration was slightly larger, but the quality was that of a canteen. Coffee in a jar, there is no question of juices (concentrates please, but only in the morning), fruits are watermelons, bananas cut with peel mixed with peeled oranges, jelly, which had to be extracted from the plate by force, its remains went to the next meal, but mixed with bananas. For some reason, clean cups and plates quickly ran out, although there were not many people. There is a fridge with drinks, but this is already paid. No one is in a hurry to clean up used dishes. There is also a good pool, the insects liked the same thing - they swim regularly. You can sit nearby in the shade on a bench, smoke, the urn is nearby. Flies will not let you get bored either. In the hall there is a billiard table without balls, "antique" furniture, and a grandfather clock, which for some reason shows Kabul time (half an hour behind).

I agreed to rent a car for a new Civic, drove a Corolla with a mileage of 64.000 km, no wheel alignment, and all scratched for $ 35, with insurance, but in the event of an accident they explained that I would have to pay. In a nearby hotel, cars with full insurance for $ 30. The bus from the hotel went only to Dubai 3 times a week, took away for seven hours, but did not always take it back. 400 meters to the beach along the road with trucks to the hotel "Golden Beach".
Paid $1960, for a week, double room.
The motel belongs to AL KHALIDIA TOURISM. During the trip last time I took a tour from them, according to the level of organization it was clear that it was better not to get involved, but I ran into it. The time for the transfer to the airport was strictly scheduled - "not approximately, but at 13.00 exactly to be with the suitcases in the lobby. " We sit and wait, the arrows crossed “exactly 13.00” already about ten minutes ago. Then a family of vacationers comes in from the beach and asks us - are you ready? We asked how long their flight was, it turned out to be 2 hours later than ours. I'm going to bother the representative of the company, it's not surprising that for the sake of economy they wanted to send us on the same transport at an average time. Somehow she called the driver, noticing that we had driven a separate passenger car for you. We flew to two different cities, and there was a possibility that from different terminals (1 and 2), but the driver took me to the first one and said: “Get out here, and if in the second one you will take a taxi here nearby, a maximum of 5 others, but I need hurry". This is called a paid airport shuttle. But both ended up from this terminal.
A special "thank you" to the Moscow agency ART TOUR, which organized this trip. Their work is a separate "song".