Back in the Emirates

Written: 11 october 2011
Travel time: 12 — 25 september 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Recently returned with his wife from the United Arab Emirates (vacated in September 2011). We were there for the fourth time in the last 4 years - well, we love this country! This time we went to Sharjah (it is very close to Dubai, it is practically the same city, although formally it is a different emirate), we stayed at the Sharjah Grand Hotel. We bought in Natalie Tours, the manager praised this option for us. The hotel is fully consistent with the description, photos and positive reviews about it. Nice clean area, comfortable beach, perfect cleanliness in the rooms, good breakfasts. There is no eternal problem of hotels, when you hear everything that your neighbors are doing - the sound insulation is surprisingly good.

The entry into the water is gentle, even, the sand is fine, the water was sooo warm, so warm that I wanted to be colder - there is a pool for this, it cools there, as I understand it.

Two more undoubted pluses for us: Russian-speaking staff (my wife and I do not speak languages) - at the reception you could always find someone who understood us. And the second plus is a free shuttle (bus) not only to the malls of Sharjah, but also to Dubai. Of course, you can always take a taxi, but a decent amount will accumulate in two weeks. Yes, and traffic jams happen (because of them, taxi rides become more expensive), although, of course, there are much fewer of them than in 2007, for example, when everything really stopped.

Service at the hotel is excellent, a fundamentally different level than in the same Turkey. There is nothing to say about shopping, for the sake of it my wife dragged me to the Emirates. The hotel has no animation, and Sharjah has a strict prohibition, so this is an option for a quiet, relaxed holiday with trips to the city, where there is certainly something to see and experience.
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