Dubai hotels

[valzc]

We are staying a few days in Dubai in November on way back from World Cup, can anyone suggest a good reasonable hotel as have no idea what Dubai is like.

[shasta]

This one looks passable. Only around $1500 per nite too.

[valzc]

I was looking for something a bit more upmarket.

[brokendown gunfighter]

We are staying a few days in Dubai in November on way back from World Cup, can anyone suggest a good reasonable hotel as have no idea what Dubai is like.

hot,very very hot!

[travelling_gerry]

My brother built this one...its a bit out of town.

http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Hotel_..._of_Dubai.html

[hertryk]

The Trade Winds.. reasonable, quite well placed... and if you're there during Ramadan they still look after you..

[Sheikh]

There are a few hotels in Dubai which aren't 5* or 6* and which might be reasonable. The Burj al Arab is very nice (although I've not stayed there myself) but that will be ~$3000 a night, minimum.

Depends if you want to be in Dubai or one of the suburbs (there is now a pretty good rail system, and my experience of taxis in Dubai is good - plentiful and cheap-ish). Le Meridian is right by the airport and is only(!) $225 a night and I found a couple of hotels in Dubai at similar prices (eg, Arabian Courtyard, which is a bit older). Go out to Media City (between Dubai and the Palms) and you can find hotels for ~$150 a night (I think I stayed in the Gloria, but it was a while ago). Media City has no night-life so everywhere will be a taxi ride, possibly negating any savings on the room.

Get onto a hotel comparison site (eg, Agoda or Wotif) and you can quickly see what the various prices in each area are. I think you'll have to be unlucky to find a poor hotel in Dubai these days as they simply won't stay in business if they aren't good, it just depends on how much luxury your wallet can afford!

[shasta]

I was looking for something a bit more upmarket.

You might want to check out Sheik's first selection then.

I remembered the aquarium job from a TV piece about the Wallaroos staying there. Might have been for the 7's World Cup. That was the team hotel. Lucky girls! No wonder they won it.

[travelling_gerry]

Or skip Dubai and go directly to the Maldives where my brothers next project is just opening. Ask for friends and family rate.

http://www.amilla.mv/

[valzc]

Or skip Dubai and go directly to the Maldives where my brothers next project is just opening. Ask for friends and family rate.

http://www.amilla.mv/

Bloody TG - what is he a Farouk!

[brokendown gunfighter]

bloody(Mal)dive

[shasta]

Or skip Dubai and go directly to the Maldives where my brothers next project is just opening. Ask for friends and family rate

Someone should tell a moderator about all this spamming.

[Burgs]

Friends and family rate, what's that, only $1100/night?

[The InnFORCEr]

So that's where Gupta has syphoned all our vcash off to