Lords - Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

We stopped over in Dubai for 2 nights on our way back from Oz and found the amenities excellent, great breakfast, lovely bedroom with good sized beds.Roof top swimming pool was excellent. Trying to book again for next February and looking forward to great hospitality again.

This is not a good hotel!! It is only a 2.5 star max. The location is in old Dubai which features very few of teh post card spots that you want to visit in Dubai. This is a run down part of town that is very noisy especially at night as there seems to be a fashion of every driver in town beeping their horn even late at night. The hotel is also run down and stinks of stale tobacco. It is full of oafish and surly Russians and it is definatly true that they get prefered service by the staff. The food is rubbish, and if you are compelled to stay here you simply must eat away from here. The Breakfast is very limited and was cold every morning we ate here. The pool is ugly - just don't bother. English is not understood here and we simply gave up after a while - we even had to take it upon ourselves to hail cabs. All in all this was a poor experience and poorly reflected Dubai and its luxurious excesses. I would absolutely recommend that if you are going to Dubai then pay more and go for something close to Jemeriah beach (where all of the action is). The only things worth seeing in old Dubai are the Gold markets and teh museum - this can be done in 3-4 hours. Tip - best restaurant in Town is Meat Co. Look it up or Google and make a reservation before you go - you won't be disappointed.