Holidays in the United Arab Emirates have long been very popular. By the quality of the services provided and the prices it is considered to be elite. The city of Dubai, located in the emirate of the same name, is a leader in the country in the development of the tourism business. Most hotels here have a category of "5 stars" and are modern stylish high-rises. One of them is the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph Collection. This hotel, impressing with its grandeur and luxury, provides everything so that guests feel not just resting tourists, but at least kings and queens. Exclusive rooms, a wide network of restaurants that present the cuisines of dozens of countries, a spa, a huge ideally well-groomed area and always ready to help staff - this is what awaits every guest here.
Location, how to get there
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph Collection is located in a promising area of the city called Dubai Marina, which is located on the banks of the man-made bay. Its main attractions are skyscrapers, slender, and sometimes quite original forms rush up. Approximately such a landscape will surround the guests of the hotel in question. It was built in 2005 on one of the small, stretching between the skyscrapers of Al Falea Street. It rests on the larger al-Mamsha street, which runs public transport. Nearby is the alluvial island of Palm Jumeirah. Geographically, the place where the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA is located is also an artificially created island, but it was not washed away like Palm, but was separated from the mainland, breaking through the artificial channel Dabay - Marina for the convenience of owners of yachts who chose Dubai Marina as a vacation destination. Seven bridges connect it to the city. This island is considered the most fashionable in the city. Everything here is buried in luxury, and for tourists and residents a metro station, shopping centers, a promenade with many cozy restaurants, a port for yachts have been built.
Getting to the hotel is easy. A new airport, one of the largest in the Middle East, has been built in Dubai, 4.5 km from its historic center - Deira. Airliners from Russia arrive here all year round. The flight duration is only 5 hours. At the airport, organized tourists are greeted by the transfer of the travel agency where the tour was purchased and delivered to the hotel. The road takes a maximum of half an hour.
general description
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * hotel fits perfectly and effectively complements the overall composition of the Dubai Marina area, according to tourists, which is a forest of skyscrapers of the most original shapes and designs. It includes two new buildings - towers of 25 ground floors each, located opposite each other and connected by a spectacular transition. On the roofs of buildings in the upper (25th) floor of the buildings are equipped recreation areas with a restaurant and a bar. The hotel infrastructure also includes two more solid two-story chalets in terms of construction time. The passage is equipped with a royal royal chic lounge, delighting with its size and striking with the richness and chic of the interior. Everything here, including marble floors and walls, shines and sparkles, many trim details, chandeliers, porticoes, stucco work are covered with gilding, in exotic tall floor vases there are always fresh exotic flowers. For the convenience of tourists, soft chairs and sofas, tables, televisions are installed in the lobby, retail outlets are open.
The reception at the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph operates around the clock. Employees are fluent in English, but few know Russian, which causes difficulties in obtaining services. But the impression of communicating with employees is always favorable, since they are all well-trained, and what is especially impressive is that they always smile very sincerely. At the reception you can exchange currency, quickly order a taxi or transfer to the center of Dubai (free of charge), call a doctor, hand things in dry cleaning, and valuables in a safe, rent a car, order a porter. Near the reception there is a room, furnished with sofas and armchairs, where guests can leave their belongings and relax off the road, whose rooms are not ready by the time of arrival. An important condition for registration - at this hotel must take a deposit of 1000 dichrams. Depending on the course, this may amount to 15,000 - 17,000 thousand rubles. The deposit is blocked on a bank card. When using the hotel services money is debited from it. Unlocking the unused amount occurs upon return to Russia.
Infrastructure
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph 5 * occupies a very large territory. All of it, despite the very hot climate, is buried in flowers and greenery. Huge ficuses and rhododendrons bloom all year round, dozens of palm trees create the desired shadow, and birds singing and the murmur of fountains caress the ears. Among this magnificence, designers successfully placed 4 dormitories, two swimming pools, tennis courts, squash courts, restaurants, and free parking. In the tower buildings of the hotel there are several restaurants, a complex for children, a spa, newspaper and gift shops. For business meetings, meetings, negotiations are provided 4 conference rooms with a capacity of at least 15, maximum 100 people. Each hall is equipped with modern electrical equipment, a screen, microphones, comfortable furniture. If necessary, you can order the services of a courier and secretary. The hotel has a brilliant opportunity to interestingly mark any significant event (wedding, anniversary, holiday). To do this, there is a banquet hall for 1200 people, which employees decorate, according to the theme of the celebration.
Number of rooms
For accommodation of tourists I am pleased to offer 446 rooms of various levels of comfort Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. Reviews about them are generally good, in their design the emphasis is on Arabic motifs using unusual lamps and vases, traditional low sofas with many pillows.
The following room categories are available in the chalet:
- Resort Room with an area of 35 m 2 . The windows overlook the hotel. Equipment - a bed, a built-in wardrobe, a table and a small table, a mirror, original lamps, air conditioning, a small refrigerator with a minibar (a price list for the drinks available in it is provided, payment is withdrawn from the deposit), a balcony (in 50% of rooms). The hygiene room has a bath, toilet, bidet, washbasin, bathrobes, slippers, sets of hygiene products (shampoo, lotion, shower gel, shaving gel, toothbrushes, toothpastes, shower cap). All this is replenished daily.
- Delux Resort Garden with an area of 35 m 2 . These rooms differ from the Resort Room in design and in that there are only double beds, large and comfortable, with many pillows.
In the towers of the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph, the number of rooms is newer than in the chalet, the views from the windows, especially on the upper floors, open to the bay and the city, and large panoramic windows make the rooms bright and unusually cozy. The design of each of them uses elements of Arabic culture, carpeted floors, and walls decorated with original expositions.
Categories:
- Tower Room with an area of 49 m 2 . Layout - a zone for rest and sleep, an entrance hall, a living room, a hygiene room.
- Room with Sea View with an area of 40 m 2 . These rooms have small balconies, and the equipment also includes an electric kettle and a set of coffee-tea-sugar. Replenished daily.
- Family Room with an area of 50 m 2 . This number is for 4 persons. Layout - bedroom, living room, hygiene room, hallway. The living room has a fold-out sofa.
Club rooms are especially popular with tourists choosing the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA. According to tourists, they are more stylish, and in addition, they provide club privileges, including a free transfer from the airport, a separate restaurant where breakfast is served, free access to the lounge cafe on the 25th floor during the day, and free drinks in the evening.
Club Room with an area of 40 m2 (in some rooms there are 2 panoramic windows).
Sea View 40 m2 with stunning views of the surroundings.
Suite with an area of 65 m2. Layout - entrance hall, living room, bedroom, bathroom, toilet. There is a sliding door between the bedroom and the living room.
Tourists who have booked rooms in the chalet, if desired, can change them to rooms in the tower, but an additional charge of at least $ 500 is required.
Nutrition
In Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * there are 7 restaurants, cafes, bars, hookah.
They are located on the territory and in the tower buildings on the third and highest floors. You can take a tour to the hotel with BB food systems, that is, only breakfast, HB, which means “breakfast and dinner” or optionally “breakfast and lunch”, FB - full board. Breakfast for guests is organized as a "self-service". The menu is very rich, includes dairy and sour-milk dishes, a large assortment of sliced sausages, meat (lamb, veal, chicken), fish, vegetable dishes, various salads and vegetable slices, from which vacationers can make their own salads. As a side dish served potatoes, pasta, corn, rice with and without sauces. For lunch, hot dishes (borscht, soups, ear) are offered. For sweet tooth there is a large selection of cakes, pastries, all kinds of desserts, exotic fruits. Free drinks for breakfast - only water (except for those living in club rooms), the remaining drinks need to be bought.
Many tourists try to take breakfast-only meals at the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA. Dubai is a city where dozens of chic, exclusive and very unpretentious restaurants work, so everyone can choose the most suitable option for themselves. For those who do not want to go out to the city for snacks or full-fledged lunch-dinners, very creative Arabic, Italian, Thai, and Oriental restaurants are located on the hotel territory under the canopy of exotic vegetation. They have exceptionally high-quality service, a pleasant atmosphere, and the decoration uses elements of decor traditional for the country each restaurant represents. Cooks in them are only the highest category.
In addition to restaurants, the hotel has an English pub, styled as a London subway, and an Arabian cafe with excellent hookah.
Leisure on site
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * provides tourists with a wide choice of how to spend time without leaving the walls of the hotel. On its territory there are two adult pools, in one of them there is even a small bridge through which you can go to a pretty island with a palm tree. Around the pools there is always a free sunbed with a mattress and a parasol, so no one here takes them in advance. For even greater enjoyment, bars are located nearby, the workers of which can serve the ordered drink directly to the tourist's resting place. On the third floor of the hotel, just on the roof of the transition between the towers, there is another spacious and almost always sparsely populated pool and perfectly clear water. Around it are also loungers and umbrellas, and a pleasant vacation is complemented by views from the heights of the surroundings.
Sports enthusiasts have the opportunity to spend time on tennis or squash courts, in the billiard room, in the very well-equipped fitness room.
Guests of the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA can relax and recover in a wonderful SPA complex located in one of the tower buildings. There are massage parlors, in which specially trained personnel perform various types of massage, including Ayurvedic. Also in the SPA complex there is a sauna, steam room, jacuzzi. There is also a beauty salon where they make masks for the face and décolleté, carry out procedures for the skin of the whole body. Experienced salon masters are always ready to do manicure, pedicure, beautiful hair or haircut, professional makeup.
In the evenings, a disco is organized in the hotel, and musicians, singers, and dancers perform in restaurants. Another type of animation is not provided.
Services for children
For young guests offers a variety of services Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA. Reviews of parents about the organization of leisure of their children are only positive. So, on the territory of the hotel there is a children's pool with two water slides. One of them is for the very young. Another for older kids. This provides higher safety and helps to avoid a situation where babies do not have time to ride due to older children. In addition to the pool, the territory is equipped with a bright and multi-functional, and therefore very attractive playground for children. In the building of one of the towers for children there is a kids club with a well-equipped games room. Parents can reserve a (hourly) babysitter for a fee.
Please note that cots are available in advance rooms. The restaurant has a selection of dishes that is suitable for children (except infants). A nice bonus of the hotel is that for children under 6 years old you do not need to pay, neither accommodation nor meals.
Leisure at the resort
Arriving in the UAE, many vacationers expect to find exotic here, including those who bought a tour to the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. Dubai always lives up to their expectations. Among the tourists and the local population, the Mall of the Emirates center is extremely popular, to which guests of the hotel in question can take a taxi or metro. You need to go to the station along the main street, which runs near the hotel, for about 5 minutes, maximum 7. The dimensions of this center are amazing. Its area is 223 thousand m2. Here you can buy exclusive and everyday products of leading brands, and in addition, have fun on the rides, even relax in the ski resort!
Another very visited place is the Dubai Mall. Its dimensions are no less impressive. In this shopping center, in addition to one and a half hundred stores, there is a “Golden Market” where they sell unique gold jewelry, the country's best oceanarium, and a large children's entertainment complex.
According to tourists, in a very convenient location is Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. Jumeirah, the most popular area in Dubai, almost merges with the Dubai Marina area, where the hotel in question is located. Therefore, its guests can quickly and without unnecessary costs get to the best places of rest in Jumeirah - the Wild Wadi water park with an area of 5 hectares, the only mosque where non-Muslims are allowed, the shopping center of Jumeirah Plaza.
If you are interested not in shopping, but in the sights of the city, you can buy interesting sightseeing tours. Here are just a few of them: Bastakia, Al Fahidi Fort, Palm Islands. To the nearest of them, already fully completed and populated, guests can get no more than 5 minutes.
On your own, without buying an excursion, you can also go to admire the highest building in Dubai - the Burj Khalifa, and the singing, and in addition, a dancing fountain located next to it.
Beach
It is very important to take into account the weather conditions for everyone buying tours in the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. The UAE is a country in the Middle East, where the climate is greatly affected by a vast desert area. The high months here are the winter months, when the weather is about the same as in the Moscow region in summer, namely, warm even can be said, hot days, cool nights, pleasant for swimming water temperature in the bay (about +22 degrees), plus almost full calm. From May to October in the UAE, the season is considered low, so all prices are also low. The reason is the intense heat. In July, the air temperature here reaches +45 degrees in the shade, there is no rain at all, but at the same time high humidity, which even healthy people can hardly tolerate. Rest on the beach at this time is impossible, because even the sea does not save, the water temperature in which reaches +35 degrees. At this time, Dubai is comfortable only in those rooms where air conditioning works, for example, in the “Mall of the Emirates”, where you can even go skiing and play snowballs.
In the high season, lasting in the UAE from the first days of October to about mid-May, a beach holiday is perfect. Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA - a hotel built almost on the shore of the bay and having its own section of the beach. According to tourists, the sand is ideally clean and very soft, pleasant for feet, but you can walk on it barefoot only in the morning. In the afternoon, it heats up so much that you need to put beach shoes on your feet. The disadvantage of the beach is that sunbeds and umbrellas are located about 100 meters from the water's edge. But swimming here is very good, since the entry into the sea is smooth, there are no stones, jellyfish and algae, but the water is so salty that it plucks your eyes. After swimming, it must be washed off.
For the convenience of guests of the hotel on the beach there is a bar. Drinks and snacks in it are paid. Nearby there are other bars and several restaurants.
Reviews
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA is a hotel recommended for recreation for young people, older people, families with children. His rating is an average of 8.6-8.8 points out of 10 possible. It is especially pleasant that the hotel gives pleasant compliments in the form of a cake, a fruit basket and a bottle of champagne (except for children’s birthday) to newlyweds, birthday men and regular customers. Most advantages of the hotel, noted in most reviews:
- beautiful territory, large, well-groomed, always clean, very beautiful;
- a luxury hotel, everything sparkles and shines, all around is perfect cleanliness;
- very helpful well-trained, always smiling staff;
- wonderful rooms, spacious, with panoramic windows, with functioning plumbing and electrical equipment;
- new snow-white bedding;
- A wide range of hygiene products in the bathroom;
- great restaurants, great food;
- a very diverse breakfast, dishes for every taste;
- good pools, many free sunbeds;
- A variety of services for children;
- a wonderful beach, the water is always clean, the depth is not from the shore, which is convenient for kids.
Deficiencies noted at the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA:
- blocking of a deposit on a bank card, the unlocking of which, even if nothing was removed from it, occurs only in Russia;
- the rooms in the chalet are somewhat dark, raw, generally uncomfortable;
- all drinks, including water, are too expensive;
- the location of the hotel buildings is far from the beach (it’s about 5 minutes to go to it, which is not very convenient in the heat, especially with children);
- sunbeds far from the water;
- on the beach not only hotel guests can be present;
- frequent discos in neighboring bars, which interferes with a relaxing holiday;
- lack of animation;
- Room cleaning can be done quite late (around 4 pm).
However, despite the small flaws, this hotel is a great choice for those who decide to spend a vacation in the wonderful country of the UAE.