Aloft Palm Jumeirah

The hotel has a great view into the city, a beautiful design, many leisure offers inside: a billiard table, a pool with a nice cafe outside, press to read, a bar with a wide screen and more. The beach is nearby as well. The room is very nicely made and has a very appealing design with a great view into the city. The people we have met in the hotel were very welcoming. We would like to express our gratitude to a travel consultant Abdel in the hotel, a true professional who has greeted us so nicely, helped to organize our time and trips in UAE, and really cared for us to have the best experiences, we really appreciate his effort and doing his job so well. Our interaction with him left us very memorable and great impressions. The service was fantastic, really nice, warm and smiling people made our time there unforgettable, we would like to give special thanks to Tini, Suni and Biraj for showing us so much care, good will and warmness. The food was absolutely brilliant with great variety every day and everything so tasty, we would like to give special thanks to chief Imam for cooking special delicious things for us and also for chatting with us and giving us such great time.

Great location and probably the closest / best view of Dubai and the Burj Kalifa from the Palm. Pro.- Seem to be trying to do their bit to reduce plastic waste. Great shower room. Nice veranda, Quiet aircon in room. Con. - The website photo doesn't show that there is a road just beyond the glass screen by the pool, great if you are into construction traffic and reversing bleepers for the construction site next door. The hotel beach (sandy very nice) is actually approx 200m away out of the hotel across the road down a service road of the hotel opposite. It has great views of the inside of the Palm, but a long way back to your room if you have forgotten something. The hotel restaurant is rather like a cafeteria and the Mexican restaurant on the roof is ok if you like eating in the dark being blasted with music. The food was good though. Think of it as an IKEA hotel without the meatballs and chips.

This is a nice hotel if you're on a budget - it is close to the beach and they offer free shuttles to the mall and other beaches. The food at the hotel is very expensive and overpriced but we soon found out that everything in that area is expensive... The staff are tentative and very friendly. However, the reason that I have only given this hotel three star is because it was frustrating at times in the evening when we couldn't sit outside by the pool and bar area - we felt restricted and it's a shame as it's a lovely place to hang out in the evenings. One time we ordered McDonald's and there was literally no one else outside by the pool and we were told we weren't allowed to eat our own food and had to take it to our rooms. I understand it is their policy but honestly there was no one there and it was dark outside so they could have made an exception. Another time we wanted to sit outside but they said it was closed off which was again made us feel like there wasn't any where else inside the hotel for us. They do have a nice lobby area but when you're on holiday, it's nice to be able to sit outside and enjoy the breeze. The hotel has its own beach a few minutes walk away - again felt restricted as they started packing up all the sun beds just before sunset and we were enjoying just laying there. I guess it just depends on the time of year you go - definitely visit when there's longer days! There is a hotel being built on the beach so also bare this in mind if you're looking for a relaxing quite time at the beach - take headphones / earplugs! The rooms do look bigger in pictures so if you're booking a family room - bare this in mind as most of the family sized rooms don't come with a balcony and sea view which we didn't know until we got there. There was three of us and we weren't happy with the first room - the hotel staff were nice enough to move our room the next day - however it meant three of us had to squeeze across two single beds (but we were fine with that as it meant we had a balcony and didn't feel enclosed in a small room). Overall I would recommend the hotel, just make sure you book a room with sea view, as the other rooms don't have a great view and all you can see is construction work going on - which isn't a great vibe on vacation!