Habtoor Grand Beach Resort Spa (United Arab Emirates Dubai): hotel description and reviews

Rest in the United Arab Emirates has long enjoyed high popularity. On the quality of services and prices, it is classified as elite. The city of Dubai, located in the emirate of the same name, is the country's leader in the development of tourism business. Most hotels here have a category of "5 stars" and are modern stylish high-rise buildings. One of them - Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph Collection. In this hotel, impressive with its grandeur and luxury, everything is provided for guests to feel not just tourists, but at least kings and queens. Exclusive rooms, a wide network of restaurants, in which the kitchens of dozens of countries are represented, SPA-salon, a huge perfectly well-groomed area and always ready to serve staff - that's what awaits here every guest.

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 stretches along the shores of the man-made bay. Its main attractions are skyscrapers, slender, and sometimes quite original forms rushing up. Approximately such a landscape will surround the guests of the hotel in question. It was built in 2005 on one of the small streets stretching between skyscrapers Al Falea Street. It rests on the larger Al-Mamsha Street, along which public transport runs. Nearby is the alluvial island of Palma Jumeirah. Geographically, the place where Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA is located is also an artificially created island, only it was not washed up like Palma, but separated from the mainland, the breakthrough of the artificial canal Dabai-Marina for the convenience of the owners of yachts that chose the Dubai Marina vacation spot. With the city it is connected by seven bridges. This island is considered the most fashionable in the city. Here everything is buried in luxury, and for tourists and residents built a metro station, shopping centers, embankment with many cozy restaurants, a port for yachts.

It's not hard to get to the hotel. In Dubai, 4.5 km from its historic center - Deira district, a new airport was built, one of the largest in the Middle East. Airliners from Russia come here all year round. The duration of the flight is only 5 hours. At the airport, organized tourists are met by the transfer of the travel agency, where the tour was purchased, and delivers to the hotel. The journey takes a maximum of half an hour.

general description

Hotel Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * perfectly fits and effectively complements the overall composition of the area of Dubai Marina, according to tourists, which is a forest of skyscrapers of the most original forms and designs. It includes two new buildings - towers in 25 ground floors each, located opposite each other and connected by a spectacular passage. On the roofs of buildings in the upper (25th) floor of the buildings are equipped recreation areas with a restaurant and a bar. Also in the infrastructure of the hotel are two more solid in terms of construction of two-story chalets. In the passage is arranged a royally chic hall, delighting in its size and striking with the richness and chic interior. Here everything, including marble floors and walls, shines and sparkles, many details of finishes, chandeliers, porticos, moldings are covered with gilding, in fresh floor vases there are always fresh exotic flowers. For the convenience of tourists in the lobby there are soft armchairs and sofas, tables, TV sets, commercial outlets.

Reception at the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph operates around the clock. Staff speak fluent 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-schooled, and what particularly appeals to them - they always smile very sincerely. At the reception you can exchange currency, quickly book a taxi or transfer to the center of Dubai (free), call a doctor, take the things to the dry cleaning, and valuables in the safe, rent a car, order a porter. Next to the reception there is a room furnished with sofas and armchairs where guests can leave their things and rest from the road guests who are not ready at the time of arrival. An important condition for registration - in this hotel must take a deposit of 1000 dihram. Depending on the course, this may amount to 15,000 - 17,000 thousand rubles. The deposit is blocked on the bank card. When using the services of the hotel, money is written off from it. Unblocking of the unused amount occurs after the return to Russia.

Infrastructure

Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph 5 * occupies a very large area. All of it, despite the very hot climate, is buried in flowers and greens. Here, throughout the year, huge ficuses and rhododendrons bloom, dozens of palm trees create the desired shadow, and the rumor is caressed by the singing of birds and the murmur of fountains. Among this magnificence the designers successfully placed 4 sleeping buildings, two swimming pools, tennis courts, squash courts, restaurants, free parking. In the buildings-towers of the hotel there are several restaurants, a complex for children, a SPA-salon, a newspaper and souvenir shops. For business meetings, meetings, negotiations, 4 conference rooms with a minimum capacity of 15 and a maximum of 100 people are provided. Each room is equipped with modern electrical equipment, a screen, microphones, comfortable furniture. If necessary, you can order a courier and a secretary. The hotel has a brilliant opportunity to note interestingly any significant event (wedding, anniversary, holiday). For this purpose there is a banquet hall for 1200 persons, which employees decorate, according to the theme of the celebration.

Number of rooms

For accommodation of tourists it is glad to offer 446 rooms of different level of comfort Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. Reviews about them are generally good, in their design the emphasis is on Arabian motifs using unusual lamps and vases, traditional low sofas with a lot of pillows.

The chalet offers the following room categories:

1. Resort Room area of 35 m ² . A view from the windows opens onto the hotel grounds. Equipment - bed, built-in wardrobe, table and small table, mirror, original lamps, air conditioning, small fridge with mini-bar. The hygiene room has a bath, a toilet, a bidet, a wash basin, bathrobes, slippers, hygiene kits (shampoo, lotion, shower gel, shaving gel, toothbrushes, toothpastes, shower cap). All this is replenished daily.
2. Delux Resort Garden area of 35 m ² . These rooms differ from the Resort Room design and the fact that the beds here are only double, large and comfortable, with lots of pillows.

In the towers of the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA Autograph, the room fund is more new than in the chalet, the views from the windows, especially on the upper floors, open to the bay and the city, and the large panoramic windows make the rooms light and unusually cozy. In the design of each of them used elements of Arab culture, the floors are carpeted, the walls are decorated with original displays.

Categories:

1. Tower Room area of 49 m ² . Layout - a zone for rest and sleep, an entrance hall, a living room, a hygiene room.
2. Room with Sea View 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. Replenishing daily.
3. Family Room area of 50 m ² . This room is for 4 people. Layout - bedroom, living room, hygiene room, hallway. There is a sofa in the living room.

Especially popular among tourists who chose Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA, are club rooms. According to tourists' reviews, they are more stylish, and in addition, club privileges are provided, including a free airport pick-up, a separate restaurant where breakfasts are served, in the afternoon free access to the lounge-cafe on the 25th floor, and in the evening free drinks.

Club Room area of 40 m2 (in some rooms there are 2 panoramic windows).

Sea View area of 40 m2 with stunning views of the surrounding area.

Suite area of 65 m2. Layout - entrance hall, living room, bedroom, bathroom, toilet. Between the bedroom and the living room there is a sliding door.

Tourists who booked rooms in the chalet, if desired, can change them to the numbers in the tower, but at the same time a surcharge of $ 500 is required.

Food

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 uppermost floors. Take a tour to the hotel can be with BB food systems, that is, only breakfast, HB, which means "breakfast and dinner" or at will "breakfast and lunch", FB - full board. Breakfast for the guests is organized according to the type of "self-service". The menu is very rich, includes dairy and sour-milk dishes, a large assortment of cheese-sausages in slicing, meat (lamb, veal, chicken), fish, vegetable dishes, various salads and vegetable sliced, from which vacationers can make themselves salads for their own taste. As a garnish served potatoes, pasta, corn, rice with sauces and without. For lunch, hot dishes are offered (soup, soup, soup). For sweet tooth, there is a large selection of cakes, cakes, all sorts of desserts, exotic fruits. Free drinks for breakfast - only water (except for those living in club rooms), other drinks need to be bought.

Many tourists try to take tours with a "breakfast only" meal at the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA. Dubai is a city where dozens of chic, exclusive and very simple restaurants work, so that everyone can choose the most suitable option for themselves. For those who do not want to go out into the city for snacks or full dinner-dinners, very creative Arabic, Italian, Thai, Oriental restaurants are located in the hotel under the shadow of exotic vegetation. They are exceptionally high-quality service, nice atmosphere, and the decoration uses the elements of decor, traditional for the country, which represents every restaurant. Cooks in them only the highest category.

In addition to restaurants, the hotel has an English pub, stylized as a London subway, and an Arabian cafe with an excellent hookah.

Leisure on site

Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * provides tourists with a rich choice of how to spend time without leaving the hotel walls. On its territory there are two adult pools, in one of them there is even a small bridge on which you can go to a nice island with a palm tree. Around the pools there is always a free sunbed with a mattress and an umbrella from the sun, so no one here takes them in advance. For even greater pleasure, there are bars near the house, where employees can serve the ordered drink directly to the tourist's place of rest. On the third floor of the hotel, just on the roof of the passage between the towers, there is another spacious and almost always unpopulated pool and perfectly clean water. Around it there are also sun beds and umbrellas, and a pleasant rest is complemented by the views of the surrounding area opening up from the top.

Sports fans have the opportunity to spend time on tennis or squash courts, in a billiard room, in a very well-equipped fitness room.

Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA guests can relax and get well 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 massage. Also in the SPA-complex there is a sauna, steam room, jacuzzi. There is also a beauty salon, where masks for face and décolletage are made, and procedures are performed for the skin of the whole body. Experienced interior masters are always ready to do a manicure-pedicure, a beautiful hairstyle or a haircut, professional make-up.

In the evenings a discotheque is arranged in the hotel, musicians, singers, dancers perform in restaurants. Another kind of animation is not provided.

Services for children

For small 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 for very young. Another for older children. This provides higher security and helps to avoid the situation when the kids because of older children do not have time to ride. In addition to the pool, the territory is bright and multifunctional, and therefore very attractive for children, a playground. In the building of one of the towers for children there is a children's club with a well-equipped game room. Parents for a fee can order (hourly) nurse.

Rooms are pre-booked with baby cots. The restaurant has a choice of dishes that suits children (except babies). A nice bonus of the hotel - for children up to 6 years do not need to pay, no accommodation, no food.

Leisure at the resort

Arriving in the UAE, expect to find here exotic many vacationers, including those who bought a tour in 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 is extremely popular, to which the guests of the hotel in question can reach by taxi or by metro. To the station you need to walk along the central street, not far from the hotel, 5 minutes, at most 7. The size of this center is amazing. Its area is 223 thousand square meters. Here you can buy exclusive and everyday products of leading brands, and in addition, have fun at attractions, even relax in a ski resort!

Another very popular place is the SEC "Dubai". Its dimensions are not less impressive. In this mall, in addition to a hundred and fifty shops, there is the "Gold Market", where they sell unique gold jewelry, the best in the country aquarium, a large children's entertainment complex.

According to tourists' reviews, Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 * is located in a very convenient location. Jumeirah, the most popular area in Dubai, almost merges with the Dubai Marina area, which is the hotel in question. Therefore, its guests can quickly and without additional costs get to the best recreation places Jumeirah - water park Wild Wadi area of 5 hectares, the only mosque where non-Muslims are allowed, the shopping center Jumeirah Plaza.

If you are interested not in shopping, but in the sights of the city, you can buy interesting excursion tours. Here are just some of them: Bastakiya, Fort Al-Fahidi, Palm Island. To the nearest of them, already fully completed and populated, guests can get no more than 5 minutes.

Independently, without buying a tour, you can also go and admire the tallest building in Dubai - Burj Khalifa, and singing, and in addition, a dancing fountain located next to it.

Beach

It is very important to consider weather conditions for everyone who buys tours in Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA 5 *. The UAE is a country in the Middle East, where the climate is heavily influenced by the vast desert area. High season here are the winter months, when the weather is about the same as in the suburbs in the summer, namely warm even can be said, hot days, cool nights, pleasant swimming water temperature in the bay (about 22 degrees), plus almost complete calm. From May to October in the UAE, the season is considered low, so the prices for all are also low. The reason is strong 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 the healthy people can not tolerate. Rest on the beach at this time is impossible, because it does not save even the sea, the water temperature which reaches +35 degrees. At this time, Dubai is comfortable only in those rooms where air conditioners work, for example, in the "Mall of the Emirates", where you can even go skiing and playing snowballs.

In the high season, lasting in the UAE from the first of October to about mid-May, beach rest is ideal. Habtoor Grand Beach Resort SPA is a hotel built almost on the shore of the bay and has its own beach area. As the tourists note, there is perfectly clean and very soft, sand-like sand, but you can walk barefoot only in the morning. In the daytime it gets so hot that you need to shoe beach shoes. The disadvantage of the beach is that sun beds and umbrellas are located about 100 meters from the water's edge. But it's very good to swim here, as the setting in the sea is smooth, stones, jellyfish and seaweed are not, but the water is so salty that it burns the eyes. After bathing it must be washed off.

For the convenience of the hotel guests, there is a bar on the beach. 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 of young people, older people, families with children. His rating averaged 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, fruit baskets and bottles of champagne (except for the children's birthday) to newlyweds, birthday people and regular customers. The advantages of the hotel are as follows:

- Beautiful territory, large, well-groomed, always clean, very beautiful;

- a luxurious hotel, everything is sparkling and glitters, around is the perfect cleanliness;

- very helpful and well-trained, always smiling staff;

- remarkable rooms, spacious, with panoramic windows, with functioning plumbing and electrical equipment;

- new white bed linen;

- a wide range of hygiene products in the bathroom;

- excellent restaurants, delicious food;

- very varied breakfasts, dishes for every taste;

- good swimming pools, lots of free sunbeds;

- various services for children;

- a wonderful beach, the water is always clean, the depth is not from the shore, which is convenient for kids.

The shortcomings noted in the Habtoor Grand Beach Resort are:

- blocking a deposit on the bank card, the unlocking of which, even if nothing has been removed from it, occurs only in Russia;

- in the chalet rooms are somewhat gloomy, uncooked, generally uncomfortable;

- too expensive all drinks, including water;

- The location of the hotel buildings far from the beach (walk to it about 5 minutes, which is not quite convenient in the heat, especially with children);

- beds are far from water;

- on the beach can be present not only hotel guests;

- frequent discos in neighboring bars, which prevents a rest;

- lack of animation;

- the rooms can be cleaned late enough (about 4 pm).

However, despite the small shortcomings, this hotel is a great choice for those who decided to spend their holidays in the wonderful country of the UAE.