“Nice Place Near Mall of Emirates”

This hotel is designed for business travelers on extended stays. The room had a kitchen, living room area and balcony. Maybe too much space for a true budget option, but inexpensive and clean. The staff was neither pushy nor absent, and were all extremely pleasant. Were I visiting Dubai with my family, this hotel lacks enough character to make it stand out, but if a room at the Mina a Salaam Jumeirah was out of reach, this would be a perfectly good place to stay. The hotel is near a metro stop, an easy walk to Mall of the Emirates (where they have the skiing). The only problem is that there is no neighborhood, per se. There are apartment buildings and hotels, but everything in Dubai is so manufactured, there is little character to anything. I wish I had been able to find a hotel in the old Souk area.