A wonderful hotel with courteous staff. We stayed in November 2023.
Pros: clean and cozy room with good repair and air conditioning, high-quality daily room cleaning, 5 minutes from Deira City Center metro station, delicious breakfasts (although the menu does not differ from one day to another, the number of different dishes to choose from is quite large), free shuttle service from the hotel to Al Mausar beach, which you can book the next day in the lobby of the Novotel, a pleasant pool (shared by Ibis and Novotel).
Good hotel, price-quality ratio.
The food on the buffet is very tasty, plus that you can take small portions, for example, cakes and desserts are diced like canapes, you can try several flavors.
Decent spacious comfortable rooms, yes, Deira is not the central district itself, but the price is lower, and there in general by metro (or taxi), in general, not far around the city
+ there is a transfer to Al Mamzar Beach (Al Mamzar Beach Park) and back every morning (although there are days on this beach when only women are allowed), but if you go a little further there is a free part of this park with a beach
There is something to compare it with, I previously stayed in another hotel (not in a chain hotel in Deira), so, this is heaven and earth. I recommend this hotel.
Of the minuses, glass doors to the shower and a fairly small pool on the roof (for nothing), but when there are trips to a chic beach, this pool is not particularly relevant.
Nice hotel. Although there were minor drawbacks. Plumbing is already asking for repairs.
But, BREAKFAST is wonderful! I have stayed at the Novotel in Europe many times and there has never been such a delicious breakfast as in Dubai.
Thank you for the great mood for the whole day.
The pool and gym are also very good.