Recently back from a 3 night stay. This was our first time in Dubai. The hotel is less than 5km from the airport and a 15-20minute drive depending on the traffic, about 9USD. The rooms are very nice, pretty much your typical JW business hotel. Great comfortable beds, our room faced the airport runways, so obviously no view. The windows are double glazed so you never heard any street/airport noise. However the hallways were not so quiet. Beware of weekend stays, the hotel has alot of weddings. It is connected to the Hamarain shopping center, which has a food court and 2 levels of shops. There is no coffee in the room like the US Marriotts have, the Vienna Cafe in the lobby has a nice selection of coffee and pastries. We ate in Cucina the Italian restaurant and had excellent pizza. Also had dinner at Bamboo Lagoon, which is a buffet with various cooking stations of Asian type foods and a fabulous desset assortment. Prices vary with or without alcohol in all the hotel restaurants. The hotel offers a fabulous deal if you want to spend a day at the beach. You can book with the lobby concierge the day before and for 21USD we received transportation (private BMW sedan) to the Jumeriah beach area (Le Meridien hotel) given a gift bag with assorted items to use at the beach. You are dropped off at 1000 and picked us at 1600. We were given cold lavender towels and cold Perrier water for our drive back, (A regular taxi ride is about 25USD oneway) so this is quite a bargain. The JW is in a crummy location, so if you want to get away for the day, would highly recommend this day trip. Also the hotel offers 1/2 and 3/4 day rates due to the large percentage of late night flight departures. We checked out before 1900 and were only charged a half day. Nice touch. I personally found the fitness room small, and the roof top pool okay, can get crowded quickly. The staff are great and anticpate your needs. My only negative comment is on a personal level, smoking is allowed just about everywhere. Smoking/non-smoking sections in restaurants are in theory only. Do not like to eat my meals with second hand smoke, other than the that and the poor location, this JW is a great place to stay, just wish it was on the beach.

Stayed here July 18-20.

It was my first time to Dubai, and on the map it seemed to be a good location, but the scale of my map was not sufficient! For the life of me, I can't figure out why this hotel is located where it is, except to be 15-20 minutes from the airport. Otherwise, there is nothing nearby that I saw, having walked around a few times. It was 30-40 minutes the Mall of the Emirates, Burj Dubai, Jumeirah Beach, etc.

Otherwise, the inside is a typical JW- spacious, very clean, and everything in excellent condition. Unfortunately, there are no views to be had, and my room looked out into the courtyard, which meant no natural light- best to ask for an outside room. The room itself was very big, with a big, very comfortable bed, small sofa, and big bathroom. No complaints at all about the room.

The fitness room is exceptional for a hotel, and the rooftop pool is very nice- stylish, swim up bar, plush towels, everything you'd want if you can stand that kind of heat.

Hard to recommend staying there due to the location, but it's a great hotel.

I just came back to my country last Friday from Dubai, and I stayed in JW Marriott Hotel Dubai, and I wish I hadn't, can you imagine what I found on my sleeping pillow, a cockroach.

So I called the management immediately and told them about it, and what they did is saying just sorry for that and changing the bed sheets, they didn't even change the room for us, they gave me no discounts, it was really awful.

The food was not that great, I remember one morning I found rotten cucumber in the breakfast buffet, I asked the staff and they as usually said we don't know about that sir. What a bad experience.

What I was telling them, if I wanted to see any cockroaches I could book 3 star hotel or less, not a five star hotel.

This is a beautiful destinantion hotel in Dubai. The outstanding aspect in my mind was the bed. Marriott use de Witts beds. It was so comfortable I pulled off the sheets to find the name tag! In keeping with this level of hotel the service and standards are really superb. No wonder the Burj al Arab is always half empty ther is no need to spend stupid amounts of money to stay in a monument to architecture when everythig you need in a 5 star hotel is here. Close to great shopping.