Three days before my holiday to Dubai I decided to cancel Bab al Shams and go for a cheaper option....and fate intervened and up come the Marriott on expedia.co.uk. Well, I booked and was a bit hesitant as had never heard it being mentioned in the forum etc...but it looked nice and the price was good - £68 a night.

Well I have to say that I had an excellent stay and I will definitely be back.

We arrived at 9.30am and were able to check in immediately. The room was just the basic one - no balcony, no bathrobes but spotlessly clean, of a good size, with plenty of pillows for the bed and tea and coffee facilities.

We checked out the room service menu and it was as cheap as chips! Well about £12 for two omlettes and a filtered coffee....no bad in my book!

The hotel itself is small but perfectly formed! The pool doesn't have a whole lot of loungers or seating and in peak season may be a challenge. When we were there we shared the space with about 5 other guests....

The pool overlooks the lake, the centrepiece of the Green Community, complete with leaning tower! Well, this is Dubai....Drinks from the pool were cheap as well..about £1 for a diet pepsi...and about £3 for a mocktail....They come round periodically with iced fruit and cold towels - not overly frequently but once every 2 hours...

In terms of entertainment...well, there isn't a lot. This is a destination for relaxation. What is great though is that the hotel is attached to a shopping mall...its not Battuta or Mall of the Emirates but has a great hair salon, nail bar, bookshop, Costa Cofffee, Chillis, a supermarket with lots of US and UK food stuffs....and there is an outside area, lined with about 5 or 6 restaurants each offering international food: Thai, Mexican, Italian, Japanese etc....and its all reasonably priced to cater for the local residents that live and work in the Green Community.

We took a taxi to Battuta one day...it was about 60 dirhams so not too bad but not that cheap either and if you want to get out and about this will add up. Also bear in mind that not alot of taxis come out this way so you will probably end up in the hotel's "taxi"...a nice car but with a bill that will be at least 20 dirhams more than a regular taxi.

The staff are very polite as you would expect from a Dubai hotel....

All in all it was a great stay and I will be back...You cannot go wrong with prices like that in an area which is very pleasant and peaceful.

I've stayed in many hotels in Dubai from 3 to 5-star, and this 4-star has the best service of them all. Very friendly staff (everyone says hello as they pass you in the corridor, the head of restaurants goes round every table at least once an evening to check if everything is ok). The rooms are large, we were a couple and one child sharing, and the 2 double beds were enough sleeping space, plus plenty of wardrobe and floor space for cloths/suitcases.

Everything is very clean. Don't let the distance from Dubai be a problem, it's in the right location to get around a lot of the traffic problems.

I'll go back again.

I read good reviews of the place on this website, and thought it would be a good place to meet friends from Abu Dhabi who had work the next day. Getting there was a bit of a hassle as the roads are not well signed. However, once getting to the hotel, you get this calm feeling away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

The rooms were clean, the bathroom was wonderful, if not for the silly glass thing they had instead of a curtain to cover the bath from shower splashes.

Their service was a tad lagging, but they compensated us by upgrading our rooms to the 3rd floor, instead of the 1st (The hotel is only 3 floors).

The swimming pool looked nice and there was a huge man made lake with a colourful fountain at night that gave a magestic touch to the place. I will go there again even though my friends grumbled about the location! It is what you would expect for the cheap rates - dubai standards.

We arrived around 9am in the hotel, but we were able to check in to the room right away. The room was nice and clean. Everybody in the hotel was really friendly.
The hotel was a long way from the city, but we did not mind it since we were only transiting there and wanted somewhere to stay comfortably. The hotel provided shuttle buses to a huge shopping mall ( I think it is called the mall of Emirates), it was really big with hundreds of shops and restaurants. There is also a new shopping center connected to the hotel and a brand new big supermarket too.
The hotel is nice and clean with good breakfast, would definitely recommend the hotel.