The Novotel is a great option for the business traveller. Though the rooms are relatively basic, they are comfortable and the hotel has a nice environment. A stone's throw off Sheikh Zayed road makes it an excellent location and a 1/3 of the price of the hotels on the main road.

One tip: internet servce is horrendously expensive, best to go to French Connection cafe on Sheikh Zayed road, grab a coffee for a few dollors and enjoy complimentary internet access for 2 hours. When thats up, grab another coffee!

A great hotel very clean, staff very helpful, and great restaurant, really reasonable price compared to other dubai accomodation and location was good for a business traveller also taxis are so cheap in dubai even if I wasn't on business would stay here again

we booked a 10 night stay over xmas with my mother-in law, husband and 3 children aged 12, 6 and a 2 year old toddler.

This was my second stay in Dubai, the last being in August when me and my husband celebrated our wedding anniversary, we stayed at the beautiful Ritz Carton on Jumeira Beach.

Anyway, back to my review! We arrived at the Novotel at 0700 hours, as it was Christmas Eve the hotel was very busy. We'd requested
inter-connecting rooms and was told that we'd have to wait until Mid-day as the rooms were occupied. by 10.00 am the rooms were ready which was great as officially check-in was not until
2 pm. The rooms are clean, modern and comfortable. The hotel is not as plush as the jumeira beach hotels but I would say it is definitely worthy 0f it's 4 stars! It's a classy place to stay by anyone's standards and I consider mine to be high!

Room service was speedy and the food was of a high standard without being extortionate. £10 for a proper dinner isn't bad! The beauty of this hotel is it's location, it was literally 10-15 minutes taxi ride from anywhere. The taxis are so cheap that you won't find that you're spending loads on travelling.

I'm returning to dubai with my husband in May and we're staying at the intercontinental in dubai festival city, simply because Novotel didn't come up in the list of hotels and we like to try new places especially as every hotel in Dubai is so individual.

To sum up, the Novotel is a classy hotel with great facilities for the business traveller and famillies alike, although if you are looking for relaxation, and not to shop til you drop, sight see, etc then this hotel wouldn't be suited for you. When we went with the children we wanted to show them everything Dubai had to offer as we'd done a beach holiday with them and thought we'd do something different!

Hope this has been helpful!

upon arriving, we thought we turned up at the wrong hotel simply becuase it was a lot more nicer in person! from checking in, the rooms, room service, the hotel bar and the swimming pool, they where all fantastic. really nice throughout and made our week very enjoyable.