What a nice place, it really made our stay in Abu Dhabi very relaxing and pleasant. The hotel had wireless internet with good speed, nice clean rooms, a private beach which in the night would turn into a nice outside restaurant with music and great food.
There's a quite nice and rather fancy mall just a short stroll away from the hotel, where you can get italian and lebanese food. The hotel has a nice pool area and a little but well equipped gym.
OK, there was two things that i didn't like. I was checking my card's account online and noticed that the hotel billed me twice for the same room. They did issue a refund upon my complaint, but i lost quite a bit of money on currency conversion operations. Not to mention that this could have gone unnoticed if i hadn't decided to check my card balance. The second thing is the noise coming from the street. My windows were facing the pool area and the street and in the morning the noise from cars always woke me up.
But none of these things spoiled the overall impression of this hotel. And i would stay there again on my next trips to Abu Dhabi.

Stayed in a Club Room with Club access. Great beach, great staff, fantastic room service. Close to the cricket and golf venues as this was the reason for my visit. Next to shops and restaurants.
Decided to move on to the Westin on the Abu Dhabi golf course. Worst mistake I made. No beach, poor staff(Management), average room service, no atmosphere and so much wrong in only two days, at a ludicrous price.

Back to Traders for my next visit!

It is a very good hotel, located in a quiet area, with a good souk (mall) nearby with nice restaurants and it has a private small beach with nice deckchairs. All employees are very helpful and go the extra mile to make the guests happy.
The breakfast is outstanding and if you want to book tours, I would highly suggest to book them with Arabian Adventure Tours. You will then be picked up in the hotel and they are also VERY good.
Perfect hotel for business and leisure, also for a short stay. I highly recommend it!

we have just returned from a weeks stay at this hotel and used the bonus choice rate to an up grade to club room so that we could enjoy the unlimited use of soft drinks and tea and coffee during our stay and breakfast every morning. we found all staff to be welcoming and we enjoyed speaking with the staff in the club room each day. The club room is small but no problem to us during our stay as not many people in there but during busy times i guess it would be cramped plus we dont smoke and there is a smoking section but this did not affect us as again not many people in there when we visted but you could smell smoke on the corridor near the lifts at times. We had two rooms, one facing the beach and the other facing the pool, neither rooms were affected by the construction going on and were very quiet. Rooms lovely with nice bathrooms and a balcony, kept very clean by the housekeeping staff. We enjoyed walking to the souk next door and the shangri la hotel, again staff lovely at the shangri la, we were lucky enough to use the infinity pool at the shangri la due to maintainance work currently being carried out on the Traders pool. We also used the beach and again the beach staff were excellent. The souk as a small number of restaurants and shops but there is a starbucks and a deli that both do takeaway sandwiches should you want a snack. The Grand mosque is close by for visiting and is definately worth a visit, the hotel does have a shuttle bus to the mosque and the malls but we never used it and always got taxis which are very cheap to get around but sometimes the driving is erratic and fast ! Thre are also golf buggies to take you to the souks and shangri la and also little boats that go between the two hotels which is lovely. The Malls and the corniche areas are quite far away approx 25 minutes in a taxi but we loved the location of the traders hotel as wanted to relax and stay by the beach but this might put you off if you want to visit the corniche area and Marina Mall more than once, in that case a hotel nearer like the hilton would be better for you. We ate at the Afya restaurant in the hotel and the food was delicious with a wonderful salad bar selection to help yourselves to go with your meal and this was like a meal on its own! We were able to take cold drinks from the club lounge to the Shangri la during the day when we used the pool at the shangri la as it is quite a distance to come back for drinks etc and the shangri La pool staff came round with cool boxes with water in them too and we was able to put our cans in them to keep them cool. We would definately return to this hotel in the future should we vist Abu Dhabu again.