I am living in Dubai and have stayed at the hotel on several occasions, my first experience of the check in was very slow, but after that they got their act together, some rooms only have a small shower and no bath tub, but apart from that the rooms are comfortable and good value for the money, newly decorated, mostly clean although on 1 occasion, a shower cap was left hanging above the shower and on another occasion i dont thik the shower floor had been completely cleaned. they dont supply tissues in the room and if you book a double you tend to get only 1 complimentary bottle of water. if you dont go near the dodgey bar, it is ok, can use the 5* pool and from the next hotel and the gym is big and adequate, remember this is not a 5* star hotel but generally not bad for the money. the porter was very helpful.

I stayed at the "Ally Pally" for 10 nights in November, and despite the length of my trip, don't really have all that much to say about it.

The hotel is fairly large and anonymous and despite its status as one of Abu Dhabi’s cheaper hotels, it certainly doesn’t come cheap at considerably more than £100 per night for a basic ensuite double room.

The room itself was a little dingy, and a musty smell pervaded the room (in fact, the entire hotel…), that A/C couldn’t kill off. It was, however, quite clean, despite the mystifying smell.

The staff (whom, in true UAE fashion, were all of course imported from Africa and Asia) weren't particularly friendly or helpful, and insisted on holding my passport until the entire bill was paid (I was paying via installments due to my travel agent back home not ordering in enough AED currency for me to take in cash, so I had to draw funds from my bank account in UAE, which were of course limited to £200 per day. Staff were not very happy about this, nor particularly understanding.)

As far as location goes, it's pretty good (situated pretty much on the impressive corniche), yet since Abu Dhabi is NOT a pedestrian city, the location ultimately didn't matter very much, as local taxis were abundant and extremely cheap. It is within walking distance of the relatively few bars that Abu Dhabi has on offer, and even has its own pub onsite (which was avoided, as it has a local reputation for providing some of the seedier 'services' one encounters in UAE).

All in all, few memories remain of this trip and hotel stay, and those that do are unfortunately mostly negative.

This place is full of prostitute in a country where prostitution is unacceptable behavior. The hotels staff behaviors as security guys and pims for such. I was innocently accused of not staying in a place I paid two nights for, drag out of the elevator by this people and later threaten with police. I could not believe my luckj, and they had the balls to not aplogise when they discovery their mistaken. I will need my lawyer for this one. Bad service too, too many Filiopo prostitutes.

My Name is Ahmed I have reservation on May 5, First of all they did`nt find my reservation then i told to my colleague to send my reservation through e-mail by there given addresse on the site but the receptionist says that this addresse belong to our sales, Anyhow than I contact Booking.com to help at 01:00 am they did somehow but again the lady receptionist as well as the duty manager refused to check me in because there CID department is no more working on the seat.
This is not my problem that this department is not working on that time i buying to hotel to relax my time do some bussiness meeting but all of this make me so upset.
I SUGGEST TO ALL TRAVELLER NOT TO VISIT SUCH A IRRESPOSIBLE HOTEL WHO HAS NO VALUE OF THERE GUEST. SUCH A BAD NIGHTMARE. SHAME ON THEM TO BE A PART OF HOSPITALITY.

AHMED.
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