Reading the reviews on tripadvisor prior to our stay my expectations were, to say the least, low! We spent 4 nights at Nihal and it is for sure a budget hotel but it works. The room was quite big but definately in need of a renovation. You could see paint stains on the walls and some of the klinkers were cracked and so on. Beds were hard and music from the nightclub on floor 1 could be heard even though we stayed at floor 5. The TV belongs to the 80's and the reception was terrible. The breakfast is a complete joke, to not pay for it. I hade a piece of bread with some marmelade the rest was some kind of vegetarien food I had never seen before. The swimmingpool area is almost as bad as the breakfast.
Staff were polite. The location is great and its really easy to catch a cab outside the lobby. One thing that I love with Dubai is the taxi prices - it is almost for free!
To sum it up - You get what pay for and for Nihal hotel that means an ok stay nothing more!
- Nihal Hotel Dubai
