We stayed at this hotel for 2 nights as a stopover coming back to Scotland from Mauritius. Having read some of the previous reports I was a little concerned. However all we wanted was somewhere fairly reasonably priced close to the airport.

We arrived at the hotel at 8am. Although check-in isn't until 2pm we were given our room by 9am. When we entered the room we thought there was some mistake. Seems we were upgraded to an 'Executive Suite' - not bad for £60 a night.!

We had a dining room/lounge and seperate bedroom with seating area and two bathrooms. It was a pity we weren't staying longer to make the most of it. The room was very clean. We were on the corner of the main Al Rigga Road and although you could hear some noise, it didn't keep us awake. We also didn't hear any aircraft noice apart from the odd helicopter. Coming from the middle of the countryside and not used to any noise, we didn't take bad with this at all.

Breakfast was plentiful and tasted good. We only ate their one morning as we had booked into the Burj Al Arab for breakfast as a treat on the 2nd day - which cost more than our two night stay at this hotel!

We met friends who were staying down on Jumeriah Beach and their hotel was lovely, very plush, although they paid the price for it.

I think this was a great hotel for business and a short stopover in Dubai. If you want luxury you have to pay for it.

I stayed there for 2 nights in February and I wasn't impressed. The room I was given was in the corner of the buiIding and was not soundproof at all. On top of this it was below the aircrafts route and as a result I couldn't get some decent sleep!
The room itself was not good, very very narrow (the bed would just fit), and the TV, chair etc were jammed in the corner, not functional at all. The bathroom was decent in size but very outdated, I did not expect at all such an old fashioned shower ...
On the good side, the bed was very confortable.
The breakfast was good, although the pastries and croissants were far far from being fresh. The buffet lunch was excellent though! The staff were OK. If you are staying at Deira I recommend the Traders hotel.

We stayed at the Hawthorn during a one-night layover (25-02-2008), returning with Emirates airlines from the Maldives to Germany.

We didn't want to spend too much money on a hotel (so we would have more left for the mall...) as it was just a layover and we were not going to spend any time in the room other than showering and sleeping. The room was nice and comfortable for our purpose. Mini gym on the 7th floor only open during certain hours.

Disposal bin in the bathroom was broken and the safe was locked, a few minutes after we checked in (around 16:00) we called the reception and asked for someone to come up and open the safe - but nobody ever showed up.

General hotel information was not present in the room (breakfast times, gym opening times, ect...)

Breakfast was good and included a few middle-east snacks which brought back memories....

Talking about middle-east memories : the IBM (inshalla, bukra, mumkin) mentality is evident.

We had a blast at the Deira mall and found Dubai absolutely amazing !!

We stayed two nights in this hotel, as we were returning from Europe to Australia. We didn't want to spend too much money as we were not there for holidays. So the hotel was clean and well air-conditioned.

There are two things we didn't like- the restaurant downstairs serve horrible food, catching a taxi is a nightmare during the day. But the hotel had free airport shuttle and also for shopping centre/city centre shuttle.

We were happy overall.