HI Hedgehog,
Our stay at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel was fantastic!! Unbelievable actually!
We arrived in Dubai at 8am in the morning and even before you have collected your suitcase or even gone through passport control there was someone there from the hotel to meet us and take our bags. He whisked us through passport control and got our suitcase for us. We had to wait for about 15 mins for our car to pick us up. We were picked up in a mercedes s350 and when the driver had loaded our bags in he gave us each a bottle of water and offered us cold flannels of a silver tray. Very nice considering it was 8.30 am and already 32 degrees.
When we arrived at the hotel they took us straight to the premium leisure club reception where we were offered drinks and breakfast. They took our luggage straight up to the concierge. We were checked in as we sat on the terrace with fresh juice watching over the wild wadi. We were not meant to check in untill 2 pm so I was a bit worried about what we were giong to do for 5 hours but we were taken up to the concierge to get what we wanted out of our cases and where even given a bag to put the stuff we wanted to take with us to the pools. We were then given a locker free of charge which we could use for valuables. We were allowed to use all the facilities including the wild wadi. All towels are provided including extra large ones for the sun beds. You won't need to take any towels with you at all as you just get new ones if you want. We were offered a hotel mobile phone so they could ring us when a room became available. We got a room at about 1pm so a bit earlier than expected.
The rooms were amazing every time I walked into the room the view was breath taking!! A view of all the pool areas, the small marina, the beaches and of course the burj al arab!! The room were huge even with the camp bed up there was still a chair and desk, two chairs around a smaller table, a sofa and a coffee table. not to mnention the massive double bed and still room to swing a cat!! THe bathroom was the same! Huge with a big double walk in shower. All the toiletries you could possibly want including sun tan lotion. Factor 15 so if thats what you use I wouldn't bother buying any as it works fine! There was shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, body polish, bath gel, bath salts everything you could need really.
The service at the hotel was amazing you only had to walk to the pool and a member of staff would be there to take your towels off you and set up your sunbeds thew way you wanted.
The premium leisure club was great. It had computers to play games on and computers just for e mail access, play stations, toys, books and televisions. They did a buffet breakfast which was included, afternoon tea which was included and of course the canapes and cocktails. I spoke to one couple who hadn;t spent hardly any money on drinks and food as they ate the food on offer at thepremium leisure club. Afternoon tea was from 1.30 till 4 pm so that covered lunch with sandwiches and hot scones with jam and cream.
Anyway I better finish this tomorrow as my dh is waiting for the computer.