Crowne Plaza Dubai hotel leaves IHG

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• Himalayan Hiker says:

  5 Mar5 March 04:29

  Stayed at the Crowne Plaza Dubai last month. It was definitely very dated. Not sad to see it leave IHG. The Crowne Plaza Marina on the other hand was great!

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    5 Mar5 March 08:28

    I tried staying at the CP Dubai Festival City for £90 before a 7am flight, but at check in they walked me….to the adjoining Intercontinental and gave me an enourmous multi-room suite. I’ve never had that experience before, of being upgraded entirely out of the booked hotel.

• Dominic says:

  5 Mar5 March 05:23

  Wear earplugs?!

  You’d expect a review to say that, not the hotel itself…

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    5 Mar5 March 08:32

    So glad I cancelled my stay at the new Hilton Palm 2 doors down from the Voco (and even closer to the influencer habitat known as Five Dubai). I made a reconaissance visit there last November for dinner and did not appreciate the West Beach vibe at all, nor the loud drinking going on around the Hilton’s sole pool. What with the new Marriott that sits between Hilton and Voco asserting its ‘resort’ status to skip out of certain elite benefits, I think West Beach is generally to be avoided. I’m at the Waldorf Palm now which is much quieter but the taxi drivers drive like maniacs around the Palm so this has been a little too far out for me as someone who gets car sick.

    • NorthernLass says:

      5 Mar5 March 09:42

      Yes, glad I went for Grosvenor House, I was looking at the new Hilton but it’s already got a couple of poor reviews on TA.

    • AndyF says:

      5 Mar5 March 09:43

      I had a fantastic experience at the Waldorf Palm. Very good clientele young respectful families, loads of baby mooners, which we were at the time. We will return with our young child we felt it was a good hotel for it and the family pool was excellent. I’m also tempted by the nearby Waldorf Ras Al Khaimah.
      As a side note the nearby shopping mall at the palm. I wasn’t that impressed with the shops, it’s mainly for dining The fountains are worth seeing. We sat at a great Mexican restaurant at the end of the east side it had a great vibe but we were absolutely shocked at the prices for what it was.

      • Rob says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:00

        I’ve stayed 3x at Waldorf Palm, albeit two of those were 2-3 days. The site is a little small when 100% full (fewer sunbeds than guests, basically) but you’re generally ok. Waldorf Ras is marginally better and a lot cheaper but there’s nothing to do outside the resort – albeit if that’s not an issue you will be very happy in Ras.

      • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:37

        The nearby shopping area of The Pointe? It really is just dining. The Nakheel mall has opened on the trunk of the Palm now and is more akin to a proper mall. The St Regis is attached to it.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          5 Mar5 March 11:20

          Was going to say doesn’t sound like the mall to me.

          Taco Tuesday at the Mexican was better value

          Also check the entertainer app to make eating and drinking in Dubai a bit more palatable

      • Mr Benjamin Murphy-Ryan says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:39

        Agree Waldorf Palm is great – stayed twice this year, but they do let weekend day guests in who are generally louder, more drunk and obnoxious – so just be mindful.

      • Mr Benjamin Murphy-Ryan says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:40

        WA Rak is great too – it’s got a good range of rooms and cheaper than palm – if going for pool etc it’s great. Mall nearby is small and generic, but we will defo consider visiting again

      • mvcvz says:

        5 Mar5 March 18:54

        What’s a “baby mooner” please?

        • Rob says:

          5 Mar5 March 19:47

          The holiday you go on before you have a baby.

        • DaveJ says:

          5 Mar5 March 19:54

          “The holiday you go on before you have a baby.”

          So a holiday then?

        • Rob says:

          5 Mar5 March 20:37

          Holiday with a heavily pregnant partner.

        • Andyf says:

          6 Mar6 March 19:41

          It was a holiday with a heavily pregnant partner. Every other women we saw I think was pregnant including my wife there. It was one of the places we found where Zika wasn’t an issue. It’s something to still consider.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      5 Mar5 March 10:12

      Can’t say I saw any bad drinking behaviour at the pool or heard any excess noise from my suite at Hilton the palm

      A pleasant 5 night stay. I followed that with 2 nights at GH which is still the best property in a Dubai for me

      • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:37

        Horrified at the Waldorf this morning to see a man swan around the buffet barefoot. A glass had been smashed only yesterday.

        • Gordon says:

          5 Mar5 March 10:48

          Perhaps it was the head of housekeeping making sure the glass had been adequately cleared up?

• James says:

  5 Mar5 March 06:24

  Do you get breakfast or good cancellation terms with Hyatt redemptions?

  • Matt says:

    5 Mar5 March 08:49

    Only for SLH properties unless you have Hyatt Globalist status

• BSI1978 says:

  5 Mar5 March 06:28

  Shame about the Andaz Liverpool, was already quite more expensive than the other Hyatt options in the City, albeit I understand it’s a different product.

  Will be interesting to see where this places the Park if and when it finally opens (although it seems to have disappeared completely from the app…..)

  • TGLoyalty says:

    5 Mar5 March 10:13

    Andaz London really isn’t worth the money or points.

    • Rizz says:

      5 Mar5 March 10:55

      Agree, I find this Andaz to be dated and depressing. Light years behind properties like Rosewood or Shangri-La which are my favorite hotels close to the City.

    • BSI1978 says:

      5 Mar5 March 11:22

      Largely agree on this, hence why my last few bookings have been via Emyr and a couple of those attracted the £250/£100 spend/rebate!

• F says:

  5 Mar5 March 06:45

  Great memories of Crowne Plaza from the mid 90s it was quite a destination then and the nostalgia in me loved that that little Italian restaurant at the top of the escalators never changed..

• Gordon says:

  5 Mar5 March 09:28

  Wow….Ziva and Zilara Dominican Republic increases from 25,000 to 40,000 points, stayed at Ziva D.R. as covid struck we were the only European’s and it was only 5% capacity.
  Save your money and stay next door at secrets which is now part of the Hyatt group, Just as good, Returning in June.

• Bagoly says:

  5 Mar5 March 10:32

  IHG Business: I made a dummy booking, stopped when card number required.
  It seemed to allow me to book for myself.

• Ian S says:

  5 Mar5 March 10:51

  If you’re sharing a room with your partner can one of you get the booking points and the other get the room points by whoever books it booking in their partner’s name?

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 11:27

    Technically yes.

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