Where to start here, the hotel itself on the face of it looks amazing, a grand reception hall, big bedrooms and swimming pools etc but that’s the facade. It’s in the middle of a nowhere desert , has limited restaurant service, poor food, no alcohol ‘allowed’ and unprofessional, poorly trained staff. The heightened security everywhere makes you anxious rather than reassured and unless you have a hire car there’s no escape as there is no public transport at all. Stay here is you like staying in a remote isolated glamorous prison. My room card was disabled after one night because ‘I hadn’t paid yet’ and on check out I was unable to obtain my invoice for ten minutes until ‘my room was checked’! It’s the height of everything that a good hotel should not be. Anyone saying that it’s wonderful has either never travelled or is completely deluded.
Where to start here, the hotel itself on the face of it looks amazing, a grand reception hall, big bedrooms and swimming pools etc but that’s the facade. It’s in the middle of a nowhere desert , has limited restaurant service, poor food, no alcohol ‘allowed’ and unprofessional, poorly trained staff. The heightened security everywhere makes you anxious rather than reassured and unless you have a hire car there’s no escape as there is no public transport at all. Stay here is you like staying in a remote isolated glamorous prison. My room card was disabled after one night because ‘I hadn’t paid yet’ and on check out I was unable to obtain my invoice for ten minutes until ‘my room was checked’! It’s the height of everything that a good hotel should not be. Anyone saying that it’s wonderful has either never travelled or is completely deluded.