ibis One Central Hotel

Good location with metro nearby. Wonderful breakfast

Value for money next to the exhibition place not many places to visit close by . Metro 8-10’mins walk

Pretty standard for this type of hotel but good value.

The experience is awful. No bell boy. They guys at the reception are rude especially Aleealdin. He is talking to you like he wants to beat you. Overall hotel is clean rooms are average size. The reception and the check in awful. This makes the whole stay unsatisfied.

Everything was good. But I was surprised that the hotel was allowing private (unmarked) taxis to 'take over' the guest taxi service. In Dubai these private taxis don't use their meters properly, and can sometimes charge over 2 times what it would cost by a metered Dubai Taxi. I found that the whole hotel courtyard was filled with these private taxi cars and drivers, who were not letting any space for metered Dubai Taxis, and as soon as a guest came out of the hotel to look for a taxi, they are immediately accosted by the private taxi rep (ostensibly wearing an official looking badge), with pressure tactics to take one of the private cars. The hotel security and doormen are nowhere to be found, and if found, they act dumb and lost. I heard that all the hotel employees are in on this racket and get paid by the 'private car' services. I literally had to walk outside the hotel premises to get a Dubai Taxi cab, which are easy to flag down and quite available outside on the roads. Very disappointed and leaves a bad mark for Dubai, as I can assume they are also working at other hotels the same way. Dubai Taxi is the best way to go around, even beating Uber in costs. (Uber is also infiltrated by these private taxis by the way).