The Sofitel Dubai City Center is the perfect hotel for short stays in Dubai. Only 10min from airport, has shuttle bus. The rooms are very quite but standard and all is in working order. Inexpensive Internet service for laptop avlbl. Nice roof top pool with snack bar.
Excellent restaurants at reasonable prices which serve alkohol. Very well trained international staff that is friendly and efficient.
Great hotel for business and transit passenger at a good rate.

I stayed at this hotel in March 2007. Despite having a reservation guaranteed for late arrival (pre-paid), when I arrived at the hotel at 7pm it was full with no room for me. I was housed overnight in some nearby apartments which were not, in my view, of the same standard. As it was late, I went along with it expecting the next day I might receive some sort of apology or recompense from the hotel. Far from it. Instead I found the staff to be surly and unresponsive when I raised my concerns. Based on my experience, this is a hotel to be avoided, unreliable in honouring its bookings and with a poor attitude to its customers.

The location of the hotel is excellent but this is defenitely not a 5***** hotel... it needs a whole lot more than a renovation for the rooms & common areas... i would rather rate it as a 4**** superior, but defenitely not a 5.

This hotel carries a five star rating, which it clearly does not deserve.

The lobby area was drab and unappealing. The pool terrace was equally disappointing. The room was so average and bland I can't even remember it. The restaurant was nothing special either.

Staff were however friendly and helpful.

The hotel is next to a large shopping centre, which gives lots of dining options and quick access to plenty of shops. The doubledecker sightseeing buses also conveniently stop at the shopping centre.

Overall, I didn't like the hotel and expected more as the room rate was not particularly cheap. I would recommend splashing out a bit more to stay at one of the nice beachfront hotels instead - that is certainly what I would do next time.