This has to be one of the best hotels l have stayed at, and l am a frequent traveller, and fussy.
We Stayed in the royal club, the rooms were spacious and very clean. The rooms had eveything you could need there was not a detail missed out. The staff were fantastic they made you feel welcome, were friendly, helpful and polite.
The pools were clean and staff were very attentive ie from changing the towel on your lounger when wet to cleaning your sunglasses.
They have restaurants inside the hotel and another few outside in the square but within the hotel complex, these were great. All served great food and again clean and staff were friendly.
The main shopping was a short taxi journey away.
I would highly recommend this hotel to anyone and l definately look forward to returning.

A fantastic hotel! Gorgeous poolside areas with free sunloungers and towels plus swim-up bar serving food and drink. Impressive reception area with free drinks for early arrivals! There are about 10 places to eat in the hotel but we were more than happy with the swim-up bar food so we could still sunbathe! Impeccable service and gorgeous rooms - ours had French doors leading out to one of the pools. Right next to the airport with free shuttle bus running every 30 minutes. Extremely good value for money at £135 for the room (although breakfast was not included) and I would highly recommend this hotel for a relaxing, luxury break!

Following 3 nights at Le Meridien Fairways (a little less expensive, but better rooms and excellent service) we transferred to Le Meridien Dubai as our friends were staying here and it has a better restaurant/pool scene than Fairways (although we will be happy to stay at Fairways in the future as the value is better).
Our free transfer from Fairways worked seamlessly, and we arrived at 11:30 am, too early to check in but we expected this so left our bags and went straight to one of the 3 pools. we ate lunch at the pool (in the pool actually, two of the pools have pool bars!) twice during our stay, and the food and drink was good and the service friendly.
A recent review has said it all in terms of the location, food etc, so all I can really add on the positive side is that the room service and afternoon room cleaning guys were great! We had each bought a few bottles of champagne at Dubai Duty Free when coming into the country and at both Fairways and Le Meridien Dubai they had no problem bringing an ice bucket and champagne glasses to our room each night so we could enjoy wine in our room with our friends at a reasonable price vs spending lots on an average bottle of wine in the restaurants (no matter where in town). sure, you tip them, but they are professional and nice people and I guess I'm just used to grumpy service so I was impressed.
We also went to Vu's restaurant (business lunch deal, 110 AED with a glass of wine, thought it was better than dinner as you get a good deal on the meal and can actually see something other than the black sky at night and lights) and to Verre restaurant, both were excellent. Other than that, be prepared for the traffic, be patient and have a good time in Dubai.

Our 3rd year in a row (husband, daughter and myself) to this business orientated hotel - so it must be good!

We stayed in Royal Club again - the benefits of this can't be overstated - breakfast, afternoon tea, drinks, canapes, fruit and canapes in our room daily. The hotel was good enough to give us an adjoining suite with camp bed, fridge, WC and sink for our teenage daughter complete with lovely terrace - unexpected and a real treat. Rooms in RC are outdated somewhat in terms of decor and size of bathroom but are spotless and everything you need is there - tea, coffee, iron, bathrobes, slippers. We also got our transfers to and from the airport seamlessly and benefited from a late check-out till 10pm on the day of our midnight flight home - this was again a superb gesture by the hotel who said it was because we had to wait (all of) a couple of hours to check-in after our 7am arrival! They did not have to do that and these things are much appreciated.

One of the main benefits of this hotel are the excellent on-site restaurants - a look at the latest Timeout Awards/recommendations for 2008 will show a number of Le Meridien eateries highly thought of. It really is great to be able just to stroll out from your room to eat at night (usually outdoor dining available which we love) without having to go through the (admittedly) improving traffic system in Dubai. This year we enjoyed Sukhothai, the Asian buffet which was tremendous value, Aussie BBQ at Yalumba, Casa Mia and Long Yin. Hubby also went to the popular Dubliners to watch footie. The layout of the hotel means that while some of the venues get very popular with guests in the evenings, this does not impact in any way on general public areas or rooms.

The pool areas are still spotless and seldom crowded and very tranquil which after a day at the sister hotel Mina Seyahi we really appreciated - that place was too busy and far too full! Indeed, the day we visited, they were advising people that access to the beach/pool was closed to non-residents - like other hotels on the beach, their arrangements with other apartments/hotels to allow day guests seem to be causing issues.

Service at the pool bars seemed to be a little less efficient in previous years - there seemed to be a number of new staff and we sometimes had to request drinks a couple of times before they arrived. Having said that, staff generally in the hotel were as helpful and friendly as ever.

We did not avail ourselves of tennis facilities this year but went for beauty treatments and used the complimentary shuttle bus to Deira City Centre Mall.

We all noticed more airport noise this year - but not all the time - whether or not, there is some kind of noice cancellation operating at certain times, I'm not sure. However, despite its proximity to the airport (which is great when travelling), noise is not loud enough to be detrimental to your stay.

Guests are a mix of business travellers, locals dining or having business meetings, a lesser amount of families and couples of all ages. It really does cater for each group of people - children are made welcome.

On reflection despite the myriad of hotel options in Dubai, we still like the location of this hotel - it offers good access to the creek area/eastern side of Sheik Zayhid Road and is very peaceful at a reasonable rate. You can still make trips to the beach/marina (with day passes at a small fee available for the sister Meridiens) but the relaxation factor that comes with staying in this reasonably priced hotel adds so much to its value.

We will very probably be back and will look forward to a high level of service and quality dining again.