We stayed at this Hotel on the return from the Maldives, and having heard so much about Dubai, thought it would be an ideal opportunity to combine the two. Being a travel agent I managed to secure a good deal at the Sheraton Jumeirah, and have booked clients here previously so knew it would be fine. If you are wanting to be right in the hub of Jumeirah, and pay the prices of the humongous Hotels down the beach (One & Only etc...) then this Hotel is not for you. It is the smallest Hotel on Jumeirah, and the others literally tower above it. Its also the last Hotel on the Beach, so taxis are needed to get you everywhere.

We booked into a standard room, and it was fine. Not the most modern or stylish of rooms, but never the less comfortable and problem free. They were spacious enough too and had all the amenities you would expect in a Hotel.

The staff were friendly and helpful, especially the concierge desk. The only thing I would say is you usally have to wait for a taxi, and sometimes this can be half an hour plus if its busy. But you can't not get a taxi as at the time we went, there was nothing around the Hotel e.g. bars, shops, restaurants so you couldn't just go for a stroll. The Marina however was being developed, which you could tell will be great for the location of this Hotel. Not sure when that will be done however.

Dubai is expensive, so be prepared to spend, especially in the larger Hotels. We did go the the Gold Souk one night however, and managed to get a kebab from a local stand for about 50p, and it was lovely.

The beach at the Hotel is good, but busy. Even busier on a weekend (in Dubai the weekend starts on a Friday) where they offer day passes to the locals who can use the facilities at the Hotel, so if you order food from the Beach bar, there may be a wait. This wasn't a problem for us, and welcomed the wait to cool down from the heat.

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I have mixed feelings about the hotel and our experience in Dubai. The hotel itself is very nice with large and clean rooms (although their age is starting to show), excellent breakfast and restaurants, wonderful palm garden, great service among all staff, good gym and sauna, private beach (altough it has been somewhat eroded as one reviewer mentioned, but it is still nice). So why the mixed feelings? Well, the location of the hotel so far away from everything else and in the midst of the enormous construction projects going on (although most have been finished) gives a sense of isolation. Sure, taxis are plentiful and cheap and you can't go anywhere in Dubai without a car anyway, but still there's this weird sense of being isolated in a man-built paradise with the sound of the waves and birds in the palm gardens competing with the sounds of the harsch reality going on outside the hotel complex with hundreds (even thousands?) of immigrant workers working around the clock to finish the luxury homes. As mentioned, the hotel staff is very service minded and there seems to be one person for everything - one guy hands out towels, another one carries your sun chair to where you want to sit, etc). I guess this is appreciated by many, but as a Swede I'm a bit uneasy of having people do every little thing for me. It just feels a bit like unnecessary luxury - a feeling that permeates all of Dubai. In summary, the hotel is recommended if you are looking to be pampered and for pure relaxation. But if you're looking for an experience that will enrich you as a person, don't go here - in fact don't go to Dubai at all..

I had a super week in Dubai staying at the Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort. The facilities and spa were excellent and the pool, although smaller than some hotel pools was beautifully clean & never crowded. The building work around the hotel did not detract or spoil my stay at all & I hardly ever heard any noise because the main construction is all but finished.
I cannot fault the staff for service or friendliness. The rooms are a good size and well fitted & the beds very comfortable. The food in the Palm restaurant was exquisite, so much so that I didn't eat out of the hotel (bar one desert trip) any evening for fear of missing yet another different buffet feast! The gardens are lovely & the beach clean with soft sand and clean seas. The garden / beach staff are very attentive & helpful, setting up your sunbed every morning in the exact spot you want......what more could you want?...Shopping / sight-seeing / desert safaris / all manner of entertainment all easily accessible & a short car / taxi / bus ride away.

First of all, the "Sheraton Jumeirah Beach" is neither remotely near Jumeirah nor does it have a beach anymore. The hotel's dirty little secret is that the construction of The Palm offshore has changed the waves and completely eroded their beach. As for location--head past Jumeirah, to the Marina, go to the far end of the marina next to the construction sites and the oil refineries, and *that* is where this hotel is.

The staff were nice and our room was clean if dated (very 1980s). I caught food poisoning one night from the outdoor buffet but I suppose that could happen anywhere.

The location really got annoying--because you're so far from everything, you have to take a taxi, but two nights in a row we gave up on even trying to head out for dinner etc because the taxi queue downstairs was over an hour long.

I'm a Starwood fanatic and that's really the only reason we stayed here; I would save your points, or stay in the Sheraton Dubai Creek (which I've stayed in and is better), or best still--wait for the Westin to open, which looks like it's going to be very nice.