Very nice hotel. Service was excellent. When i arrived on my first night the hotel was overbooked and i had to stay in another Marriott hotel. However, i was taken the next day to the Courtyard and given a voucher for a free dinner.

The Courtyard rooms are very nice, the gym is well equipped and the pool area is extremely nice.

The location of the hotel is poor. The Green Community seems to be a new area which like most of Dubai is still under construction. There is a horrible large roundabout nearby which is a nightmare to navigate. There is a free shuttle at certain times to the Mall of the Emirates.

The restaurants are good and the quality of the food and service was high.

hotel lovely if a bit pricey........but be warned it is quite a distance from the centre and you'll need to take a taxi everywhere (taxis are cheap though)
Sunday brunch not good value for money....unlike the Marriott in the centre of Dubai which was excellent.
Staff lovely..........

This was my second visit to this hotel and like some of the other reviews mention it is quite a drive (40 mins) from Dubai airport, but so are some of the beach hotels.
It is probably more suited to business visitors than holidaymakers as it is not located on the beach, but the hotel will organize a shuttle to a nearby beach club.
The hotel staff is excellent and very friendly. The restaurants are good, the rooms on a par with a lot of other hotels in the area, there is a small but fully stocked gym and the swimming pool area is great, backing onto the lake. Unlike other reviews I have not had a problem obtaining a sun-bed, rather the opposite, being the only one out by the pool, but then my first visit was during Ramadan and my second during the heat of August.
The rooms are spacious and very, very clean with a good sized bathroom. The usual fridge, iron and tea making facilities are standard. In fact I have absolutely no complaints.
Next to the hotel is a large shopping mall with plenty of fast food restaurants and a big supermarket.
What really sets the hotel apart is the staff, who cannot do enough to help.
I have stayed at a Courtyard by Marriott in the US before and was not impressed. This hotel is definitely on a different level. Why it has not been branded higher I cannot understand

Three days before my holiday to Dubai I decided to cancel Bab al Shams and go for a cheaper option....and fate intervened and up come the Marriott on expedia.co.uk. Well, I booked and was a bit hesitant as had never heard it being mentioned in the forum etc...but it looked nice and the price was good - £68 a night.

Well I have to say that I had an excellent stay and I will definitely be back.

We arrived at 9.30am and were able to check in immediately. The room was just the basic one - no balcony, no bathrobes but spotlessly clean, of a good size, with plenty of pillows for the bed and tea and coffee facilities.

We checked out the room service menu and it was as cheap as chips! Well about £12 for two omlettes and a filtered coffee....no bad in my book!

The hotel itself is small but perfectly formed! The pool doesn't have a whole lot of loungers or seating and in peak season may be a challenge. When we were there we shared the space with about 5 other guests....

The pool overlooks the lake, the centrepiece of the Green Community, complete with leaning tower! Well, this is Dubai....Drinks from the pool were cheap as well..about £1 for a diet pepsi...and about £3 for a mocktail....They come round periodically with iced fruit and cold towels - not overly frequently but once every 2 hours...

In terms of entertainment...well, there isn't a lot. This is a destination for relaxation. What is great though is that the hotel is attached to a shopping mall...its not Battuta or Mall of the Emirates but has a great hair salon, nail bar, bookshop, Costa Cofffee, Chillis, a supermarket with lots of US and UK food stuffs....and there is an outside area, lined with about 5 or 6 restaurants each offering international food: Thai, Mexican, Italian, Japanese etc....and its all reasonably priced to cater for the local residents that live and work in the Green Community.

We took a taxi to Battuta one day...it was about 60 dirhams so not too bad but not that cheap either and if you want to get out and about this will add up. Also bear in mind that not alot of taxis come out this way so you will probably end up in the hotel's "taxi"...a nice car but with a bill that will be at least 20 dirhams more than a regular taxi.

The staff are very polite as you would expect from a Dubai hotel....

All in all it was a great stay and I will be back...You cannot go wrong with prices like that in an area which is very pleasant and peaceful.