This has to be the best hotel I have stayed at in the world. From the moment of arrival we were greeted with a cool drink and were sat down in the reception area and waited shortly for a member of reception to check us in. We were then driven by golf buggy (these take you all around the resort) to our beautiful rooms. We travelled with our 2 small children who had an interconnecting suite next to ours.

The rooms were spotless and the bathrooms out of this world with Elemis products too !

The kids club at the hotel was the best kids club and the organised activities were great, my children loved the kids club and it was great for them to get some respite from the 38 degree sun. The childrens club even provided evening entertainment, which included pirate beach parties with food and drinks.

Restaurants were all fantastic - we used them all, except the steak restaurant at the football academy, we never ventured that far.

Pool area was always quiet even though it was half term, pool attendants were by you regularly to clean your shades or offer a cooling face spray or cold flannel and you do need them.

The beach was stunning, very well looked after. You could hear noise from the Jebel Ali palm but it was very faint and in the distance.

Staff were the most friendliest and happiest I have ever seen in a hotel.

Its a great location being 20 mins drive from Dubai centre, its not in all the hum drum of the busy building works in Dubai, but still near enough to jump in a cab to go and do your shopping and sightseeing.

Wild Wadi Water park a must as is Lunch at The Burj - must be booked well in advance.

I loved this hotel and I loved Dubai. I have never been so hot in all my life.

Stayed at Palm Tree Court for 2 weeks, end November/beginning of December.

We chose this hotel after doing a fair bit of research and taking on board comments from this website. Primarily we were after a hotel that had large rooms that could accomodate 2 adults and 2 kids and offered a kids club. We also wanted plenty of space around the pool and beach areas.

The hotel is very clean, well serviced and attended by staff who pay close attention to detail.

The standard of restaurants is very good. The main restaurant it La Fontana where breakfast is served and a buffet evening meal. The choice in both cases is excellent. We eat lunch at the beach bar, dinner in the Italian restaurant, at Shooters (steak house) and the Sports bar. In all cases the standard is very good, service excellent and reasonable value for money. We also ate in Signatures on my birthday, no kids allowed, but hired a babysitter from kids club that cost about £5 per hour. We also eat in the main restaurant on the 8th floor of the Jebel Ali, again this was a buffet but we thought the choice was poor and did not enjoy it.

Alcohol is quite expensive - particularly wine - expect to pay about £25-30 for a bottle of Pinot that you would buy in a UK supermarket for about £6. Beer is about £4.50 a pint. We overcame this by buying a load of wine in Dubai duty free when we landed, which I think is a good tip.

Our kids only went to kids club twice, as they were fed up that there were no other kids that spoke English.... only French and Russians there.....

We hired a car and driver through the concierge that was charged at 80 dirhams an hour, all told it cost us about £90 for a full day. He waited wherever we went , we took in all the main sites and we found this option preferable to doing the open top bus with two kids.

We also did the dessert dune bashing through Alpha Tours, booked through our Virgin rep and I have to say the driver was brillian. I was really nervous about the suitability for the kids (aged 5 and 7) but he was adamant it was safe. In actual fact they enjoyed it more than the adults and kept asking him to drive faster and make more bumps!

All in all this was a brillian trip, would definately recommend this hotel and it certainly warrants the 5 stars.

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Lovely place, good food reasonably priced. Staff at concierge are nice but useless. Good watersports, overall fair value for money.

Absolutely stunning hotel!! Had been to Dubai before but wanted to see jebel Ali area and so decided to stay in Jebel Ali this time. Was not disappointed although worried that when airport is built that it will spoil the ambiance of the hotel. Spa was amazing and breakfasts lovely!

The pool was beautiful although crowded but we ventured onto the beach and took advantage of the views of the Palm.

Vastly underrated hotel...am in the travel trade and would def recommend to my clients in future as it is quieter than a city hotel.