Occidental Sharjah Grand
1067 reviews
July 16, 2023
We have been vacationing with our granddaughter since the beginning of June at the Occidental Hotel. I remember with delight! Great place, friendly staff. Super! In the restaurant, the entire staff greets guests with a smile. I would like to especially mention Katyusha and Barat, and in general everyone is very attentive (unfortunately they do not know Russian). In general, super, I didn't want to fly away.
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December 10, 2023
I liked the hotel, good location, cheap taxi ride to the city center. Its own beach, lots of sun beds. A large selection of buffet meals: breakfast, dinner. I recommend.
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March 13
The best hotel on Al Meena, the cons are old and worn out. Large Parking, its own beach, great service, there are two-room rooms, in general it is worth the money! In terms of food quality, it is already losing to the Red Castle Hotel.
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September 29
Everything is clear) I liked everything) the food, the service is at the highest level..I advise everyone
The bartender Kieran is a great guy)
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March 12
The kitchen is on a good level. The beach is spacious enough, there is enough space for everyone. The Jacuzzi at the pool is great! The staff is friendly. There are shuttles to different shopping centers several times a day.
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October 23
A wonderful hotel: we arrived early and the rooms were not ready yet, and our luggage was placed in the luggage room, we were given cards for towels and we went swimming and sunbathing. The room is provided with 0.5 water per person every day, and they are cleaned every day too. The food in the dining room is very tasty, there is a buffet for every taste.
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April 30
The hotel is a little tired. But! Excellent sandy beach, convenient access to the sea and excellent infrastructure. There is a shop nearby if you want delicacies.
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May 11
I have a very very mixed impression of the hotel. May 2024.
The hotel is an ordinary 4-star, without frills and pretensions. I knew where I was going. I was there for 3 days, I took breakfast. For breakfast - omelets, ordinary fruits, not exotic, sausages, beef meat, yoghurts, some kind of pastries are not wow, everything is without complaints. But you won't stay hungry, I was OK. The staff at the restaurant is friendly and clears the plates quickly.
There are nice people at the reception, there is a Russian-speaking girl. The man at the check-in upgraded my room category to cabana, for free, it is immediately with access to the pool and the sea. Thanks a lot to him for that! The room completely satisfied me. Quiet, you fall asleep to the sound of the waves. The friendly man at the towel counter, thanks to him for his work.
There are questions for the beach staff. We recruited people who clearly don't like their work and the hotel guests. The guy in charge of security at Kaif beach does not approach people normally to explain that it is impossible to go into the water because of the waves, but whistles hysterically with a whistle from afar. Moreover, even when people are standing ankle-deep and the waves even at the same time reach up to the knee. No one rushed to swim in front of me, that is, he whistles preemptively. And from the brazen smile, it is clear that this is how he feels the power, that he is chasing people who paid for this vacation. Moreover, she is afraid to drive men, and they can knock on the head, whistling mainly at women, the elderly and children. I was standing by the shore, he whistled at me and ran up, but nothing to a healthy man who was standing 5 meters further into the depth. Because of him, I think a lot of people won't want to return to this hotel. People were very indignant about him on the beach, which he got and was rude. Even if you don't swim, listening to the whistle all day like at a football match, like this Kaif chasing people, is not much fun. People came to rest in silence.
Also, in the morning you will not find beach workers who will help with an umbrella, despite the fact that the umbrella is fixed with pins that only they have. One day I was looking for at least 15 minutes for someone.
By the way, the hotel is being renovated, but on the 2nd floor drilling was heard only during the day from somewhere above. Since I was hardly in the room during the day, it didn't bother me at all. But perhaps in other parts of the hotel you can hear the repair work more strongly and it may be noisy there (check with the hotel).
Another good thing: the compliment of 4 macaroons on a plate was brought to the room in the evening. It's a small thing, but it was nice.
Water with lemon is in the lobby at the reception.
The beach towels are clean and new, with a logo. The sun beds are comfortable.
The contingent consists of families with children and the elderly. There are no young people at all. The beach is nice, but open, without a bay, we must be prepared for the fact that there may be wind and you are not buying.
There is no territory at all to walk around.
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June 2, 2023
The food is of high quality, the service is good, the beach is clean, crabs are running, but the tide is out, we lived in a family room in a separate building. A comfortable room with a view of the bay. The best in this hotel is the location: in the city and with its own beach, there are free transfers to the shopping center, from Dubai airport and from Dubai itself no more than an hour's drive, taking into account traffic jams. Nearby there is the Sharjah Aquarium and the Shipbuilding Museum, supermarkets, pharmacies, El Montaza Park.
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November 27, 2022
Rested in November 2022 . A great small hotel, clean and with a high level of service and customer orientation. Helpful staff , always friendly faces ! The food is excellent, the variety of dishes cannot be counted.a small clean area of its own beach with sun beds, which is why the hotel is convenient - the presence of its own beach. Transfers are free to shopping malls . Arabs are all around :) beauty 😻 the weather is comfortable , the sea is clean , the entrance is gentle sandy . I recommend it , price /quality compliance . They left rested and in a great mood .
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October 9
The excellent location of the hotel, a beautiful beach with clean fine sand, friendly and hardworking staff, always ready to help, the cuisine is varied, everyone will find something to their liking, I recommend this hotel🔥👏🏻
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March 16
The hotel is good. We were there with a friend from March 2 to March 10 this year. So the impressions are quite fresh. When choosing a hotel, we read a lot of good reviews, everything coincided. The beach is good, the area is clean, the food is excellent, the rooms are cleaned every day, water, tea, coffee, cream, bathroom supplies are left. There are Russian-speaking staff at the reception, problems are solved quickly. Recommend.
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January 1
Nice hotel. Everything is included. The room is good, high-quality air conditioning, the mini-bar was changed every day, the bathroom is large. Magnificent view of the sea. The staff knows Russian and is friendly. there were no problems with drinking water (all inclusive)
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August 19
A good hotel, just a little bit and you can give a solid 5 stars. So far, it's a stretch. The kitchen and staff are gorgeous, no complaints. If you don't want to sit in the lobby during the nausea from acclimatization, then it's better to fly in the afternoon.
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September 7
Wonderful hotel, 5+ room service. The sea is nearby, the pool is clean. We will definitely come back here.
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October 10
Nice hotel , beach within walking distance, nice pool, cozy rooms, good service.
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January 26, 2023
Not far from Sharjah airport . Rooms are clean, daily cleaning. We took only breakfast, everything was very pleasant. The bar has very tasty little cakes. Polite and very friendly staff. I was pleased that there is a free bus from the hotel to Dubai and back. However, it is necessary to make an appointment in advance, sometimes there are no seats, because the bus is small. It left a very pleasant impression.
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August 29
I really enjoyed my vacation! I recommend it! Location, staff, kitchen, beach - everything is great!
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January 24
Recently it was renovated , I got a very nice room. The food is delicious at first , but monotonous . After 4 days , I don 't feel like eating anymore . Delicious food for a fee at the restaurant on the beach with a beautiful view. The beach is good , but at the end of November there were a lot of jellyfish , they didn 't seem to have time to bite , but it 's scary to swim among them . I was also worried about the view of some factory not so far from the hotel . The hotel itself is, in my opinion , on the outskirts, far from civilization on foot. Russian-language animation (yoga, etc.) there were enough sunbeds. There are plenty of towels .
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August 14, 2023
Nice quiet hotel. It corresponds to its 4 stars. Main advantages: beach, pool, food. The rooms are old, but spacious, everything is in them, everything works. If you are on a beach holiday, you will be satisfied. There is bedlam around the hotel((, but everything is fine in the hotel. Mostly vacationers from Russia. A quiet hotel without frills, but I like it.
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June 11
A good location, its own beach, high-quality food without frills. Sun beds are occupied early in the morning (the hotel is small
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March 4
Vacation in February 2024. Solid four stars according to the hotel system. The rooms are better on the 4th and 5th floors. The sea is 10 meters from the pool. The pool is clean, deep (2.85) and there is a Jacuzzi with hot water. There is a children's shallow pool. The food is good, of course there are not a billion different dishes like in Turkey in the top five, but you will not starve. Drinks are free at breakfast. For lunch and dinner, a bottle of 0.5 liters of water - 6 derham (150 rubles) , 1.5 liters - 9 derham (225 rubles) a glass of 0.2 ml juice - 20 derham - 500 rubles. There is a lot of water in the rooms, a full refrigerator, but in the restaurant - for a fee.
The rooms are cleaned every day. Tips were left for 3-5 derham. There is a bus to Dubai Mall every day, you just need to sign up through the hotel's app, because places are limited. If the guide advises a free trip to the shops with gold and furs - do not try, in those stores they persistently demand to buy something at inflated prices. The hotel accepts Union Pay cards from Gazprombank. The exchange rate is best in the Deira City Center (hypermarket) Wall Street exchanger on the 1st floor. Overall, the hotel is good. In general, for a holiday in the UAE, you need to take a suitcase of money, or preferably two suitcases.
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May 23
Great hotel, great location, pool, beach, everything is on top, despite the fact that it is a 4-star. But there is nothing to do in the emirate itself and there is nowhere to walk. But there is a transfer from the hotel to the Dubai mall. I recommend.
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April 6
We rested in a nearby hotel, and we came to this hotel along the beach. The territory is small, but well maintained and beautiful. There is a water slide in the pool. Beach bar, nice sun beds and umbrellas.
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July 5
The hotel is good, the food is also good, only a lot of locals are upset by the pool on weekends, they behave noisily, they talk loudly in the rooms on weekends, they make noise until three in the morning, complaints at the reception do not help much. Among the wishes, I would like to see white rice in the children's menu, because children do not eat yellow at all.
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February 24, 2023
We had a rest with the children in February, we were satisfied. There were no problems with food, animation - yoga, water aerobics, they are engaged with young children. There is a sports ground for volleyball, a tennis table. The Oceanarium and Al Jazeera Park are located next to the hotel. The rooms are comfortable, five Russian channels on TV. The beach is clean, the sand is fine, a great holiday with young children, a heated pool, a slide works. Have a good rest, everyone.
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April 1
I started writing a review several times, but I couldn't finish it because it turned out to be very emotional... But I really want to write to the point!
I'll probably start with the fact that the tour operator recommended the trip to us for 2 years, saying that the service, food, hotel, in general, EVERYTHING is at the highest level. That's why we were driving in anticipation of a fairy tale!
And now, in order, I will tell you about the TRUTH that we faced.
Upon arrival, we began to look for our tour operator. Our manager informed us that this is a Space travel. There was no such sign anywhere when leaving the airport. We started going from one bunch of people to another, looking for our operator. Thank God we found two young people, one had a list of arrivals, and the other handed out memos indicating the hotel to which we would be taken. And on this memo there was a completely different hotel, and not the one that we had booked. We started to figure it out...No one knows anything, everyone is playing pin-pong. After 30 minutes, something cleared up and we were still brought to our hotel! Hooray (we thought)!
We checked into the room and almost got a heart attack with my husband for two:plumbing and tiles are all covered in fungus and rust, the cabinet doors were skewed so that they stopped closing and opening for a long time, the door to the closet, where the mini-bar refrigerator was located, scraped on the floor, the side shelf fell out, when opening the refrigerator door, the light in the room is such that if you turn on all the lighting, no matter You can't see a damn thing. But the highlight of this issue was in the form of living creatures, or rather a 3 cm cockroach (unfortunately, Yandex does not allow you to post his photo)!
The room was changed after we promised to bring it to the reception. As an apology, fruit was brought to us...but they did not correct the mood and the emotions received from the 4-star hotel in any way. Although after reading the reviews about the hotel, I am very glad that it was a cockroach, not a rat!
Food. This is a meager, repetitive buffet from day to day, in which it seems that what is not finished for breakfast turns into a salad for lunch, what is not finished at lunch smoothly flows into dishes for dinner. There was only one type of seafood (in principle, for which we were traveling), cooked in different versions. The fruits have always been apples, melon, watermelon and orange. The only thank you to them is that every day there were porridges with which to feed the child!
The sea and the beach. Since we were with a child, the beach and the sea are the best thing for children. Sand, smooth and shallow approach. We were there from March 20th to the beginning of April. The sea was cold, it was not comfortable to go in, out of 13 days, there was a storm for 6 days and swimming was forbidden. The air temperature was from 25 to 30 degrees. The sun is hard here, even at this temperature, so the cream was smeared all the time!
From entertainment, there are animators for charging, there is a children's room, but there is little entertainment in it, there is billiards, but it is difficult to play, since one ball is lost, and the chalk for the cue looks like a stub...Perhaps that's all.
I really want to see these people who write such rave reviews about the hotel, the service, the food here! Are you serious about this? Is this your first trip abroad?! Your reviews are untrue and misleading. This hotel matches the weak three.
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June 11
It's a great beach, but it was closed for a couple of days because of the waves. The hotel itself is a little tired, but very pleasant and the food is delicious, although there is not much of it!
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February 18
Of the advantages - the beach, the sea, and that's where all the advantages end.
The food is worse than in Cuba. There is not even ice cream for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The children's menu is worse than the canteen. During the three days of stay, there was only beef once. All the food is in terrible sauces. The restaurant has so little space in the buffet area that even if you arrive early you are still in the crowd. Coffee from a cheap machine, and even for a fee they will make you the same. There is no need to even talk about prices - 2-4 times more expensive than in Moscow .
The sound insulation is such that you can hear what is being said behind the wall. The ceiling in the bathroom is dilapidated with mold. The pool is small.
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October 3
Good hotel!!!
Its own beach, good food, not far from the airport. There is a grocery store nearby.
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March 24
We have been to this hotel several times, very polite receptionists, a lot of Russian speakers, lived on the 3rd floor for the last time, a very dark room. The food leaves much to be desired, but we had enough. The beach is gorgeous, sun beds and towels are available. It's great that there are pharmacies and shops nearby. In general, everything is great!
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February 24
A great hotel with a private beach on the first line. Good, varied food. Friendly, helpful staff. Deluxe rooms of 30 sq.m. Room cleaning is also good 👌
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April 29
This is not the first time I have been staying at this hotel. The reception staff is attentive: two girls who speak Russian, their managers-they all treat the requests and problems of vacationers with understanding and kindness. The cuisine is varied and delicious. The beach is clean, there are enough sun loungers, the staff are attentive and tactful. Room cleaning is daily, I would like to especially mention an employee named Rana-a hardworking and decent young man, after his cleaning, the room shines with cleanliness. I also wanted to mention the representative of the Al Khalidiya company, the excursions recommended by her were very exciting and informative. Thank you for staying at your hotel.
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October 23
We liked the hotel, attentive staff, great room, good food. Thanks!
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April 22
Lovely hotel, staff, service, taxi nearby, good excursions, 1st coastline, sand beach and wonderful cuisine. Free bus delivery to the MALL
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February 21
I like almost everything!
Upon arrival, there was a nuance with the "sea view", which I ordered in principle when booking the tour. We moved into a room with a view of the concrete roof of the lower floor with external blocks of conduits and protruding fittings... but after contacting the reception, everything was settled, moved to a room with a view.
There are quite a lot of different dishes, but there are days when a child "doesn't like anything" ...
An outdoor pool, a slide, a Jacuzzi next to it - everything is fine! In addition to the fact that this grace closes at 20.00, cleaning begins... They ask you to leave.
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October 26
A normal, calm hotel for Russian-speaking pensioners. The beach, the sea - the Red Sea is better.
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April 25
We had a rest in March 2024, we liked everything! Even the bathroom, which is not very pleasant to look at, did not overshadow our stay at this hotel) the sea is clean, beautiful 😍 there is enough space for everyone, friendly staff! 👍
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March 29
A very good hotel on the first line, a good beach, high-level service, good food, delicious, the only point is that drinks are served only for breakfast
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January 29
We rest in this hotel 3 times!We have been vacationing in Sharjah 2 times a year for many years.
We like everything in this hotel: the room, the beach, the kitchen, the service!
Thank you for a pleasant stay!
You are the best!
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November 9, 2022
Nice hotel. The beach is well maintained.
The staff is attentive, friendly. The rooms are small but cozy. The room has a safe, refrigerator, plasma, kettle and coffee, tea, cream. Water is given to the room every day. Nice loggia. The food is varied and delicious. Lots of fruit. Cleaning is carried out every day. Clear. I didn't use the pool, because I love the sea. But many vacationers swam in the pool. This is our second time in this hotel and we want to go there in 2023.
The territory is bounded by the beach. You can take a walk in the city or take an unscheduled bus to Dubai.
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July 31
A very cool hotel, the rooms are very cozy, on the coastline which is very convenient, delicious breakfasts and the location is convenient, close to the airport, large supermarkets
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April 2
Great hotel, delicious food, friendly staff, clean rooms, bomb beach, clean water. Heated swimming pool. Everything is great.
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February 22, 2023
The beach is beautiful, clean, shallow, there is no better for children, the water in the sea is transparent, there are plenty of sun beds, standard rooms, cleaning daily, the food is most importantly of high quality, if you are late, you will be fed, the staff is attentive, Russian speakers at the reception every day, understand, help. Thank you very much to the management of the hotel, sincerely.
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April 21
We had a rest earlier in this hotel when the owner was local. On the face of the conditions and service. The beach is dirty, they don't clean up the garbage. Previously, every morning the guys went through everything from 5 a.m. cleaned and it was clean. The rooms are not cleaned well. The kitchen, at first glance, may seem diverse, but I didn't want to eat for 4-5 days, everything is the same. The pool is not bad, there is a slide, there was animation. In general, we will not go to this hotel anymore, the colossal difference is how it was and how it became, although for many this is considered a good level, probably
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March 28, 2023
A wonderful hotel! We rested in it 10 times, rested 5 times or more even when it was called Sharja Grand Hotel. Everything is fine in the hotel: service, rooms and meals. It is very good for tourists with children. I always return to this hotel with pleasure. I recommend it. The presence of a port and an oil refinery has never been an obstacle. Vacationers are mostly Russian-speaking, which is a plus for someone, and a minus for someone. Everyone chooses their own.
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February 3
A wonderful hotel! From the first to the last minute, we were surrounded by comfort and unobtrusive service. Good location (first line). The restaurant is cozy, the food is delicious
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February 14
Hello.
Today is the day of departure from the hotel (February 14) and while there are a couple of minutes under the sound of the surf, let me say a few words about the hotel.
Anastasia is the face of the hotel, the person with whom we solved all the issues. Even before departure, we wrote an email to the reception in her name with a request to confirm the reservation and payment for the hotel, as well as with a request by number. The answer came quickly, to the point and with welcome words. Nice, businesslike.
Hotel.
A real Spanish foursome. And not because Barcelo bought this hotel not so long ago, but because there is a vacation in Spain in my memory, even back in 1996. A welcome bowl of fruits, a message about the time of transfer from the hotel is not on the lists at the reception, but to the room on the letterhead, the unstressed smiles of the staff, delicious homemade food - all this is evidence of the powerful school of management of the Spanish chain of hotels, which every employee goes through.
Food.
We had half board. It's perfect for us - I wanted to eat a little for breakfast and dinner. The assortment is not like in Turkey in the top five, but every dish was delicious, you can even say it in a restaurant way.
Sea.
In terms of beauty - number two after the Maldives, in terms of convenience - number one!
For children and those who swim poorly - paradise!
Location.
For us, the rest should be primarily beach, so the hotel has a solid five. It stands on the beach, but the city is close, and we walked and took a taxi.
Occidental Sharjah Grand is the best beach hotel for its money.
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November 12, 2023
I liked everything delicious, clean, comfortable, unobtrusive. Special thanks to Ekaterina Berezkina from the travel agency ,,Key to Russia,, for a well-chosen tour.
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August 7
A great hotel, with only a little bit of food. We were at the end of July. The air is +41, the water in the sea is +31, in the pool it is 28 degrees
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