My wife and I wanted to stay in the city this time in Dubai as we stayed on the beach last time. So we booked the Hilton and we loved it.

When we arrived they couldnt find our booking, as we arrived late I couldnt call my work. But this was no problem, they said its fine you check in to your room and we will call them tomorrow. We did and it was all sorted.

We got into the room and its just like the web site. All the rooms have Creek views and the bathrooms are very cool.

We where only Room Only but had room service, which was good value and very quick.

As this is a business hotel the pool and gym are not big but your not on holiday to work out! The pool is on the roof so you can see across Dubai and looks amazing at night (pool closed at 9pm)
There are only about 20 or so sun beds so if the hotel is busy you better hope its full of business people or get up there early. But as I said its a business hotel so its what we expected.

There is a small shop there to get afew bits and bobs and bars etc but didnt really go in them to check them out.

Overall Id say its a very good hotel with large rooms and bathrooms, if you want to try stay on the Creek stay here.

You can also use the bus to go to other Hilton and use there pool etc.

I'll never come back to this hotel, aside having a bad service, the staff were also rude...I'd rather stay in Radisson or Sheraton with a much better location.

The hotel was about 20-30 mins from the airport.

Me and my family had arrived from the airport about 4 in the morning, but had to wait till about 9 am before we were able to check-in into our room.

The room was fairly large and comfortable, and had a good view of the Dubai skyline and the nearby Dubai Creek. However, the breakfast buffet lacked a bit of variety, and is fairly expensive.

Dubai, in general, has relatively poor public transport, and traffic was bad from late afternoons till night. We had to move around in taxis, which can be fairly steep due to the bad traffic.

The Deira City Centre (the many shopping malls in Dubai) was about a 30 minute walk, if you fancy walking in the sun (mind you, it was 40 C in May! ).

An advantage is that, there is a shuttle bus from the hotel, in the morning, to the Hilton Jumeirah Resort, which is about a 40 minute drive away. Along the way, you can view the construction development that is ongoing in Dubai, including the impressive 705m high Burj Dubai (soon-to-be the tallest structure in the world!).

Overall, the hotel is generally for business travellers. The hotel staff was, in general, very helpful.

For a family vacation, due to its locality, it may cost a bit to move around in a taxi. In addition, one may have difficulty finding food at night.

We stayed for just over a week on business and holiday, whilst the hotel is mainly a business hotel it is still a good base for a holiday. Taxi's very cheap and always one there. Room was massive(executive Queen) very clean and kept like that 2-3 times a day.
Breakfast was loverly, cold buffet and hot cooked to order. Strange you could order just about all the ingredients of a English b/f but if you wanted all on same plate it cost 95dhs??
Ate room service by the pool on roof and once in room on last night very impressive low cost and very nice. Used the laundry service a few times took a few hours and very good and cheap.
The pool on roof is smallish but usable and the view is to die for!
Staff are great very very helpful from the manager downwards and if you get the chance of an invite to the managers cocktail evening go....food and cocktails lovely.
If you go for the executive room book an airport transfer all in with room rate and done very well, we walked out of arrivals 0040 and went to the Hilton man who grabed our bags straight out to waiting limo and in hotel in minutes! Great service.
When we next go to Dubai we will be staying here again.