Dunes Hotel Apartment Barsha

Dunes Hotel Apartment Barsha can be booked online via agoda or booking.com. If you book an one-bedroom apartment, it would be pretty big and modern-looking. You can get an extra bed if there's a third person — the extra bed wasn't uncomfortable and there were 2 bathrooms with nice strong showers. The shower gel/shampoo smells "manly". the kitchen seems to have everything and the breakfast included was decent (come in a pizza box and delivered to the room: varies a bit from day to day). The only room available was on the 1st floor so could hear cars stopping by the main entrance and there was construction out front but it's not overly noisy. I imagine it's probably quieter in the bedroom.

It takes about 8 minutes to walk to the Mall of the Emirates, which has a Carrefour supermarket inside as well as lots of restaurants/food court. you can see Ski Dubai from the room. you can walk through the mall to get to the metro. The location is not as lively as Deira but the area feels newer, quieter, and nicer. You can pretty easily get a taxi out front. To get to Deira, I would recommend taking the metro closer in that direction--it's probably cheaper/faster.

One thing great about the location was that during the Burj Khalifa fireworks on New Year's Eve, the traffic jam down Sheik Zayed Road in the other direction was endless. It was much easier to get back to this side of the city.

For my second stay here, I chose the Executive Room — the room was considerably smaller and quite smokey despite my request for a non-smoking room on the booking site. There was a stain on the sheets but other things seemed clean. Other than that, everything was great like before. Maybe it’s better to choose the bigger one-bedroom apartment-what you pay is what you get I guess.