Had a stop over here and agent suggested it. Rooms were OK but a little dated. Getting to the pool was problematic and didn't help that the hours were not stated anywhere.

Breakfast was included in the deal and as we got into Dubai at 6am we checked into our rooms and had breakfast and then used it again the next day. As they only checked for our room card, they were too concerned we were only there for one night.

Just down the road (walking distance) was a huge shopping centre so that retail therapy entertained the wife.

We stayed one night, as a stop over on our way to Europe, and the hotel was booked as part of flight by the travel agent. Our room was spacious and clean. We used the gym and the (relatively small) pool for some exercise between the flights, both are good.

The hotel is very handy to the airport however the metro station is within walking distance also so it is not hard to get to town (although taxi is cheap and a good alternative if you can’t bear the heat walking to the station).

Staff was helpful and friendly and spoke good English. The self service breakfast was nice; apart from the usual selection of European and American breakfast foods it had also several local dishes which made for a nice change.

It is a clean, nice, well located hotel; however, it's elevators to swimming pool are programmed very bad and we spent too much time to reach to the pool.

The hotel was not able to provide our reserved rooms at the first night of our stay and they gave us a suit instead of two double rooms. I was very angry and they just said excuse me.

After spending quite some time checking out which would be the best located hotel in our chosen price range we settled on the City Seasons Hotel.

We were happy with the hotels location and accessibility to the wonderful rail transportation system that services Dubai. The hotel staff were friendly enough however language/ communication was a problem resulting in requests either being misunderstood or ignored.
The restaurant food offered was I believe below what a four star hotel should present for it's guests. The popular breakfast menue was restricted and unfortunately in many cases barely warm. Apart from the unpalatability of barely warm food, I feel that there is also the issue of bacteria.

With guest activities there was no "guest Activity" desk where you were able to arrange an activity of your choosing after comparing some of the many competing companies that were offering identical excursions etc. The Concerge was the contact person and it became clearly evident that there was a cosy relationship happening between one operator in particular and the concerge.

Due to time restraints we had to go with his chosen operator!

In all the hotel represented good value for money however certainly not up to the international four star standard.