We holiday in Dubai twice a year normally in April & October and have done so for the last five years. We have stayed at either the One & Only Royal Mirage or as per this review the Al Qsar on Jumeria Beach.
Although the hotel and staff are just what any 5* hotel should be the buzz around the hotel was the massive price increase on all food and drink. If it was your first time you would just think it was expensive but if you were able to compare it to a previous visit as most of the people are able to do, the price rises were past being funny. 2 kids milkshakes around the pool were £12.00 and a meal at Pai Thai for two adults and one child with two glasses of wine came to £225.00. The hotel seems to be cashing in on the customer before the alternative hotels offer any competition. Although the hotel is still a great location, save up your spending money or you may get a nasty shock!!!!

We stayed at this hotel for the second week of our honeymoon. It is truly opulent, but we are only very ordinary working class people and you were made to feel just as special as the very rich who were staying at the hotel. The greeting on arrival was excellent, you were sat in a comfy waiting area and served with hot towels and nibbles!!! We stayed in the hotel itself and the room was amazing with a view over the ocean and towards Palm Island! Although, the hotel is very big, it is very quiet and we hardly saw any of the other guests on our floor the whole week we were there!!

Everything was very relaxed, you weren't hassled at any point. But there were plenty of staff around should you need someone. We stayed on B&B basis and the breakfast was very impressive - you could have anything you liked and I mean anything!! Cereals, cooked breakfast, porridge, sushi etc....!

The hotel is linked to 3 others with a shopping mall in the middle which is full of shops, restaurants and bars which is where we ate every evening, again lots of choice!!

We also took a trip to down town Dubai and went to Gordon Ramsay's restaurant which was out of this world..... and it won't break the bank to eat there!! I would definintely recommend anyone to go there if your holidaying in the area.

There are plenty of activites to keep you occupied within the hotel or just relax on the beach. There are waiters on the beach at all times to offer cold towels to mop your brow!!! Or get you more drinks, ice lollies......or anything you could wish for!

It was an amazing place and we are going back again this year for our first wedding anniversary!!!

My wife and I stayed in the Al Qasr for our wedding anniversary for 9 nights and it was wonderful and we’re already planning our next visit. The hotel and staff can’t do enough for you from the moment you arrive until you leave. We were welcomed by name inside the airport by a member of hotel staff and fast tracked through immigration etc and then led to an awaiting luxury car to take us to the hotel.

As we opted for an executive club room (definitely worth the extra cost) and we were escorted to the executive lounge for check in, we arrived at approx 10am so our room wasn’t ready however were able to have breakfast in the executive club lounge and could shower in the premier leisure lounge too. We were giving a temp pass so we could make use of all the hotel facilities until our room was ready at approx 2pm.

There are 40+ restaurants and bars in the hotel complex so choice is almost unlimited and have to say of those we tried all were excellent, our favourite was Pierchic which is located at the end of a wooden pier the food and service there is amazing and as a plus has wonderful views of the Burj Al Arab and all the Madinat Jumeirah resort.
Word of warning if you opt to eat at Jambazz (food is very good) but do eat early because at approx 10pm it does get very busy with clubbers there to listen and dance to the live band so you could find yourself trying to eat your meal with them dancing all around your table not ideal if looking for a romantic meal, but great if there to party.

As mentioned we opted for the executive club room option which among a bunch of other things gives you pre diner canopies and cocktails between 6-8pm in the lounge or on terrace which is a great way to start your evening and the staff there are wonderful (special mention for Mark one of the waiters there he was great), only negative was the stuffy German duty manager she tending to avoid us not that it bothered us but even a how are you enjoying your stay would have been nice.

While a guest at the Al Qasr your entitled to visit the Burj Al Arab at certain times of the day and night and we did visit and have cocktails in the Skybar there but to be honest the Burj is more impressive from the outside so save your money and stay at the Al Qasr.

The pool is very large and can get busy but never found it overcrowded and unfortunately there does tend to be a problem with folks claiming the best sun loungers but one of the many staff around the pool area will always find you one.

Dubai itself is a wonderful place and I could go on and on about how good this hotel is but won’t.....just go and see it for yourselves

I stayed at the Al Qasr in Sept 2006 and had an amazing time...You know you have "arrived" coming up the hotel driveway seeing all the lifesize gold statues of horses leading up to a huge fountain which appears to have gold horses jumping out of it. Walking into the reception we were greated with much needed cold towels and complimentary drinks, theres so much to take in, huge chandeleers artwork etc. The hotel and grounds are breathtaking and the level of service is outstanding. I really did feel like i was royalty. Especially when I was laying on the beach or by the pool and a member of staff came round with complimentary fruit, cold towels and spraying evian water on your face to cool you down.
If i was stood in the same place in the hotel for more than 1 min a member of staff would be over to see if there was anything they could do to help. I also remeber that everywhere you go there always seemed to be someone cleaning something....the hotel was always cleaned to perfection.
Rooom service came twice a day and once at night to dim the lights, close curtains and put out robes and slippers...they also left different chocs and shells on your pillow everynight.
There was a vast selection of restaurants and bars in the hotel even a nightclub. All the restaurants we ate at were amazing from the pool bar food to the selection of a la carte restaurants. The first night we ate in the madinat at the lebonese restaurant i wasnt expecting much as never had lebonese but the food was brilliant....every night we visited a different restaurant and i remeber thinking every night the food couldnt get any better.....but it did, my favourite was The Meat Co. 500gm Fillet steak was amazing!!!
I could talk about this Hotel and Dubai all day long. All in all i couldnt think of anything bad to say about this hotel and would return in a flash!!
Saying that the only bad thing is all the future hotels i visit have a lot to live upt too!!!