Gulf Inn Hotel

We enjoyed our stay in Dubai and the hotel was nice. The rooms were very clean with plenty of fresh linen. Lovely to have a refridgerator in room. Helpful reception staff and a good free bus service to the beach. Breakfast was fine but restaurant a little grubby with sticky floor. The noise from the nighclub was very loud until 3.00am and then ,when closing, there were people charging up and down the corridor. Overall a nice hotel to use as a sleeping base only,but the facilities are quite a lot to be desired off. Definately over priced.

I had booked this hotel (reviews unseen) for my brother, myself and his two boys for four nights. Then I read the reviews and was expecting all hell. Firstly, the staff were very pleasant. We arrived there at 10am (check in time is 3 or 4). They let us have a room to shower/change/sleep without problem and moved us when our connecting rooms were ready. I think the hotel has cleaned up its act. We went to one nightclub (which was empty!) and there was both a bar and a restaurant downstairs that were friendly and very pleasant. Didn't see any signs of prostitution anywhere. Lots of families in the restaurant and upstairs in the pool bar. I also read problems about noise. We were staying on the fourth floor and, yes, you could hear the nightclub. I put in some wet cotton wool into my ears (having come prepared!) and slept very soundly every night. I am normally a very light sleeper too, so was purprised that I slept so well. Having also stayed at Hiltons and Westins (particularly the St Francis in SF with thin walls!) with more noise from other guests, I didn't find it a problem. At something like $300 Australian per night for two rooms it was pretty good really. Food was quite OK for breakfast and dinner at the restaurant. The location is very central and there is a kids amusement park set up in an empty car lot over the road each night with rides and games that everyone loved. On the whole, for the price, I thought the K-Porte pretty good. It is not a five star hotel, but is a very good budget hotel. It is more of an Arabic-style hotel than a Western hotel, but that is, after all, why you travel. Who wants to go to Dubai and eat McDonalds (except for my two nephews that is!). For the price, I could not fault it. I would stay there again and recommend it to anyone who wants a cheap, good, clean family hotel.

Remember, this is a budget hotel - so don't be disappointed if your expectations aren't met! I chose this hotel because it was cheap and was in a central location. Since its change of ownership (previously called Gulf Inn), standards have improved and the room was spacious, clean, well-serviced daily. There was a hot buffet breakfast included in the (cheap) room rate. We also made use of the free shuttle buses to the beach and the airport too. The reception staff we came across were reasonably helpful and friendly. The concierge gave us a free map of the city to help us explore. The only down side was the music coming from club in the hotel during the evening, a problem in many of Dubai's budget hotels I've heard. But seeing as we weren't too precious about our sleep, it didn't bother us. If you are, ask for a room on the higher floors. Go for this one if you're (a) on a tight budget and (b) you not too fussy. If you're not and you are, then book somewhere else!

We stayed in this hotel for 3 nights, on the 5. floor. The staff is friendly, but the service quite bad : my fiancé had to call reception several times to get his pincode for the Internet access (reception wouldn't call back) ; personnally I didn't appreciate to have to call reception to get toilet paper. Though the room was large and the bed comfortable, the noise coming from the club (1. floor) made it hard to sleep. Breakfast was just ok, accompanied by loud tv music. The sauna is good, the swimmingpool small and dodgy ; on the contrary of what the hotel description says, there is no gym. Our stay at the K-Porte inn was very disappointing, don't go there unless the other hotels are booked.

My Husband and I were only staying in Dubai 1 night so wanted a reasonable price hotel near the airport. The Hotel staff could not have been more helpful as when we arrived there was no reservation in our name but they quickly resolved that, we we then shown to a very nice sized clean room with a balcony overlooking a side street, the area around the hotel had plenty of shops to look at. We were leaving early in the morning and received a wake up call at 4am when we arrived at reception we were offered breakfast which we did not have time to have and also complimentary transport to the airport. I would certaintly use this hotel again and hopefully next time be able to stay longer and all for £60 pn

Providing a place to sleep is the most basic service a hotel can provide. This hotel, now known as K-Porte Inn, makes it impossible for one to sleep. I had rooms on the 4th and 6th floor and I could not get away from the thumping bass. My room was clean, but marked with cigarette burns and smelled of beer. Also, my shower would get no hotter than lukewarm. The staff was ok, but would not help hail a cab.

Hotel lovely, staff lovely. Very very loud music that goes on until 0300 nightly. We stayed at this hotel on the first and last night of our 14 day holiday. The first night we we were on the third floor. When we returned to the hotel I mentioned the horrendous noise and we were upgraded to a junior suite on the fifth floor - however - we were still disturbed by the music - totally ruins the whole image of the hotel

Stayed 3 nights. Staff were ok and room was cleaned so that was ok. Avoid the club downstairs, unless you want to pay 25 dirhams for a can of coke (it's 1 dirham from a vending machine). The dancing girls were pretty but I wasnt approached for anything else :(

I found the gulf inn hotel a very unpleasant stay. First impressions were that it was very nice, clean rooms etc. service was bad. the cleaner did not change bed sheets for 4 days. Room service i had to repeatidly call for 1 order but worse of all the hotel bar: of an evening it was swamped with prostitutes touting for clients and this was permitted by management. I was staying there with my husband and sister and was approached by men who assumed we were in the same league as the girls touting, staff seen this and allowed they're guests to be intimidated like this it was appauling. A regular drinker in the bar(male) insulted my husband asking if he was our pimp and the attitude and bad language coming from his mouth was utterly appauling yet was heard by staff and allowed! Ladies should not even travel in the lift alone as chances of being approached is highly likely. I cant express enough how appauling this hotel is but such a beautiful country i will definately ruturn to dubai but most definately will not be staying in the gulf inn.

I stayed in the Gulf Inn Hotel for 8 nights in December. I will not be recommending it to anyone. It is cheap, but you get what you pay for! Some of the clientele that frequent the hotel bar & nightclub would raise a few eyebrows - to say the least! Only some of the hotel rooms have balconies, so I would advise you to request a room with a balcony at the time of booking, friends of our's who stayed there at the same time had a single window which was welded shut! I got a couple of bites on my legs, which friends reckoned were bed bug bites... also, on the morning we were checking out, a cockroach crawled up the shower curtain... Visit at your own risk!!!