Landmark Plaza Hotel

A mate and I stayed here March '06. We asked the tour operator if we could stay in a hotel near the night life! When we arrived at the hotel we could see that this was no classy place - as we initially expected from 'Dubai'!
The room was very basic, but I suppose it met our needs, though the view from the window was rather de-pressing!
Anyhow we proceeded to check out the hotel, to our disappointment there was no bar, the restaurants looked horrid. The staff at the hotel were OK nothing more.
To make things worse every morning the phone (right opposite our room) in the corridor would ring & ring at about 8am!
The 1st time we excused it, the 2nd time we excused it. The 2nd night, we dis-connected on the way in to the room at night.
So this what we had to keep on doing each night!
The hotels location is only a stone throw away from the trading end of town, we took a stroll down there for a look, it was vulgar!
From then on we got a taxi each day down to Jumeriah beach (£4-5) which took about 30 minutes due to the traffic.
The only benefit from staying in this area is that the Irish Village Pub is only 5 minutes away(by taxi), this is a really good place to go and get some tasty food and a good range of beers, accompanied by live music and excellent service.
Dubai is certainly a happening place, so I'd go back, but think I'd spend a bit more time sourcing a better hotel.