Ibis World Trade Centre Dubai Hotel, Dubai

The hotel is absolutely convenient even if you are attending a conference at the convention centre. Taxis is an issue though since they may not come as often as you need them at times. The hotel should have someone to call the taxi company to get more taxis to come.

My partner and I booked this Ibis hotel because it was reasonably priced and we had stayed in the Ibis Al Barsha on a previous visit to Dubai, and we were pleased with our stay there. The Ibis World Trade Centre was a very different experience though. There was a big conference on in the conference centre next door to the hotel on the day we checked-in. The traffic getting to the hotel was extremely busy, but we found the hotel no problem, and stopped the car outside the front door of the lobby so that I could pop in and find out where to park the car. While I was waiting to speak to someone at the lobby check-in desk, my partner waited in the car with the engine running, but was continually hassled by a man (who was supposedly managing the traffic outside the front of the hotel) telling him he could not stop here. When my partner explained that I had just popped in to find out where to park, the man continued to repeat that we could not stop there, and insisted he move the car. This would be fine, except that it was a one-way road, with no where to pull over and stop, and the road led away from the hotel into an area we were not familar with, and which was rammed with traffic. Meanwhile, I was told at the lobby desk that the car parking was back out the front of the hotel (the lobby entrance is at the back) and located across a busy main road. When I asked the man on the desk to give some more directions, he just said 'drive round the front, its across the road, you will see it', which I did not find helpful. So I ran back outside to tell my partner (who was still being hassled by the traffic man). We agreed it would be better to take our luggage out of the car just now, rather than attempt to lug it from the car park, which sounded quite far away. I was struggling to lift the suitcase out of the boot of the car, but no one offered to assist me, as there appeared to be no hotel staff outside. I then ran in with our luggage to leave it with a member of h

This is our third time at this hotel and as on previous visit everything was as we expected.The only major problem was they now have no carparking at this hotel.We only discovered this on checking in. There are major works outside the hotel and we could not get the car to the front entrance.We asked where we were supposed to park and were told to put the car in the car park building next door at an hourly rate. After asking to cancel the booking we were then told we could use the Novotel car park but would have to take the car ourselves as they no longer have valet parking at the Ibis and are now a 2 star hotel. Apart from this everything else was as we have come to expect from this hotel.