Brunch Budget Beds – cheap Dubai hotels

This article is an update on our Brunch Budget Beds series, where we review cheap Dubai hotels that cost less than a Dubai brunch.

Brunch Budget Beds Objective: cheap Dubai hotels

Simple – we want to prove that there are great cheap Dubai hotels, of business class standard, and available cheaper than the cost of a brunch!

So, Brunch Budget Beds is a series of articles where we are looking to find the best cheap Dubai hotels.

Brunch Budget Beds Rules: cheap Dubai hotels

As with any challenge, there needs to be some clear rules:-

• Our Brunch Budget is 500 AED, which is what we would expect to pay for a top-class Friday brunch with house drinks.
• Aiming for Business class hotels, i.e. ones good enough for Business guests as well as tourists. Meeting rooms should be available, along with hotel loyalty programs, internet etc.
• Target rate for room cost is exclusive of taxes, fees and Tourism Dirham.
• Booking methods should be freely available within the UAE (i.e. no VPNs needed, no foreign currency booking hacks etc.).
• All hotel visits are anonymous (i.e. no promotional rates, PR or marketing freebies) and paid for by ourselves.

Our Brunch Budget Beds – 3 cheap Dubai hotels (so far)

• Melia Dubai – Karama – 308 AED dirhams per night
• Le Meridien Fairway – Garhoud – 140 AED dirhams per night
• JW Marriott Marquis Dubai –  Business Bay – 335 AED dirhams per night

Brunch Budget Beds – more cheap Dubai hotels coming soon

We have visited another 14 hotels, so here are a few clues to upcoming reviews.

• One hotel is a 5 star luxury SPG hotel in Dubai Marina, famed for celebrity stays including Premiership footballers
• One hotel is a new 5 star Business Bay hotel, the first Dubai property of a major European hotel chain
• Several of our Brunch Budget hotels are partaking in hotel loyalty programs, so not only do you get low rates but qualifying nights and earn points on stays.

Disclosure: All of our reviews are visited anonymously, and we pay for all charges ourselves.

We feel no freebies, no bias, no PR or marketing involvement makes for a fairer, objective and better review for you.

Have you found a Brunch Budget Bed we should know about? What do you think about our cheap Dubai hotels?

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