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? We'd love to hear from you, tell us your thoughts, questions or feedback, using the comments below.
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