Radisson Blu Resort, Sharjah-United Arab Emirates

We had a really bad experience at this hotel and checked out within 24 hours. The rooms were filthy, antiquated and reeked of cigarette smoke. The food was very poor - either a buffet or burgers and chips in the cafe. Beach and swim pool was very nice but half of the water sport activities offered were not really available. The hotel does not advertise or make it clear that it is a dry hotel i..e. no alcohol

My wife & I stayed at this Hotel for ~ four days in November 2010 at reasanable price. We were surprised to find a 19 inch old style box TV in our room that had poor reception, flickering sound, and bad picture. We called the reception and repeated the problem three times to three various staff. We spoke fluent Arabic and/or English languages to Hotel staff as appropriate so Hotel staff understand the problem at hand. We requested a plasma TV (if possible) with bigger & clear picture as it s the only entertainment for us in the room. We were not able to see the TV clearly from our bed because of the TV size. My wife eyes were tearing due to poor and shaky TV picture. Management staff called to let us know that we can upgrade the room to a business class with a Plasma TV but we have to pay almost double the daily rate. We took that as an insult to our intelligent. We then talked to the Manager and repeated the problem of having a poor TV receptions and picture quality TV. He said he will call back and ended up sending a technician with another same type TV with same problem. It appears that all old 19 inch TV's had same problems. We gave up on pursuing the TV issue problem as we figured we are wasting our time. Hotel Management and staf knew what the problem is but don't want to do anything about it without extracting more money. No one even bothered to follow up with our request and problem not even an oppologize or even make a courtasy move to make up for the problem we had to live with. We think the current hotel managment leadrship is out of touch with it's customers. The problem is not only the poor TV size, type, and reception but how Hotel managment dealt with such a problem. At this time this hotel should be 4 star hotel and not a 5 star hotel. Finally, we must state that the swimming pools were nice. Room cleaning was inconsistence and incomplete as they leave you a water bottle to drink and tooth paste one day and skipp it on other days.

Great Hotel with a freindly staff and a nice getaway.

Der Boden war sehr schmutzig, in allen Bereichen - seit längerer Zeit nicht staubgesaugt und nicht aufgewischt.. Schuhe ausziehen konnte ich im ganzen Wohnbereich nicht. Hausschuhe nicht vorhanden.Das Badewimmer war ein Albtraum: alte, abgenutzte und vor allem schmutzige Sanitäranlagen. Badewanne verstopft und entsprechend mit einem Schmutzrand versehen. Noch schlimmer war aber der penetrante Wasserkanalgeruch, der auch bei geschlossener Badezimmertür ekelhaft und nicht auszuhalten war, ohne dass es sich im Magen alles dreht. Das Rezeptionspersonal war nicht besonders hilfsbereit und hat uns auch nicht ernst genommen. Uns wurde ein identes Zimmer gezeigt: genauso schmutzig, genauso übel riechend, genauso abgenutzt und ekelhaft. Angeblich war dieser Kanalgeruch "Air refreshener?!". Nach nur 8 Stunden haben wir früzeitig ausgecheckt und unsere Unzufriedenheit bekannt gegeben.