Staying at a traditional-style hotel is something that gets a bit boring when you’re looking at the same hotel rooms and the same view day after day. Even though luxury hotels offer all the amenities that guests need, actually traveling to and from the hotel room can be quite a bother. For those looking for a bit of flexibility in their hotel room stay, the Golden Sands Hotel offers a different experience: a studio-type apartment with the amenities of a hotel.

Apartment-type Accommodation

A center complex sets the theme for the Golden Sands Hotel. Each apartment is still serviced like a hotel room, giving the best of both worlds. Of course, there is still a central lobby to get access to the individual apartments, and the lobby has newspapers to greet guests, and a pool table to entertain those staying there. There are a total of two hundred sixty-five apartments in the complex, and all are equipped to a high standard. All the things that you’d expect from an apartment, like kitchen equipment, a fridge to keep your things cool and washing machines to do your clothes maintenance in, all come standard at the Golden Sands.

When you think about it, this level of equipment only comes on the highest-end rooms when it comes to hotels. Of course, the apartments in the Golden Sands don’t come up short when it comes to communications facilities in the rooms, having a high-speed internet connection, a Satellite TV and a telephone per apartment unit. You’ll also be able to keep valuables safely stored in each apartment’s safety deposit box. As an added extra, the Golden Sands offers complimentary parking onsite so that you won’t have to have problems parking your car.

Taking a page from the hotel rulebook, they have twenty-four hour room service and front desk to handle your needs at any time of the day. You can get your tourist information from the front desk as well. Each apartment is also decorated light colors giving a cheerful atmosphere, and has patterned fabrics that give each apartment a nice, contemporary tone. From a single studio-type apartment to one that has three bedrooms, the size categories at The Golden Sands can suit everybody’s taste and budget.

Golden Sands Location

The Golden Sands is located close to the Bur Jurman Shopping center so that you can do all the shopping you need right in the area. The Al Fahidi Textile market is also just one kilometer away, and is somewhere that tourists should visit while staying in Dubai. You can also visit some more tourist sites like the Dubai Museum or the Dubai Heritage and Diving Village, each just two kilometers away from the apartments. Jumeirah Beach is nine km away from the hotel if you want to have a relaxing time at the beach.

However, if you’re on business in Dubai, you’ll have easy access to Dubai World Trade Center at just four km away. Should you need to handle you financial affairs when in Dubai, you can do so because its location is near banks as well. From the Dubai International Airport, The Golden Sands is located just eleven kilometers away, and actually getting there is no problem since there are lots of taxis that will take you there for around forty dirham. But then, if you want real style, you could also hire a limousine to get to the hotel.

Dining at the Golden Sands

The Pool Restaurant at The Golden Sands takes care of all the meals of guests in the hotel, and you can have your pick of the international dishes that you’re familiar with, or take a sample of local cuisine to set your appetite on a Middle Eastern Journey. You’ll have the chance to sample what dishes you want to try out while in the comfort of the hotel restaurant. And you can also have your meals delivered right to your door incase you don’t feel like going out of your apartment.

Other Guest Services

There is a direct dial telephone in each apartment, and guests can have their wakeup calls set at the front desk so that they won’t have to rush to their appointments or have a late start in going on tours. To handle all your laundry needs, there are also dry-cleaning services onsite, negating the need to go out just to have your clothes washed and pressed for their next use. To provide for the guests’ wellbeing, the Golden Sands offers sauna services that give guests the chance to relax a let all their stress melt away.

The Golden Sands also gives guests discounts on some activities they might want to participate in while on vacation in Dubai. There is also an outdoor pool for guests should they want to have a few laps in, or just lounge around the poolside with their favorite drink. For sports fans, you can have a go at table tennis or squash, and work up a good sweat with your fellow guests. There’s nothing like knowing that you have the comfort and amenities of the most luxurious hotels also available when you stay at the Golden Sands. The hotel staff will also gladly assist you in your travels within Dubai, and they will help you book a rental car, have currency exchanges right from their front desk and even help with document copying should you require.

For people wanting to get a taste of a new kind of experience out of their stay in a foreign place, the Golden Sands Hotel Apartment offers a good mix of apartment privacy and spaciousness, and hotel services and amenities. You can’t find this type of arrangement in any other hotel, and the best part of it is that you can get the things you’d normally find only on higher-end rooms such as executive suites at other hotels. The cost is also a nice pull to travelers, as it won’t cost as much than if you were to rent out a hotel room in a posh hotel.