If you're ever thinking of staying at a hotel in Dubai, avoid the Villa Rotana. Its boring and has nothing to do with the lavish life style you can see in Dubai. It has one dining outlet, and its more of a studio hotel. It hosts alot of Arab families in the summer, really big families, so you find kids running around all day and night in the corridors. I've even experienced a soccer game being played in one of corridors adjacent to my room, and i have to say it was a nightmare. The hotel doesn't even serve alcohol. so you can't even relax and have a drink in the afternoon.