Google review
Positives:
Location, right next to an amazing masjid, such a blessing on your doorstep you’d be silly not to go their. Also, the transport shuttle to and from the Haram is superb and efficient. Also, the area is very chilled and relaxed, park friendly with ramps leading everywhere.
Staff are excellent for the basics and room service is also very good quality and value for money.
General upkeep of the hotel si good.
Negatives:
I went for Friday prayers and a strange man attempted to get into my room where my wife and child were sleeping after a long day of travelling and performing Umrah. I’d left a do not disturb sign on the door and that seemed like an invitation for this stranger to knock on the door. He knocked on the door, my wife answered after quite some time and he’d walked a few steps away from the door. Once she did answer he asked if she needed anything. She said she wanted some clean towels and he pretended as though he was going to sort them out and ran away. Who knows what would have happened had my wife opened the door sooner.
We informed the hotel staff and duty manager (08/03/2024) about this expecting them to at least check the cameras and see what it could have been. They simply dismissed the whole thing and said it was a lost hotel resident. How absurd.
Either they simply didn’t understand or they’re just palming off with a little too much nonchalance for something that is in fact extremely dangerous.
I understand it’s difficult to manage every single person that walks in through a hotel door and with the added false sense of security of the lift that requires a hotel room key. The security measures and response from the hotel is laughable and it’s only a matter of time before something ugly happens in this beautiful place.
Also, if you’ve read this far, this hotel as many others buys fake reviews by the truckload.