I'm happy with my choice. The hotel is decent, well located - next to an area with a bunch of national cafes and shops, within walking distance of many attractions (World Trade Center, National Museum, Al Fateh Mosque, etc.). About 20 minutes on foot (towards the Jufair area, you can cross the road via a pedestrian bridge) there is a small beach at the Coral Bay hotel. They let me in there for free, I don’t know if this is always such generosity or if I was just lucky, but the place is very nice. I also recommend taking an evening walk across the bridge to a place called Saada - a nice embankment with national restaurants and pleasure boats.
The room is spacious, clean, has everything you need, and the balcony has a view of the skyscrapers and the Bay Bridge. Breakfast, with several options to choose from (the richest one is English, the most unusual one is Arabic), was delicious and lasted me until the evening (which was very important, since most cafes were closed during the day due to Ramadan). The staff is mostly polite, leaving things until the evening is no problem.
I'm taking off a star for the service because of the trouble with the transfer - it looks like they simply forgot to order it for me, as a result, while they were finding out and sending someone, I waited for almost an hour at the airport. To be fair, in the end they didn’t take any money for the transfer.
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