Anantara Desert Islands Resort & Spa

Staff at the hotel were very friendly and helpful. Safari trip and the guide were excellent in communicatig

Resturents were not good, and very expensive. There were many security restrcitions. Beach was not nice since its on reclaimed land. Airplaine not avalible on daily basis, and the airtrip is limited only to Abu Dhabi Airport

The staff are fabulous, the excursions excellent.

We think it is too expensive for what it is.

Peaceful location.

Very costly beverages, lack of communication between hotel services,

Our room was beautiful, fresh flowers and fruit and loved the light dimmers and celing fan. The infinity pool was another great feature although it would be nice to have an area for sunbathing on the beach too. Maybe this will be introduced later as it seems the hotel is still being developed. We loved the game drive and was worth getting up for the 6am one.

In general the service was bad. On at least four seperate occasions our order was taken and completely forgotten about. Also we were told on our first night at 9.15 that we could not have a table outside at the seafood restaurant as they were all booked, even though the hotel was extremely quiet. These tables were not occupied later. I think that even though they told us last orders were 10.

The hotel staff was very well taken care of us. The location is uniqe. The pool is very nice.

The restaurants , including the breakfast buffet , can not be called as 5 star level ( max. 3 ***+ ) The beaches are poor and ugly.The organisation of activities is very poor because man power shortage.