Getting the best deal at Jumeirah Hotels
Sep 8, 2014, 7:49 pm
#241
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Quick question. Jumeriah says you get airlines points for bookings at Hotels and for Food spend.
Has anyone been successful in getting these points if booking via a 3rd party site, either by ringing the Hotel and adding your FF Number to the booking and showing your FF card on checkin?
Has anyone been successful in getting these points if booking via a 3rd party site, either by ringing the Hotel and adding your FF Number to the booking and showing your FF card on checkin?
Sep 10, 2014, 2:27 am
#242
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Quick question. Jumeriah says you get airlines points for bookings at Hotels and for Food spend.
Has anyone been successful in getting these points if booking via a 3rd party site, either by ringing the Hotel and adding your FF Number to the booking and showing your FF card on checkin?
Has anyone been successful in getting these points if booking via a 3rd party site, either by ringing the Hotel and adding your FF Number to the booking and showing your FF card on checkin?
Mar 4, 2015, 9:03 am
#243
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I am booked into the Creekside with the wife and two kids for two separate 4 day visits in May, 2015. We have the Deluxe, One King Bed - Summer in the City package booked through Expedia for just short of $200 per day. Any advice on how to maximize our experience on these visits?
From reading this thread it appears the Creekside no longer allows access to the Madinat
, but it also appears we do get one beach pass a day. Is that correct? Any promos in place that would help out on the price, meals or land an upgrade?
From reading this thread it appears the Creekside no longer allows access to the Madinat
, but it also appears we do get one beach pass a day. Is that correct? Any promos in place that would help out on the price, meals or land an upgrade?
Mar 4, 2015, 10:37 am
#244
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I am booked into the Creekside with the wife and two kids for two separate 4 day visits in May, 2015. We have the Deluxe, One King Bed - Summer in the City package booked through Expedia for just short of $200 per day. Any advice on how to maximize our experience on these visits?
From reading this thread it appears the Creekside no longer allows access to the Madinat, but it also appears we do get one beach pass a day. Is that correct? Any promos in place that would help out on the price, meals or land an upgrade?
From reading this thread it appears the Creekside no longer allows access to the Madinat
, but it also appears we do get one beach pass a day. Is that correct? Any promos in place that would help out on the price, meals or land an upgrade?What you need to do, when you use your free pass, is to work out how to get down to the beach without security stopping you next time. Relatively easily done because the hotels are rabbit warrens, especially Madinat.
I am booked in Creekside for a night in April before our flight, will let you know how it goes.
Mar 4, 2015, 10:53 am
#245
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Sounds great. Thanks! Was I right that you get one pass a day? I thought I read somewhere there was confusion about whether it was one pass a day or one pass per stay.
Mar 4, 2015, 11:39 am
#246
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I think it is one pass per stay.
As Raffles says, it is relatively easy to get beachside anyway. You can book a restaurant for example beachside......
I've not stayed at the Creekside yet (also have a one night booking in April after arriving on a late night flight). Tripadvisor reviews are generally very good.
The Jumeirah hotels restaurants Friday brunches can be very good. You can often get 2-4-1 on the Entertainer website deals (Latitude, Beachcomber plus others at Madinat). Expensive but not too bad if you can get the 2-4-1 voucher.
As Raffles says, it is relatively easy to get beachside anyway. You can book a restaurant for example beachside......
I've not stayed at the Creekside yet (also have a one night booking in April after arriving on a late night flight). Tripadvisor reviews are generally very good.
The Jumeirah hotels restaurants Friday brunches can be very good. You can often get 2-4-1 on the Entertainer website deals (Latitude, Beachcomber plus others at Madinat). Expensive but not too bad if you can get the 2-4-1 voucher.
Mar 4, 2015, 3:07 pm
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I think Creekside was always one per STAY. Emirates Towers, a more expensive hotel, was one per DAY but that changed as of this January.
You also get one set of Wild Wadi passes per stay.
One option is to move to Emirates Towers after a couple of days so you can start again with the vouchers.
Mar 25, 2015, 9:35 pm
#248
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Otter7, I am also booked on the summer (in the city?) rate in May. I e-mailed the concierge yesterday to ask about which beach was included. It is currently the Zabeel Saray (but this is subject to change "depending on the operations without prior notice"). The concierge also sent me a copy of the shuttle schedule. They do not currently provide transport to Madinat. It's a loop to Dubai Mall, Wild Wadi and Zabeel Saray. (Although come to think of it, you could probably walk or otherwise get from Wild Wadi to Madinat easily). The shuttle does a couple of loops in the morning, a couple in the afternoon, and then a couple more in the late evening.
Mar 26, 2015, 3:35 am
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Nothing wrong with the Zabeel beach but when we were there 18 months ago it took 13 minutes to drive from the bottom of the Palm to the hotel - ignoring the time taken to drive to the bottom of the Palm in the first place. If you look at a map of the Palm and work out the furthest spot from the entrance, that is Zabeel!
(Well, slight lie, it is One & Only with Zabeel next door.)
Wild Wadi is on the beach and, to all intents and purposes, connected to Jumeirah Beach Hotel (although you would not know this given where the shuttle drops you) with Madinat a 5 minute beach walk away.
(Well, slight lie, it is One & Only with Zabeel next door.)
Wild Wadi is on the beach and, to all intents and purposes, connected to Jumeirah Beach Hotel (although you would not know this given where the shuttle drops you) with Madinat a 5 minute beach walk away.
Mar 26, 2015, 3:38 am
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For anyone at a Jumeirah over Easter, they are doing 20 per cent off meals in many restaurants if you pay with a MasterCard. List on the website.
If you are a guest, you need to pay on the spot rather than adding it to your room bill to get the saving.
If you are a guest, you need to pay on the spot rather than adding it to your room bill to get the saving.
Mar 26, 2015, 8:39 am
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Nothing wrong with the Zabeel beach but when we were there 18 months ago it took 13 minutes to drive from the bottom of the Palm to the hotel - ignoring the time taken to drive to the bottom of the Palm in the first place. If you look at a map of the Palm and work out the furthest spot from the entrance, that is Zabeel!
(Well, slight lie, it is One & Only with Zabeel next door.)
Wild Wadi is on the beach and, to all intents and purposes, connected to Jumeirah Beach Hotel (although you would not know this given where the shuttle drops you) with Madinat a 5 minute beach walk away.
(Well, slight lie, it is One & Only with Zabeel next door.)
Wild Wadi is on the beach and, to all intents and purposes, connected to Jumeirah Beach Hotel (although you would not know this given where the shuttle drops you) with Madinat a 5 minute beach walk away.
Last edited by RichardInSF; Mar 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm Reason: consecdutive posts by same poster
Mar 26, 2015, 5:47 pm
#253
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Creekside is offering 241 on suites even over Easter week which is odd. Just rebooked 2 nights before flight home, after 9 nights at DAM, for roughly same price but now in a suite twice the size plus club and double points.
Apr 10, 2015, 7:41 am
#254
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Sirius changes on the way
Talking to one of the hotel managers in Dubai this week and he has told me that they are making changes to the Sirius programme and members will be notified soon.
I tried to push him to give me some clues and see if there will be any enhancements coming. The only thing he would say is that it will be simpler to use the points soon.
I'm suspicious... Raffles, see if DAM can tell you any more!
I tried to push him to give me some clues and see if there will be any enhancements coming. The only thing he would say is that it will be simpler to use the points soon.
I'm suspicious... Raffles, see if DAM can tell you any more!
Apr 11, 2015, 12:11 pm
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Talking to one of the hotel managers in Dubai this week and he has told me that they are making changes to the Sirius programme and members will be notified soon.
I tried to push him to give me some clues and see if there will be any enhancements coming. The only thing he would say is that it will be simpler to use the points soon.
I'm suspicious... Raffles, see if DAM can tell you any more!
I tried to push him to give me some clues and see if there will be any enhancements coming. The only thing he would say is that it will be simpler to use the points soon.
I'm suspicious... Raffles, see if DAM can tell you any more!
Not sure how you can make the scheme 'easier' when Sirius is the only scheme which puts EVERY room category up for redemption at attractive rates - hence the 9 nights we had at DAM in a very expensive suite, for free. Annoying October half term was not redeemable last time I checked, looks like I need to lock it in as soon as I see it.