Originally Posted by LonghornDXB

So next morning, you'll need to be at the airport by around 8 am and wake by 7 am. DXB time which is ahead of BEY ...

It would be worth not having to wake early to do the hotel checkout and transfer, so airside hotel sounds much better.

If you were flying in from the east, you would be up by 6 or even 5am, and a hotel outside would have been more feasibe ,,,, thats why I asked the city of origin