Orient Guest House

My husband and I had actually booked and paid for another Heritage area hotel, the Hotel Barjeel Heritage Guest House, but when we arrived in the evening after a very long and tiring flight we were told at that hotel that they were FULL (???) and they then called the Orient Guest House, who agreed to send someone to come pick us up to spend our one night before our cruise. At first we were both rather upset as we had planned far ahead to have an authentic Arabian hotel experience and forgo the glitzy high rise hotels, but when we saw our lovely Arabian style room, though small, with its obvious antique firnishings, the super comfortable king sized canopy bed and nice size bathroom, we calmed down. Our room opened right onto the ground floor breakfast patio area and had an ancient thick giant-sized wooden door with a huge old padlock. The room was very quiet and we slept great! In the morning we enjoyed our breakfasts on the patio that we had ordered the night before we retired. We even had some delicious dates with our meal. I did wonder what the very thick "bacon" was slced from? It had quite a different taste. Somehow we missed seeing the roof terrace although we saw other guests heading up the stairs and just thought they were going to higher floor guest rooms. It would have been nice if the person checking us in the night before had mentioned it, but it was getting quite late. After breakfast we were amazed to discover that this hotel is located right in the heart of the Heritage Center and tour groups are walking all around that area. We loved how close it is to the canal, the Dubai Museum and so much more. I would choose to stay here again!