I stayed in this hotel a few times and all experiences have been wonderful. Here are the (+ve) & (-ve) things about it.

(+ve)
- The rooms are very spacious with a bathroom in each room. All my stays in this hotel were in 2 or 3 bedroom suites.
- The kitchen is large, with a large living room.
- Great restaurants on the ground floor. I loved the Turkish restaurants.
- Prices are excellent.
- The hotel is located in the city centre, so you're wihtin close proximity to a shopping mall + there is a supermarket in one of the buildings around the hotel.
- When staying in the 2 or 3 bedroom suite, there is a small room for the maid with a toilet + a storeroom is available to store your luggage.
- A large balcony connects the living room with the 2 bedrooms. So the windows are actually french windows that open into the balcony.

(-ve)
- The view from the window is not that great. Surrounding the hotel are buildings, buildings & more buildings. However, the view from the restaurant down at the mezannine floor are great.

You will probably like this property a lot more if you have not sampled other Taj properties in India which are always fantastic. If one were to compare this hotel with others available in Dubai then it will fare much better.

The rooms are very large. While they are better than most clinical Dubai hotel rooms they lack the warmth and personality one would expect for the price. One constantly gets the feeling in all aspects of the hotel that they are penny pinching in their expenses. The tea bags are awful, the toileteries are limited, one constantly has to ask for small things like shower caps. The food at breakfast does not compare to international standards. While everyone is very eager to please the staff are not well trained. The hotel did not send a car pick up as promised but instead asked us to get a cab which they would pay for. During checkout they decided to errorneously charge us for the entire contents of the room eatables and drinks which they reveersed after we were upset.

Avoid the Turkish restaurant by all means. The staff in he restaurants hate serving guests. The hotel should close the restaurant.

The good part - the hotel is close to lots of interesting eating places and markets. Stroll across for a meal. This is a rarity in Dubai.

After 10.30 pm the roads close to the hotel also has unsavoury transactions occurring on the streets. However they do not bother touists walking by.

I was excited by the thought of finally getting the chance to stay in a Taj Palace hotel. First thought -- there's nothing Palace-like about it. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice looking hotel, just not sure why they're calling a very businessy looking hotel a "Palace". Also, the address of this place is somewhat of a mystery. The closest you can find on the Taj website is a P.O. Box address. I'd already made the reservation, and was preparing for my trip when I realised this. Had to call the hotel just to ask their actual address. And it is listed here on tripadvisor, but not on the hotel's official website. Strange.

We were a group of 7 people. So we booked a 3 br apartment and an executive room (the most standard in the hotel). I have to say that the apartment is nowhere near as nice as the executive room. The executive room is very opulently decorated, but the apartment (while I know apartments are supposed to be more modest looking than a hotel room) is not quite worthy of being in a Taj Palace hotel which is known for the highest level of opulence. The apartment, while very very spacious and served its purpose of hosting a big family, actually looked a bit cheap. Very plain looking old shower curtains and a bathtub that looks like one from a cheap hotel. It was nothing compared to the executive room that had a much nicer bed and covers, gorgeous well appointed bathrooms, and much better bedroom decor. Nothing went wrong during our stay, in fact we had a very nice stay here. But I think the one person who got the executive room really lucked out compared to the 6 of us who chose the apartment.

Service overall was very very good but the best part of this hotel has to be Handi, the Indian restaurant. I will always remember my meal at Handi as the best Indian food I have ever had in my life (and I eat a lot of Indian food)! This is Indian cuisine at its finest and if anyone stays here or anywhere else in Dubai I would highly recommend a visit. We still talk about that one meal every time Indian food comes up in our conversation about how incredible it was. It is now on my must do list for my next visit to Dubai, even if I am going to stay in another hotel.

The Indian Rest "Handi" is a rip-off. The Mineral water per bottle is AED 26, imported from Italy. There are several well know brands of local water eg Masafi, one should be better off not ordering water from this restaurant. Even the food is not any better. The butter chicken and lamb curry I ordered is of poor taste. My host told me that these people are using some cream and micro heat the dish. The chef should know that there are good food in India especially places like Sheraton (Bukhara)Delhi
When I complained about the water, the waitress told that she will give me some discount but I think she could not get approval from her boss. The single item in my bill of AED455 turned out to be Mineral water AED 78 for 3 bottlels plus tax plus other. Next time I will not step into this expensive poor quality restaurant. Please avoid this place.