Location

Location

The location of Bawadi is certainly not the best site in Dubailands being at the lower end of the project at least 25-30 minutes drive away from the centre of old Dubai located around the Dubai creek.

Being away from Emirates Road means that it will not have direct Dubai Metro line access – but in any event monorail and tram lines right outside the hotel doors are planned to link Bawadi with the Dubai Metro stations on Emirates Road.

With 60000 rooms and probably 2-4 times that as many hotel guests in the Bawadi precinct each day its unfortunate that the precinct cannot be directly linked to the blue line – perhaps a feeder line can be installed later so hotel guests only have one instead of two stages to their hotel- airport journey .

It would have been better to locate the hotel precinct on a site in Emirates Road on the Dubai metro  line so Dubailand visitors could simply take a single train journey for the airport [both the existing and the planned new airport are on the Dubai metro line] to their hotel in Dubailands – as lugging bags when arriving and bags [and bulk shopping] when departing from tram or monorail to train imposes an unnecessary barrier and delay to easy commuter travel.