My romance with Sofitel was quite 6 months old.Since I started my wanderlust in UAE,it was one of the highlighted destinations for me .Sofital, located at cornice,Abudhabi,has French styled interiors and the name Sofital carries a big grace and sofistication ( it might Be a spark of my own name as well! ; ) ).So I had been fencied to be there for the last six months and had been postpond for this or that reason.In Dec.2015, I was going to discover the destination finally
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Me, with my hubbi kash and my two pretty cool munchkins parked straight at the reception door and the protocol officers reached to open the doors without any delay.that's the first impression I never missed to notice as it's the first thing to the protocol. And sofitel did hit the mark about it!
We entered the elegant premises; the interiors were really awe inspiring and beautiful! As it was a festive season of X'mas , We could see many X'mas arrangements of xmass tree, gingerbread house, bells and all other ornaments in plenty.
The concierge show us the way to all day dinning..I could smell quite cold reception as the dinning staff was not looking very much warm and smiling. Their gestures were not as warm as any one can expect from a five star hotel.we were almost the second for the lunch so the big all day dinning hall was almost empty.We took our seats and look around for the lovely interiors.It was elegant and glamourous .the water channels and fountains were looking awesome and we were totally in trance of a beautiful and serene enviorment! For their design, interiors, decorations I will give them 5/5 but their festive celebrations getting definitly 6 out of 5 as we can see that around every corner , on every station , in each style! That was also a bit wow for my kids to be around so many glimmering xmass trees and such a loud threshold of red and green color!
We started our lunch with the appetizer.salads station was big and undoubtedly full of international appetizers. I took some salads to taste, including fattosh, and baba ghanooch.my dauther, like all kids, straight went toward pizza corner and she was very overjoyed as they had variety of pizza and pasta.I was glad for her to love the pizza but for my appetizers, that was really not outstanding. It was a quite lack of flavour. We were overwhelmed by the variety but the taste was dispointing.so to satisfy my cravings I bring some fresh fruits .
After her pasta, my litl'n goes for bread and butter and muffins! Me and my husband head toward grilled and bar b q section..mutton chops were nice, birayani was yummy and colorful, but the grill fish was just average of taste .All the dinning hall was fully packed with guests now and everybody filling was their plates and satisfying their eppitite.For me the food I tried was not very outstanding. Hot and sour chicken was a good option as well I tried a little more sea food but that was quite tasteless!.I couldn't eat or taste more than this as I wanted to reserve some portion for my sweet guilt I never compromise. So I head towards the dessert station and tried a few cake pieces.without any doubt they have a lot of variety on every section but they need to improve their taste .May be they had have some yummilious options that I didn't try, my luck!
Now it was a time to leave the table. We filled our tummies although our tasteduds were quite disappoited as we did not get that delish and expected taste we had in our mouths before lunch.Any way our lunch had been finished and my kiddies were totally filled with backery.As I am a mom of little potty trained prince so it was totally impossible to leave a hotel without a toilet visit.I took my boy to the toilet and it was really the worst part of the Sofitel.With elegant sparkling tiles and modern fittings , there was water around all the counters/ basins .no towel on the counter :all were used and filled in the towel bucket and nobody even bothered to supply some more. No tissues were available . The hand wash and lotions bottles were thrown up side down randomly. A disastrous mess for a hotel like sofitel,I could never expect.there was totally zero maintainess in the toilets at that moment .thanks God the hand dryer was working otherwise we ddn't have any other option than of being out with dripping wet hands.It was an end of our visit at sofitel. Sitting in the lobby waiting for our car, I was simply wondering Sofitel should work up on their tastes as well as to raise their mantainess in toilets! Good luck sofitel ! Bye bye cornice!
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