Staycation in Park Rotana ,Abudhabi. park rotana

Sitting on a reclining couch in  the front of a wall size glass window I am looking at the city's glimmering lights those are vanishing slowly.As abudhabi is basically a city full of nature, it is used to sleep till 12, and after 12. it is  awake  inside th walls . My family has gone to sweet dreams while  around  the city's roadside,the  lamp posts and the life are  almost lazy and quite. On my cosy couch I  am resoluted to almost start and half finish my blog about park Rotana, till the moment ,  I am in tonight for a brief one night staycation. Only few knows my love with my pen and notebook.
                 Behind my seat,  my family is sleeping and snoring, and here I am ,want to write,   to wake till morning with the lamp post lights.A  staycation is an escape for me,  from my busy tiring life, piles of dishes,  load of mess around every corner and thousands of my domestic motherly wifely obligations. During any escape these are the only moments I am away from my work place, my job that's my home.So tonight me and my write up will be together all night long for a cool story of our staycation in park rotana.
Its our first visit in Park Rotana. it seems Rotana has done their best at their every hotel  with the same grace. It has almost the same mark of best  service  as I have been witnessed  in Alain Rotana and khalidiya Palace  Rehaan by Rotana in Abudhabi.

   We reached the hotel around 6: 30 .we checked in almost four hours later than the standard check in time ( tough office hours of my husbands job). But there was not any lack of protocol  on the reception.well on some places I have  been noticed that we were not properly welcomed  by  reception if we get late till evening.but Rotana is one of the places where  there the welcome team never sleeps. We  were received warmly on the door as well as on the reception.

.   We had reserved a classic room for us. The reception upgraded  us to a premieum room for a batter place with our family without any extra charges.it was  a  pleasure for us and again Rotana impressed us with their generous services, as it has been offered  to us in Alain Rotana as they upgraded our room to deluxe from classic without request or any extra charges.I do not know how many other hotels provide this upgrade free of charge if available  but up to my experiences yet, I have seen this only in Rotana. May be their are some more destinations that offer such generous attitude that I did  not experienced yet.

We headed towards our room.the room was lovely with all expected commodities. 

                The primium room was a beautiful room with a  couch,  a kingbed with a full size window opening towards khalifa park. Although they don't have balconies but sitting on the couch facing the park is a real bliss.that's the place I spent my most of the  night with my Ipad and gave attention to some of my writing commitments.

We took a little nap to refresh and then headed towards JINGER: All day dining.the dinning hall  was big and was almost packed with guests.We took our seats  and pick up plates for buffet. They had a big variety of appitisers and desserts.main courses were also various  but  definitely the appetizers and dessert  stations were leaving behind the main courses .As my heart always goes towards  appitizers and desserts  so it didn't make me any difference. It actually gave me an advantage! So large variety of my guilts  was a good point to give park rotana.

For soup they had a sea food soup and a vegetable one  but as soups simply do not suites me so I straightforwardly 

 started my dinner  with fatoush that had bestest taste in Rotana always. For a little main course taste I picked a hunter  beef that was a real yum with a taste of peanut butter.I really loved those small bits of  hunter beaf that I picked one more on my next round.corn salad and Fish garre was also a yummy choice.Stir fried chicken was  not a less in its taste and aroma.  I tasted a sushi and a bit salomon tartare with bell and peppers that was yummy .Presentation of foods and salads was very colorful and appealing that I was afraid I ll definitely go out of control so I simply left main courses and go to the desserts to finish my meal..it was a good blend of Arabian traditional sweets along with international pastries and cake variety as I may bet I could even fill my appetite with a big variety of  my favorite sweets here. my kiddos were loving strawberries and  marshmallows dipped in fresh choclate! I choose rice pudding with orange cake and a strawberry dipped in the  choclate fountain.it was really very hard to stop me with a large variety of my sweetguilts so to escape thousands additional stock of sweet  calarie i left the dinning hall as soon as my kids started annoying me for pool .

It was really a chilled night with the cool breeze I just felt a bad  need for any cardigan that I simply didn't packed with me. Thanks Heaven that my kids had their woollen dresses and jackets.they rushed towards the slides and I choose a launger. Within fifteen minutes I had to leave the place as it was too chilly, I squeezed towards the outdoor heaters on the coffee table. The cool winter breeze was still freezing me in a semi summer  dress, I ordered a mocha coffee for me as my hubbi was having a little walk around the little play area.it was too cold but it doesn't make any difference with my kids as they we're totally busy on slide as my four years old son is a slide lover!

The chilled breeze outside was sharp and    simply bad for my kids, so we just collected them and returned to our room.they just took few minutes to go to sleep because of there tired busy day in school and office. 

The next shiny morning was not indifferent to the last chilly night.the bright sun shines was not capable to stop the frenzy feel. So we could not open our swimming bags  for pools but definitely we enjoyed our breakfast in Jinger with the same grandeur and ambiance.the traditional Arabic breakfast has been served with American variety of muffins, curd,muesli and pies,every thing was available there with live cooking. Milk,juices,luban were also served with the breakfast. 

IT was a beautiful stay with best services and comforts.on a little place they are providing the bestest facilities.

Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan,Abudhabi

I am surely loving Rotana for maintaining such incredible heights of beauty, ambiance, tastes, serenity and hospitality.the welcoming environment they always offer is really awesome!
   It was our second visit to Rotana destinations.first one was @AlainRotana ,a night stay with half board.I will write about that visit in some upcoming blog.today I will totally focus upon  Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan by Rotana.
Our car reached  the porch and without missing a second, a  Porter reached to open the door. The timing and protocol they offer was undoubtedly perfect.I have been in very big  names of hotels where there the reception ignores it whenever they get some chance. Rotana really hit the mark in our both visits.
Right in the main lounge there stands a big X'mas tree full of ornaments ,bells,xmas balls besides a gingerbread shop as a part of festive arrangements.the big lounge was beautifully decorated with colorfull X'mas bells and a beautiful Santa as well. The white crystal Chandeliers were also a big attraction in the lounge with the cosy sofas, couches and a central  round sofa!

A Singer was ready to  start her  live xmas carol for the festive treat.
    As we left the lounge and head towards Cammon,a lebanese cuisine, our destination,we crossed beautiful water canals and soul- refreshing pool side.that's really a fresh and incredible delight for all of the tired senses of a bustling day  .the waiter at the cuisine proceed us to our reserved, sea side corner place!  We could mark  the perfect hospitality again as all the servers were welcomingly active and attentive to every service.
We  were so delighted to see  such beautiful views of sea side, yachts harbour and elegant etihad towers  all around.these winter days it was surely the one of bestest place  to dine in! After giving our order we were ready to indulge on the seaside fence with the outstanding treats of scenario.

First of all they served  their complementary bread with some speciallities of pickles that ware really yummy with small rounded khubaz that really loved by my munchkin.being a woman I like their serving dish and pickle pots as well😜😜. As they have been ordered earlier to bring all courses by and by as we are not in a hurry,so we had been almost finished the bread and pickle before we served our appetizer! Fatoush and,,,,,,,,, was the order,and almost after 6 months I tasted such a yumilicious appetizers that I could bon my appetite with those merely,with all my heart.( six months before it was Again Rotana that made me love those salads and appetizers. 😉).the taste was at it's best undoubtedly !👌  with a crunchy blend of vegetables,  pomegranate and nuts in fatouch, I even took the last drop of juice left in the plate!😛😛( we even order to pack a fatoush for take away. )

  

With the main course, I ordered arayess with French fries and steamrice for my kiddos and kabab qamar  al zaman  for me with kabab halabi for my batterhalf as we were totally unaware of the serving size and we have already satisfied our appetite with the appetizers. The dishes served and we felt one dish was quite enough for both of us while we have already ordered the desserts also.the kababs were undoubtedly delicious  and we didn't left a bit in the platters!  after we finished our main course we were totally full and looking upon each other in helplessness as we have  already ordered the desserts we can't deny now ethically. We  felt it batter to have a little walk before  the dessert session and I did this with my little man around the beach side.I have ordered baklawa and halawa bil jibn  for desserts and as I do not know much about lebanese cuisine, so it was a surprise for me what order i have placed.thanks God it was not in a big bowl and  appears  in the small square pastries  that ware  not less in taste! Latte was the last course we had that refreshed our mood and enhance the spirit .Me and my hubby are the latte lover and it was awsome in these  winter nights at the beach of Arabian gulf under glorious lighted palm trees  with the bestest views and season possible ( in uae). 

After leaving our seats we head toward the pool sides for my most wanted photo shots and the welcoming shimmering pools with blue flowing water were making me crazy. To my surprise in the pools the water was still flowing and the tickling smooth sound of the water was mesmerizing me.I was in a trance to feel our night at again rotana.sitting beside the pool I was trying to take  all the sips of beauty available around.Two wood bridges were enhancing the  charisma and  the whirling pools were looking like a different world around.While  my kiddos were enjoying the play area I took some photos around.

As  I was ready to take a beautiful shot of cabana my cell switched off and I was deprived of my most beloved moment in pics.it was a disaster for me as I already had left my charger at home.

The last thing I could do was to sit on a  reclining chair beside a pool,and enjoy the serenity of the environment and so I did. I could surely sit beside the soothing sound of flowing  water in a winter night if my husband may leave his work next day that was simply a big  no! So I said farewell to the beauty of pool side. 

As we reached the reception to check out, the slim smart beautiful Singer in green robe was singing X'mas Carol  near by the tall X'mas tree.it was another plus of the visit that day.while waiting for our car we enjoyed the live Singer sitting on the couches.. finally on leaving we had a certain feeling of delight and were happy as it was all worth trying.