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Applebee's ,Dalma Mall,Abudhabi

It was definitely the taste,  Beauty of place and the quick  hospitality that made us revisit Applebee's   within fifteen days.and this time it was 27 March 2016. My  family enjoyed their meals during our last visit . they

 were not interested to experiment new dishes  this time   and ordered for the same  choices they made formerly. Finally it was me who come forward for a try and I choose pasta this time rather than ribs ( I choose in last visit )with a cherry mojito.

It was Parmesan crusted chicken  for me. Its is a marinate crusted & coated chicken with the italian sauces and fattuccine pasta along with  the mushroom and alfredo sauce.The breaded chicken was so tender and crusty with a big serving of pasta that made my hubbi  jealous of my choice .the meal was so delish and  ample as it was easily enough for two people. 

Applebee's did not ignore littles  with us.They offer colors with a big coloring sheets for an activity to the little kids that's always a good part of a restaurant. it kept aariz,  my son,  so engrossed as we totally forgot we have a tantrum lover child  with us.

Country fried chicken was the best option for my kids as we did not order the kids meal and go for the all regular  meals.it's perfect for my  chicken lover daughter with plenty of meshed  potatoes and steam veggies. My daughter hates vegetables but she has a mom like me who always volunteer for some yum healthy options. Fried chicken is very juicy and tender and the country sauce is really the  super sumptuous .I always borrowed  the sauce from my daughter to try with my any meal.

A serving of four  slices of garlic bread is a complimentary serving to fill any unfulfilled portion  of your appetite . We  really don't  have any such place as all their servings were  ample and enough for two people. 

It was the mutton ribs I choose during my last visit . It is  grilled and almost  free from   any calories guilt afterwards . The four ribs were served with plain rice and mushrooms. The ribs were yummy but I couldn't eat  the plain rice without a gravy so I had to leave that. 

Fiesta lime chicken is  grilled chicken and very yummy with seasoned rice,  lime sauce and freshly made pico de gallo.Maxi _ranches and heck _chadder is mouth watering and Pico de  Gallo is yum.as it's  grilled so  have a watch on calories.

The colorful  glamorous environment filled with green pink and yellow,  is lush with elegant paintings of the capital and the world around.it's really a big dinning hall that contributes our aesthetic sense and cheers our mood.

It was the last but not the least delicacy that impressed me, the matching mint candies they offered us while we were leaving. It really made some value to the place,  taste  and impressions,as manners are like zero in arithmmatic.it's nothing in itself but when used with something,  raise their value. the candies perfectly played the role of zero behind  their  services. 

For us it is one of our favourite spots now we are expected to visit every now and then . Applebee's  knows how to make a perfect family place with the appealing delights.they are courteous and hospitable to everyone from around every corner of world. After my every visit up there I will keep adding the updated reviews here in sha Allah!

Hospitality    4.5

Money value  5

Environment   5

Services      4.5

Taste    4.5

One to One ,The Village

A few days back we received a groupon voucher for 2 large pizzas with cold drinks in One to One village from one of our family friends . I haven't visited  the four star hotel  so far.So during the 2nd week of Feb.2016 we decided to redeem the voucher. 
      We needed to  follow the Google map to reach there. So as we entered the premise, we noticed we do not get any reception nearby. We inquired an attendant and he guided us about the direction of the dinning hall.
  We popped in the hall but there was not  any  attendent around to greet us and to  take us to the table. We approaced the  desk and the desk boy  took us to our  reserved table.

    About  the interiors, it was quite  simple .we placed our order for margarita and one to one special pizza.

Usually  I  avoid to post my family photos, but now as I have  a  very few photos of their hall so I am  offering you my family photo  to have a batter view.they started to serve the sauces and cold drinks. I asked the waiter for an extra empty glass for my little man with no ice.I was quite loud but I don't know why he just not listened as for next five minutes  we did not receive anything. As my littluns were eager to drink their cold drink, so we couldn't afford any more delay and my hubby waved to another and asked for a glass.As a whole scene,  I did not observe any  warm hospitality  there or any quick and efficient attendance  . Two or three servers  were available there  but  showing very cold shoulders.It  seemed  as they were not very happy with us or may be they do not like to give any protocol to the groupon voucher holders. In any case our moods were ruining  every minute. 

They served pizzas quite coldly as there was some sort of ban on politeness .it was even more disappointing as they did not serve any of their fresh bread that is very customary around every pizza counter.this was the only place we were served pizza alone .it was really strange and disappointing . As we were five including my four year old son and one friend of us . it was a perfect pizza serving with the expected complimentary fresh bread but the absence really left a very bad taste in my mouth .I planned to order some extra food for us but my husband simply discouraged me as he was  quite unhappy with the services and wanted to leave immediately. 

So their poor services, skipped sessions of starters, very cold behavior totally ruin the taste of pizza.may be it could be yummy but at the moment no one  was enjoying the taste. Ultimately,without extending our order we left our tables.I was so in bad mood as I did not try to get any  photoshots over their ;as it's true, the good services makes everything worth trying. It was definitely a no more trying place for me!

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.