We loved our stay at Sofitel the Palm. The rooms a...

We loved our stay at Sofitel the Palm. The rooms are big and nicely designed, the whole resort is well maintained, all the pools are great and since there are a lot of them it feels nowhere to crowded. The breakfast was good but after 2 days we decided to avoid the Manava buffet restaurant (to crowded, to noisy, staff not very attentive) we went to the World Eatery for breakfast, they have a little bit smaller buffet but atmosphere and staff is great there. For dinner we tried all the restaurants with our half board vouchers, first place definitely goes to the Porter House, Beef and Salmon are just delicious, staff is awesome. Only small negative point is that size of the beef filet differed a lot from day to day. Second place goes to Moana, the sushi is very good. Prices for food and drinks are way too high in my opinion. We recommend book half board because you can not really go outside for dinner, there are no restaurants on the palm and it's a 30-40 minute taxi drive to Dubai Downtown. The only small things we can complain about is that our room was over the delivery zone and non of the truck drivers stopped the engine while loading (think because of air conditioning) so there was a lot of noise. The hotel calls itself environment friendly so they should force the truck drivers to stop their engines. You can not walk along the beach, only the small part related to the Sofitel.