Holiday Inn Hotels Dammam Al Hamra, Dammam

Advantages: cheap at first glance
Disadvantages: not really cheap, overall insufficient product & service quality

...Some writers have commended the Holiday Inn for its excellent service at very reasonable prices. A look behind the scenes of the brand policy, products and pricing shows however a very different picture. Holiday Inn is in fact often more expensive than the competition and provides a low degree of service for the price. The problem with the perception of HI is that most people only know their lowprice HI Express chain and have little to say about HI's other brands and products. All five opinions posted on HI before mine only discuss the merits of HI Express, but that's just one of four HI brands. That's also Ciao's mistake, they should have created a category for each brand/chain separately. The Holiday Inn Group consists of four brands of Hotels: ~ the classic Holiday Inn Hotels, 4-5 Stars ~ the upmarket Holiday Inn Crown Plaza... Read review

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Advantages: Good location
Disadvantages: dull, dull, dull - and not cheap either

...This hotel has been listed on Ciao for more than two years without anyone writing about it and I'm not actually all that surprised. Writing a review of a really good hotel is easy and writing one about an awful hotel is fun. But how about hotels that are just a bit blurgh - not great, not awful? Is it actually possible to write an interesting review of an uninteresting hotel? I'm still not sure about that. If you find it a bit dull, please go and read one of my other hotel reviews - they'll probably be more interesting but Ciao needs the good and the bad as well as the mediocre. Sitting in my room at the Holiday Inn in Paris St Germain de Pres I couldn't help but reflect that the designers drew heavily from that area of the colour palette best characterised by the term 'nicotine'. Not a popular colour card at the 'mix your own Dulux... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Spacious well equiped room, fantasic food, great service
Disadvantages: Restaurant too big for romantic meal

...As we have 3 young children, my wife and I don’t get much chance to go out for a nice quiet meal and the trouble we have trying to find a hotel that sleeps 5 people has meant that we don’t go away very often. My wife spotted a special offer at our local Holiday Inn where they were offering a 3 course dinner, a room for the night, and breakfast in the morning for £110 for 2 people as previously mentioned we don’t get out much so this sounded great, a little bit expensive, but pack the kids off to see their grandparents and off we go. My first impression when we arrived was ‘this can’t be the right place we cant afford to stay here’ the hotel is situated on the bank of the river Thames and there are paths where you can go for a walk along the river, car parking is provided for over 200 cars so... Read review

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