Lapita Lodge Dubai Parks and Resorts assessment

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Heads up theme park followers! I’ve discovered one of the best place to remain at Dubai Parks and Resorts in the event you’re not into LEGO however nonetheless desire a resort with character. Lapita Lodge is a 5 star Polynesian-themed resort that’s a part of Marriott’s Autograph Assortment. So, in addition to being super-family-friendly, you’re in for an expensive keep.

Having mentioned that, once we arrived – simply after the resort’s common examine in time – there was a queue of automobiles main as much as the foyer entrance. It didn’t bode nicely. We had been staying over the largest vacation within the GCC – Eid Al Adha – and it appeared everybody had had the identical concept. Was our timing a giant mistake?

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Our keep at Lapita Lodge Dubai

Honest play to the Lapita group – they magically remoulded our hectic first impression in minutes. The visitors jam moved quick and inside we received to the entrance of the reception line in fairly good time. In the meantime a Smurf was wandering round saying hiya to youngsters, ice lollies had been handed out to travel-weary friends and a Polynesian dance present lulled us into vacation mode. 

The resort’s Pacific theme continues all through the resort with carved darkish wooden furnishings, rattan equipment and islander prints transporting you 1000’s of miles away.

We booked Lapita for 2 nights as a part of a 4 evening keep in Dubai.

Our household room at Lapita Dubai

The resort’s predominant amenities are within the foyer constructing. The lodging blocks are unfold out across the central pool space with loads of palms, succulents and lawns, once more transporting you 1000’s of miles from the sun-scorched plains of the outskirts of Dubai.

You possibly can select between pool-facing rooms and river-facing rooms that overlook the retailers, eating places and small points of interest of Riverland Dubai.

We booked a pool view household room with balcony. The excellent news about household rooms at Lapita is that they’ve correct beds for everybody, which isn’t at all times the case within the Center East.

Much less nice was that we had been provided a floor ground pool-facing household room once we checked in. This appeared like a good suggestion on the time – much less lifts to sort out at breakfast time. Nevertheless it meant our terrace confronted on to bushes slightly than the pool views that we anticipated.

In addition to having greater than count on foliage in our line of sight, we additionally had the corporate of quiet a number of mosquitos. I’d suggest requesting a better room in the event you get the selection.

The room itself was very comfy – not that we had been going to be in it a lot. We had two compact double beds, a big rest room and loads of Polynesian decor.

One of many sudden extras whereas staying over Eid was that we might see the nightly Riverland firework show from our room.

What’s included in a Lapita keep?

We booked direct and took benefit of a room price that included breakfast and theme park entry – we might go to one park for every evening we stayed. This labored out cheaper than the park tickets on their very own!

Verify costs for every of the theme parks: Motiongate | LEGOLAND Dubai | LEGOLAND Waterpark | Actual Madrid World

One thing to keep in mind is that the theme parks aren’t open all 12 months spherical, so relying on whenever you plan to go completely different gives can be found.

Half board and full board choices can be found supplying you with complementary entry to the Kalea buffet for all of your inclusive meals and credit score in direction of eating on the Hikina, ARI and Kahuna premium eating places.

Evaluate costs and offers for reserving direct with Marriott and on reserving.com.

You even have easy accessibility to Riverland Dubai, which has its personal small points of interest, retailers and eating places. We ate on the Pirates Tavern one night, which was completely corny however an excellent chortle with choreographed fights and respectable meals.

Dubai Parks and Resorts theme park entry

One other bonus of staying at a Dubai Parks & Resorts resort is that they’re all very near the theme parks. You possibly can even see Motiongate’s John Wick rollercoaster and the indoor Dreamworks attraction from Lapita.

There’s a personal entrance into Riverland from the place you may get to every theme park in 10 minutes, or much less in the event you can seize a free golf cart experience.

Right here’s the stroll occasions to every of the parks from the resort’s personal gate:

Lapita to LEGOLAND Dubai – 6 minutes

Lapita to LEGOLAND Water Park – 6 minutes

Lapita to Actual Madrid World Dubai – 7 minutes

Lapita to Motiongate Dubai – 10 minutes.

Our predominant goal was to revisit the film theme park Motiongate. It was a particular request from our 10-year-old who cherished the rollercoasters final time had been right here.

We might have visited one other throughout our keep however we determined to maintain issues easy as we had already completed the LEGOLAND Dubai and the LEGOLAND Waterpark, and we weren’t so within the Actual Madrid World park.

It additionally made for a extra chilled keep and allowed us to chill out by the resort pool.

Essential observe: the deal we received didn’t permit us to go to the identical park twice throughout our keep. If it had, we would have completed a fast spin round a few of our favorite Motiongate rides earlier than transferring on to our subsequent Dubai resort.

Q Quick Mini

Because it was Eid – and since we’d seen firsthand the variety of individuals staying at Lapita – we determined to look right into a getting Fast Passes for Motiongate. It seems you possibly can’t purchase these independently in case your theme park entry is a part of a resort keep.

Nevertheless Lapita’s devoted theme park concierge was capable of supply us a Q Quick Mini fast go, which gave us 5 tear-off fast passes to make use of on rides of our alternative. So, once we might see there’s a lengthy wait time we whipped out our passes, tore off a ticket and jumped the queue.

4 units of 5 passes labored out at 250 AED (about £50). 

Lodge amenities

I can extremely suggest permitting yourselves a while to benefit from the resort resort in addition to the points of interest of Riverland Dubai and the theme parks.

Swimming swimming pools

Lapita has two swimming pools and a lazy river. We had no hassle discovering solar beds across the lazy river but it surely was more durable to safe them round the primary pool except you bought there early or late. 

Within the afternoon, the workers got here spherical with free ice lollies. In order for you casual food and drinks there’s a pool bar.

Youngsters membership and household actions

If, like us, you’re solely staying a few nights for the theme parks, you’re going to overlook out on quite a lot of the household actions out there right here.

There’s a youngsters membership for 4 to 11-year-olds. Tiki Home is open for 4 one-hour timed classes after lunch and also you get a complementary hour every day. If you need extra this prices 50 AED per hour, per baby.

Different actions with the leisure group embody household video games, crafts, face portray and a film each evening. If you wish to make your individual enjoyable you possibly can borrow sports activities gear and play on the big grassed areas between the lodging blocks or hang around on the play space.

There are additionally character meets and Fijian dance performances across the resort within the afternoons and evenings.

Eating

Lapita has a buffet in addition to 4 pay as you dine eating places, a ice cream parlour and a foyer cafe. We had the buffet breakfast and ate on the ARI pool restaurant on the second night of our keep.

This has a global menu and my ladies had been glad to select from the pizza and pasta dishes whereas I opted for a contemporary salad after a day of theme park meals.

The Kalea buffet was being refurbished throughout our keep, so we had breakfast in two of the resort’s operate rooms which had been tailored for the aim. There was loads of selections from worldwide delicacies to western staples and all the pieces was very nicely offered.

Ultimate ideas on Lapita Lodge

This is a superb resort and one I’d return to if we had been going to remain at Dubai Parks and Resorts once more.

The meals, rooms and repair had been all precisely what I’d count on of a Marriott. Regardless that we visited on a busy vacation weekend and the primary buffet was closed, it actually didn’t affect our keep.

I’d simply make certain we received a better room to keep away from these mozzies.

I’d undoubtedly suggest Lapita for households with youngsters who should not into LEGO. In case you are, you’ll wish to learn my assessment of LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge, which we visited the 12 months earlier than.

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