Hotel generally nicely built, clean and beautiful. The room was large and comfortable. The beach was beautiful and clean, and the staff was most helpful and friendly. Yet, a few things were not good enough for their 5 stars:
Firstly, we both got diarrhoea and vomiting after eating the food in the restaurants and had to spend 36 hours in the room closely by the toilet. This could be possibly be due to the fact that kitchen staff although using gloves for preparing food, didn't take off these gloves when doing other chores - and even put them in their pockets walking around the grounds.
Secondly, after 10 o'clock no pool or beach sun beds were available. It shouldn't be hard to calculate the number of beds needed based on the amount of rooms.
Lastly, the food in the restaurant included in the half board was poor quality. Although a large selection of dishes were available every night, they were tasteless and uninteresting. Not good enough for a 5 star hotel.
Expedia did not include any details regarding the non-alcohol policies of the hotel - which came as quite a surprise for us, who enjoy a glass of wine or a beer with our food when on vacation! Trying to compensate for this by visiting the neighboring hotel for dinner with a drink, we were asked to pay 150 AED just to be let into the hotel grounds.