Bikes, cars, and #guestcommentswednesday

Jumeirah Lakes Towers is fast becoming quite the happening place! It doesn’t just have the Bonnington and McGettigan’s at its heart, but there are more & more events taking place in the local area.

On our Facebook page, we recently reported that JLT now has a weekly farmers’ market. You can find out more about that here.

This coming Friday, another new event is taking place in JLT:

Meanwhile, at the hotel and McGettigan’s, we’re gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day 2013.

You can find out what McGettigan’s offers by checking out their blog “St. Patrick’s Day in Dubai” – here at the Bonnington, we’ve already raised the flags and the menu for our special St. Patrick’s Day dinner is ready, too:

Our Golden Book had a busy time, too, recently, and here are some of our latest guest comments. Don’t forget – you can follow this on Twitter with hashtag #guestcommentswednesday:

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Do you like rhubarb? There’s a dinner for that…

So you like rhubarb? Well, we do, too, and we’ve put on a special dinner to celebrate all things rhubarb:

You can book you places by calling us on +97143560000, emailing cavendish[at]bonningtontower.com, or even online via our Facebook page or website.

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Our basketballers are champions & our towels have won, too! Don’t even mention our bread or petits fours!

March has been quite the month so far for us here in Jumeirah Lakes Towers!

First up, our hotel basketball team won the 2013 Dubai inter-hotel championship! Congratulations to Cezar & his team!

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Secondly, our hotel towels were awarded the 2013 UAE Fluffies Award for the fluffiest hotel towels in the United Arab Emirates. Our towel won in the contest, which was launched by radio station Dubai 92 and judged by the stations breakfast show presenters Catboy and Posh Anna together with Katie Heskett from Ahlan!. The Bonnington towel won based on its fluffiness, but also sheer size (see picture), beating the Moevenpick Ibn Battuta into 2nd place and also leaving towels from The Address Hotels + Resorts, Rotana, JW Marriott Marquee, and the One & Only trailing behind.

Thirdly, Gulfood 2013 finished last week and, like 2012, some of our chefs excelled in the show’s Salon Culinaire!

Congratulations to Nuwan Abeyrathna and Indika Wickramatunga! Nuwan won a bronze medal for his bread showpiece, while Indika got a merit for his petits fours display.

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Don’t forget! Mother’s Day is coming up! We’ve got a special menu for dinner in our Cavendish Restaurant. You can find out more and book online on the Cavendish’s Facebook page.

Last, but not least, a shout-out to our colleagues from Healey’s Bar & Terrace! Not only do they have a fantastic March offer, which allows you to enjoy a shisha and the cocktail of the day for only AED 49/person, but they have also been nominated for “Best Ladies’ Night” in the 2013 TimeOut Dubai Music & Nightlife Awards!

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A #guestcommentswednesday & some public service announcements

Welcome to February! You survived the January sales and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Naturally, we’ve got a special dinner offer, which you can find out more about on the Cavendish Restaurant’s Facebook page. If you want to stay overnight, we also have a special room offer, which you can find here.

Time for some public service announcements:

We’ve recently made some changes to our airport transportation and we no longer offer shuttle busses to/from the airport. If you are holding a confirmed booking for shuttle transportation, you will receive a complimentary upgrade to limousine pick-up & drop-off.

Limousine pick-up or drop-off to/from Dubai International Airport, terminals 1 & 3 is now available for AED 225/way. Please contact us for rates for terminal 2.

We can also arrange transportation to/from Abu Dhabi Airport at AED 450/way and Sharjah Airport at AED 400/way.

Please also note that our local authority, DMCC, recently installed & activated access control barriers in our cluster. Hotel guests or visitors to our restaurants & bars arriving with their own cars should proceed up the ramp and drop the car with our valet parkers for complimentary valet parking. Guests booked in one of our serviced residences will benefit from having an allocated parking space for self-parking. Upon arrival, Reception will advise you of your parking place number & issue you with an access card.

There is also a new public parking, which is currently free, on the left of our cluster.

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2013′s first #guestcommentswednesday. Plus, some outstanding dinners!

We’ve got the first guest comments in 2013 for you today, plus details of two very special dinners…

We’re calling all our Scottish friends in Dubai and guests who’ll be with us over Burns Night: Come and join us for the very first Burns Night dinner in our Cavendish Restaurant on 25th January:

Our second dinner is for all romantics out there! Yes, Valentine’s Day is coming and where better to spend it in Dubai than our Cavendish Restaurant with gourmet food & fine wines?

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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! Plus, the last #guestcommentswednesday of 2012!

A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year from all of us here at the Bonnington Jumeirah Lakes Towers! We’d like to thank you for your support in 2012 and are looking forward to an exciting 2013!

Our Christmas Day lunch was a sell-out as every year, but we still have a few seats available for our New Year’s Eve Gala Dinner in our Cavendish Restaurant. Here’s the menu:

Whether you’re joining us for dinner on New Year’s Eve or not, our Healey’s Bar & Terrace is ready to welcome you at any time throughout the evening. There’s no cover charge and you’re welcome to brings friends:

We’re also closing our Golden Book for 2012 and bring you a few more guest comments we received over the recent weeks.

We always like to hear from our guests, whether through messages on Facebook or Twitter, comments in our Golden Book, or on our comment cards.

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More guest feedback & some special offers!

Welcome to another post with guest feedback from our Golden Book! The past few weeks have been very busy here in JLT with the Eid festivities, various conferences and events, and of course the Atelier Festival.

We’re preparing for the upcoming festive season and hope to see you around over Christmas & the New Year.

Did you see that our monthly gourmet wine dinners were recently reviewed by two high-profile food bloggers?

Read what they had to say here or here.

Our next wine dinner in the Cavendish Restaurant is on Tuesday, 11th December 2012, and we’ll reveal the theme a little closer to the date on the Cavendish’s Facebook & Google+ pages. The last event was quite busy, so it’s worthwhile booking in advance.

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