Sofitel Corniche, Abu Dhabi
Expert reviews
“Slap on the Corniche and packed full of facilities, you can’t really go wrong staying in the Sofitel’s large, light-filled rooms. The two rooftop pools (one kept specifically for families with wee ones) are where most guests hang out, though after dark many are tempted into Jazz & Fizz for a drink or two.”
“This well situated 280-room hotel exudes French elegance and offers sweeping views of the Gulf and city skyline. A stay at the Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche will have you experiencing five-star luxury minutes from the emirate’s popular Corniche promenade and beach.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Comfortable beds
- Ocean view
- Friendly staff
- Private parking
All you need to know
Looking for a masterclass in supreme hospitality? Turn your gaze towards the Middle East, specifically the Arabian Peninsula. A perfect specimen of such finesse is visible at the Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche.
Indeed, this hotel’s reputation precedes it; the name ‘Sofitel’ essentially encapsulates the luxurious experience you can expect. Competing effortlessly with other luxury hotel giants, Sofitel’s distinct Art Deco style brings an artistic flair to their elegance.
This property is no exception. If you find the beds softer than usual or the sky-high views more breathtaking, remember it’s just their standard procedure in the Emirates.
While the Sofitel does not lack in recreational offerings — boasting an open-air pool, a comprehensive spa, and a six-fold selection of eateries and watering holes — it’s fundamentally designed for the corporate world.
Rest assured, the entire establishment will exceed your expectations — but for a premium experience, there’s an actual elevated portion of the hotel: the two uppermost floors house Club Millésime, a luxury club that rivals offerings from any major hotel chains.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
17 April 2025
Very good
Location was nice! Easy connection (with uber) to places we wanted to go. Loved the pool area!
The non-smoking room had that old smell of a room that was once a smoking room
16 April 2025
Fabulous
Breakfast was excellent and location was awesome
10 April 2025
Not sure its a the best location, not a lot in walking distance, but clean and modern hotel
View to the sea was nice, refreshing outside. Good choice of alternative dining options, Jazz bar was nice. Enjoyed pool side dinner outside.
Listed Dinner time did not match reality, 1 restaurant closed earlier than advertised.
7 April 2025
Nice place to stay
Nice hotel to stay well located in Abu Dhabi! The hotel could use some updating, a bit old-fashioned for my taste.
3 April 2025
Great Hotel
Very comfortable hotel. Staff friendly & helpful. Lovely cafe & buffet in resturant.
3 April 2025
Very good
It was a great experience but the time of waiting the service is long.
31 March 2025
Pleasant
Our experience at Sofitel Corniche Abu Dhabi was exceptional! The hotel supports sustainability, which we truly appreciate. We were delighted to receive a complimentary upgrade to a luxury king room with a stunning sea view. Everything was top-notch
The room lacked a shattaf, the background music system in the bathroom wasn’t working, and the swimming pool had limited sun due to tall residential towers blocking it. Additionally, the poolside toilet was small and needed maintenance.
30 March 2025
Good hotel. Excellent staff
Good hotel. Value for money. Staff very friendly. Good location for downtown. Tours assistant is able to get things organised last minute - well done.
Nothing. All good
30 March 2025
Good place to stay for a very short time (no more than two nights.
The lobby is very nice and the staff very helpful. The location is ideal to spend a little time by the Corniche. Room was pleasant with a nice view.
The pool of the hotel was mainly in the shaded part of the hotel, thus the water was very cold and could not really swim in the large pool. The hotel has an arrangement with an adjacent apartment complex that allows hotel guests to use their pool. However, the space and pool are rather small.
28 March 2025
great staff at reception, pool very poor
Pool service is poor, staff is not attentive to new clientele arriving unless a numerous table filled, I was sitting there for more than one hour and nobody came to attend me
no refrigerator with beverages in the room
23 March 2025
Our stay at the hotel was great, other than the poor housekeeping for our room and a shady bartender.
Staff were incredibly welcoming and friendly. Allen helped us check in, she was an absolute delight!
Housekeeping was the worst I’ve ever seen in a hotel! Best part of coming back to your room is to see it tidy and clean. Not a single day out of the 4 days we stayed was it neat and clean. Housekeeping was extremely disappointing and did a very superficial job. For a hotel of this standard, I expected better service. Cleanliness should be a top priority and unfortunately this experience left me questioning the hotels overall hygiene and management. I would not recommend staying here unless they improve their housekeeping standards. Also, my daughter had a drink at the bar by the pool alone, bartender told her she could only pay “cash only”. I had to speak to the manager to ask if I was staying at a hotel or a supermarket, he immediately solved the issue. And yes, credit card was obviously available. Suspicious bartender trying to pocket cash from their guests isn’t what I expected!! Shady workers should be watched carefully by the management team, especially around single women.
7 March 2025
Pleasant
breakfast was poor
3 March 2025
Great staff - very professional and helpful.
My room was excellent and spacious, with great views and plenty of space for my stay.
The spa gents dressing room was not very clean, the shower was broken and there were no towels. The restaurant was very expensive and did not provide good value. I was unable to claim Accor points due to booking this online with booking.com
28 February 2025
Subject: Exceptional Stay at Sofitel Abu Dhabi – A Memorable Experience Thanks to Emaad
Dear Sofitel Hotel Team, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the wonderful experience my wife and I had during our stay from the 26th to the 28th of February 2025. Your hotel truly lives up to its reputation as an exceptional 5-star destination. From the stunning sea view and prime location to the seamless valet parking service, every detail contributed to a remarkable visit. We also had the pleasure of dining at your restaurant, and the dinner was nothing short of amazing. I would especially like to commend Emaad for his outstanding service. His kindness and professionalism truly stood out. He went above and beyond by upgrading our room to a suite # 3101, which made my wife incredibly happy and significantly enhanced our journey to Abu Dhabi. Thanks to Emaad’s thoughtful gesture, our experience was truly memorable. We are grateful for his excellent hospitality. We can’t wait to come to Abu Dhabi again just to visit this wonderful hotel once more. Please pass along our gratitude to Emaad for making our trip so pleasant. Kind regards, Eng. Abdulaziz Alzoghaibi
13 February 2025
I would like to see the breakfast menu better
Location, room temperature, bed comfortably
Reception
12 February 2025
Very good
Location, view from high floor, gym
Staff at the restaurant during breakfast- slow, inefficient, impossible to get coffee as the number of waiters is too small for the number of guests
10 February 2025
Great hotel with Fantastic restaurant
Fantastic hotel! We benefited from a free ugrade to a suite. Room was awesome. The restaurants of the hotel are a delight. Staff is very attentive. We had a great stay
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7 February 2025
Nice comfortable hotel
We were upgraded to a suite by the friendly reception. Very nice room with lovely views. Comfortable bed, large breakfast buffet. We enjoyed the all the free drinking water in glass bottles that was complimentary
Hotel is very clean but needs some upgrade. We were struggling a bit with the aircon
30 January 2025
Most enjoyable stay.
Excellent Service.
Nothing.
26 January 2025
Overall a very good experience with Sofitel
though I have not used many facilities such as gym and pool, but overall for my trip, this hotel was perfect and I enjoyed the say. Room's were neat and clean and staffs were gentle and polite.
Morning Breakfast should have been improved with little more choices of Asian type food. the kitchen in the restaurant's were taking a bit longer time to bring the food than usual, though the crowd was limited in single digit.
15 January 2025
Little Value for money
Food was good In all day dining
Cleanliness, communication, Room & Lobby status (Tired)
15 January 2025
Loved it
Clean, the bed is super comfy, great location
The only thing is that we couldn’t add the stay to our points because w booked through booking so it was a bummer
13 January 2025
Super clean and huge!
Large hotel with many rooms, loved the breakfast buffet it had so much variety and gluten free and vegan options for all diets
The room was amazing but the mattress wasn’t the best
13 January 2025
Needs to renovate.
The room is quite large with the large and very comfortable bed. bath cosmetics are Balmain. The hotel staff is friendly and responds quickly to requests. Breakfast is not bad, but the sweet table could be more varied.
The room is "tired". The curtains are torn, the handle of the bedside table is broken, the shower hoses are leaking, the chair for the desk is very worn. One robe, towels and a shoe horn were missing, but the staff quickly responded to my request and brought everything. The iron in the room was terrible , dirty and something caught on clothes. Definitely can't use it, you'll ruin your stuff. And yes, there is a smell of smoke, most likely at one time this was a smoking room. Not enough staff to serve coffee, had to wait a long time.
7 January 2025
Just as per the pictures!
Check-in was smooth and the room was amazing! The free car valet was also a good touch that i really appreciated.
Nothing!
6 January 2025
Good but not worth the price
The location is excellent for a nice evening walk along corniche.
Some furnitures/decors were dusty and it triggered my allergies. There was also no bidet in the washroom.
5 January 2025
Very good
The Thai Restaurant and the breakfast
Check in was not prepared according to our needs
5 January 2025
Very good
The place was great and the cleaning and working staff like cleaning department and waiters etc were wonderful. The lady at the reception was fantastic too.
Kinda grumpy/rude potentially racist reception guy, was very stand offish and didn't provide proper information or support. Terrible image for the brand.
1 January 2025
A memorable stay which could have been easily better had the service level been at least to the expected level.
Location and the size of the property
The drainage in bath area of washroom was defective. The room and washroom didn’t feel fresh and squeaky clean when we checked in. The room did not have room slippers & tissue box. The washroom had body wash but no loofah. The room service indeed too slow. Had to give repeated reminders to get the above sorted out.
1 January 2025
It was short but ok
Good location
Facilities somewhat outdated/ not as clean as expected.
29 December 2024
Pleasant and comfortable
Good view of the corniche area, clean room with a comfortable bed. Good service and great staff
Nothing that I can think about.
18 December 2024
Great location, great staff. I would definitely stay again.
Excellent staff. Very helpful, very kind. Comfortable, clean room.
Maybe mini bar could be filled against a deposit
18 December 2024
Very relaxing stay during an amazing F1 weekend
Very friendly staff. The main pool was relaxing and nicely cool in the shade. The second pool is somewhat hidden but much warmer.
Breakfast was a bit crowded during the F1 Raceweek, but it was fine. Breakfast itself was wonderful.
3 December 2024
Very good
Location. Facilities. Staff
Bed is not conformable
23 November 2024
Fabulous
The breakfast, the location, the fantastic city view from the room, the staff’s helpfulness
The hotel should enable re-heating food for guests. I don’t like to waste food and any hotel will just get you to sign a waiver if they re-heat food for you. Sofitel however did not enable it at all.
9 November 2024
Great hotel but very uncomfortable bed.
Great location, attentive staff, good facilities
The bed was awful. There was a huge dent in the mattress. It had obviously been tried to be concealed as there was a mattress topper, however, never made it any more comfortable. After 9 nights, I came away with terrible back ache.
2 November 2024
Excellent Location, Well supportive staff but room size is not upto the mark.
Excellent Location. Support Staff is too good. Specially Miss Allen of the Check in staff was too kind to us and she managed well to allot us room just before time.We appreciate support staff.
Room size has been quite small. Category wise Room size is not suitable for comfortable stay for sure.
29 October 2024
A good choice!
Nice property in a good location. The staff were friendly - would stay again
It’s an older property so slightly dated, breakfast was average
29 October 2024
Fabulous
Size of room and view
No shattaf at bath room
27 October 2024
Nice hotel
Nice hotel and good location. Staff were nice too
N/A
27 October 2024
Nice Hotel
Nice hotel and good location. Staff were nice too
N/A
24 October 2024
Very good
All was perfect
The swimming pool was not clean i was affected with skin bacteria
20 October 2024
What a bargain
The location of the hotel was amazing and the views are sublime
Felt like it needed updating in certain areas
20 October 2024
Short stay for work.
Nice room, quite big, with the bathroom open (or not) in the room.
There was only warm water for the bath, and the shower was leaking. The valet parking staff doesn’t understand English well. And the restaurant at the pool level, the staff sees you waiting but don’t come to ask you what you want. Some people left, I went to the bar to ask if they were still serving food…
15 October 2024
Beautiful stay
Perfect
Shattaf wasn’t there
9 October 2024
Very good
location, room layout
nothing
3 October 2024
Amazing view of the wonderful Abu Dhabi corniche!
The room was clean, tidy and mattress was comfortable. The Breakfast was delicious with good verities that suits different tastes. The lobby was spacious and relaxing. The swimming pool was amazing, decently sized to allow for quite amusing time for my kids.
Nothing significant to report except for that there was no direct access to the hotel from corniche road.
25 September 2024
Nice hotel however pool needs refurbishment. Good location and spacious rooms. 7/10 however could do with a more mo
Location + spacious room
Outdate pool
19 September 2024
Very good
Decoration, and Comfort
Valet parking service was very slow (I mean very very slow)
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Breakfast in the room
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Kid meals (additional charge)
- - Kid-friendly buffet
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Fruits (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Barber/beauty shop
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Chapel/shrine
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
- - Shuttle service (free)
- - Airport shuttle (additional charge)
- - Minimarket on site
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre (additional charge)
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Currency exchange
- - Tour desk
- - Luggage storage
- - ATM/cash machine on site
- - Concierge service
- - Private check-in/check-out
- - Lockers
Activities
- - Sauna (additional charge)
- - Fitness centre
- - Spa and wellness centre (additional charge)
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Hot tub/Jacuzzi
- - Hammam
- - Nightclub/DJ (additional charge)
- - Evening entertainment
- - Beauty Services
- - Hair treatments
- - Hair colouring
- - Hair styling
- - Body treatments
- - Body scrub
- - Body wrap
- - Spa facilities
- - Steam room
- - Spa lounge/relaxation area
- - Spa/wellness packages
- - Fitness
- - Personal trainer
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
- - Themed dinner nights (additional charge)
- - Happy hour (additional charge)
- - Live music/performance
- - Bicycle rental (additional charge)
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Trouser press
- - Daily housekeeping
Outdoors
- - Outdoor pool
- - Sun terrace
- - Outdoor pool (all year)
Parking
- - Accessible parking
Transport
- - Airport pick up (additional charge)
- - Airport drop off (additional charge)
Pool and wellness
- - Sun loungers or beach chairs
- - Sun umbrellas
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming Pool
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Access to health care professionals
- - Face masks for guests available
3 May 2025
Fabulous