The choice of hotels on offer in the booming United Arab Emirates is simply mind-boggling, but when it comes to luxury accommodation in the city centre you simply can't go wrong with sticking with one of the world's best-known hotel brands.

Whether you're staying in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, Sheraton offers a range of hotels whether you're travelling for business or pleasure. Here are two of your best options…

Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel and Towers

Overlooking the Dubai Creek, the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel and Towers is an impressive modern-looking 11-storey building. Conveniently located within seven kilometres of the Dubai International Airport, this five-star hotel caters to both business and leisure travellers.

The 262 spacious guest rooms and Tower suites offer panoramic views of the city and the creek. All the rooms include high speed internet access, flat-screen televisions with cable channels, DVD players and fax machines. The Tower floor rooms offer exclusive benefits such as 24-hour personalised butler service, while the two Japanese guest rooms come with all the stylish trappings – shoji screens, a futon bed area, kimonos and a bonsai garden.

Services and amenities include an outdoor pool area and a classy health club, with a fully-equipped gym, sauna and steam rooms, massage treatments and tennis facilities. Guests can also make use of the beauty salon, jewellery store and babysitting facilities

For those unable to tear themselves away from the office, the hotel provides a well-equipped business centre with PC workstations, internet access, WiFi services, colour printers and full secretarial services.

For leisure travellers, the hotel is conveniently located just a short walk from the city’s main commercial and shopping districts. Visit the Gold and Spice Souks for a unique shopping experience or play a round of golf at the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club. Take a dhow cruise on the creek or have some fun at the exciting Wild Wadi water-park. For the more culturally inclined, the Dubai National Museum is also located close to the hotel.

One of the hotel’s most recommendable features is the wide array of cuisine it has on offer. The eight restaurants cater to almost every culinary taste – from Italian at Vivaldi Restaurant to Northern Indian cuisine at the award-winning Ashiana Restaurant or traditional Japanese cuisine at Creekside. For a light bite simply pop into the Lobby Café, or grab some pub grub at The Chelsea Arms; an English-style pub which even screens English premiership football.

While Dubai has the glitz and glamour, Abu Dhabi is slightly more conservative than its booming neighbour. The capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi is home to a host of major business and government offices, and if you're travelling here on business you can't go wrong with the Sheraton Khalidiya Hotel.

Sheraton Khalidiya Hotel, Abu Dhabi

Situated less than four kilometres from the massive Abu Dhabi Mall, the Sheraton Khalidiya Hotel is the ideal place to stay if you wish to explore Abu Dhabi’s many treasures.

Located relatively close to the beach, the 240 guest rooms and suites offer spectacular views of the Arabian Gulf and the vibrant Abu Dhabi city. The rooms are decked out with all the expected amenities – electronic safes, cable television, wireless internet access and tea/coffee making facilities.

Like the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel, the Sheraton Khalidiya Hotel also offers a 24-hour business centre, complete with courier and secretarial services, personal computers, fax and photocopying machines.

The hotel’s facilities include a gym area, separate male and female sauna/steam rooms, an outdoor rooftop sundeck with stunning views and a temperature-controlled swimming pool. There is also a barber, beauty salon and babysitting service.

The centrally-located hotel, which is not more than 35 kilometres from the Abu Dhabi Airport, gives you easy access to many local attractions. Go shopping at the Gold Souk or the Women’s Craft Centre or indulge in some cultural tourism at the Cultural Foundation and the Heritage Village, which is home to a fascinating Bedouin exhibition. For the more adventurous, the Camel Race Track is not far away and, if you don’t mind travelling for an hour or so you can set out on a desert safari.

The dining options, although more limited than those at the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel, are nevertheless varied. La Veranda is an all-day fine dining restaurant, which offers buffets (international cuisine) for all three meals as well as an extensive a la carte menu.

Downtown is a chic but casual restaurant with a cosy atmosphere and an array of culinary choices from sushi and shwarma to pizza and pastries. It also serves an executive breakfast buffet with delicious coffee and has a special a la carte lunch and dinner menu. The 3rd Avenue Pub serves more traditional pub fare and provides live entertainment.