To explore Dubai and avoid the extremely high hotel and eating out costs of key downtown tourist areas, the Adaggio Deira is a great choice. Its modern and tidy and rooms are bright and functional. The small kitchen with fridge is very useful. I did not bother staff that much, we just did our own thing but all appeared to be fine. Heated rooftop pool, was great.
Right next door to Gold Souk Metro station (exit 3), my research was correct and we were able to use the Adaggio Deira as our base for 10 days while we explored and travelled around Dubai. We even took the bus to Abu Dhabi for a day!
Just buy a Silver NOL card, top it up as needed and this covers all metro, buses, coach service to Abu Dhabi and even ferries across the Creek.
I don't recommend the in house World of Curries restaurant which we tried first night. Our child had fish fingers with mould taste. My wife's Pad Thai was uneatable, ingredients weren't fresh. I had Lamb Jalfrezi which tasted ok but only had two tiny pieces of Lamb. The manager as a token brought us some fresh fruit salad for free, but even some of the fruit was not very fresh.
Although it takes a few days to settle on your favourite, the side streets of the old town (take foot bridge across the main road) have countless budget restaurants. We kept returning to The Visitors Restaurant, find it on Google maps. Small, but food was very cheap while being tasty, fresh and well prepared.
Overall, the Adaggio ticked the box for our requirements.