TASTY FOOD, NOT A GOOD HALF-BOARD SOLUTION FOR FAMILIES. We went here as a part of our half-board package, staying at the Conrad Etihad Towers hotel. The food is great (however nothing spectacular if you’ve been to Italian restaurants before) and the service as well, especially the staff is great. However, for the half-board, the concept is not working out: as a part of the package, adults get a 3-course dinner. However, kids get only 2, skipping the starter. This results in the kids having to watch their parents eat their starter. If you have kids, you know what this means: there is irritation (to put it mildly) at the table. Yes, you can have the kids main course served parallel to the parents’ starters — they’ll do that. But it only helps you for so long as the kids will have finished their complete dinner earlier than you — which again provides you with issues because you cannot really enjoy the calm of your dinner. This spoiled the evening for us, to be very honest, and we did not want to go back there during our stay (although everyone loves Italian food). We discussed it with the staff and they very understanding (at least one of them was, the other decided to rather dedicate to other guests) and provided some kind of starter, however at this point there was already too much irritation at our table. The Lebanese restaurant at Conrad solves this way better: they provide the same concept (the kids having no starter as part of the half board’s fixed meal plan), however the parents’ portions are so big (and mostly ‚finger-food‘) so you can spread it at the middle of the table for everyone to enjoy).