The view is not an accessory here; it is the whole opening act. Al Mesayan sits on the roof of Al Wathba, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa, looking out across the dunes as the light changes from gold to deep blue. Marriott’s current description is refreshingly direct: come for the natural surroundings, the […]
A hotel laid out as a working film studio, with venues named The Director’s Club, Craft Services and Stage 16A, and a heated pool under a giant outdoor screen. Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi is a two minute walk, and daily theme park access comes with the room.
One hundred and forty rooms, fourteen suites and fifty three pool villas behind fort walls in the Liwa dunes, opened in 2009. Seven places to eat, a spa with a Moroccan hammam, and two and a half hours of road between the resort and the city.
Twenty two adults only rooms and suites at Al Jarf, opened in 2023, with three dining venues, a beachfront cinema room and a suite of 255 square metres. Twenty five minutes from Al Maktoum Airport and thirty five from Abu Dhabi International.
Two towers holding more than five hundred rooms across twenty categories, eight kilometres from Zayed International Airport and five hundred and fifty metres from the Etihad Arena. A private beach at Yas Bay, five restaurants and bars, and 2,439 square metres of event space.
A neighbourhood success story that became part of the city’s food fabric Al Farah was founded in 1998 as a family-owned Middle Eastern restaurant and has expanded into several Abu Dhabi branches, including Khalidiyah, Hamdan, M44 and Mohammed Bin Zayed City. Its scale should not obscure the reason people return: the menu is built around […]
A restaurant designed to make heritage tangible Al Fanar takes its name from the old kerosene lantern and builds the rest of its identity around the same idea: illuminating a version of Emirati life that younger diners and international visitors may not have experienced first-hand. The Yas Mall branch uses a setting inspired by the […]
A restaurant with roots in the city rather than a manufactured heritage theme Al Dhafra Restaurant traces its story to 1993, when it was established in Abu Dhabi’s Mina Zayed area. Its own history credits the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan with encouraging the group’s founder, Abdullah Hareb Al Fallahi, in establishing the […]
Two hundred and ninety three rooms, suites and villas along the eastern end of Saadiyat, with three infinity pools stepping down to a protected hawksbill turtle nesting beach. Seven restaurants and bars trading, a spa with a Turkish bath and hydrothermal circuit, and one Michelin Key.
Two hundred and eighty eight rooms and twelve villas on a private stretch of Saadiyat, with a wave pool, an aqua park and three outdoor pools all covered by the rate. Six restaurants, six bars, a snow room at Anjana Spa and one Michelin Key.
