A private dock and its moorings sit on the water beside the InterContinental Abu Dhabi, and the restaurants of Marina Walk run along the quay next to them. Very few hotels in the capital open directly onto their own working berths, and the marina is the first thing this property shows you. Behind it stands […]
Rixos built its business on the fully inclusive model, and its Premium resort on Saadiyat proved the format could work at genuine five star level in Abu Dhabi. Rixos Marina took the same idea and moved it into the middle of the city, into a tower of 525 rooms rising thirty nine floors above the […]
Six hundred and seventy seven. That is the combined count of guest rooms and residences at Bab Al Qasr, 412 of the first and 265 of the second, stacked across thirty six floors on the West Corniche. It is the largest room count on this stretch of coast by a clear margin: the Grand Hyatt […]
Verso is the Italian restaurant at the Grand Hyatt, and it sits at the centre of a dining list that is deliberately short. Sahha covers all day dining across a broad international menu and handles breakfast for the whole building. Lexx works as bar and lounge in the evening. The Pearl Lounge takes coffee and […]
The Abu Dhabi Suite is not on a top floor. It is slung between two of them, on the skybridge that links the Nation Towers across the forty eighth and forty ninth levels, roughly two hundred metres above the Corniche. Inside are three bedrooms and a maid’s room, three bathrooms, two powder rooms, a double […]
The West Corniche ends in five towers of unequal height, curving upward in a formation that reads differently from every approach road in the city. Etihad Towers is the building most people picture when they picture Abu Dhabi, and the Conrad occupies one of them, with a shopping mall attached at podium level and a […]
There are luxury hotels, and then there are buildings that become part of a city’s identity. Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental belongs firmly in the latter category. Rising at the western end of Abu Dhabi’s Corniche, moments from Qasr Al Watan and facing the Arabian Gulf, the palace is not simply somewhere to stay. It is […]
