Namm Spa opens at eleven in the morning and closes at midnight, which is the first useful thing to know about Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi. Eight treatment rooms sit behind that door, along with a hammam suite and a couples’ room, and the menu runs from massage and facials through body scrubs to Ayurvedic treatments. […]
Al Maryah Island did not exist in any meaningful sense twenty years ago. It was reclaimed, planned and built as the capital’s financial district, and it now holds Abu Dhabi Global Market, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and The Galleria. Rosewood arrived while the district around it was still going up, which is the reason the […]
Thirty four storeys, on an island that was largely water within the professional lifetime of the people now working on it. That is the shape of Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island: a single tower on Abu Dhabi Global Market Square, holding around two hundred rooms and suites across a building tall […]
The Captain’s Arms is a pub in a garden, which is not a sentence that applies to many buildings in the Gulf. It has pool tables, screens showing whatever is being played that night, and a terrace set under trees that were planted before most of the surrounding district existed. On an evening in January […]
A sea view room at Beach Rotana opens onto a private balcony, and the balcony is the detail worth booking for. Every room in the hotel has one, facing either the Gulf or the city. From the sea facing side the view runs over the water towards Al Maryah Island and the towers of the […]
Zayed The First Street runs through Al Markaziyah, the central district of Abu Dhabi’s main island, and Royal Rose stands on it at number 1025. What surrounds the building is the working city rather than a resort compound: office blocks, the old downtown grid, the World Trade Center Mall a short distance away, and the […]
Grand Millennium Al Wahda is one building carrying 845 rooms, suites and serviced apartments, stacked above the Al Wahda Complex on Hazza Bin Zayed Street. That is a scale most capitals reserve for airport hotels, and it changes what the property can do. A building this size can hold a 36 square metre superior room, […]
A desert-resort dining room with a real sense of place Al Badiya is the main restaurant at Aldhafra Resort, Vignette Collection by IHG, on the edge of the great desert landscape of Al Dhafra. That setting matters because the restaurant does not treat Arabian food as a token corner of an international buffet. Its current […]
The easy-going heart of Traders Hotel Afyä is the all-day restaurant at Traders Hotel, Qaryat Al Beri, and its appeal is tied closely to the hotel’s relaxed private-beach character. This is not the grander, occasion-led dining of neighbouring Shangri-La; Afyä is designed to carry a guest through the day. Breakfast can start early, lunch can […]
The lounge as a destination African Lounge is difficult to reduce to a standard restaurant category, and that is part of its charm. Within the Flamingo Collection at The Galleria Al Maryah Island, it sits alongside Flamingo Room by tashas and Collective Africa, creating a sequence of dining, design and retail rather than a single […]
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