Park Rotana stands on Al Salam Street where it meets the Eastern Ring Road, in Al Muntazah, on the side of the island where the capital does its living rather than its entertaining. Directly opposite is Khalifa Park, one of the largest public parks in Abu Dhabi, with formal gardens, a lake and a museum […]
The tower stands at 1778 Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Street, set back from one of the widest carriageways in Abu Dhabi with its own parking on the plot. It is an upright, plainly detailed building of the kind the capital put up in numbers as its exhibition trade grew, and the interest lies in what […]
Fifteen minutes separate Zayed International Airport from the door, and for the last five of them the building is impossible to miss. Capital Gate leans, visibly and steeply, at eighteen degrees, which is roughly four times the incline of the tower at Pisa, and unlike Pisa it was engineered to do so from the drawing […]
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, […]
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