SIMPLY ABU DHABI
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.
Three hundred and six rooms, suites and villas along Saadiyat’s protected shore, where hawksbill turtles come ashore to nest between April and July. Five pools, a spa of nine treatment rooms opening onto private terraces, and fifty square metres in the smallest room in the house.
Three hundred and twenty seven rooms and suites across five floors, thirteen beach villas on the sand, and suites running from eighty square metres to a Royal Suite of two hundred and seventy five. Eight places to eat and drink, ten treatment rooms at Zen the Spa, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi three kilo
The only five star hotel in the capital built against the Mangrove National Park, three kilometres from the city centre, with kayaks launching beside it. The property has left Anantara for Hilton’s LXR portfolio, and a conversion to Waldorf Astoria Abu Dhabi with 167 rooms has been announced.