SIMPLY ABU DHABI
Ninety nine rooms, suites and villas laid out as an Emirati village, five restaurants, and a spa of 2,200 square metres with eleven treatment rooms. Forty five minutes inland from the capital, with the camel race track and the flamingo wetlands on the doorstep.
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.
Thirty pool villas of 315 to 573 square metres set inside the Arabian Wildlife Park, where cheetahs, giraffes, hyenas and oryx range free. A thirty minute water taxi from the mainland, on the island Sheikh Zayed planted and stocked.
Thirty pool villas of 284 to 865 square metres along the beach at Sir Bani Yas, with a mangrove lagoon behind them and gazelle coming down onto the sand. Olio serves Mediterranean cooking on the shore, and four water taxis a day cross from the mainland.
One hundred and thirty three rooms, suites, villas and beachfront chalets along eight hundred metres of private beach on the western coast, about two hundred and twenty kilometres from the capital. Five restaurants, two floodlit tennis courts, and the Sir Bani Yas jetty a short distance along the sh
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.