A resort restaurant shaped by Hudayriyat 28 Degrees belongs to the slower, holiday-minded side of Abu Dhabi dining. Set within Bab Al Nojoum on Hudayriyat Island, it was conceived as the resort’s all-day restaurant rather than a formal destination dining room: breakfast after an early beach walk, a long lunch between activities, or an unfussy […]
The outdoor pool at Corniche Hotel Abu Dhabi carries a swim up bar. At a city hotel of this scale, six minutes on foot from the promenade and set inside the street grid rather than out on the waterfront, that is an unusual fitting. Loungers and full poolside service run alongside it, and the whole […]
Downtown Abu Dhabi was the emirate’s business address long before Al Maryah was built out or Saadiyat had a museum on it, and Le Royal Meridien has held a position in the middle of it throughout. Sheikh Khalifa Street, twenty five floors, 278 rooms. The district around it has since been overtaken by newer neighbourhoods. […]
Two hundred and eighty rooms and suites, forty four floors, and a stepped Art Deco silhouette completed in 2012 inside the Capital Plaza complex. Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche was conceived as a tower before it was conceived as a hotel, and the arithmetic of that decision runs through the whole property. The higher you sleep, […]
Flavours is the room where most guests at the Sheraton Abu Dhabi begin the day. It handles all day dining and the breakfast buffet, and it has been reliably good for years, which for a great many travellers is a more valuable quality than a restaurant that makes headlines. The rest of the programme runs […]
Al Bateen Marina occupies the quieter western flank of Abu Dhabi’s main island, a working yacht harbour with a promenade of restaurants and cafés along its edge, and The Abu Dhabi EDITION sits on it. The hotel looks out over the berths and the water rather than over a main road, which is a rarer […]
The Executive Suite with Lounge Access and a sea view at the Radisson Blu on the Abu Dhabi Corniche runs to sixty three square metres. It sleeps four adults and a child, it faces the Gulf, it comes with access to the executive lounge, and it is the largest of the categories the hotel publishes. […]
Royal M Hotel by Gewan Abu Dhabi was built to a nautical brief, and the building does not disguise it. The architecture is streamlined and contemporary, the massing turned towards the water rather than towards the road, and the plot sits directly on Al Bateen Marina with the yacht berths below the terraces. Bespoke private […]
Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan stands at the point where about 33 kilometres of motorway from Zayed International Airport meet the western end of the Corniche. Etihad Towers is one kilometre away, Qasr Al Watan two, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque sixteen and Ferrari World twenty nine. At the door the difference from every neighbour on this […]
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 […]
