Medina — Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, “the Radiant City” — is Islam’s second holiest city after Mecca, and for a very long time it was essentially...
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🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
The Biltmore Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia – luxury steps from the prophet’s mosque
Okay so here’s a hotel concept I genuinely didn’t expect to be this compelling. You wake up, open the curtains, and there it is – the Green Dome of Al...
🚂 Trains, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Haramain High-Speed Railway, Saudi Arabia – business class Jeddah to Madinah
Saudi Arabia spent $9.4 billion building a bullet train through the desert and honestly, looking at it, you can see where the money went. The Haramain High-Speed Railway...
🚢 Cruises, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
AROYA cruise ship, Saudi Arabia – 3 nights on the Red Sea in a superior suite
Okay I genuinely did not see this coming. Saudi Arabia launched its own cruise line – from scratch – in December 2024, and the ship they’re doing it...
🏰 Places, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
AlUla, Saudi Arabia – Hegra, Elephant Rock and the mirrored building in the desert
AlUla is the kind of place that genuinely shouldn’t exist in the way it does. An ancient oasis city in the northwest of Saudi Arabia where the Nabataeans –...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Banyan Tree AlUla, Saudi Arabia – 79 tented villas and a pool carved into the canyon
The first thing you notice when you arrive at Banyan Tree AlUla is the scale. Not the scale of the villas or the resort infrastructure – the scale of the valley...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Our Habitas AlUla and Caravan AlUla review – two nights in Saudi Arabia’s ancient desert
Okay, so I’ll be honest. Saudi Arabia was not on my radar as a luxury travel destination until fairly recently. And then I watched this vlog, and now I’ve...
✈️ Flights, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Saudia business class review: Manila to AlUla via Jeddah on the Boeing 787-10, Saudi Arabia
Flying business class to AlUla is not the most obvious thing to research. It’s a destination that barely registered on most people’s radar until a few years...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Six Senses Southern Dunes – the first Red Sea Project resort in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia opening up to international tourism is one of those geopolitical shifts that travel people have been watching carefully for a few years now, and Six Senses...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s most insane new resort: sleeping inside a cliff at Desert Rock
Let me set the scene. You’re standing on a private terrace carved into the face of a granite cliff, about 180 square meters of villa behind you, a temperature...
