Most hotels have a gimmick. A rooftop bar, an infinity pool that photographs well, a lobby chandelier that cost more than a house. The Andaz Capital Gate Abu Dhabi has a...
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Jumeirah Emirates Towers Dubai – the Presidential Suite connected to the Museum of the Future
Right, so you just watched a tour of a hotel where the Prime Minister of the UAE is the actual owner, which is connected by an indoor walkway to one of the coolest...
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Qatar Airways Qsuite A350-1000 Tokyo to Doha – the business class that keeps winning world’s best
Okay, so Qatar Airways has now won “World’s Best Business Class” at the Skytrax awards so many times that it’s basically the category they...
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Museum of the Future Dubai – inside the torus-shaped building everyone is posting from the UAE
Right, so you’ve seen the building on Instagram 400 times. You know the one – the giant metal donut covered in Arabic calligraphy sitting on Sheikh Zayed...
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One&Only and SIRO at One Za’abeel Dubai – the two brand-new hotels in the record-breaking cantilever tower
Okay so Dubai has a new skyline trick: two absurd towers joined together 100 meters in the air by a horizontal glass tube holding the world’s longest cantilever...
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The Lana Dorchester Collection Dubai – the British luxury brand’s first Middle East debut
Right, so if you’ve been paying attention to the Dubai luxury hotel scene, you know 2023-2024 was the year every international luxury brand suddenly remembered...
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Dubai Frame – the world’s largest picture frame and a genuinely underrated half-day in Dubai
Okay, so when most people plan a Dubai trip, the observation deck conversation goes: Burj Khalifa, At The Top, maybe The View at The Palm, done. The Dubai Frame gets...
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One&Only The Palm Dubai – Arabian luxury meets Andalusian architecture on Palm Jumeirah
Palm Jumeirah has a lot of hotels. A lot. The strip of artificial island that juts out into the Arabian Gulf like a man-made fever dream is lined with the kind of...
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Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental Abu Dhabi – inside the $3 billion palace hotel
There are expensive hotels and then there are hotels that cost $3 billion to build. Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental in Abu Dhabi is firmly in the second category...
Dubai has roughly ten thousand hotels at this point and yet every time someone posts a W Dubai – The Palm, people lose their minds in the comments. I get it now. I...
