You can see the roof from the highway before you see anything else. That giant red triangular structure on Yas Island with the prancing horse emblem stamped across it at...
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🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
The WB Abu Dhabi – inside the world’s first Warner Bros. hotel on Yas Island
Let’s be honest about what this place is before we get into the room tour: The WB Abu Dhabi, Curio Collection by Hilton is a themed hotel. That sentence usually...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
Bvlgari Resort Dubai – Italian luxury on a seahorse-shaped island in the UAE
There are maybe ten hotels in the world where the address alone communicates something before you’ve even seen a photo. Bvlgari Resort Dubai is one of them. It...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
Jumeirah Al Qasr Dubai – the Arabian palace hotel at the heart of Madinat Jumeirah
Dubai has no shortage of places that look spectacular in a thumbnail and then deliver something considerably less once you’re inside. Jumeirah Al Qasr is the...
There are maybe five buildings on the planet where photos genuinely do not prepare you for the real thing. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is one of them...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
Palace Downtown Dubai – Arabesque luxury with the Dubai Fountain at your window
Location in Dubai is everything. The difference between a good hotel stay and an extraordinary one in this city often comes down entirely to what’s outside the...
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Emirates A380 first class – Dubai to Tokyo on the most iconic cabin in commercial aviation
There’s a reason Emirates A380 first class appears in more luxury travel content than practically any other product in the sky. It’s not just marketing reach...
🏰 Places, 🇦🇪 UAE
Burj Khalifa VIP tour Dubai – all three observation levels from floor 124 to The Lounge at 154
828 metres. Half a mile straight up. When the Burj Khalifa was topped out in January 2009 it surpassed everything else on earth by a margin that made architects...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
Armani Hotel Dubai – sleeping inside the Burj Khalifa with a Fountain Suite view
Sleeping inside the world’s tallest building is a concept that raises an immediate question nobody asks aloud: is it actually good, or is it just a great story...
