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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FIVE Palm Jumeirah Dubai – when the hotel is actually the nightclub
Let’s establish something upfront: Dubai-signature-suite-palm-jumeirah/”>FIVE Palm Jumeirah is not trying to be the Four Seasons. It is not trying to be...
Address Sky View Dubai – the infinity pool opposite the Burj Khalifa, and what’s actually in the building next door
If you’ve been to Dubai even once, you’ve seen the photo: a person floating in an infinity pool while the Burj Khalifa fills the entire background. That...














