So the Burj Al Arab has had the same neighbor for 25 years — the Wild Wadi Waterpark — and then in March 2025 that changed. Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab opened on the other...
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There are big hotels and then there is Atlantis The Royal. $1.6 billion to build, 43 floors, 178 metres tall, 500 metres wide, opened February 2023 on the crescent of...
The concept of a hotel run by a fashion house sounds like it should be a gimmick. Walk into Palazzo Versace Dubai and within about 90 seconds you realize it is...
🏰 Places, 🇦🇪 UAE
Ain Dubai: the world’s tallest Ferris wheel is back open – here’s what it’s actually like
So Ain Dubai had a rough few years. It opened in October 2021 as the world’s tallest Ferris wheel at 250 meters, closed five months later in March 2022 for what...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
FIVE LUXE JBR Dubai: what the party hotel on Jumeirah Beach actually delivers
Okay so there’s a category of Dubai hotel that exists specifically for people who want the beach club, the DJ, the rooftop, the Instagram moment, and a room...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
Burj Al Arab Dubai: inside the Club Suite at the world’s most famous hotel (UAE)
Let’s address the “7-star hotel” thing immediately because it comes up every single time someone mentions the Burj Al Arab and the answer is more...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇦🇪 UAE
JW Marriott Marquis Dubai: Executive Suite stay in the world’s third tallest hotel
So there are tall hotels and then there’s JW Marriott Marquis Dubai — twin towers on Sheikh Zayed Road in Business Bay, 72 floors, 355 meters to the top of the...
A $680 million USD construction cost. An 18th-century Baroque palace built from scratch on the western tip of Palm Jumeirah. Forty thousand Swarovski crystals on a...
