Saudi Arabia opened to tourism in 2019 and has been moving fast. The St. Regis Red Sea Resort on Ummahat Island is the kind of project that signals just how fast –...
Playlist - Saudi Arabia: Unveiling the Oasis
Four Seasons Riyadh at Kingdom Centre – sleeping inside one of Saudi Arabia’s most iconic towers
If you’re going to stay inside a skyscraper in Riyadh, it might as well be one with a 65-metre skybridge at the top, the world’s highest mosque, a Pierre...
Ritz-Carlton Riyadh – inside Saudi Arabia’s most famous hotel (and former billionaire prison)
Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way immediately: yes, this is the hotel where Saudi Arabia rounded up hundreds of princes, ministers, and...
Shebara Resort – Saudi Arabia’s floating orbs on the Red Sea, and what it’s actually like inside
There’s a specific moment in this vlog where the seaplane banks over the Red Sea on approach and you get the first aerial shot of Shebara Resort below β 38...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Medina Saudi Arabia – the Prophet’s Mosque, historic sites and the city’s largest hotel
Medina β Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, “the Radiant City” β is Islam’s second holiest city after Mecca, and for a very long time it was essentially...














