Dubai / Atlantis The Royal

Wake up here

Combining the best aspects of urban city living and a beachfront holiday resort, the resort aims to create a community with a strong sense of home. With even the lead in rooms being the size of some apartments, it’s difficult to single out which of these spaces are the most exclusive. The signature penthouses are designed to impress; accentuated by massive terraces and private pools and spanning over multiple floors. With a desire to be the hosts’-with-the-most to multi-gens or groups, they’re a private, rare kind of luxury for Dubai. Suites are like home but taken up a notch; there’s no need to leave bed for breakfast as it’s delivered to you complimentary and a personal butler is on hand to put together a few surprises during your stay.

On location

With 17 restaurants (eight of which are helmed by celebrity chefs) exceptional food is a given, but dining here goes beyond the everyday. Like in Dinner by Heston Blumenthal where foods playfully masquerade as others, or in Jaleo by José Andrés, the only chef to have a two Michelin-star restaurant, four Bib Gourmands and a Nobel Peace Prize. And for something sweet, there’s Mich Turner’s Little Venice Cake Company. While all the culinary excitement lingers in the upper floors, down at ground level it’s a far more tranquil affair. At almost the size of a football pitch, the spa’s spaciousness alone provides the feeling of quiet solitude. Harnessing state of the art technologies, a personal journey is created for each guest incorporating all the elements. Some of these elements even make it into the 17 treatment rooms in the form of fireplaces and floor-to-ceiling aquariums.