W DohaBy now you’re probably prepared to see a W cropping up just about anywhere, but Doha? How, quite frankly, is the high-design luxury chain’s whole (...)
The Palace - The Old TownIn Dubai the basic hotel choice is between new and old — or, since everything’s really new, between old-fashioned and new-fangled. At the slightly (...)
The Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel & SpaIf you’re a cynic you could worry a bit about the quite possibly over-the-top results of a global luxury-hotel brand taking on a project in a Persian (...)
The Address Hotel, Downtown Burj DubaiThere’s a case to be made that if you want to get to the heart of the new Dubai, this is the place to go. The Address, Downtown Burj Dubai is sandwiched (...)
Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort By AnantaraUntil recently the Anantara resorts were pretty much confined to the lush environs of Thailand, the Maldives and Indonesia; their move into the United (...)
Shangri-La Hotel, Qaryat Al Beri, Abu DhabiA rapidly diversifying economy and constant development are helping Abu Dhabi step out from the shadow of its better-known sister, Dubai. A prime location (...)
Residence & Spa At One & Only Royal MirageThe popular, cynical journalistic image of Dubai — basically a vision of a golden construction crane, building an air-conditioned skyscraper out of (...)
Park Hyatt DubaiWe’d love to tell you about little independently-owned well-kept secret of a place in Dubai. But it’s not that sort of place. So instead we’ll tell (...)
Four Seasons Hotel RiyadhA lot of big business hotels claim to occupy a “privileged” position, or offer a “unique” or even a “commanding” view. In the case of the Four (...)
Four Seasons Hotel AmmanWithin a decade of its opening the Four Seasons has managed to become, by many lights, the top luxury hotel in Jordan’s capital city of Amman. In terms (...)
Emirates PalaceThey don’t make them small in the Emirates these days, that’s for sure. Still, some are taller than others — and while there are plenty of options (...)
Desert Palm DubaiAnother entry on the more sedate end of the Dubai hotel scene, the Desert Palm lies some twenty miles outside the city center, and trades construction (...)
Desert Islands Resort & Spa By AnantaraFive miles off the coast of Abu Dhabi, out there in the waters of the Gulf, there’s a resort that just might change your perception of what’s possible (...)
Dan Boutique JerusalemThe boutique hotel concept has taken a little longer to arrive in Jerusalem, but if the Dan Boutique is any indication, the awkward early stages have been (...)
Albergo HotelWe’ll skip over all the usual caveats and acknowledgements and just assume you know what you’re doing going to Beirut at this current moment in world (...)
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