We review the ten best luxury hotels in UAE. We focus on beachside resorts, those inland, and in the desert. By reviewing these luxury and boutique hotels, I conclude which hotel comes in at the top and which hotel I would select as the best luxury hotel in UAE.
1. Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach
Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach captures the city’s energy and excitement in a glamorous beach resort. Equally ideal for families, couples, or high-level businesses, Four Seasons is one of Dubai’s most convenient beach hotels.
Set on a pristine, natural beach, Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach blends Arabic design with cool, contemporary style, creating an atmosphere of light, and sophisticated luxury. Two hundred thirty-seven ultra-spacious accommodations, including 49 suites, offer views of the Arabian Gulf on one side and Burj Khalifa and the downtown skyline on the other. This 5-star Dubai hotel is also home to 10 restaurants and lounges, a lavish spa, three swimming pools, and fun family activities.
Immerse yourself in the palatial lobby, with floor-to-ceiling glass windows looking out onto the beautiful gardens and Arabian Gulf. With polished marble and custom Murano chandeliers, it exudes luxury with understated elegance. Three pools, watersports, and many shopping and dining outlets provide plenty of activities to occupy all. The jewel atop the resort, the Mercury Lounge, is host to spectacular sights over both the sea and the Dubai skyline, offering romantic, uninterrupted views over the Burj Khalifa.
Wherever you are in the world, Four Seasons hotels are consistently one of the best hotels in that city or resort. There isn’t a Four Seasons loyalty program, so you will never be able to book a free stay by racking up and redeeming points, or by collecting points on your credit card and spending them at a Four Seasons hotel. It can’t be done. But you can get discounts at Four Seasons hotels and benefit from special rewards at Four Seasons hotels for no extra cost by booking your next stay via our luxury travel concierge.
2. The Chedi Al Bait, Sharjah
The Chedi Al Bait Sharjah brings the history of the United Arab Emirates to life. Spread over two and a half acres. This resort is part of an Emirati conservation project. The resort’s overall design pays homage to these original four homes, and a purpose-built museum on the property tells the Al Midfa story in two generous galleries. We believe that there isn’t another hotel that demonstrates the history of the UAE with such gravitas and style.
Its 53 luxury rooms and suites, restaurants, spa, and wellness facilities are incorporated into more than a century-old heritage building. Asian-inspired design is wound about a core of the local indigenous tradition. Share Emirati gourmet favorites served family-style at The Arabic Restaurant, and find international fare from morning to evening in The Restaurant.
A sanctuary in the most real sense, The Spa at The Chedi Al Bait opens the door to traditional Middle Eastern beauty and wellness secrets while incorporating the most effective healing techniques from the Far East.
The Chedi Al Bait’s location in Sharjah is just ten miles from Dubai, and its sister hotel, The Chedi Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman, is an hour’s flight away. The Chedi Al Bait stands as Sharjah’s first luxury resort, and for the ultimate arrival, a helicopter in and lands at the hotel’s very own helipad.
3. Burj Al Arab
Burj Al Arab Jumeirah is part of the Jumeirah Group and is located on Dubai’s most renowned beach, Jumeirah Beach. Soaring 321 meters, Burj Al Arab is the world’s tallest all-suite hotel. Burj Al Arab is undoubtedly a great hotel, but some people find the level of glitz overwhelming. If you prefer less ostentatious opulence, you may prefer the Four Seasons or The Chedi Al Bait, Sharjah, outlined above. The place has so much gold that it can feel palatial, but if glitz, glamor, and over-the-top gold finishings appeal to you, you won’t find a more stunning hotel than Burj Al Arab.
With its helipad on the 28th floor and a restaurant seemingly suspended in mid-air, the hotel has already become a landmark and icon on the Dubai skyline. Comprising of 142 deluxe suites; 18 Panoramic suites; 4 Club Suites; 28 Two-Bedroom suites; 6 Diplomatic Suites; 2 Presidential Suites, and 2 Royal Suites, Burj Al Arab offers highly personalized service for every traveler, enhanced by private reception desks on every floor, in-suite check-in, and a brigade of exclusive butlers. Suites offer beautiful views over the Arabian Sea and range in size from 1800 ft² to 8400 ft²
Dining facilities include Al Mahara Seafood Restaurant; Al Muntaha Restaurant on the 27th floor; Junsui Asian Restaurant, Skyview Bar on the 27th floor; Al Iwan Restaurant on the lobby level; Bab Al Yam located by the pool and Juna Lounge on the ground floor.
Talise Spa is open daily and offers a full range of relaxing and reviving treatments, featuring the popular La Prairie Caviar treatments. It features the latest Technogym equipment with Kinesis stations as well as an indoor pool and sauna. An outdoor pool and a private beach are also exclusive to residents.
4. One&Only The Palm
One&Only The Palm is chic, glamorous, and Dubai’s most intimate beachfront resort. Hideaway and soak up the sun beside shimmering pools or on the private, white-sand beach. Capture the calm of the day in the Guerlain Spa, set amidst ponds, fountains, and open courtyards. Finally, tantalize your palate with an enviable selection of bars and restaurants under the culinary guidance of three-Michelin-stars Chef Yannick Alléno.
5. Jumeirah Al Qasr
Designed to look like an Arabian palace, or perhaps numerous Arabian palaces, surrounded by greenery, waterways, and, of course, the beach, Madinat Jumeirah is an old Arabian town recreated in luxury. It comes complete with a traditional bazaar, gardens, wind catchers, and water canals.
There are six hotels on the premises of the Madinat. Jumeirah Al Qasr, Jumeirah Al Naseem, Jumeirah Mina A’Salam, Jumeirah Dar Al Masyaf, Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, and the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. After the Burj, mentioned above, the Madinat Jumeirah Al Qasr is one of the best hotels in UAE.
Jumeirah Al Qasr offers some of the nicest and best rooms within the Madinat Jumeirah hotel complex, showcasing Arabian Palatial luxury. Designed in the style of a Sheikh’s summer residence, palatial guestrooms decorated in the traditional Arabian style offer stunning views to the sea and the resort in opulent surroundings. This hotel is reached by traveling up an impressive driveway to the entrance.
6. Jumeirah Al Naseem
Jumeirah Al Naseem offers interiors inspired by sand dunes, sea breeze, and Dubai’s heritage of pearl diving and Bedouin traditions. Its rooms and suites feature spectacular views to Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. Expansive terraces invite the outdoors in, and lush gardens edge the sandy beach, providing pockets of privacy and peacefulness.
Dubai’s longest private beach and the many facilities within Madinat Jumeirah Resort are only steps away. Souk Madinat Jumeirah features more than 80 shops, bars, and restaurants. Access to Talise Spa and Talise Fitness, tennis and squash courts, and unlimited access to Wild Wadi Waterpark™, are all available to guests.
7. Grosvenor House Dubai
The Grosvenor House Dubai is a Luxury Collection hotel and is one of the best Marriott hotels in Dubai. It has a brilliant location close to the beach, next to the marina walk. There are plenty of great bars and restaurants within the hotel, including Sidarta Lounge, Buddha Bar, Torro Torro, The Embassy, etc. The main breakfast selection at the hotel is so good that the locals and ex-pats come here for breakfast.
The Grosvenor House has excellent views of the marina from its rooms, which is a great way to wake up. Many rooms have a lovely balcony overlooking Atlantis. The club lounge is one of the best in Dubai. Overall, this is your best option if you are a Marriott Bonvoy member and are looking for luxury and the best Marriott or SPG Starwood property to earn and redeem your points, particularly if you are traveling as a couple. You also get access to all the beach and pool facilities at Le Royal Meridien via a free and regular shuttle between the two hotels, or you can just run across Al Sufouh Road between the hotels for beach access at the Royal Méridien. Alternatively, you can stick with the Grosvenor House pool, which is also excellent and tends to attract fewer children.
8. Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa
Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa is a fantastic resort out in the desert and is part of the Marriott Bonvoy collection. Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa is an exclusive and romantic eco-luxury hotel set in 225 square kilometers of the pristine desert landscape in UAE.
Al Maha is an oasis of luxury and enchantment within an award-winning conservation area where desert wildlife abounds. It’s also the only resort within the area where visitors can experience the true beauty and majesty of the desert and observe the indigenous wildlife.
Each suite at Al Maha includes all meals and two activities per night’s stay (choose from a camel ride with sundowners, archery, nature walks, and more). Beneath its stretched canvas roof, each suite boasts handcrafted furnishings, traditional Arabian artifacts, and a private swimming pool and wooden deck. THE Timeless Spa offers rejuvenating treatments and massages using international brands, also available on your private pool deck. You’ll dine sumptuously at Al Diwaan restaurant.
Want to take a sunset camel ride into the dunes? Or watch Arabian oryx and gazelle roam about the private reserve? You can here!
9. Bulgari Resort Dubai
Bulgari Resort Dubai in downtown is situated on the exclusive, manmade Jumeira Bay, an island carved into the shape of a seahorse and adjoined by a 300m bridge to central Dubai coastline, the sunny property is a true ‘urban oasis’, for visitors and residents alike.
Designed entirely by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, the renowned Italian architectural firm that has created all the Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts, the 158,000 m² property is a first-of-its-kind development for Bvlgari, both in scale and magnitude. Charming with a Mediterranean village feel, the complex features the Resort, six residential buildings with 173 sea-facing apartments, 15 private mansions, and Bvlgari’s first-ever Marina and Yacht Club.
The hotel comprises of 101 rooms and suites, as well as 20 Bvlgari villas with pools. The gourmet Il Ristorante, Niko Romito, the Il Café, Il Bar with its iconic oval-shaped freestanding bar, and La Spiaggia are wonderful places to spend time. The latter is the most exclusive beach club with a private beach and a unique mosaic-design outdoor swimming pool.
Guests can also enjoy the 1,700 m² Spa with a hammam, indoor pool, fitness center, beauty salon with a traditional barbershop, and hairdresser. To add relish to the guest’s stay, the complex comprises a private Marina featuring 50 boat berths and the first world’s Bvlgari Yacht Club with peerless views over the sea.
10. Armani Hotel Dubai
Located in the Burj Khalifa, the world’s most iconic tower, Armani Hotel Dubai is suave and understated, with each design detail personally chosen by Giorgio Armani himself. Behind guest-room doors, subtle elegance reigns, walls adorned with handmade leather from Florence, floors covered with Japanese tatami, and bathrooms clad in gray stones from Alicante, Spain, all blending seamlessly with the clean, curved lines of the tower’s architecture. The 12,000 ft² Armani/SPA tailors every experience to each guest. Dining venues featuring Italian, Mediterranean, Japanese, and Indian cuisine await.
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