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indicated work is underway on its first hotel in the city to be located on Jumeirah Beach. The Palazzo Versace, much touted,
but making a slow progress, is expected to open in Q4 2013, heralding a new location in the city on Dubai Creek and featuring the requisite designer interiors and 217 suites, plus 169 apartments. Jumeirah, meanwhile, has opened
Kempinski Hotel & Residences Palm
Jumeirah offers suite, penthouse and villa accommodation options as well as boardroom, meeting-room and lawn venues and a Cinq Mondes spa, while the new Rixos The Palm has added a Turkish option to the mix. The 233-room hotel has three private
beaches, 28 residences, a traditional Turkish restaurant with private dining room, shisha bar, spa with Turkish bath and meditation lounge, plus two conference rooms with capacity for up to 170 each in a theatre set-up. The group’s original development was
taken over by Jumeirah and operates as the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, also offering Turkish overtones in its sumptuous décor and spa. As well as 405 rooms and suites, plus
38 residences located around a lagoon pool, the resort features 11 restaurants and bars, including the chic Voda Bar, Long-awaited is the Royal Amwaj Resort
& Spa, billed as the first over-water option in the city, with 293 rooms as well as 450 condominium apartments. The resort has been designed to meet the needs of the luxury market. Owner Seven Tides has yet to announce the resort’s operator, but opening is set for the first quarter of 2013. Definitive features include three
lagoons, a large pool, restaurants including Thai, seafood and Asian, a huge range of water-sport activities, meeting and banquet facilities, plus a spa with an exceptional menu with planned facilities that include
a crystal and gemstone steam room, a salt inhalation cabin, an ice grotto, liquid-sound pools, a spiritual sound therapy room and a Balinese bamboo purification room. Meanwhile, Fairmont The Palm was
launched in the third quarter of 2012 as the first hotel option on the ‘trunk’ of The Palm, offering 381 rooms plus 3,500 square metres of meeting space including a ballroom that can cater for up to 700 guests, seven food and beverage outlets and an expansive Willow Stream spa. To come is the 324-room Waldorf
Astoria, which has a projected opening date at the end of 2013; a 543-room Sofitel Dubai Palm Jumeirah (2013) and a 283-room W Hotel with 2,500 square metres of meeting space (2016). Back on the mainland, there has been
resumption of many hotel projects too, with Starwood renegotiating its deal to open a W Hotel at Festival City, while Four Seasons has
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another hotel in the city, this one located by the Aviation Club in Garhoud. The 293-room Jumeirah Creekside overlooks the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club and features six restaurants and lounges, a spa and excellent meeting facilities including 23 meeting rooms, a screening room, press centre, training academy, outdoor deck, rooftop venue and ballroom that can host up to 500 with its own valet entrance. In addition, larger events can be catered for at the adjacent Dubai Tennis Stadium, with seating for up to 4,500. In ‘old’ Dubai, Rotana has opened the Al
Ghurair Rayhaan by Rotana and the hotel apartment brand Al Ghurair Arjaan, adding 621 rooms to its Dubai inventory, while more rooms have been launched on Sheikh Zayed Road with the addition of the 413-room Millennium Plaza Hotel Dubai opposite the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Arriving in style, Melià has made its
debut in Dubai with a 164-room hotel near Port Rashid that includes a small ballroom, two meeting rooms and two boardrooms as well as video conferencing facilities and celebrity dining with restaurants by Marco Pierre White and Sanjeev Kapoor.
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