An island retreat with Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort
Location is everything in Dubai, and Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort has won the postcode lottery, as they say, with its privileged positioning on Palm Jumeirah’s East frond. Just a 10-minute drive from the city’s pulsating shoreline, with wrap-around views of the Arabian Gulf, the hotel’s urban-cum-island locale affords visitors the best of both worlds. Pure escapism for those seeking tropical fringe benefits in a metropolitan environment.
With Asian influence permeating every element of Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort, and Thai-inspired architecture cementing its paradisaical vibe, the hotel conjures up a sense of idyllic island seclusion, emphasised all the more by the 400 metres of pristine white private beach that hug the hotel. An intuitive island destination, where urban extravagance meets the exotic, and accessibility is its calling card, here you’ll find paradise remade.
With epic views and the only over-water villas in the UAE, Anantara the palm dubai resort exudes the sense of far-flung wanderlust
Where to bed down
Redefining beachfront luxury, and with the only over-water villas in the UAE, Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort has certainly earned some bragging rights. From shimmering lagoon-view rooms to beach pool villas and over-water villas, the hotel really allows you to select your sanctuary, each blending Asian design with endless vistas. Dotted around the property, spacious rooms surround the resort’s three lagoons in distinctly Thai-style low-rise buildings, each with
a private terrace or balcony to overlook the waterways, or even swim-up access for those on the lower floor.
The one- or two-bedroom pool villas provide a private haven, with your own Villa Host concierge service ensuring you don’t have to lift a finger. But it’s the 106sqm over-water villas that steal the show, with their glass-bottomed floor making you feel like you’re floating on water, a secluded terrace from which to watch the splendour of sunset unfold, and the sense of being a million miles away in your own exclusive island idyll.
Where to eat, rest and play
With a mission to help you create your most memorable moments, Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort instils a notion of ‘whatever your pleasure’. There is much to explore in and around the resort, each activity conjuring up their own sense of island life. Take the hotel’s Thai Long-Tail Boat tour, for example, that embraces the freedom of the sea as it loops around Palm Jumeirah’s archipelago, allowing you to soak up Dubai’s iconic skyline from a truly unique perspective. Or, wilder, untamed discoveries await with more adrenalin-fuelled sand dune safaris, waterskiing, wakeboarding and kayaking.
Wind things down again by dipping your toes into the 50 metre infinity pool with the Arabian Gulf as its backdrop, or slope away to Anantara Spa, another hallmark of the brand’s commitment to pure, unadulterated luxury, with its two-floor space cocooning you in privacy and serenity as you embark on a journey to inner harmony. Featuring a lavish Turkish hammam, alongside 24 treatment rooms, five couples’ suites with a steam bath, sauna, experience showers and solo pool bath, and a dedicated Ayurveda suite, here you can relinquish control and allow yourself to be enveloped in wellness and serenity.
Once you’ve soothed your soul, turn your attentions to sating your appetite, to be indulged with a choice of 10 different ways to elevate your culinary experience. From the Asian-fusion specialities at Mekong and beachside Mediterranean dining at The Beach House, to more immersive explorations for the senses with a custom culinary journey. Anantara’s exclusive Dining by Design concept invites guests to retreat to the beach as the golden hour approaches, for a bespoke dining experience. Choosing from a specific connoisseur menu or collaborating with your personal chef, and waited on hand and foot by a private butler, your candlelit dinner under the stars, in one of the resort’s most secluded locations, is really what are memories are made of.