Dubai’s latest resort comes full with fire-breathing fountains and 150,000 sq. metres of marble.
For guests to Dubai, Atlantis, The Palm, has all the time been prime of the to-do record. From its place on the helm of the Palm Jumeirah, the five-star resort instructions consideration with its iconic pink hues. Now although, there’s a brand new child on the block, and it’s taking the Dubai expertise to extraordinary new heights.
Atlantis The Royal will open its doorways in October 2022 throughout a star-studded spectacular, bringing 17 new bars and eating places, a wealth of leisure venues and even 4,000 jellyfish to the area.
“Atlantis The Royal is designed for a distinct sort of buyer,” says Managing Director and Government Vice President of Atlantis Dubai, Tim Kelly, talking at Arabian Journey Market, the main worldwide journey and tourism occasion within the Center East.
“It can have its personal id and character with 44 villas within the clouds, every with their very own infinity pool offering the following degree of luxurious and repair in Dubai.”
What makes the design so spectacular?
Atlantis The Royal is a behemoth, spanning 17 hectares and housing 795 rooms, dozens of hospitality venues and 92 swimming swimming pools – together with a 90-metre-long sky pool that glistens virtually 100 metres above Palm Jumeirah.
The $1.6 billion (€1.5 billion) constructing is 43 storeys excessive and contains a jaw-dropping 1,100 sq. metre Royal Mansion suite costing as much as $50,000 (€47,000) per evening.
“It’s designed to be skilled from the within looking and that’s what’s very particular,” says Kelly. “So no matter the place you’re, whether or not it’s a room, a restaurant, a public house, or on the seaside, you’ve this stunning view of the Arabian Gulf or the Dubai skyline.”
Nevertheless, there’s extra to Atlantis The Royal than simply sheer measurement. The resort boasts 150,000 sq. metres of marble and 90,000 sq. metres of glass – the equal of ten soccer pitches.
Fireplace-breathing fountains greet guests on the entrance, swirling crystal lava timber lure them inside and mesmerising deluge elevators transport you to the magic inside.
The place must you eat at Atlantis The Royal?
With eight movie star chef-backed eating places, an inventory of distinctive culinary experiences and 4 bars and lounges, Atlantis The Royal will likely be a foodie vacation spot in its personal proper.
Mixed with the 33 choices at Atlantis, The Palm, the sister inns will collectively create essentially the most resort-operated meals and beverage retailers within the area, with tantalising impact.
Main the cost is culinary heavyweight Heston Blumenthal, who will likely be plating up modern British fare at his aptly-named Dinner by Heston Blumenthal restaurant. He’ll be joined by culinary legend José Andrés, native favorite Ariana Bundy and fashionable Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio.
Highlights additionally embrace Nobu by the Seashore for black cod served straight to the personal cabanas and Little Venice Cake Firm by Mich Turner for baked items match for royalty.
In the meantime, the all-day eating restaurant Gastronomy will seat a mighty 960 friends. Diners can take their choose from 13 meals stations together with a seafood station, a butcher’s store and a recent pasta counter.
What are the resort’s prime social gathering spots?
There are 5 leisure venues on provide on the resort together with Cloud 22, Parts, Ling Ling by Tao Group Hospitality, Nobu by the Seashore and Resonance by Heston Blumenthal.
Heston Blumenthal’s bar idea, Resonance, is a primary of its sort cocktail bar that may provide a nightly DJ and reside music, with revellers in a position to sashay their manner around the globe’s largest jellyfish tank.
By the shore, beachside spot Seascapes will likely be dwelling to a reside DJ, firepits and an unbelievable boardwalk entrance, although it’s Cloud 22 that basically steals the present, based on Kelly.
“It’s such a particular house with an infinity pool that’s 22 storeys excessive, overlooking the Dubai skyline. It has the final word in exclusivity and uniqueness,” he says.
“We’re additionally build up White Seashore seaside membership and we’ll be flying within the prime DJs on the planet from Ibiza.”
What distinctive experiences are on provide?
All friends at Atlantis The Royal will get limitless entry to the world’s largest waterpark, Aquaventure. The 22.5-hectare website is dwelling to 26 marine experiences and water sports activities and 105 slides, together with the Leap of Religion, a death-defying drop that shoots thrill seekers via a transparent tube surrounded by sharks.
Guests may even have the ability to expertise the massive marine reveals that span each resorts, together with The Misplaced Chambers Aquarium, the biggest open-air aquarium within the area. The oceanic park is dwelling to 65,000 marine animals, in addition to scuba diving, snorkelling and marine biology programmes.
If that each one sounds a bit exhausting, the resort’s 5,045 sq. metre AWAKEN spa gives every part from conventional holistic therapies to regenerative drugs and wellness therapies.
“There’s nothing else like this on provide within the Dubai market at the moment,” says Kelly. “Now we have every part from a standard hammam sensorium to meditation periods with dolphins.
“All the things is 100 per cent vegan and aimed toward whole leisure and rejuvenation.”
