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The Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi’s most iconic hotel, felt that offering a butler for every room and suite was not enough. Now they offer an IT butler, purely available to help with any internet or computer issues a guest may have. The hotel already offers the most extensive and high-speed wireless network in the UAE,…
In a territory where the first paved road was laid in 1960, but which now commissions and completes new acts of architectural bravura quicker than other countries draw up plans for a bathroom extension, the resort, the last Sheikh’s place to get away from it all, comes from the UAE’s “Middle Ages”: 1971. When you…
Neither country is teeming with the sort of “authenticity” beloved of some western tourists and earnest backpackers. However, while Dubai sweeps the issue under the carpet and attempts to distract – look! Another new, really tall building! – Abu Dhabi cheerfully acknowledges that, before discovering oil 50 years ago, the country was basically a few…
They say that the US and the UK are divided by a common language. If that’s the case, then Abu Dhabi and Dubai are divided by a common love of building. The old joke it’ll be lovely when its finished applies equally well to these neighbouring states, with cranes a common sight in both. The…
The Sir Bani Yas Island Resort isn’t the most extravagant spot in Abu Dhabi – and it’s better for it. In a territory where the first paved road was laid in 1960, but which now commissions and completes new acts of architectural bravura quicker than other countries draw up plans for a bathroom extension, the…