The beachfront Faena Hotel has a lobby lavish enough to greet a pharaoh, with blinding sunlight bouncing off oversized gilded columns. In the distance, a golden sculpture of a mammoth’s skeleton is framed by palm trees, the aqua blue sky and gleaming…
The “vegan capital of the world” is what proud locals dub Tel Aviv. With 400 vegan and vegan-friendly kitchens catering to most of Israel’s 200,000 vegans, going meat-free isn’t just easy, here; it’s a chance to sample the best food in town….
Tales of tourists coming a cropper in Dubai are grist to the mill of the emirate’s many critics. Why on earth go on a holiday to a place where you can be arrested for innocently putting your hand on another man’s hip…
With Eid Al Adha just around the corner (predicted holiday start date is Aug 21), we’ve put together a series of flight and holiday offers to cities including Muscat, Tbilisi, Bodrum and more. Muscat, Oman Catch return flights from AED594 per person…
I had my Boris Johnson moment a few hundred feet up Jebel Jais. The UAE’s highest peak is a rugged hunk of a mountain. It’s carved up by a smooth tarmac road that winds its way to the top, over 1,900m above sea level. The route takes the…
Dubai has retained its ranking as the fourth most visited city in the world for the fourth straight year, according to Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index (GDCI) 2018. The city welcomed 15.79 million overnight visitors last year and with a projected growth…
Nakheel Hospitality & Leisure, the hotel, restaurant and leisure arm of developer Nakheel, has unveiled the UAE’s first floating swimming pool, 50 metres offshore in the waters of the Palm Jumeirah in the Arabian Gulf. A new destination for poolside relaxation by…
Once you’ve seen Buenos Aires’ wide, crowded boulevards and the balcony where Eva Peron waved to the masses, you might get the impression the city is all about grandiose architecture and the fast-paced attitude that is so common in big cities. But…
The newly christened Radisson Hotel Group is set to to bring a new hotel brand to the Middle East with the debut of the region’s first Radisson Red hotel in Dubai in Silicon Oasis, in mid-2019. “Radisson Red was established to capture…
Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Middle East and Africa has opened a new 285-room five star resort in Oman’s summer tourist hotspot, Salalah. The Millennium Resort Salalah is the hotel chain’s fourth property in Oman, after Grand Millennium Muscat, Millennium Executive Apartments Muscat…