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Mixing tradition and modernity, blending Middle Eastern and Asian architecture and design, the Banyan Tree Desert Spa and Resort, Al Areen offers guests the ultimate in seclusion, rest, relaxation and massage, finds a newly invigorated Fiona Walshe.
For centuries as Egypt’s second largest city, Alexandria mirrored the region’s progress, free-thought and cosmopolitan endeavours. With renewed interest in its tourism potential – most significantly the opening of the Four Seasons Hotel – Warren Singh-Bartlett discovers that the Mediterran
Placido Domingo has the power to hold audiences spellbound with his interpretation of opera’s most dramatic roles. On his first visit to Qatar, he speaks exclusively to Fiona Walshe about the power of music and how it can reach people from all cultures.
When it comes to good living while you’re away from home, there is only one way to go: up. Bespoke has selected the most exclusive penthouses in some of the world’s most exciting cities for business and pleasure.
Marrakech has mostly appealed to the more rugged traveller, but no more. With star-appeal and the recently-opened luxury Murano Oriental Resort, the Arab world's cultural capital, offers a heady combination of opulence, sensuality and mystique, finds Warren Singh-Bartlett.
While Doha continues to advance at incredible speed, the sad truth remains that if you’re not actually doing business there, you’re unlikely to visit. But The Four Seasons Hotel Doha offers the perfect location from which to run your affairs, observes Maya Khoury.
A business unit of Dubai’s The Grooming Company, 1847 is a brilliant concept making it convenient and comfortable for men to smarten themselves up and de-stress at the same time.
Awash with five-star hotels and resorts, the Middle East is a hot front in the hospitality wars. This year, however, a new resort was launched that captured Bespoke’s interest above all others. The Kempinski Ishtar is an ambitious project that is reinvigorated the Dead Sea.
There is something deeply mystical about the Dead Sea, the lowest, and arguably most tranquil place on the earth's surface. Perhaps it is the infinite stillness. At around eight times saltier than the ocean, there is no plant or animal life to speak of, and thus no associated human settlem
Facing Istanbul’s glorious military school, on the European bank, is one of the city’s exquisite boutique hotels. Once booked out by a Russian billionaire to celebrate his wife’s birthday and the setting for high-society parties, Hôtel Les Ottomans is one of the cosiest, friendliest and mo
A popular destination for lovers of ancient Egypt, Luxor can seem a little like a tourist trap. But as Warren Singh-Bartlett discovers, there’s one hotel in the Valley of the Kings, which gives you solace, peace and a touch of history.
Abu Dhabi’s forthcoming project, Desert Islands, promises to be anything but uninhabited by creatures of all species. The UAE’s capital plans to create an eco-tourism destination from eight natural islands including the 87 square metre reserve of Sir Bani Yas Island which in itself is home