Text: Irina Malkova HARMONY WITH NATURE, LUXURY VIEWS AND EXCELLENT COMFORT NOW YOU CAN FIND IN THE NEW HOTEL ON PALM JUMEIRE WARLDORF ASTORIA
Waldorf Astoria, the first hotel of the famous chain (currently owned by the Hilton empire), opened on Palm Jumeirah only in March 2014, but connoisseurs of premium standards of quality, convenience and thoughtful details to the design, designed to relax and calm, have already booked rooms until the end of the year. Astoria does not need any introductions - it is a network of truly luxury hotels with more than 100 years of history. All over the world, they embody one of the highest levels of comfort that can generally be obtained. Built on the eastern arc of Palm Jumeirah, in the most favorable place in terms of clean water, the hotel organically fit into the top three on the island.
Waldorf Astoria is all white marble. At the entrance, the famous clock - the hotel’s calling card, the prototype of the legendary clock of the very first building of the chain - on Park Avenue, where at the end of the 19th century she loved to make appointments with the bohemian New York. The next obligatory attribute of the hotel is Peacock Alley, the famous promenade and tea lounge, where the dressed up elite of the city usually gathered to “show themselves and look at others” (hence the name peacock - peacock). At the Waldorf Astoria Dubai, this area is located on the 2nd floor with a private terrace overlooking the sea.
The hotel has a total of 319 rooms, which contributes to privacy and privacy. Be sure that nobody will disturb your vacation: neither crowds of tourists, nor noisy cries of children (although the hotel has a well-equipped playground and a special pool). The hotel is more suitable for those who appreciate beauty, cleanliness of forms and sophisticated noble luxury. The passage to the rooms is made in the form of an atrium, and thanks to the pattern on the wrought iron railings and the repeating pattern on the carpets, the illusion of multidimensional space is created. Sometimes it may even seem that you are somewhere in the beginning of the 20th century somewhere on a five-star airliner plowing the expanses of the Atlantic, but the views that open up either at the skyscraper of Bourge Khalifa or at the spiers of the Atlantis the Palm hotel do not allow you to forget that you are in Dubai - futuristic city of the future. At the same time, the hotel still has the ability to transfer guests to the special atmosphere of the times of Scott Fitzgerald and his immortal Gatsby.
The hotel restaurants also contribute to this. At Social, led by chef Heinz Beck, the holder of three Michelin stars, gourmet cuisine is served in an elegant and sophisticated urban-resort style. A special pleasure is to watch the fussy chefs in white caps at the open kitchen-theater, the latest trend of elite restaurants. And in the Serafina bar, stylized as New York jazz clubs, live music is usually played in the evenings - you can sit and relax while drinking cocktails. Specialty non-alcoholic cocktails deserve special attention, in particular, Green Light, which pleasantly refreshes with a mint-cucumber flavor. Well, the LAO Pan-Asian restaurant will delight you with fresh seafood and amazing desserts.
All rooms at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel offer panoramic views of the sea or the palm island, which is hard to take your eyes off of, sitting on deckchairs on cozy terraces. The spacious bathrooms have Italian Salvatore Ferragamo cosmetics, and the sensations of the hotel’s branded bathrobes, which many guests could not restrain before buying, will be remembered for a long time.
