Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm Jumeirah, review: Another level of luxury

By Ben Groundwater
Updated April 24 2016 - 1:25am, first published 12:15am
Cabanas by the pool.
Cabanas by the pool.
Taking it easy at the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm, Jumeirah.
Taking it easy at the Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm, Jumeirah.
Outdoor dining.
Outdoor dining.
Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm, Jumeirah.
Waldorf Astoria Dubai Palm, Jumeirah.
Luxurious bathrooms.
Luxurious bathrooms.
The palatial lobby.
The palatial lobby.

If you build it, they will come. That's what the creators of Dubai's "The Palm" project must have been thinking a few years ago when they came up with the seemingly hare-brained scheme to plonk a gigantic palm-shaped man-made island in the middle of the Arabian Gulf and expect it to become a residential quarter and a tourist attraction.

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