Waldorf Astoria The Palm

Waldorf Astoria The Palm, Jumeira, Dubai.

Part 1 – the upgrade and hotel & part 2 – the worlds largest suite.

” One of the worlds best “

Check this accolades:

Middle East’s Leading Luxury Resort – World Travel Awards 2015

Dubai’s Leading Hotel Suite – Royal Suite – World Travel Awards 2015

World’s Leading New Resort – World Travel Awards 2014

Middle East’s Leading New Resort – World Travel Awards 2014

Best 5-star New Resort – MENA Travel Awards 2014

Best Luxury Hotel – Arabian Business Lifestyle Awards 2014

1) The booking.

Points + Cash rate are amazing at most expensive hotels worldwide.

Have you ever heard of complimentary R160,000 + in upgraded value over 5 nights?

The Upgrade.

Waldorf Astoria Suite upgrade valued at AED8,800 per night. I’ll show you the Royal Suite as well ( Largest hotel room in the world).

Read my Ultimate guide to upgrades.

The Suite.

I love HHonors for this repeated reasons. This upgrade is TraveLoyalty’s new benchmark after Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaima and Kandooma Maldives.

Guest bathroom upon entering within a decent sized spaced entrance hall.

One walk in closet within this suite.

18 meter long balcony. Longest I’ve had.

Burj Al- Arab view and Burj Khalifa.

The bathroom.

Bathroom flatscreen TV’s seem to becoming more popular.

Family shower time?

The rest of the suite.

Breath taking living space.

Wet Bar area ? never had one of these before.

My welcome amenity.

Personal touch: roll the dice and let fate decide what to do for the day.

Full kitchen.

Complimentary high-speed internet for Diamond HHonors ensures my newsletter updates are always first with the promos.

The reception and lobby.

The check in area.

Concierge lies on the left on entering.

Waldorf’s famous $1.8 million clock is different in each of their hotels worldwide.

Ruler of Dubai opened this establishment in 2014.

The complimentary Executive Lounge breakfast.

Breakfast time before I checked in while my suite was being made ready.

Best of everything.

The views off the lounge.

The complimentary High Tea in the lounge.

Unlimited Red Bull .. Fab.

The complimentary breakfast downstairs.

My pick.

I always ask for a bigger glass at all hotels.

Gluten free corner.

The Kids Club.

The complimentary evening snacks (some).

The pool side.

When the mercury’s near 50, sunglasses, specs and camera lenses do weird things.

I’ve mentioned exactly how hot this sea water is in my previous Atlantis trip, check it out.

After check-out.

I got 20,000 HHonors points from my stay even though I booked points + cash rate, due to Waldorf Astoria / Conrad promotions. ( Check TraveLoyalty’s Hotels-Hilton tab for it). That’s basically 4 free nights at a Catergory1 Hilton hotel.

2) Up next: The most outrageous, phenomenal and biggest hotel room in the world.

Welcome to The Royal Suite of The Waldorf Astoria, The Palm, Dubai.

This is where famous monarchs, certain presidents of countries and perhaps a few of the top A – list celebrities book into.

The suite spans double volume ( maybe triple) and over 1500 square meters in size. It also retails for 70,000 AED ( ZAR 260,000 per night). The concierge manager assigned to my stay at the Waldorf Astoria really treated me to a unforgettable trip including which was a full tour of this palace like Royal Suite.For other short vid clips of this hotel check my Instagram.

The private entrance in the foyer leads to a private elevator all set in shiny silver and gold.

The elevator goes from Ground direct to floor Six. The Royal Suite size spans a whole mid rooftop section of the hotel.

Upon entering, one is greeted by a reception desk and the first of many seating areas.

This leads on to a huge seating lounge.

105 inches of flatscreen.

I thought I had the longest balcony in the world one floor under until I got access to this suite. The East facing balcony.

Walking in further lies a dining room on one side with a lounge on the other side. A staircase leads to a piano in the middle.

Directly next to that is yet another lounge / seating area with a 105 inch screen.

Next lies a passage way leading to two dressing rooms and two bedrooms.

Guest Room.

Master Bedroom.

Both rooms have automatic slide up flat screen TV’s.

The office / gym is the final room.

You can email and ask the amount of Hilton HHonors points to secure a free night here, I’m not too sure if they give 5th night free as an elite perk.

On the flip side can you imagine Queen Elizabeth clocking the points here on a triple points promotion blended with 50% bonus as an HHonors Diamond Elite. I wonder what’s the biggest score of points received from a single stay ?