Occasions
Stays made for a particular reason.
Some stays are taken for their own sake; others mark something. When a stay marks an occasion, the arrangements are built around the evening that matters, and the rest is shaped so that the evening is never rushed.
Honeymoons and anniversaries
An evening arranged for two.
A dinner in the dunes with nobody else at the camp, a table laid on a yacht at anchor off the Burj Al Arab, a suite with the Gulf beneath it: an anniversary here is often one evening, and it is given the whole of our attention.
If there is a place that matters to you — where you met, where you married — tell us, and the evening can be built around it.
Birthdays and celebrations
A room, or a whole restaurant, under your name.
A birthday for thirty, a family dinner, a dinner for a board: some evenings cannot be booked by the cover. A private room, the chef’s counter or the entire restaurant can be held for one night, and we will say so when a restaurant is wrong for the evening you describe.
Guests arriving from abroad are met, housed and brought to the table on time, and the person being celebrated need know nothing until the evening.
Family gatherings
Three generations, travelling at three speeds.
A family together rarely wants the same day. The youngest want the water, the grandparents a museum and a long lunch, the teenagers the city at night. A stay can give each their part without the family losing the sense of being together: separate mornings, shared evenings, rooms arranged so that nobody is far from anybody.
Children’s needs are planned rather than improvised — connecting rooms, cots, meal times, a child seat confirmed for every car — and the staff who travel with a family are housed and moved with the same care.
Weddings
The guests’ arrangements, handled so that the couple need not.
For a wedding in the Emirates, we look after the guests: arrivals spread across a day or two and met at the airport, their rooms, the movements between the hotels, the ceremony and the dinner, the late return, and the days before and after for those who stay on. Where a guest needs a UAE visa, the application is handled centrally rather than guest by guest.
We work alongside your planner rather than in place of one, and keep them informed throughout.
The Grand Prix weekend
A weekend at Yas Marina.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at Yas Marina. Hospitality and grandstand places come through the official hospitality and ticketing channels, and a berth inside the circuit through a licensed charter company; around them we arrange the room on Yas Island, the car that avoids the traffic leaving the circuit, and the dinners either side.
Places are confirmed before anything else is booked. Where they cannot be, we say so at the outset.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend
The season’s final race: official hospitality or grandstand places, a room on Yas Island, and a car routed to avoid the circuit traffic.
Places through the official hospitality and ticketing channels.
A yacht berth at Yas Marina for the race
The race from the deck of a chartered yacht berthed inside the circuit.
With a licensed yacht charter company; the berth is confirmed before anything else is booked.
Official visits and delegations
Hosted to protocol.
For a visiting delegation or an official visit: arrivals handled with the airport, cars matched to the delegation and moving as one, vetted chauffeurs and hosts under non-disclosure agreements, and rooms, meetings and meals held to a single programme, with one point of contact for the length of the visit.
Tell us the occasion.
The date, the people, and what the evening should feel like. The concierge will propose the rest, in writing.