The AC Hotel by Marriott Birmingham is a four-star hotel within The Mailbox, the landmark mixed-use development on Wharfside Street in central Birmingham. Part of Marriott's design-led AC Hotels brand, which draws on a European, minimalist aesthetic, it sits in a waterside setting close to the city's canal network and Gas Street Basin. The hotel offers contemporary guest rooms and suites along with the brand's signature spaces, typically including an AC Lounge serving cocktails and tapas-style .....

Anchored by three luxury hotels and a permanent water theatre, Al Habtoor City is a large mixed-use development on Sheikh Zayed Road in the Business Bay area of Dubai, beside the Dubai Water Canal. Commissioned by the Al Habtoor Group in 2012, the complex combines hospitality, residences and leisure across a single canal-side site of more than 360,000 square metres. Its hospitality collection comprises three hotels, including the Al Habtoor Palace, the V Hotel Dubai and a Hilton property, toge.....

An ultra-luxury glamping retreat in the desert, Al Marmoom Domes offers overnight stays in private glass pods set within the Al Marmoom Conservation Reserve near Al Qudra in Dubai. Opened in early 2025 and developed by OceanAir, it is described as the first eco-glamping resort of its kind in the reserve, pairing modern design with references to Emirati heritage. Each dome features floor-to-ceiling windows and panoramic desert views from an elevated position, with safari-style decor, air condit.....

A contemporary hotel on the crescent of Palm Jumeirah, Aloft Palm Jumeirah sits on the outer ring of Dubai's landmark man-made island, facing the Arabian Gulf. Part of Marriott's Aloft brand, the property is pitched at younger and design-minded travellers, with a style that leans towards bold, modern interiors and a sociable, music-led atmosphere. Its rooms and suites are arranged across a curved tower, many with balconies looking out over the sea, the island or the Dubai skyline beyond. Leis.....

The biggest casino floor in Kansas City keeps a proper theatre inside it. Ameristar Casino Hotel at 3200 North Ameristar Drive, on the Missouri River just east of downtown, opened on 16 January 1997 as Station Casino and took its current name after Ameristar Casinos acquired the property in December 2000; today Boyd Gaming operates the complex, whose 140,000 square feet of gaming - 2,800 slots, 57 table games and a 15-table live poker room - lead the Kansas City market. The entertainment engine.....

A classic Victorian seafront hotel reimagined by more than thirty contemporary artists, Art B&B on Blackpool's Promenade turns the traditional seaside guesthouse into a stay-in-art experience. Its nineteen rooms have each been curated as a unique installation, ranging from seafront suites to family rooms, so that no two are alike. The hotel is run as a Community Interest Company that reinvests its profits into arts and community projects, and it grew out of a project by the local arts organisat.....

A derelict 1970s bank headquarters on Brunkebergstorg - the brutalist former home of Swedbank - became one of Stockholm's most talked-about hotels when At Six opened on 23 March 2017. Petter Stordalen's Nordic Hotels & Resorts bought the abandoned building in 2014 as part of a master plan to revive the once-glamorous square; White Arkitekter restored the listed facade and added three new floors, and London's Universal Design Studio spent two years reworking the interior into a 343-room art and d.....

At the apex of the eastern crescent of the Palm Jumeirah artificial archipelago in Dubai, Atlantis The Palm is the most prominent single resort hotel on the Palm Jumeirah and one of the most heavily visited integrated resort hotels in the broader United Arab Emirates. The 1,539-room resort opened in September 2008 at a total construction cost of approximately 1.5 billion dollars, the result of a joint venture between the South African Kerzner International hotel group and the Emirati real-estate.....

On the eastern crescent of the Palm Jumeirah artificial archipelago immediately adjacent to the original Atlantis The Palm resort, Atlantis The Royal is one of the most architecturally distinctive and most expensive luxury hotels ever built in the broader United Arab Emirates. The 795-room ultra-luxury resort opened on 10 February 2023 at a total construction cost of approximately 1.4 billion dollars, the result of a joint venture between the Kerzner International hotel group and the Investment .....

Set on the upper floors of the Baiyoke Tower II skyscraper in the Pratunam district of central Bangkok, the Baiyoke Sky Hotel is the highest hotel in Thailand and one of the highest large hotels anywhere in South-East Asia. The hotel occupies floors twenty-two through to seventy-four of the eighty-eight-floor tower, providing six hundred and seventy-three guest rooms across more than fifty individual room floors. The hotel opened in 1998 as the principal occupant of the new Baiyoke II tower. Th.....