Staying at Atlantis The Palm Lodge in Dubai was an enormous deal with for us in our final month residing within the Center East. It’s one of the recognisable inns on this planet and, with household rooms beginning at £380 an evening (once we stayed), its additionally one of the costly we’ve booked.
However was it value it? Let’s get actual, this isn’t a price range lodge. However I’m completely unbiased after I say that is the perfect lodge we have now ever stayed at.
On this submit I’m sharing our expertise and the place we felt our cash was effectively spent.
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Our two nights at Atlantis The Palm
This was the second half of a protracted weekend in Dubai the place we had already revisited Motiongate – our favorite theme park at Dubai Parks and Resorts – and had an ideal keep at Lapita Lodge Dubai.
Atlantis had so much to reside as much as.
The primary impressions have been wonderful. We have been instantly wowed by the crimson carpet and foyer that took me again to the Ballagio in Vegas the place we spent a part of our honeymoon. The ten metre fountain underneath a glittering dome was charming.
The lodge has two wings both aspect of the long-lasting arch. Throughout our two night time keep we spent most of our time within the East wing, which is residence to the Imperial Membership Lounge, The Misplaced World Aquarium and the Aquaventure World water park.
What’s so particular about Atlantis The Palm?
Like many nice household resorts, there may be little or no motive to go away Atlantis to seek out issues to do. And, if like us, you’ve solely received two nights, there actually isn’t any level in making every other plans.
What makes Atlantis particular is that it’s a luxurious lodge with the service, catering and world-leading amenities to match. Some resorts geared toward households really feel cliché – like the entire place is working extra time to verify the children reside their finest lives, whereas the adults tag alongside.
Mother and father, worry not! Atlantis is as a lot for you as your offspring with superb eating, youngsters golf equipment that they’ll not need to depart and inclusive actions that basically are successful with the entire household.
So, what do you get on your cash?
In the event you’re excited about staying on the Atlantis I’m assuming you will have an affordable vacation price range.
Costs differ relying on the season, however in June once we stayed there have been packages starting from £380 an evening for a household room with no inclusive meals to £7,500k+ an evening for an ‘Extraordinary Full Board’ keep in a Grand Atlantis Suite.
Whichever finish of the size you go, this isn’t an inexpensive place to remain. What’s essential is: is it worth for cash?
Everybody, no matter room grade, will get entry to the world’s largest waterpark, Aquaventure World, and limitless entry to the Misplaced World Aquarium. So, if these are your precedence, you don’t have to splash out greater than the fundamental fee.
Nonetheless, pay as you go eating and drinks will add up. For this reason I feel it’s value room charges that embrace these.
Relying on the bundle you go for there’s inclusive meals on the resort’s buffets and al a carte eating places (some require a complement), free non-motorised water sports activities and reductions on experiences within the waterpark.
We booked an Ocean View Queen Room with two double beds and a bundle together with half board, Imperial Membership Lounge entry (extra on what nice worth that is under) and one session within the Explorers youngsters membership. This price us the equal of £660 an evening over the busy Eid al Adha vacation.
After we arrived we have been supplied an improve to a Terrace Suite going through The Palm. It was too good a deal to show down. The record worth for this room was £810 an evening on the identical dates and got here with a couple of extra advantages.
Terrace Suite at Atlantis The Palm
I had (not so) secretly been eager for a room with a view of The Palm once we booked the Atlantis.
Fortunately the glee of the women once we walked into the foyer put Mr Tin Field in a very good temper and he determined to financial institution some Daddy and husband factors by paying a bit additional to improve us.
We caught with our half board bundle however received some additional advantages:
Complimentary AquaXpress cross as soon as per keep (to leap the water slide queues)
Entry to the non-public Imperial Membership Seashore
Two Explorers Membership periods per day vs the one session per little one for our total keep.
Had we booked this suite up entrance we may have additionally had complimentary airport transfers to and from Dubai Airport. It was a mute level as we had pushed ourselves from Muscat, however the improve bundle added up properly.
Plus, our Terrace Suite had loads of understated wow added to that each one essential view.
A one-bedroom suite with room for households
Contemplating the Atlantis was inbuilt 2008, our room felt contemporary and opulent – similar to the lodge’s public areas.
We had lounge with a big couch that folded out right into a mattress at night time, a eating desk for 4, a rest room and wardrobe. We requested an extra single mattress for the 10-year-old to save lots of squabbling over mattress inches.
The residing space was the right area to show over to the women. Though they received a agency briefing on not touching the extraordinarily effectively stocked mini bar that includes tempting sweets, goodies and biscuits – our already smashed price range was not going to cowl midnight munchies.
Past the women’ area was the spacious master suite with an enormous lavatory full with luxurious toiletries and a stroll in wardrobe. There have been fluffy slippers, his and her flip flops, and robes.
Every night our valet, Dilshan, magically remodeled the suite for bedtime. Flipping out the couch mattress, creating towel animals to buddy up with the women’ stuffed toys, and arranging water and slippers beside our beds. We additionally received a reasonably field of Eid dates and maamouls (date biscuits), whereas all our charging cables have been tidied with Atlantis charms and cable ties.
It was a problem to tear ourselves away, however the points of interest of Atlantis beckoned.
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Misplaced World Aquarium
You may’t assist however be drawn to the big home windows into the Ambassador tank within the East wing of the Atlantis Palm lodge. As we arrived there was a scuba diver on the opposite aspect of the 70cm thick viewing panes, cleansing the tank from inside. However this isn’t the principle aquarium.
The Misplaced World (previously The Misplaced Chamber) is on the way in which to the lodge’s water park entrance. Inside there are 14 themed zones containing greater than 65,000 marine creatures. Not one of the tanks inside fairly measure as much as the wow-factor of the lodge’s Ambassador tank, however it’s nonetheless a powerful aquarium.
Since we visited, multi-media shows and mermaid reveals have been added to the aquarium’s points of interest making it much more of a profit for lodge company.
Somewhat than pay an admission cost (100 AED/£20 per particular person) we may flash our lodge wrist bands and go to as many instances as we needed. In the event you’re not staying on the Atlantis you should purchase tickets for the aquarium or a combo ticket that features the water park.
Aquaventure World – the world’s largest water park
It was HOT once we stayed at Atlantis in June, so we made visiting Aqauventure our precedence on the primary morning.
The slides and rides have been implausible. Our youngsters – aged 10 and 12 – have been simply the suitable age to take pleasure in loads of the joys rides, particularly the twin and group rides which we may expertise collectively. The six seater Odyessy of Terror – the world’s tallest water slide – Shockwave and Aquaconda have been all hits.
We additionally had a go on the well-known however remarkably tame Shark Assault duel tube trip via a shark tank and the remarkably lengthy and lazy River Rapids, which took us on a tour of the park.
I stepped approach exterior my consolation zone for the vertical drop slide Blackout throughout which I had sufficient time to plead for it to cease twice whereas hurtling down the free fall part.
We spent 4 and a half hours in Aquaventure, which felt like lots as there was loads of strolling to do between the rides. We have been glad we had loaded up on breakfast beforehand because the foods and drinks was costly. Within the park we grabbed a couple of drinks and headed again to the lodge for afternoon tea which was included in our Imperial Membership Room bundle.
Did we take pleasure in Aquaventure World greater than Yas Water World in Abu Dhabi? This can be controversial, however no. Yas is extra compact and will not have as many world-beating rides, however that suited us higher. We might additionally return to Yas to see its extension since our final go to.
Not staying on the Atlantis? Examine park costs and offers on Platinum Listing and direct with the water park.
Earlier than you go to Aquaventure World
Right here’s some extra helpful issues to find out about Aquaventure:
The are altering rooms within the park and lockers. It’s important to pay to make use of the lockers
Towels are included for lodge company
There are free water factors, so carry a reusable bottle
You want respectable water sneakers moderately to guard your toes on the new floor. Nonetheless you can be requested to take rubber-soled sneakers off when doing loads of the rides. There are shoe racks throughout the park.
If you wish to carry a GoPro to file your expertise it’ll should be hooked up to your wrist. GoPro sticks and floats are usually not allowed on most slides.
Imperial Membership Lounge – what makes this nice worth for households
We had spoken to some associates earlier than reserving our keep on the Atlantis and so they all beneficial getting Imperial Membership Lounge entry. Why? As a result of it’s nice worth, particularly for households.
Included once we stayed have been:
breakfast in a much less overwhelming area than the massive buffets, which might be a bonus with youthful youngsters
afternoon tea from 2pm to 4pm
joyful hour from 5pm to 7pm with comfortable drinks, premium alcoholic drinks and substantial canapés.
Get Imperial Membership Lounge entry and, even with a mattress and breakfast bundle, it might be exhausting to go hungry.
Our strategy was to have a big breakfast within the buffet and dip right into a bag of snacks we had introduced with us if tummies rumbled round lunchtime. After that we may go to the Membership Lounge for afternoon tea, give our tummies a fast break and return for joyful hour and extra meals.
We discovered that the ‘canapés’ (extra like a small buffet) have been substantial sufficient for supper with cold and hot choices. On our second night time the women ate throughout joyful hour and went straight off to youngsters membership leaving us to have a date night time.
In the event you’re not massive eaters and go for lounge entry, you’ll battle to get worth from half or full board packages.
The membership lounge could be very family-friendly. It’s unfold out throughout two ranges with a quieter space upstairs (adults, head right here) and TV space exhibiting youngsters movies downstairs. You can even use the devoted visitor companies to guide restaurant tables and take a look at.
There’s additionally a personal seaside space for lounge company. This overlooks Palm Jumeirah. We determined to not use it within the brief quantity of down time we had as there was noisy demolition work taking place simply throughout the water.
Eating at Atlantis
Our half board bundle included breakfast and dinner within the Saffron or Kaleidoscope buffets. We may additionally selected to guide one of many al a carte eating places. There have been dietary supplements for 2 of the speciality eating places however that left a handful that have been included in our bundle.
We discovered the meals in Kaleidoscope was wonderful. The primary night was Italian themed which was successful with the children.
On the second night we ate on the En Fuego Mexican restaurant, which has a menu as vibrant as its fiesta-themed interiors.
Make area in your itinerary for one of many premium eating places for those who can.
Explorer Membership for youths
This was the women’ favorite factor about staying at Atlantis, which was a little bit of a shock to me. At 10 and 12-years-old I assumed they is perhaps a bit past keep and play. However after we inspired them to strive a half hour taster, they have been hooked.
That is no regular youngsters membership via. There’s 9 areas the place youngsters can position play, participate in sports activities, learn quietly, craft and use sport consoles. That’s to not point out a tube slide, interactive video games and coated outside play space.
After their first session they have been eager to return for the night, giving us a date night time, and in addition needed one final play the morning earlier than we left.
We had two complimentary periods per day with our Terrace Suite and received our cash’s value!
Lounging by the Atlantis pool
With the children off on the membership, we lastly had the possibility to loosen up beside the pool on our ultimate morning. It’s on the Palm aspect of the lodge and is a correct solar lure till mid-afternoon. Water sneakers are a should to guard you toes between your lounger and the pool.
The household pool to the West finish of the lodge is the place to catch the solar on the finish of the day. With extra time it might have been simple to spend a day enjoyable right here with a guide, cooling off with a drink from the bar and the free ice lollies being handed out by the pool staff.
Late try with out the fees
We actually didn’t need to depart and with no flight schedule to fulfill – only a 5 hour drive again to Muscat – we determined to remain so long as we may on our ultimate day.
Having Imperial Membership Lounge entry made this a breeze and there was no additional cost.
We checked out with visitor companies, they organized for our baggage to enter storage and gave us visitor passes for the remainder of the day. We have been in a position to make use of the children membership, pool and lounge (together with the meals, drinks and bathe amenities) till we determined to go away.
Remaining ideas on Atlantis The Palm in Dubai and worth for cash
We beloved our keep and, regardless of the hefty price ticket, may see the place we received worth again when it comes to the inclusive actions, wonderful meals and premium drinks within the lounge.
Imperial Membership Lounge entry was an actual no brainer and I’m actually glad we received extra youngsters membership periods with our suite improve. The women would have been been unhappy to to not go once more AND we’d have missed out on a uncommon date night time.
Then there have been these Palm views. In the event you’ve seen any of my posts about Dubai on Instagram you’ll know I’ve a love/hate relationship with this place – I’m extra of a tradition and nature lady. However this metropolis of glitz and wild site visitors jams was trying fairly gorgeous from our eighth ground balcony.
The water park and aquarium are good enjoyable and you may simply fill a day with these actions (value a 1,200 AED or £240 for a household for 4 for those who’re not staying on the lodge). And you may go to as usually as you need throughout your keep.
All of us agreed that two nights on the Atlantis was nowhere close to sufficient, even when we couldn’t stretch the price range additional this time. I may have fortunately received worth out of some days enjoyable by the pool and people free-flowing joyful hours.
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FAQs about Atlantis
Atlantis is situated proper on the prime of Palm Jumeirah, 38km from Dubai Worldwide Airport, which is a couple of 30 minute taxi trip in good site visitors.
There are two Atlantis inns on Palm Jumeirah: The Palm and The Royal. Atlantis The Palm is the older of the 2 properties and the worth distinction displays this. Anticipate to pay double for rooms at The Royal which is self-billed as an ultra-luxury lodge. Other than the newer, blockier define and a wider selection of eateries, The Royal shares the water park and company have entry to the aquarium. It additionally has its personal Explorers Membership. The Royal clearly provides extra, however with a price ticket to match. The decision on which is best for your loved ones could come all the way down to price range.
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