Named Armani Hotel Dubai, the hotel features 160 guest rooms, residences and a spa, designed by Armani in his signature style. It also features eight restaurants, ranging from Italian and Indian to Japanese and Mediterranean. The hotel occupies 10 levels of the 800-meter, 160-storey tower.
The hotel’s interiors have been finished in dark woods to lend a feel of anonymity to each space. The upscale design also includes walls decorated with handmade Florentine leather and Japanese tatami on the floors. Bathrooms feature green Brazilian marble.
All 160 rooms come with a ‘lifestyle consultant’, a personal concierge, who handles all recreation and relaxation needs of a guest.
The hotel also features retail component in its offerings. Armani/Peck outlet is designed for a gourmet’s delight, which provides an atmosphere of relaxing in a Gulf desert. The hotel lobby houses Armani/Fiori, which offers minimalist flower arrangements; Armani/Dolci which offers chocolates and jellied sweets; and Armani/Galleria, which sells haute couture purses and accessories. At the hotel spa, massage treatments and therapies such as ‘sequential thermal bathing’ are enhanced by Armani fragranced oils.
Armani/Prive, the nightclub and lounge, can seat 300 people by reservation in a dark subterranean space that glows by the light of fashion shows projected onto a wall.
The cost of staying in Armani luxury facility ranges in between $760 a night for a room to more than $2,500 for some suites.
The property is the first in a series of Armani Hotels planned as a joint venture between Giorgio Armani and Emaar, a real estate developer partly owned by the Dubai government.
