Royal for a night at the Grand Hyatt Dubai

Perhaps it is your wedding anniversary, or you have just made your first million, or your divorce has just come through. Whatever the excuse, there is one sure way to feel on top of the world, and that is to check into the royal suite at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.

AME Info was lucky enough to have the opportunity to sample the delights of the best room in this brand new 674-room hotel, the biggest in Dubai.

The first impression of the Presidential Suite, as the royal suite is actually known, is size, very large size to be precise. Many Dubai villas have a smaller floor area which must be in excess of 3,000 square feet. This room is so large you can jog around it.

It is also designed to impress. Company presidents staying for conferences in the Hyatt conference centre below are presumably intended to be its main occupants, and more than a touch of corporate excess is evident.

Gold taps, two Jacuzzis, a dining room for 12, two seating areas, two offices with Internet and printing facilities, and endless marble flooring, this is not the place to meet your auditors. The finishing touches are nice too, your own butler, huge fruit basket, fresh flowers everywhere, boxes of chocolates and dates, bottle of wine on arrival, and not a mini-bar but definitely a maxi-bar with full-sized bottles.

Fortunately the hotel's other facilities are well up to maintaining this momentum of indulgence. Outside the 37-acres of landscaped garden contains a vast swimming pool complex. Inside restaurants cater to every taste with the Indochinese a unique addition to the line-up of Dubai cuisine.

But we chose the Manhattan Grill as the restaurant most likely to appeal to a company president staying in the appropriate suite. As my wife commented, 'You could have been in New York, except that the service was better'.

The food was certainly up to Big Apple standards with plump, fresh steaks, fine vegetables and a delicious choice of deserts. The wine list was also extensive without being exorbitant, though if you wanted to indulge your expense account this was a great place to do so.

The Grand Hyatt also features an enormous internal water garden which is overlooked by all of the restaurants and food outlets. This is a delightful place to wonder about, particularly when the Dubai weather is too hot to go outside, and if you look upwards you have the hulls of several dhows suspended above your head.

After indulgence the Grand Hyatt's gym and spa are worth a visit, and there is also a large indoor swimming pool surrounded by sun loungers. Indeed, this is a hotel where it is possible to spend the whole day without venturing outside and hardly notice.

Back in the Presidential Suite there was just one further thing to rave about. The views over the Dubai Creek Park, Dubai Golf and Yacht Club and across to the office towers of Deira and the Dubai International Airport are simply fantastic.

So if you are feeling rich this is the place to stay, or if your company president is in town, this is where to put him or her.