WHEN the 1,608-room JW Marriott Marquis Dubai opens its doors to guests in Q4 this year, the 355-m-high hotel will be the world’s tallest hotel and a landmark. The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai will open in two phases, with the first section featuring 807 rooms and numerous restaurants and lounges. The building is just 26 m shorter than the Empire State Building in New York.
In addition to serving the luxury business traveller, the hotel is targeting the lucrative and increasingly important Mice market, which currently does not have a hotel of sufficient scale to host such large groups. In addition to all the dining and entertainment options, the hotel will have two ballrooms, 24 meeting rooms and a total of 5,100 sq m of event space.
“The potential to cater for the growing needs of the global business community is huge and we believe the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai is uniquely placed in that regard,” said Rupprecht Queitsch, general manager. “The hotel will fill a long identified gap in the market where groups, meetings and conventions of up to 1,000 people can meet, sleep and dine under one roof, in one location. There are businesses of this size choosing various cities around the world in which to meet, but until now, Dubai has not had a single location of this size to accommodate this type of group. In simple terms, we will establish Dubai on the global conference market landscape.”
The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai will offer an enticing array of nine restaurants and five lounges and entertainment venues. Restaurants will range from Prime 68, a boutique steakhouse, to Atul Kochhar’s Rang Mahal Indian restaurant, Positano for Italian coastal cuisine, an Arabic restaurant, La Farine, an attractive boulangerie and social meeting spot, The Vault lounge and a yet-to-be named late-night music venue.
The 1,500-sq-m Saray Spa at the hotel will draw inspiration from the caravanserai silk route across Arabia, with treatments designed to ensure mind and body renewal Arabia. For sun worshippers, an enormous pool deck covers the seventh floor of the hotel with a 32-m swimming pool and deck with elegant cabanas, lounges and umbrellas.