UAE: Dorchester Collection will open its first hotel in Dubai by the end of the year, adding hotel rooms, suites and serviced apartments to the emirate’s offer.
The Lana, which will be developed and owned by the Omniyat Holdings, will include 225 rooms and suites. It will be the Dorchester Collection’s first hotel in the region, and the 10th globally.
About 35 per cent of The Lana will be suites with a minimum room size of 50 square metres. The hotel will have seven restaurants and a rooftop swimming pool with panoramic views of the city, he said.
The hotel is connected to a residential tower, which includes 39 serviced apartments. They have been sold in advance of construction for an average of $980 per square foot. Recently, prices have surged to about Dh7,000 per square foot.
Omniyat chairman Mahdi Amjad said: “When we were evaluating the right high-end brand to satisfy our consumers’ uber luxury aspiration, the Dorchester came to mind. They have been delivering high level of sophisticated hospitality since the 1930s but at the same time they had a very limited exclusive collection globally. We are trying to identify other regional and global destinations that will work for this collaboration to expand into. What we have created together with the Dorchester collection is quite unique and it’s worthy of a global scale.”
