The Eastern Mangroves Hotel about 15 minutes from the Central Business District of Abu Dhabi is a luxurious base for business in the UAE capital as well as offering the chance to explore the mangroves opposite or relax in a sumptuous Anatara spa after a busy day.
This is Anatara?s first business hotel in the UAE but its two other Abu Dhabi hotels are already very popular: the palace of the desert, the Qasr Al Sarab and the Desert Islands Resort on the nature reserve of Bani Yas Island. If you want to combine business with pleasure then it is easy enough to stay in the same chain to maintain the same very high standards of hospitality.
Welcoming style
Indeed Anatara has become something of the face of Abu Dhabi?s new tourism industry. The Eastern Mangroves is an excellent addition. It has some beautiful Arabian-themed interior spaces including a large lobby with a wide selection of dates and coffee to greet guests in traditional style.
For business users there are extensive meeting room facilities and a full-size ballroom suitable for conferences. It?s a great corporate hotel with a generous terrace overlooking the mangroves that is popular for major events. There is an open air swimming pool but not beach.
Downstairs there are two restaurants. First, the Ingredients all-day dining restaurant whose amazing champagne Friday brunch should not be missed with its blend of Arabic, European, Japanese and Chinese cuisine. Even in the decadent modern UAE few brunches serve up a whole bloc of foie gras on the table or have chefs from quite as many countries.
For fine dining the Thai restaurant, Pachaylen also looked superb. And for a view from the top of the hotel there is a snazzy cocktail lounge with a roof top terrace. This is an elegant place with perfectly made cocktails and the style of a serious nightclub although this is one thing it is not.
Minimalist chic
The hotel?s 222 rooms and suites are all minimalist chic with stunning marble bathrooms in the latest fashion, flat-screen TVs, free WiFi, coffee machine, fruit basket and a terrace with a view over the mangroves. We hired a kayyak and spent a couple of hours touring the mangroves, a fairly demanding activity and only for the physically fit. You might like to train in the hotel?s huge gym first.
Finally nobody who stays at this hotel should miss the Anatara spa, the signature strength of this hotel chain that originally hails from Thailand. It is also a very fine piece of interior design. The treatment rooms feature natural light coming through a shower enclosure, for example, and the rooms for the traditional Turkish hamman treatments are quite exquisite.
The staff throughout the hotel are multilingual and very helpful. We thought this hotel a great new option for anybody visiting Abu Dhabi on business being about half-way between the airport and city centre and providing every possible business amenity, plus the opportunity to unwind.
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