Inside the Presidential Suite atBurj Al Arab
I was invited to Dubai for the Dubai International Film Festival: opening night with the premiere of The King’s Speech and Colin Firth, plus an invitation-only Variety conversation with Firth himself. Home for the festival was the Presidential Suite of the Burj Al Arab, the sail-shaped hotel on its own island. Come with me from the Rolls-Royce at the door through every room of the suite, and onto the red carpet.
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“I was in town as an invited guest of the Dubai International Film Festival for the opening-night premiere of The King’s Speech, and the Burj Al Arab was home for the stay. After five years traveling across 40+ countries, it’s still the hotel people ask me about first. So here it is, the way I saw it: every room of the suite, with my own camera.”
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Scroll down through twelve stops, in the order I saw them. Click any photo to open it larger, then use the arrows (or your keyboard) to flip through the whole trip.
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The sail on the sea
You see it long before you reach it. The Burj Al Arab stands on its own island off Jumeirah Beach, and the road in gives you that famous sail shape between the palm trees.
At the gate there is a wall of water: a huge round fountain, with the wave-shaped Jumeirah Beach Hotel behind it. From the walkway out to the island you can look straight back at it across the turquoise water.
That’s meRolls-Royces at the door
The driveway is lined with the hotel’s fleet of white Rolls-Royce Phantoms. This is how guests get picked up, and yes, it’s as good as it looks.
Then there is the “only in Dubai” moment: a Bugatti Veyron parked at the entrance like it’s nothing. The doormen in their red-and-gold uniforms meet you before the car door is fully open.
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The atrium, the lifts, the floor desk
Inside, look up. The atrium rises through the whole tower, and the balconies stack up in waves of white and sea-green.
The elevator lobby is black marble, gold-capped columns and gold-patterned doors. When you step out on the suite floor, there is no walking to a front desk downstairs: each floor has its own reception, and the team was waiting for us.
That’s meTwo floors, one staircase
The Presidential Suite is a 667-square-meter (7,179 sq ft) home on two floors, joined by a sweeping marble staircase with a gold banister and a crystal chandelier hanging through both levels (see the official Suites & Villas: Burj Al Arab Presidential Suite $25,000-a-Night Suite Tour →).
And then you meet your butler. He showed us around, explained every button, and from then on he was there whenever we needed anything.
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Room after room — plus a private office
The living room opens onto floor-to-ceiling windows over the Gulf. Next to it is a formal dining room with an inlaid wood table for eight, roses down the middle and a painting of a dhow at sunset.
Keep walking and there is a media room with its own TV lounge and a full private office with a wood-and-gold executive desk. It feels less like a hotel suite and more like a private residence.
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That’s meA bar and a snooker table. In the suite.
This is the part that made me laugh out loud. The suite has its own private bar, with stools and a mirrored back wall, and next to it a full-size snooker table under the lights.
The carpet is a burst of red, gold and blue, and everything is wood and brass. You could host a party up here and never leave the suite.
A gold canopy bed
The bedroom is pure Burj: a canopy bed framed in gold, with white drapes, gold silk covers and a mirror set into the ceiling above it. A red carpet, a velvet sofa and round mirrors finish the room.
Off the bedroom are a wood-paneled dressing room with torch-shaped lights and a wardrobe already set up with the robe, slippers and wooden hangers.
Mosaic, marble and gold
Every hotel guest wants to see the bathroom, and these are something else. The main one has turquoise mosaic walls, white marble columns, a marble floor and a round jacuzzi set under a painted mural of an old Arabian harbor with dhows on the water.
Another is all red, with a curved double vanity, gold taps with blue crystal handles and torch lamps. There’s even a powder room in blue damask with gold sconces. Gold fixtures and Greek-key mosaics run through all of them.
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The Arabian Gulf, from every window
Wherever you stand in the suite, the windows run floor to ceiling and the Gulf fills them. Look one way and you see the marina and the Jumeirah coastline toward the city.
Look the other way and there’s the Palm Jumeirah, with Atlantis The Palm sitting at the end of it. I’ve lived in Dubai, and it still stopped me.
Why I was in Dubai
The reason for the trip: an invitation to the Dubai International Film Festival at Madinat Jumeirah, just along the beach from the Burj.
At night the red carpet runs between gold posts and red ropes under the searchlights. With a festival pass around my neck I walked it in front of the sponsor wall (Jumeirah, Emirates, Dubai Duty Free), and then went home to the Burj Al Arab.
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Opening night: The King’s Speech
Opening night was the premiere of The King’s Speech. The cast and the festival hosts came out on stage before the film, with the press cameras lined up along the balcony.
The theatre itself is a show: rows of red velvet seats, a wall of tiny lights and a glittering wave hanging from the ceiling. Then the lights went down on one of the films of the year.
In conversation with Colin Firth
The highlight of the week: an invitation-only Variety conversation with Colin Firth, during the same festival week he opened with The King’s Speech.
Just two chairs on a small stage in front of the Variety wall, and a room close enough to see every expression. He talked about playing King George VI, the king with the stammer, the role that went on to win him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Worth it? Every minute
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- The service: a butler and a private floor desk, and nobody ever made me wait
- The arrival by Rolls-Royce over the private bridge
- Space: a two-floor suite that feels like a home
- The Arabian Gulf from every window
- The bathrooms, a show of their own
- This is a splurge: suites run into the thousands per night, so save it for a big occasion
- The style is gold, red and mosaic, the full Arabian palace. Come ready to be dazzled, not for minimalism
- It sits on its own island, so plan a car (or the Rolls-Royce) for trips into the city
- Festival week and the winter season book up early
You’re celebrating something big, you want the most famous hotel in Dubai, or you want service you’ll talk about for years.
You prefer a low-key, minimalist hotel, or you’d rather put the budget into exploring the city.
✅ Disclosure: I stayed here with my family, and the stay was paid for privately by my family. The Burj Al Arab did not host the stay, pay for this review, or see it before it was published.
What you get
Everything in this list is something you can see in my photos above.
Joined by a marble staircase with a crystal chandelier.
Mirrored ceiling, dressing room, wardrobe with robe and slippers.
Round jacuzzi under a mural, double vanities, gold fixtures, powder room.
A private bar and a full-size snooker table inside the suite.
Living room, dining room for eight, media room and a private office.
Floor-to-ceiling windows toward the marina, the coast and the Palm.
Plus a private reception desk on the suite floor.
The hotel’s white Rolls-Royce fleet waits at the door.
Off Jumeirah Beach, Dubai, reached by a private bridge.
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Founder of NYCHotelss.com. Matthew registered californiahotels.com in 1998, built a portfolio of state hotel sites and sold the group to First Internet Travel, Inc. in 2005. He has lived in Dubai for five years and Maui for two, traveled to more than 40 countries, stayed in the $25,000-a-night Presidential Suite at the Burj Al Arab in Dubai (Suites & Villas Tour →), and was an invited guest of the Dubai International Film Festival for the premiere of The King’s Speech, starring Academy Award winner Colin Firth, including an invitation-only Variety conversation with Firth himself. So when he calls a hotel world-class, he has something to compare it to.
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