The best hotels in Ras Al Khaimah, and the eight that are not built yet

Ras Al Khaimah is the emirate the hotel industry is betting on, which means every article about it is about hotels that do not exist. Wynn Al Marjan Island, the country’s first casino resort, is on track for September 2027 according to its own site, pushed from March. Nobu, a JW Marriott, a second Hilton, a Nikki Beach and a Four Seasons are announced and unbuilt. This page is about the twelve that are open.

They fall into four places. Al Hamra has the Waldorf Astoria and the Sofitel, and the Ritz-Carlton’s 32 beach villas. Mina Al Arab, the newer lagoon development, has Anantara with the emirate’s first overwater villas and the InterContinental. Al Marjan Island has the volume: Rixos all-inclusive, DoubleTree, Mövenpick, the world’s largest Hampton, and Rove. The desert has the Ritz-Carlton Al Wadi, 109 villas in a nature reserve, which is the reason most luxury travellers come at all.

Room counts are the operators’ where the operators publish them. Hilton and Marriott blocked our requests, so the Waldorf, DoubleTree and Hilton figures come from search results of their pages, and the cards say so. Rixos would not tell us how many rooms it has.