#3 in Top 20 Dubai for A Honeymoon · ★★★★★
Atlantis The Royal
The maximalist new-Dubai honeymoon — Cloud 22 sky pool, Beyoncé's reopening venue.
The maximalist new-Dubai honeymoon — Cloud 22 sky pool, Beyoncé's reopening venue.
"The maximalist new-Dubai honeymoon — Cloud 22 sky pool, Beyoncé's reopening venue."
Atlantis The Royal opened in January 2023 — the second Atlantis property on the Palm Jumeirah (next to the original Atlantis The Palm) and the most-publicised Dubai luxury opening of the past decade. Seven hundred and ninety-five rooms across the multi-tower complex, the upper-tier Royal Mansion (a four-bedroom 11,840-square-foot top-floor unit) is the largest hotel suite in the world after the Burj Al Arab Royal Suite. The asset is the working Cloud 22 sky pool — a 200-metre-long infinity pool on the 22nd floor with cantilever-ed glass-bottom sections that overhang the Palm Jumeirah crescent and the Persian Gulf, the most-photographed new-Dubai pool and the working honeymoon photograph asset. The Skyblaze fountain show on the building's exterior runs every 30 minutes from 7pm — the only hotel-exterior fountain-and-fire show in the world. Seventeen restaurants and bars on-site (including Heston Blumenthal's Dinner by Heston Dubai, Nobu by the Beach, Gastronomy at Cleopatra). Atlantis The Royal is the right pick for the working maximalist new-Dubai honeymoon where the Cloud 22 photograph and the social-resort scale are the working centerpieces — the trip's photograph is the cantilever-ed pool, and the working in-house dining variety handles the multi-night programme.
Royal Mansion (the four-bedroom flagship — $100,000+/night) or Sky Pool Villa (the entry-level cantilevered-pool unit).
Photograph the Cloud 22 pool at golden hour — the working honeymoon centerpiece. Watch the Skyblaze fountain show from a Cloud 22 cabana at 7pm. Book Dinner by Heston Dubai for one of the in-house dining nights.
Atlantis The Royal sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Dubai for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a honeymoon-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Dubai neighbourhood, see Palm Jumeirah and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.