http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2010-03-20T23:22:52Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Desert%20Resorts http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/29/15467/8112 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Private_pool_in_villa_low_res.jpg" class="top"> <p>Not everyone heads to Dubai with mall shopping and indoor skiing on their minds, or if you do, you quickly get tired of it. For this reason, more and more retreats are being built outside of the city, either in lush green environments like the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/2/123150/0498/hotels/Westin_Golf_Resort_Will_Bring_Wellness_to_Abu_Dhabi">Westin Golf Resort</a> near Abu Dhabi or flat out in the desert, like the soon-to-open <b>Anantara Resort at Qasr Al Sarab</b>. <p>Due to open on October 25, the Anantara is 90 minutes away from Abu Dhabi and three hours from Dubai in the Liwa Desert, and boasts 206 rooms, although some are flat-out palatial villas with private pools and commanding views over the sand dunes. Face it: if you're coming all JetSetCD 2009-09-29T16:24:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/23/53640/5214 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/emma_gorge.png" class="imgborder"/><p>Not every traveler Down Under makes it as far into the outback as the Kimberley region in the north-eastern tip of Western Australia, but everyone who does has the experience of a lifetime. And if you're going to explore one of the most isolated patches of the globe, why not do it in style? Our tip is the <a href="hhttp://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Emma+Gorge+Resort/local/407"><b>Emma Gorge Resort</b></a> in the El Questro Wilderness Park. </p><p>Located one hour from the nearest town, Kununurra (unless the road's closed in the wet season), Emma Gorge Resort is luxury in tents. To be precise, you sleep in what they call Tented Cabins, because they:</p><blockquote><p>allow you to stay in comfort and style, while still remaining close to nature, in amandak 2007-03-23T08:53:04-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/26/212355/82 <![CDATA[<p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> lets us know where she would go in her homeland of Australia. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/long31.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>Take me right into the dead center amandak 2006-12-27T09:25:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/10/12/111125/37 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/al_mahna_desert_resort.png"><br> <p><p> Each of the 40 Bedouin-style suites at the <b>Al Maha Desert Resort</b> comes complete with plunge pool and 180 degree views of the dunes. &nbsp;The kind of place Luke Skywalker and his moisture-farming family would have developed on Tatooine if the Rebels paid him well for all his hard work.<p> Oh, and according to a tipster, it is a <i>dry</i> heat:<p> <blockquote><p> We went during at the hottest time of year, however the humidity is far less than it is in the city and beach and with your own infinity pool to cool off in during the heat of the day and a buggy that will pick you up from your suite and take you anywhere you markj 2006-10-12T11:11:25-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/