At the beginning of the year I reviewed the St. Regis Dubai Polo Club, which is the second St. Regis property in Dubai (making it the second city in the world to have two St. Regis properties, after Abu Dhabi). The hotel itself was beautiful, though bizarre on several levels. For one, it was completely…
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I stayed there and it felt errie too. My guess is that they will shut it down as a hotel and turn it into residences.
Thank god. I hope customer complaints + audit had something to do with this. Shoddy construction, poor maintenance, incompetent front line staff. Should have never been flagged St Regis.
As soon as a press release goes out that insists "the parting was amicable" I almost immediately assume the opposite. Especially here given the short notice.
Marriott is actively pushing poor Starwood properties out of the portfolio to protect their brands. Starwood did a particularly poor job of product integrity and compliance, so there’s a lot of work to do
This isn't one of 4 Habtoor hotels in Dubai. It's one of 7
Waldorf Astoria Palm
Habtoor Grand Marina (Autograph Collection)
Metropolitan (self managed, like the polo resort will be)
in addition to the 4 you mentioned including this one.
The owners have been unhappy with Marriott for quite a while (including issues with the 3 Habtoor City hotels - St Regis, W, Westin). Occupancy figures have been horrendous and the problem is, if Marriott can't fill your rooms, who can? There isn't a comparable competitor of scale.
As an interesting comparison, the next door 1608 room JW Marquis (largest hotel in Dubai) fills its rooms fine and is a happy partnership between Marriott and Emirates Group.
@WP
You put it in quotes, so I thought its in the article and I misread 😛
So I searched, but it isn't. "Al Habtoor Group’s four hotels in Dubai" is in the third last line of the article. Also one of the other 3 is also Marriott marketed and distributed (Habtoor Grand, not part of Habtoor City complex), so if there is a management-owner dispute, at least that one would be potentially affected as well.