50 Best GCC Hotels and Resorts
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Welcome to 50 Best GCC Hotels and Resorts, your definitive guide to the finest luxury accommodation across the Gulf Cooperation Council, brought to you by World Travel Awards. This comprehensive platform showcases the region’s most exceptional hotels, resorts, and hospitality experiences, highlighting properties that set the benchmark for luxury, innovation, and world-class service.
The GCC region — encompassing Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — has become synonymous with extraordinary hospitality. From iconic city hotels in Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh to secluded desert retreats, pristine beachfront resorts, and spectacular mountain hideaways, the Gulf offers an unrivalled diversity of luxury travel experiences. Whether you seek contemporary sophistication, cultural immersion, wellness escapes, or family-friendly resorts, this collection celebrates the very best accommodation the GCC has to offer.
The hotels and resorts featured within 50 Best GCC Hotels and Resorts represent the pinnacle of regional hospitality. Guests can expect exceptional dining, award-winning spas, personalised service, innovative architecture, and unforgettable experiences inspired by the rich heritage and traditions of the Arabian Gulf. Together, these properties demonstrate why the GCC has emerged as one of the world's leading luxury travel destinations.
Whether planning a business trip, leisure escape, family holiday, or romantic retreat, 50 Best GCC Hotels and Resorts is your trusted guide to discovering the region’s most outstanding places to stay.
Today’s Best GCC Hotels and Resorts Experience
Raffles Doha
Raffles Doha is a striking ultra-luxury hotel set within the iconic
Katara Towers, offering one of the most distinctive hospitality
experiences in Qatar. The hotel combines dramatic design, refined
interiors, spacious suite-style accommodation, and highly personalised
service, creating a stay that feels both elegant and memorable. With
its impressive architecture, sophisticated atmosphere, strong dining
offering, and prime location in Lusail near Doha’s cultural and
leisure attractions, Raffles Doha is well suited to travellers seeking
a high-end city hotel with a strong sense of place. It delivers a
polished luxury experience that feels contemporary, exclusive, and
unmistakably connected to Doha’s growing reputation as a world-class
destination.
Raffles Doha was voted as World’s Leading Design Hotel 2025, Middle
East’s Leading Design Hotel 2025 and Qatar’s Leading Luxury Hotel 2025
by the World Travel Awards.
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50 Best Hotels and Resorts
Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Banyan Tree Alula SA
Jumeirah Gulf of Bahrain Resort & Spa
Six Senses Zighy Bay Oman
The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain
Conrad Bahrain Financial Harbour
Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa Dubai
Habitas, AlUla
Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach
Al Baleed Resort Salalah by Anantara
Four Seasons Hotel Doha
The Chedi Katara Hotel & Resort
Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva Som Qatar
Alila Jabal Akhdar
Armani Hotel Dubai
Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara
The St. Regis Kuwait
Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental
St Regis Red Sea
Jumeirah Al Naseem
Six Senses Southern Dunes Red Sea - SA
Grand Hyatt Kuwait
Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay
Waldorf Astoria Kuwait
The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh
Waldorf Astoria - The Qasr Al Sharq, Jeddah
Raffles Al Areen Palace
The Chedi Muscat – a GHM hotel
The Ritz-Carlton, Doha
Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa
The St. Regis Al Mouj Muscat Resort
Hilton Salwa Beach Resort & Villas
Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah, Riyadh
Qasr Al Sarab Anantara Abu Dhabi
Nujuma Ritz Carlton Reserve
Mandarin Oriental, Doha
Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait at Burj Alshaya
Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island
Banyan Tree Doha
The Ritz-Carlton Jeddah
Royal Saray Resort
Shangri-La Jeddah
Fairmont Doha
The St. Regis Abu Dhabi
Atlantis The Royal
Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh At Kingdom Center
Burj Al Arab Jumeirah
Raffles Doha
Jumeirah at Saadiyat Island Resort
Address Downtown Hotel
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