Another high quality 5 star luxury hotel has opened its doors to the public run by the successful Swiss Mövenpick hotel chain, the hotel is aimed predominantly at the business traveller market with close links via the Dubai Metro, to the Dubai World Trade Centre exhibition centre and the local business community of Jebel Ali.

For the discerning travellers and high end niche guests you have a choice of 29 guest suites and inter connecting rooms. Mövenpick are notorious for servicing their guests with special offers including room upgrades and VIP privileges for meetings. This hotel takes Mövenpick’s tally to 67 hotels across its chain where every hotel learns more and more about looking after its customers needs and improving on the wonderful customer services that are offered, and the small comforts that are offered and enjoyed by its guests to ensure that complete satisfaction is offered.

Designed with the 14th century traveller and adventurer Ibn Battuta in mind the Ibn Battuta Gate hotel opened on October 1st 2010. Its impressive Arabian interior concentrating on luxury and jaw dropping beauty was evident with its grand hall entry lobby adorned with 88 lanterns hanging as a stunning focal point some 30 metres down from the ceiling providing a neck aching view as you wander through to its six different culture restaurants. “The hotel has many iconic elements,” said the hotel’s general manager, Jan Kaiser. “It is adjacent to the statuesque Ibn Battuta Gate, which at 60 metres high, is larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.” The hotel lobby spans 90x30 metres in length and height, providing a sense of grandeur for departing and arriving guests. “We call the hotel lobby the Grand Hall,” added Kaiser. “It is majestic yet inviting and has numerous signature features, including 88 mammoth, eastern-style lanterns dangling elegantly into the wonderful space that is best described as ‘the hub on the house’.”

The eight  iconic restaurants providing a culinary round the world travel with its diverse range of foods incorporating the cuisine choices that Ibn Battuta encountered on his travels, with food from China, Italy India, Morocco and Egypt.

The 396 luxury bedrooms over 10 floors are also themed from countries around the world with a different nation represented on each one, from Russia to China with the suites also of a national theme.

As the hotel is aiming for the business market with three floors dedicated to the business travellers and have a separate reception and lounge to relax in away from general tourists.

There is a choice of ten highly adaptable meeting rooms where you can have lunch or dinner prepared ‘on site’ as an option with private dining areas attached so you can be local to your meeting or seminar area rather than having to make your way to the public dining restaurants.

For weddings and other celebrations the hotels ballroom is available with a room capacity of up to 250 guests, this can also be utilised for conferences or seminars.  The hotel boasts a rooftop pool and onsite spa and access to beach facilities of the Mövenpick on Palm Jumeirah when they open later in the year.

The resort features a wide array of specialist and luxury hotel rooms that are situated in two areas, the ‘Manor House’ houses 32 premiere rooms, 2 executive suites and the Grand Palm Suite spread over three levels with each of the rooms offering either an outdoor terrace or private pool with access to the beach and the private pool located down a few steps.

The low-rise mansions give spectacular views across to the beach, the Palm Jumeirah and the whole marina area. This resort is a destination in its self with every amenity imaginable at your fingertips.

The hotel has also got its own private beach and offers a limousine and town car service as well as valet parking, ticket sourcing service and shuttle services to the local theme park and shopping centres. It provides a nightly turndown service and provides complimentary newspapers.

There are three restaurants, a lobby, lounge, gym, juice bar, tennis court and a spa which will feature six treatment rooms. As well as a bar come lounge, a poolside bar and a coffee shop. There is internet high speed wireless available as a surcharge.

The resort has its own private water taxis as well as the road going limousines which can whisk you off to the many top restaurants, golf courses or numerous tourist attractions available in Dubai.  The other accommodation areas are located in the Low Rise Mansions and Private Beach Villas which provide seclusion with a hideaway close to the beach pool. The six low rise mansions contain eight to ten premiere rooms with junior and executive suites.

With eighteen standard double rooms, twenty three junior suites, forty seven premiere rooms, two executive suites with pools and one specifically designed and provided for handicapped people and two ‘couple’ suites. All bedrooms feature premium bedding, LCD televisions which come with many satellite channels, a CD player and iPod docking stations. The bathrooms include both a bath and shower.

There are four private villas which provide the ultimate in privacy with service levels to match. Three of the villas are classed as two bedrooms and the other is a three bedroom Grand Villa. All of which have outdoor shaded seating and dining areas.   Two of the villas have dedicated car access facilities for private secure parking and offer a personalised private chef and host to provide you with everything that you could possibly need to make you feel like royalty. For 24 hours a day the team of private butlers that are on hand to provide a cuisine of excellence and the hosts provide any help and advice that you may need.