The 283-room St. Regis Abu Dhabi opened on August 15 with the potential to become the top hotel in the city.
Why to Go: Eight years ago the $3 billion gold-and-marble-laden Emirates Palace hotel opened on Abu Dhabi’s main thoroughfare and seaside promenade, called the Corniche. That opening kicked off a luxury building boom in the wealthy emirate that has yielded one of the world’s most modern cities. On the Corniche, the new beachfront Nation Towers skyscrapers house the St. Regis and the highest suspended …