Junior Sky View Suite

It is one open room rather than several — bed square to the window wall, a seating area beside it, and a bathroom in bookmatched Italian marble through a doorway on the right. The walk-in wardrobe is the detail people mention afterwards: it is a room rather than a cupboard, which matters on a 10-night stay. A 24-hour e-butler, a complimentary minibar replenished daily, and in-suite breakfast if you would rather not go down.

The terrace looks straight along the trunk of the island — the causeway, the fronds of villas either side, and the Marina towers at the far end of it — from high enough that the whole plan of the Palm reads at once. It is sized for two and takes a third adult, and it is the way into the suite inclusions: the terrace, the e-butler, the airport transfer and the rest.