Sky Pool Villa Sea View

The biggest step up in this house, and it is not the floor area. A temperature-controlled infinity pool runs along a stone terrace outside the suite, wide enough to swim in and finished at a glass edge, with loungers, a parasol and a timber screen down one side for shade. Inside: a bedroom with a slatted timber wall behind the bed, a private pantry, a guest washroom, a dressing room and a full marble bathroom.

The sea-facing half of the pair puts the sun down at the end of the pool, which is the reason to choose it over the Palm View — at 6 the water goes gold and there is nothing on the horizon to interrupt it. It comes with a personal butler as well as the e-butler, in-room check-in, Marhaba fast-track at the airport, and a car. Two adults, a third at a push. There are 44 suites and penthouses with private pools in this building, and these are the smallest of them.