Arabian Family Club Room

The step up from a Club Room is a wall. A living room and a separate bedroom open off one entrance, with a bathroom, a toilet and a shower between them and terraces on both. The bedroom is the most decorated on this ladder: a canopied bed with a gold-patterned headboard under a sunburst mirror, lanterns hanging either side, an orange leather armchair and a patterned bench at the foot.

It is called a family room, and the ceiling is worth reading before you take that at face value: 4 guests, of whom 3 may be adults, exactly as in the 51-square-metre rooms. What the extra 28 square metres buy is a door between the sleeping and the sitting, not room for more people. What the grade adds beyond that is real: the full club list, and return transfers to and from Dubai International, which start here and come with every grade above it.