Two Bedroom Family Suite

The family answer that does not involve moving out of the fort. Two bedrooms — a king and a pair of twins — with a lounge between them, so children can be put to bed while the evening carries on next door, and a shared terrace with a dining table on it looking over the crenellated wall to the dunes. The finish matches the rest of the resort: terracotta arch behind each bedhead, cane and beam ceilings, sunken tubs, kilims, mashrabiya doors between rooms.

It takes 5 adults and a child, which is more bodies than any villa here accepts, and it does it two minutes from breakfast, the kids' club and the main pool. That is the trade against the Two Bedroom Anantara Family Pool Villa, which is 126 square metres larger, has its own pool and a butler, and stops at 4 adults. If the party is large, this is the room. If the party wants to be alone, it is not.