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Of the 11 grades here, 5 are inside the walls: rooms and suites off courtyards, 2 minutes from breakfast, the lobby lounge and the pool. The other 6 are villas standing alone in the sand, each with its own pool and its own host or butler. The fort is sociable and cool, with a building around you when the wind gets up. The villas are silent — you will not see another guest unless you walk to one.
Neither is the upgrade. For a first visit of 3 nights, the fort probably serves you better. For a week, a honeymoon, or if you have said 'quiet' more than twice while planning it, take a villa.
These 3 Deluxe rooms are the same room with 3 different outsides, priced a step apart.
Deluxe Garden Room is ground floor: doors onto grass, a battlemented wall, the dunes behind it, and the shortest walk to everything.
Deluxe Balcony Room is upstairs, with a railed balcony and an uninterrupted line down the valley — the best value in the fort.
Deluxe Terrace Room is an upper-floor corner with a proper outdoor room rather than a balcony: a shaded banquette, 2 loungers, space to eat. Pay up to the Terrace only if you plan to use it. Between October and April, you will.
All 6 villas have a private outdoor pool, a cabana or shaded deck, and an outdoor shower. They differ in how many bedrooms they hold, in whether a host or a butler comes with them, and in one case in whether there are children nearby at all.
Royal Pavilion Pool Villa is the only adults-only grade here, and the only one set apart from the resort, half a kilometre out — 1 bedroom, 3 adults.
One Bedroom Anantara Pool Villa is the same idea inside the resort walls, and takes 2 adults and 2 children.
Rates here move with the nights you choose, so there is nothing honest to show until you have chosen them. Pick your dates above and the rooms the house sells online will price themselves.
853 m² · Its own walled compound, with a private entrance · A blue-tiled pool under a pergola view · sleeps 4
This villa is 853 square metres — nearly twice anything else here — for two bedrooms and 4 adults. A private entrance, a fireplace, an in-villa barbecue, a butler, and a helipad you may land on.
Two Bedroom Family Suite is inside the fort: 178 square metres, a king and twins, a living room and a terrace, and it takes 5 adults and a child.
Two Bedroom Anantara Family Pool Villa is a separate building out in the sand: 304 square metres, its own pool, a butler, and room for 4 adults and 2 children. The suite holds more people; the villa gives them more space and more quiet. It is the only place on this list where the dearer grade sleeps fewer — check it before you book for a large party.
Al Sarab Villa is 853 square metres — nearly twice the size of anything else here — and takes 4 adults in 2 bedrooms: space and seclusion for 2 couples, with a private entrance, an in-villa barbecue and a helipad landing.
Sahra Villa is 489 square metres with 4 bedrooms, and the one to book when there are actually 8 of you. Both include two-way airport transfers for 4, a butler, in-villa breakfast, and a barbecue dinner cooked by a private chef.
48 m² · Upper floors of the fort · An uninterrupted valley view, from a balcony · sleeps 2 + 1 child
This upper-floor room is 48 square metres, with floor-to-ceiling windows and double doors onto a private balcony that looks straight down the valley. A scalloped terracotta arch behind the bed, a split-cane and beam ceiling, and a sunken tub big enough for two.
45 m² · Ground floor, opening onto the gardens · A lawn terrace past a battlemented wall view · sleeps 2 + 1 child
This ground-floor room is 45 square metres, with glazed doors straight onto a shaded terrace, a strip of lawn and the fort's own battlemented wall — and beyond that wall, the dunes. The same interior as the rooms above it, 3 steps closer to everything.
50 m² · Upper-floor corner of the fort · A shaded terrace on two sides view · sleeps 2 + 1 child
The corner room, and the only Deluxe with an outdoor room rather than a balcony: 50 square metres inside, and a shaded terrace under a barasti pergola with a built-in banquette, two loungers and space to lay a table for dinner.
106 m² · In the fort, off its own courtyard · A garden terrace view · sleeps 3 + 1 child
This suite is 106 square metres, arranged as two rooms rather than one: a lounge with a deep sectional, a pantry for the coffee and the dates, and a bedroom through an arched doorway, with a garden terrace running along the front of both.
195 m² · A single-storey villa in the resort grounds · Its own pool view · sleeps 2 + 2 children
This villa is 195 square metres of your own: a bedroom, a living room, a pantry, a round dining alcove, a bathroom with an oversized tub and a walk-in rain shower, then outside an outdoor shower, a cabana, a deck and a pool with a dune behind it.
185 m² · Half a kilometre out from the fort, in the Royal Pavilion · Desert all around view · sleeps 3
One of 10 villas standing half a kilometre out from the resort, adults only: 185 square metres with an indoor-outdoor living room, a sundeck, a private pool facing open desert and a villa host who drives out to you.
178 m² · In the fort, across two connected bedrooms · A garden terrace with a dining table view · sleeps 5 + 1 child
This suite is 178 square metres inside the fort: a king bedroom and a twin bedroom either side of an indoor lounge, with a garden terrace and a dining table outside. The ceiling is 5 adults and a child — the largest party any room here takes indoors.
304 m² · A single-storey villa in the resort grounds · Walled garden and pool view · sleeps 4 + 2 children
This villa is 304 square metres, arranged around one room: a king bedroom, a twin bedroom, a living and dining hall under a herringbone timber ceiling, and outside a lawn, a pool and a butler. It takes 4 adults and 2 children.
375 m² · A corner villa on the edge of the resort · Dunes on two sides view · sleeps 5 + 2 children
This villa is 375 square metres, on the corner where the resort stops and the desert starts: 3 bedrooms, a living and dining hall opening straight onto the pool, a walled lawn, and a butler. It takes 5 adults and 2 children.
489 m² · A teak terrace under barasti view · sleeps 8
Sahra is the desert, and this is the four-bedroom villa named after it: 489 square metres at the end of its own drive, with a dedicated butler, in-villa breakfast, a barbecue dinner cooked by a private chef and airport transfers for 4.
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