Dystopian, but make it chic. With personal butlers, fine-dining and French wine, the calibre has officially been raised on glamping.
”Keep watching and maybe you can see Arabian oryx, and if we’re lucky, snakes, scorpions and spiders,” says our driver Kassim as the 4WD enters Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. “They really like tourists.” My nieces, nine and six, both born and bred in Dubai, are not visitors, but they let out a playful gasp, and the gentle interrogation begins.
Overnight bags and school uniforms in tow, we roll up to our designer dune in an electric buggy. The calibre has been raised. Designed by award-winning Italian architect Gianni Ranaulo, these 14 slick desert “nests” are less bell tent and more like props from the film set of sci-fi remakeOur dedicated mudeef, or butler, provides a quick tour of our sunrise-facing tent .
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