Frommer's Review
Housed within a handsome, newly built turquoise-and-coral-colored tower whose fanciful detailing matches the mythical theme of the other showcase designs of the Atlantis Resort, this hotel was configured as a semiprivate hideaway. Don't expect anything conventional about this place: It contains only suites and an adult-oriented venue that takes pains to dilute a growing perception that The Atlantis has placed too heavy an emphasis on family fun, hordes of short-term cruise-ship passengers, and the ongoing daycare and amusement of teeny-boppers from the North American mainland. Inaugurated in the spring of 2007, it boasts an avant-garde design that's a combination of the best of minimalist Japan and ultra-high-end postmodern Florida. Every accommodation is luxurious, some of presidential proportions (including a duplex with a total of more than 372 sq. m/4,000 sq. ft.), with personal butlers and every imaginable electronic and service-related amenity. Most of the units, however, are spacious but not obscenely oversized, ranging in square footage from 62 to 158 sq. m (672-1,700 sq. ft.); and each manages to be opulent, postmodern, summery, and tasteful. The social centerpiece of the hotel is a 2,700m (9,000-ft.) rectangular "ultrapool" which is strictly off-limits to anyone under 18. It is ringed with 22 private cabanas, which can be rented by the day for sybaritic adults seeking seclusion from the family-with-children crowds. On the premises is the Mandara Spa, whose design was inspired by the architecture of Bali, with rampant use of stone, bamboo, and tropical hardwoods. Although it hadn't opened before press time for this edition, a branch of Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill had carved out space for itself on the ground floor of this hotel-within-a hotel.
Facilities: 2 restaurants; 2 bars; 3 pools; access to an 18-hole golf course; access to 5 tennis courts; health club; spa; steam room; shuttle to the One&Only Ocean Club; access to the Atlantis casino; room service; babysitting; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms.
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