This urban resort’s pool is a fashionista watering hole.

Part of a weekly series by luxury hotel expert Mary Gostelow.

Park Hyatt Dubai is a true city oasis. On one side of the rambling five-floor building is Dubai Creek, a massive arena full of gleaming white super-yachts and the other flows into a golf course. Wherever you are you’re surrounded by, and part of, nature. Every one of the 225 rooms is a massive 95 sq. ft. minimum, and all have balconies (I cannot say which is my favorite, although 1309, confusingly on the third floor English style, is convenient to elevators and stairs to the pool).

Ah the pool, this is brilliant. It has areas for laps but also lots of indentations and extensions great for simply lazing and talking, or sipping a sundowner. After yet another hard day’s work in town, or perhaps shopping or sightseeing, this is, indeed, what regular guests do. Namely, join Dubai’s expat fashionistas in or around the pool. The pool is right next to the Amara Spa, which has Carita and Anne Sémonin.

Sunset across Dubai Creek.

My favorite eating place here is the two-floor Traiteur French brasserie (on Saturdays, when it is closed, go for mezze in Café Arabesque. You also have a Thai option). You will love the outdoor bar, creek-side. You will also love the efficiency of the laundry (two-hour turn around? No problem. And it comes back paper wrapped, in linen, in a leather box). Before you leave, check the 12 ft. diameter circular silk carpet in the outer lobby. At set times someone literally combs its entire circumferetial fringe. GM is Adrian Slater.

Mary with GM Adrian Slater.

Read last week’s Hotel of the Week, also in Dubai, here.