There are two schools of thought when it comes to how best to do a holiday. Either you’re super-busy and hit the activities like a train, or you like to be horizontal for as much of the time as possible.

Fortunately, there’s ample scope here to do either or both.

If you want to stretch yourself, you can get stuck in to a busy programme of watersports (including snorkelling, kayaking, waterskiing and wakeboarding), or head to the rooftop gym for a range of intensive fitness classes.

But if all that sounds like hard work, you can always crash out in the on-site spa instead.

We’d recommend drifting away with an Oriental Massage followed by a Muscle Melt Wrap. Bliss.

This is the one place in Dubai you need to have on your travel hit-list