Club Tropicana: The Ultra-Instagrammable Beach Clubs On Dubai’s Coastline
Dubai’s sandy shores are awash with beautiful beach clubs, transporting guests from Africa to the Aegean through emotive and evocative design. Here, we spotlight five of the most artistic, creative and chic
Bâoli Dubai
Taking up residence at Dubai’s new beach club enclave, J1 Beach (previously La Mer), Bâoli Dubai brings all the best Mediterranean-meets-Asian vibes to the emirate at the hands of renowned Lazaro Rosa Violan Design Studio. Inside, Asian elements fuse with a modern aesthetic that captures the essence of the original Cannes venue, with a tropical forest-inspired ambience created with lush greenery, rich textures, thoughtful landscaping and sustainable materials like local wood and stone. Ceramic murals, inclined mirrors at the robata station, chic French-inspired wall moldings and wooden panelling complete the look of laid-back luxe.
Ninive Beach
Ninive Beach is yet another gem from Rikas Hospitality Group, this time bringing the first Middle Eastern beach club to the city at J1 Beach. A tribute to Arabian heritage and designed for the curious traveller, it has mined its restaurants at Jumeirah Emirates Towers and Bab Al Shams for creative input, resulting in an indoor/outdoor majlis experience with traditional textures, warm, earthy tones, patterns, intricate design details and vibrant jolts of colour from emerald green, burnt orange and aquamarine. This is relaxed rustic luxury at its most refined.
Casa Amor
Mandarin Oriental Jumeira adds another string to its F&B bow with the opening of Casa Amor. A bohemian-inspired social beach house and restaurant, this bamboo-clad seaside retreat echoes the free-spirited essence of Tulum at the hands of rising boutique design studio, Borco. Vibrant red tones, colourful fabrics and bespoke handwoven carpets are splashed across a backdrop of rattan, bamboo and pale Casuarina and Iroko woods, with a focus on organic, locally-sourced materials, and exotic plants and statement cacti selected from local farms. Boho-chic à la Dubai.
Sirene by GAIA
Taking everything we know and love from GAIA’s Greek island charm at the hands of Chef Izu, blending it with Dubai’s unabashed opulence, and throwing in a visit by Jennifer Lopez, it’s no wonder Sirene by GAIA is the beach club everyone’s shouting about. A 9,000-square-metre oasis of Mediterranean elegance, energy flows from restaurant to terrace, hidden bar to swimming pool, with neutral tones, whitewashed walls with pops of colour, sky blue shutters, terracotta jugs and olive trees.
African Queen
With over 55 years of history, it stands to reason that African Queen will have perfected the art of immersive experiences. Inspired by the 1951 film of the same name, this J1 beach club – which hails from Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur – blends African-inspired décor with a Mediterranean menu. But it’s the interiors by Monegasque architects Humbert & Poyet that will take you for a walk on the wild side. With bold animal prints, exotic soft furnishings, rattan furniture, hues of soft green, beige and white with gold accents, and blue bird sculptures, the feel of this place will whisk you straight to the savannah.
From Harper’s Bazaar Arabia Interiors’ Spring 2025 issue.