Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Chedi Al Bait

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (AED633.78), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Wind-down merchant

Setting

Old-town pearl

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Immersed in Sharjah’s historic heart, The Chedi Al Bait delivers a leisurely, low-slung slice of Emirati heritage. The hotel is set across seven restored pearl merchants’ mansions, where traditional interiors are offset with opulent modern updates. As you drift through lantern-lit courtyards to the spa or set out into the aesthete-pleasing city, where a contemporary art scene flourishes amid souks and coral-stone architecture, you might find yourself falling for an illusion. Here, Dubai’s high-rise futurism feels a world away — but it’s actually in nipping-out-for-dinner distance.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

65, including 12 suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability. For early check-in from 9am or late check-out up to 4pm, there’s a fee of 50% of your first night’s stay. Otherwise, you’ll be charged for one additional night.

More details

Rates include an à la carte breakfast of Arabian, Indian and Western dishes, served in the Restaurant.

Also

One Deluxe Room with Patio has been adapted for guests with limited mobility. This room has a lowered bed and room controls, an accessible panic button, and a bathroom with a roll-in shower and grab bars. The hotel’s communal areas, except for the pool, are wheelchair accessible.

At the hotel

Museum, library, free beach shuttles, laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, and tea-making kit, minibar, free glass-bottled water, bathrobes and custom bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Opt for a room with a private patio to take your Arabic coffee alfresco. Larger groups can spread out across the mid-century Khalid Ibrahim Wing, where mod-minimalist rooms open onto the courtyard pool.

Poolside

On relaxed afternoons, retreat to the courtyard just off the spa, where there’s a small heated pool covered by a pergola and sunloungers peeking out to catch the rays. If you're staying in the Bait Khalid Bin Ibrahim Wing, a separate pool is reserved exclusively for your use.

Spa

Treatments at the spa work their wellbeing-boosting magic with traditional, natural ingredients. ‘Treat yourself’ opportunities include black soap body polishes, massages informed by practices from Hawaii to the Himalayas, and Moroccan-inspired hammam rituals blending rose, argan and almond blossom oils. The spa is open daily from 10am to 9pm, and is divided into men and women’s sections, each with a hammam, sauna and steam room (the women’s section also has hot and cold plunge pools). And if you’ve time between all the TLC, there’s a gym decked out with the full gamut of Technogym equipment, including cardio and free weights kit. The gym is open to women from 6.30am to noon, and 7pm to 9pm daily; for men, it’s open from 12.30pm to 6.30pm and 9.30pm to 6am daily.

Packing tips

When exploring Sharjah, your best bet is keeping knees and shoulders covered. And it's a car-centric city, but don’t skimp on sensible footwear — the souks, museums and harbourside strolls will super-charge your step count.

Also

Souvenir shopping is a force for good at the hotel’s Light of Sakina boutique. The women-led brand keeps all their luxury scents and hand-poured candles cruelty free, and donates a portion of each sale to local women and children in need.

Children

Welcome, but the atmosphere at this heritage-steeped stay leans grown-up. Children aged 12 or older are charged as adults. Several rooms can have rollaway beds added, the Restaurant has a kids’ menu, and babysitting can be arranged with advance notice.

Sustainability efforts

A Green Key-certified hotel, The Chedi Al Bait operates a zero-plastic initiative, regularly auditing its front- and back-of-house operations to explore more ways to remove single-use plastic. The hotel's historic buildings were restored and converted under Unesco guidance to preserve the traditional architecture.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

At the Restaurant, balmy evenings are best spent out in the courtyard. Snag a spot with a Creek Harbour view at Nomani.

Dress Code

Timeless fabrics and tailored silhouettes will keep you in tune with your surroundings.

Hotel restaurant

The Restaurant cherry-picks from Middle Eastern, Asian and Western cuisines, all while spotlighting local, organic produce. Chef Omran is the mastermind behind the elevated menu, which ranges from short rib ouzi and chicken machboos marinated in Emirati spices to lemony tajines and seafood linguine. 

At Nomani, the focus is on Japanese-Korean fusion dishes. Chef Chris’s signatures, which include beef bibimbap and bulgogi sauce-dipped wagyu skewers, are so prettily plated they’ll be vying for your attention with the view across Sharjah Creek. 

Swing by Al Bareed, a dessert shop set against the historic backdrop of Sharjah’s first post office, for craft coffee, ice cream and pastries. At the Café, you can admire the rare, historic circular wind tower as you deliberate between sandwiches and patisseries (before sensibly plumping for the all-encompassing café tray).

Hotel bar

There’s no separate bar and Sharjah is a dry Emirate, so there’s no alcohol served at the hotel. But that doesn’t mean skimping on sophisticated drinks — the Restaurant and Nomani share a craft mocktail list, including a mango Sichuan julep and a lavender soda almost too pretty to drink, plus iced teas and smoothies.

Last orders

Breakfast is served at the Restaurant from 7am to 10.30am, the main menu from 10.30am to 11pm, and afternoon tea from noon to 9pm. Nomani is open from noon to 11pm. The Café serves from noon to 9pm, and Al Bareed from 6pm to 11pm (midnight on weekends).

Room service

You can order from the separate room service menu at any time, seven days a week.

Location

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Address
The Chedi Al Bait
Heart of Sharjah 79 Corniche Street Al Shiokh Hay Al Gharb
Sharjah
United Arab Emirates

The Chedi Al Bait is in the historic heart of Sharjah, a heritage-rich Emirate within easy reach of Dubai.

Planes

The hotel is a 30- to 90-minute drive from Dubai International Airport, depending on traffic, and 20 minutes from Sharjah International Airport. Staff can arrange airport transfers on request (AED500 to AED700 each way, depending on vehicle type, number of passengers and amount of luggage).

Automobiles

Taxis and transfers should suffice for this well connected city. But if you prefer the open road under your own steam, there's free, 24-hour valet parking at the hotel, and electric-vehicle charging stations are available.

Worth getting out of bed for

Sharjah’s old town is a trove of art galleries, museums and souks, but dip a toe into local culture before you leave the hotel with a tour of the hotel’s museum or lunch with the artist-in-residence. Or, if food’s more your forte, ask about a private cookery class with the hotel’s chefs.   

Sharjah Heritage Museum and the Museum of Islamic Civilisation cover the region’s epoch-spanning history, and contemporary art fans should check out Sharjah Art Foundation. The Blue Souk is worth a visit as much for the spectacular tiled buildings as for the souvenir opportunities. The concierge can also arrange a personalised tour of the city’s insider art and antique spots, led by a local art curator. 

Hotel staff can sort trips further afield, too, from the eco-kind Khor Kalba Mangrove Centre (across the peninsula) to traditional Bedouin camps. In Al Dhaid, mornings spent browsing pottery and produce at Fujairah Market wind up with a dune-top picnic. And for dizzying desert views, hit the hiking trails on Fossil Rock mountain.

Local restaurants

If it’s a ritzy restaurant scene you’re after, plan to dine out in Dubai. Otherwise, The Chedi's concierge can point you to Sharjah’s insider spots. Right by the hotel, Arabian Tea House is the place for authentic Emirati cuisine. Its sister restaurant Arabian Fish House serves traditional seafood with atmospheric views of a historic shipwreck over on Al Heera Beach. Fen Cafe and Restaurant is a cool, contemporary spot with a menu of nourishing salads, soups and Asian-influenced seafood.

Local cafés

Noor Café makes a leafy pitstop after a lagoon-view leg stretch around Al Noor Island. Cocoa nuts should seek out Mada Café and Chocolate, where decadent hot chocolates are laced with pistachio and dolloped with fresh whipped cream.

Local bars

Sharjah is a dry Emirate, so you’ll need to venture into Dubai for drinks-accompanied nightlife.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this heritage-steeped hotel in the UAE and unpacked their sidr honey and sustainably made attars, a full account of their souk-surveying break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside The Chedi Al Bait in Sharjah… 

You might know Sharjah as an offbeat base for exploring Dubai, or as an intriguing spot to spend a layover. But at The Chedi Al Bait, this culture-rich Emirate is brought into focus as a destination in its own right.  

Your induction into Sharjah's heritage kicks off with a welcome tour of the hotel’s artefact-packed museum and historic buildings, full of jewel-studded tales of the city’s past. Step outside and the story continues, unspooling through the coral-stone streets, souks and galleries of the old town. 

The concierge team can orchestrate trips to orchard towns and archaeological marvels elsewhere in the Emirate. And on rest days, there's serious time to be devoted to heady spa treatments and haute dinners, all spotlighting regionally grown ingredients.

Opulent rooms, ranging from mod-minimalist to authentically Arabian, brought together with artisanal furnishings and curios, underline the point — this is more than a place for a flying visit; it’s somewhere to make yourself at home.

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Price per night from $172.57