Luxury is just the norm in Qatar, where the underground has a business class section and Friday breakfast is a competitive sport.
It takes something really spectacular for a new hotel to stand out here, like spending five years creating a brand-new structure in the shape of the nation’s crest.
The Katara Towers, a recent addition to the Doha skyline, are split between the Fairmont and the Raffles hotel chains.
Each takes up half of the 300,000 square metre structure, which is fashioned to resemble two Qatari scimitars crossed.
These identical twin hotels, which are situated along the Persian Gulf’s turquoise seas, are each opulent in their own special manner.
