On July 2, 2025, Wynn Resorts issued a press release that described the interior of a hotel suite using language that the hospitality industry almost never uses about hotel rooms. The suites in question were not "designed by" Anouska Hempel and Pinto Design. They were described as the "penultimate commissions" of both firms, a phrase that places the work among the final projects of two of the most influential interior design practices in luxury hospitality history.
Anouska Hempel designed Blake's Hotel in London in 1978, a boutique hotel that rewrote the conventions of what a luxury hotel room was allowed to look like. She followed it with the Hempel Hotel in 1997, a minimalist-maximalist exercise that influenced a generation of hospitality designers. Pinto Design in Paris has shaped presidential suites and private residences across the upper tier of global luxury brands. The word "penultimate" means second-to-last. The two Royal Apartments at the crown of Wynn Al Marjan Island's Enclave are not just the top rooms in a tower. They are among the last works of two designers whose earlier works defined the genre.
This piece is about what sits beneath those Royal Apartments: the full Enclave product, the hotel within a hotel that Wynn has positioned as "a destination within a destination" at the top of the UAE's most expensive building. 313 suites across six room types. A private guarded driveway. An exclusive lobby. Private elevators. No more than 15 suites per floor. Dual AM/PM pantries in every room. A dedicated restaurant. A private pool and beach with three pools, tropical landscaping, and beach butlers. And a design philosophy that Todd-Avery Lenahan, president and chief creative officer of Wynn Design & Development, has described as "veiling and revealing."
At a glance:Total Enclave accommodations: 313 across six room types. Breakdown: 297 tower suites + 2 Royal Apartments + 4 Garden Townhomes + 10 Marina Estates. Suite sizes: from 75 sqm (One-Bedroom Suite) to 1,500 sqm (Royal Apartment). Location: uppermost floors of the 300-metre, 70-storey Resort Tower. Maximum suites per floor: 15. Royal Apartment designers: Anouska Hempel (London) and Pinto Design (Paris). Palette: platinum, sapphire, cream, gold, sea mist. Private amenities: guarded entry drive, exclusive lobby, private elevators, dedicated restaurant, private reserve pool and beach (three pools, beach butlers). Opening: spring 2027.
313 Suites Across Six Room Types: The Full Breakdown
The number that appears most frequently in press coverage of Enclave is 299, sometimes 297, sometimes 313. The discrepancy is not an error. It reflects how the Enclave product is structured. The resort's accommodation breakdown, confirmed across Wynn's official press releases and its dedicated Enclave page, works out as follows: 1,217 standard resort rooms plus 297 Enclave suites in the tower plus two Royal Apartments at the crown plus four Garden Townhomes at ground level plus 10 Marina Estates on the guard-gated marina peninsula. That totals 1,530 accommodations across the entire property.
Enclave, as a product tier, includes all of the non-standard-room categories: the 297 tower suites, the two Royal Apartments, the four Townhomes, and the 10 Marina Estates. That is 313 accommodations. Wynn's official Enclave page describes it as "313 all-suite accommodations" offered "across six distinct room types." The six room types span from One-Bedroom Suites starting at 75 square metres (approximately 800 square feet) to the two-storey Royal Apartments at 1,500 square metres (approximately 16,000 square feet) each.
The hierarchy within Enclave itself matters. A 75 sqm One-Bedroom Suite on a mid-upper floor is a different product from a 10 Marina Estate on the guard-gated peninsula. Both fall within the Enclave tier, both receive the private infrastructure (the guarded drive, the exclusive lobby, the private elevators to the tower suites), but they serve different guest profiles. The tower suites serve the luxury traveler who wants altitude, Gulf views, and the intimacy of no more than 15 suites per floor. The Marina Estates serve the guest who arrives by superyacht and wants direct waterfront access from a standalone villa on a private peninsula. The four Garden Townhomes sit between the two: ground-level residences with garden access, positioned for families or extended-stay guests who prefer horizontal living.
The Private Infrastructure: Guarded Drive, Exclusive Lobby, 15 Suites Per Floor
The physical separation between Enclave and the rest of Wynn Al Marjan Island is not a design detail. It is the structural principle that the entire product is built around. Wynn's press release described the arrival sequence with unusual specificity. Enclave guests arrive via a private, guarded, verdant entry drive that is physically separate from the resort's main arrival sequence. The drive leads to an exclusive lobby available only to Enclave guests. The lobby opens onto a processional gallery (Wynn's language) that leads to private elevators.
The private elevators ascend to floors where no more than 15 suites are arranged per level. That density figure is worth contextualising. A standard five-star hotel floor in the Gulf typically holds 20 to 40 rooms. The Burj Al Arab, which has 202 suites across 56 floors, averages approximately 3.6 suites per floor, but that is an outlier whose unusual shape limits floor plates. Enclave's 15-suite maximum sits in the upper tier of luxury density without requiring an architectural constraint to justify it. The choice was deliberate: enough suites per floor to make the economics work, few enough to make the corridor feel like a residential hallway rather than a hotel corridor.
This separation architecture is what the hospitality industry calls a "hotel within a hotel" or "resort within a resort" model. The concept is not new. Wynn Las Vegas itself operates Encore as a distinct tower with separate branding. The Venetian Las Vegas has The Palazzo. Marina Bay Sands has its Paiza Collection for VIP guests. What distinguishes Enclave from most comparables is the extent of the separation. Enclave has its own entrance, its own lobby, its own restaurant, its own pool and beach, and its own elevator bank. In operational terms, an Enclave guest could arrive, check in, dine, swim, and depart without entering the resort's public spaces at all. The integration with the broader resort (the casino, the art collection, Coral Court, the 22 restaurants) is available but never mandatory.
The Dual Pantry System and What Anticipatory Service Actually Means
Every Enclave suite includes dual in-room private pantries. One is stocked with morning provisions. The other is stocked with evening provisions. Each pantry is housed in separate bespoke cabinetry, and the product assortment is tailored to the specific suite type. The system is Wynn's physical expression of what it calls "anticipatory service," a hospitality philosophy that aims to have what the guest needs available before the guest asks for it.
The AM pantry contains breakfast-adjacent items: coffee, tea, pastries, fresh juices, wellness products, and morning skincare. The PM pantry shifts to evening provisions: spirits, cocktail mixers, confections, night-time wellness items, and pre-sleep amenities. The two pantries are designed so that the guest never opens the wrong one for the time of day. The AM pantry is visible and accessible in the morning space of the suite. The PM pantry is positioned near the evening social area.
Wynn's press materials also noted that the suite design gives "deep consideration to important cultural sensitivities and preferences." For a resort that will attract its most diverse international clientele from the Gulf, the CIS region, India, China, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe simultaneously, this means prayer direction indicators, culturally appropriate minibar configurations, bathroom layouts that respect privacy conventions across multiple traditions, and in-room dining menus that accommodate halal, kosher, vegetarian, and regional dietary requirements as standard rather than as special requests. The dual pantry system is the most visible expression of this principle, but the cultural calibration runs through every detail of the suite design.
The Original InsightEnclave is not the "top floors" of a hotel. It is a 313-suite product ecosystem that wraps from the penthouse to the waterfront. The 297 tower suites, the two Royal Apartments, the four Garden Townhomes, and the 10 Marina Estates are all part of the same tier, sharing the same private infrastructure (guarded drive, exclusive lobby, private elevators, dedicated restaurant, private pool and beach). No comparable hotel-within-hotel concept integrates a superyacht-marina-adjacent residential component into the same product tier as the penthouse suites. Enclave is vertical and horizontal simultaneously. The architecture of the product matches the geography of the island.
The Two Royal Apartments: Anouska Hempel, Pinto Design, and the Penultimate Commission
At the crown of Enclave, on the uppermost floors of the 300-metre tower, sit two Royal Apartments. Each measures 1,500 square metres (approximately 16,000 square feet) and spans two storeys. They are the largest accommodations at the entire resort, larger than the Marina Estates, larger than the Garden Townhomes, and larger than any other suite in the Enclave tier. They exist at the peak of the accommodation hierarchy as singular products with no comparable category.
The Royal Apartments were designed by Anouska Hempel (London) and Pinto Design (Paris) in collaboration with Wynn Design & Development. Wynn's July 2, 2025 press release described these as the "penultimate commissions" of both design houses. That word carries weight in the design industry. Anouska Hempel is one of the most influential hotel interior designers of the past five decades. Blake's Hotel in London, which she designed in 1978, is widely credited as the first boutique hotel. The Hempel Hotel, which opened in Bayswater in 1997, was a radically minimalist space that influenced a generation of designers including Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck's later hotel work. Hempel's design language is characterised by dramatic restraint: monumental spaces with very few objects, where the emptiness is the statement.
Pinto Design in Paris works at the intersection of interior architecture and fine art, with a portfolio that includes private residences, yachts, and hotel suites for clients at the very top of the global wealth spectrum. The firm's approach is material-led: rare stones, bespoke textiles, one-of-a-kind furniture pieces, and commissioned artworks that are integrated into the architecture rather than placed on it.
What Wynn's press release did not elaborate on, but what the word "penultimate" implies, is that these are among the final projects both designers will deliver. The Royal Apartments are not commissions from the beginning of a career or the middle of a portfolio. They are late works. And in the design world, late works carry a specific kind of authority: they reflect the full accumulated sensibility of the designer without the need to prove anything new. For a guest staying in one of the two Royal Apartments, the room is not just large. It is the product of a designer's entire career compressed into 1,500 square metres.
The Private Reserve Pool and Beach: Three Pools, Beach Butlers, Eastern Shoreline
Enclave operates its own pool and beach facility, physically separate from the resort's main poolscape. The Private Reserve Pool and Beach sits along the eastern edge of the resort's gardens, facing the Arabian Gulf's western sky and its nightly sunsets. The facility includes three pools, lush tropical landscaping, private sand, cabanas, bungalows, and dedicated beach butlers who serve food and drinks on demand to any position on the beach or pool deck.
The three-pool configuration is designed to accommodate different guest profiles simultaneously. One pool is positioned for active recreation. One is positioned for quiet retreat. One is family-oriented with shallower depths and adjacent play areas. The landscaping between the pools creates visual and acoustic separation so that a family gathering at one pool does not interfere with a couple seeking privacy at another. Beach butlers operate as personal concierges for the outdoor space, managing everything from towel service and drink orders to dining arrangements and sun-shade positioning.
For context, the broader Wynn Al Marjan Island resort includes 12 pools in total, plus a 420-metre private beach, adults-only and family-friendly zones, and a beach club that Lenahan described during a Las Vegas property tour as "its own little fantasy land." The Enclave Private Reserve is a subset of that outdoor infrastructure, carved out for the exclusive use of Enclave guests. The complete cost guide covers the broader resort's amenity tiers and what access to different levels of the resort's outdoor spaces is likely to cost.
The Dedicated Restaurant and the Breakfast-by-Invitation Model
Enclave has its own restaurant, positioned within the Enclave lobby level. The restaurant operates on a tiered-access model. Breakfast is exclusive to in-residence Enclave guests. Lunch and dinner are open by invitation, which typically means available to Enclave guests and their personal invitees but not to general resort guests walking in. This is the same operational model used at comparable ultra-luxury hotel-within-hotel restaurants globally (the Aman at The Connaught in London operates a similar breakfast-exclusive, dinner-by-reservation framework).
The restaurant is separate from the 22 restaurants and lounges in the broader resort. An Enclave guest who wants to dine at the Alain Ducasse steakhouse or at Delilah can do so by crossing into the resort's public dining infrastructure. But a guest who prefers to stay entirely within the Enclave ecosystem can eat every meal in the dedicated restaurant without entering the resort's public spaces. That operational independence is the structural difference between a hotel-within-a-hotel that shares its parent's restaurants (which is most of them) and one that does not need to.
Where Enclave Sits in the Full Accommodation Hierarchy
Wynn Al Marjan Island's 1,530 accommodations are distributed across a hierarchy that runs from standard resort rooms through five progressively exclusive tiers. The standard resort rooms (1,217 total) occupy the tower's lower and mid-level floors and will likely represent the bulk of bookable inventory. Above them, the Enclave tower suites (297) occupy the upper floors with the private infrastructure described above. Above those, the two Royal Apartments sit at the crown. Alongside the tower, the four Garden Townhomes provide ground-level residential accommodation, and the 10 Marina Estates on the guard-gated peninsula provide the most secluded waterfront living at the resort.
The pricing spread across these tiers has not been publicly announced as of April 2026. On the February 12, 2026 Q4 earnings call, CEO Craig Billings indicated that rooms would go on sale in "late Q3 or early Q4" of 2026, which places the first public rate cards approximately six months from now. What can be inferred from comparable Wynn properties is that Enclave rates will carry a significant premium over the standard resort rooms, with the Royal Apartments priced at a level that is effectively not publicly listed (quote-only, like the Bellagio Chairman Suite or the Mandarin Oriental's Royal Suite in London).
For travelers evaluating which tier to book, the practical question is whether the Enclave premium buys amenities that the standard resort rooms do not provide access to. The answer is yes, structurally. The private entrance, the exclusive lobby, the dedicated restaurant (breakfast-exclusive), the private pool and beach, and the beach butler service are all Enclave-only. The broader resort amenities (the Living Gallery art collection, the casino, the 22 public restaurants, the spa, the shopping parterre, Coral Court events centre) are available to all guests regardless of room tier. The Enclave premium buys privacy and separation, not access to shared facilities.
Veiling and Revealing: The Design Language Behind the Suites
Lenahan has described the overall design concept of Wynn Al Marjan Island as "veiling and revealing," a principle that governs everything from the resort's exterior bronze facade to the interior progression from public to private spaces. In the context of Enclave, the principle applies literally. The processional gallery from the lobby to the elevators is a veiling experience: the guest moves through a curated sequence of visual moments that gradually reduce visual noise and prepare the eye for the suite's calm palette. The suite itself is the reveal.
"As with the overall resort's design concept of 'veiling and revealing' at every turn," Lenahan said in the July 2025 announcement, "it's often what's not seen that is more alluring and beautiful than what's obvious. That's what makes the rarefied veil of Enclave so special." The palette he chose for the suites (platinum, sapphire, cream, gold, and sea mist) is drawn from the natural colour range visible from the upper floors of the tower: the steel-blue of the Gulf at midday, the gold of the sand at sunrise, the cream of the breaking waves, the mist that hangs over the water at dawn. The colours are not abstract. They are the view, internalised as interior design.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Enclave at Wynn Al Marjan Island?
Enclave is the ultra-luxury hotel-within-a-hotel at Wynn Al Marjan Island. It comprises 313 all-suite accommodations across six room types, occupying the uppermost floors of the 300-metre tower plus four Garden Townhomes and 10 Marina Estates at ground and waterfront level. It operates with a separate entrance, exclusive lobby, private elevators, dedicated restaurant, and private pool and beach.
How many suites does Enclave have?
313 total. This includes 297 tower suites, two Royal Apartments (each 1,500 sqm across two floors), four Garden Townhomes, and 10 Marina Estates on the guard-gated marina peninsula.
How large are the Enclave suites?
Sizes range from 75 square metres (approximately 800 square feet) for One-Bedroom Suites to 1,500 square metres (approximately 16,000 square feet) for each of the two Royal Apartments. Six distinct room types span this range.
Who designed the Royal Apartments?
Anouska Hempel (London) and Pinto Design (Paris), in collaboration with Wynn Design & Development. Wynn described these as the "penultimate commissions" of both design houses, placing them among the final projects of two of the most influential interior design practices in luxury hospitality.
What is the dual pantry system?
Every Enclave suite includes two in-room private pantries: one stocked with morning (AM) provisions and one stocked with evening (PM) provisions. Each is housed in separate bespoke cabinetry with product assortments tailored to the suite type. The system is designed so that guests have what they need before they ask for it.
Does Enclave have its own restaurant?
Yes. The Enclave restaurant serves exclusive breakfast to in-residence guests. Lunch and dinner are open by invitation. It is separate from the 22 restaurants and lounges in the broader resort.
Does Enclave have a private pool and beach?
Yes. The Private Reserve Pool and Beach sits on the resort's eastern edge and includes three pools, tropical landscaping, cabanas, bungalows, and beach butlers. It is exclusively for Enclave guests.
How many suites are on each floor?
No more than 15 suites per floor in the tower. This is a deliberate density choice designed to make the corridor feel residential rather than institutional.
When will Enclave open?
Spring 2027, alongside the rest of Wynn Al Marjan Island. All 1,530 guest accommodations (including Enclave suites) have reached full structural completion as of the December 15, 2025 topping-out announcement, with interior fit-outs actively underway.
When will room rates be announced?
CEO Craig Billings indicated on the February 12, 2026 Q4 earnings call that rooms would go on sale in late Q3 or early Q4 2026, approximately six months from now. Enclave rates have not been publicly disclosed.
How does Enclave compare to other hotel-within-hotel concepts?
Comparable concepts include Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, The Palazzo at The Venetian, the Paiza Collection at Marina Bay Sands, and Aman at The Connaught in London. Enclave is distinguished by the extent of its separation (own entrance, lobby, restaurant, pool, beach, elevator bank) and by the integration of waterfront Marina Estates and Garden Townhomes into the same product tier as the tower suites.
On July 2, 2025, Wynn Resorts used the word "penultimate" in a press release about hotel suites. The word described the Royal Apartments at the crown of Enclave, designed by Anouska Hempel and Pinto Design as among their final projects. Beneath those apartments, 297 suites occupy the upper floors of a 300-metre tower, with no more than 15 per floor, each containing dual pantries stocked differently for morning and evening, each finished in a palette drawn from the view outside the window. Four Townhomes sit at ground level. Ten Marina Estates line the guard-gated peninsula beside the superyacht basin. A private pool and beach with three pools and beach butlers face the Gulf's nightly sunsets. A restaurant serves Enclave guests breakfast that no other guest in the resort can order. The guarded drive, the exclusive lobby, the private elevators: all of it exists to produce a specific experience that Lenahan described as veiling and revealing. The veil is the separation. The reveal is the room. And the room, if you are in one of the two Royal Apartments, is one of the last things Anouska Hempel will ever design.
