Every room is a pool villa at this new Liwa desert resort in Abu Dhabi

And the price might surprise you, in a good way…

There’s a reason people often call holidays ‘getaways’. The definitive charm of any vacation is leaving the routine, the familiar, the banality of humdrum daily life in search of something new, something different. And if you judge the quality of an ‘escape’ by the degree to which it contrasts with your usual surroundings, this new desert resort will take some beating.

Now open, Bateen Liwa Resort is the latest leisure project from those grand dames of glamping, Bab Al Nojoum. Though the brand’s previous resorts have been built…