Jumeirah Messilah Beach Kuwait

The Jumeirah Messilah Beach Kuwait is hotel under construction in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Once completed, the hotel will have 307 rooms and suites, 80 serviced apartments and 12 chalets. The hotel will have six restaurants and lounges, a Talise spa and a 200-metre private beach and swimming pool. The hotel is designed by world-famous Chicago-based architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The hotel originally opened in the 1980s as the Golden Tulip Messilah Beach Resort, where it established a vaunted reputation as a luxurious beach resort with the finest services in Kuwait, attracting both a local and international clientele. Badly damaged in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the resort never made a powerful comeback in the Kuwaiti market and suffered from the competition of other newer properties all over the country. It was eventually closed in 2002 and completely demolished to make way for its all-new incarnation as the Jumeirah Messilah Beach. After dealing with a long string of delays and the recent end of all major construction at the site, the hotel is currently scheduled to open in May 2010.