Anantara Sir Bani Yas Island Al Yamm Villa Resort

An unforgettable escape ?From the moment you arrive, everything feels exclusive and peaceful. Stunning nature, beautiful villas, and exceptional service. The wildlife experience is unique, the beach is serene, and the food is top-notch. Perfect for switching off, reconnecting, and enjoying pure luxury in nature.

Everything

Amazing area and scenary, good quality and design.

The pool was too cold, the heaters werent working well for some reason, the option for a more private area was not clear from the beginning during the booking process, they arranged that for me after multiple requests, The privacy needs to be worked on, the front doors were opened multiple times without permission.

The service was outstanding from check-in to check-out, and the food, especially breakfast, was excellent. Daniel and Hassan were wonderful hosts and made everything feel effortless throughout the stay. A special highlight was the nature drive with Jaffer, which made my birthday truly memorable, along with the beautiful surprise setup in the room,

There was honestly very little to dislike. Everything was well organized and ran smoothly from start to finish.

The location and villa is wonderful, right beach front, we can watch gazelle passing by, it was so lovely. Staff was amazing and friendly. We have a wonderful time.

The African restaurant which was located in another Anantara hotel. Not good at all.

Terrible booking experience as we were forced to book 2 villas for a family of 5, as supposedly one wouldn’t fit us. Perfect scam to get more money out of us as the deluxe villa perfectly fits 2 adults (king size bed), 2 young kids (queen size sofa bed in another room) and 2 crib. Felt like we were being ripped off with the second villa. We stayed in Al YAmm villas. The villas are clean and spacious and the resort is beautiful to be fair.

How over priced everything is. The activities and the F&B.

Everything was crafted. Nothing was more great than the staff’s friendliness and service. Daniel and his team did amazing in making our experience smooth and special.Special thanks to both Jafaar (the wildlife drive’s guide) and Navas (the archery’s guide) who both made the experience unforgettable. They both are dedicated to their job, friendly, supportive and answered all of our questions.

The time taken to prepare our eggs during breakfast. The rest of the food became cold as we were waiting the eggs to come

The location and views etc

Service levels and food. Staff was very slow and react to requests

Clean calm privacy

My experience at this hotel was very disappointing. The staff were rude and unprofessional, and they made up rules that don’t even make sense. One of the most frustrating things was being told that guests are not allowed to bring their own snacks from home. It’s honestly embarrassing how far they go just to push you to buy food from their restaurant, even when the food there is terrible. It tastes horrible, and some of it isn’t even edible.What makes it worse is that they don’t cater to people with dietary restrictions. If you’re gluten-free or diabetic, don’t expect to find proper meals or even snacks that meet your needs. It’s like they don’t care about guest comfort or health—just about making money from their low-quality food. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this hotel to anyone looking for a respectful staff, reasonable policies, or decent food options.

The service, the beach, the beach villa, the calm, the stars, the manager Hassan, the people serving, the island, the nature, everything.

Everything was perfect.

Clean and well maintain as per standard

1. Misguides was a quite a lot which waste our time2. No privacy for private pool but it’s shouldn’t be open they should ask before or during the booking Which pool we want

Beautiful beach, very nice breakfast and good meals in general

A bit old design and showers in a villa

The island is beautiful and the grounds are very nice. It’s easy and convenient to get to the other hotels for meals and such. Staff is friendly. Rooms are nice and spacious. Love all the animals.

The food was not as good as expected and expensive. Their outdoor bbq live station at Al Shams was cruel to the poor cooks who were outside working on grills when it’s already 45C outside and 100% humidity.

Everything at this resort was stunning, however the people made this hotel to stand out even more. The location is great, for the whole duration of our stay we had the impression that we are in a tropical vacation. I highly recommend any of the villas. Al Yamm is perfect for sunshine and beach lovers and Al Sahel perfect for those who want to enjoy the wildlife in their own backyard surrounded by trees. The pricing of F&B is surprisingly good as well. Would 100% recommend any of the 3 resorts from the island.

I didn’t like nothing, it’s so boring nothing to do No activities only early morning even bicycles not allowed I don’t know what is the reason Also big island only 2 restaurants Also the safari was so boring The food quality was terrible the room was so dirty the lights not working even the TV we was calling many times to someone come to fix but no response The price is so high Honestly I will not visit again

Place is quiet and spacious so guests arriving with kids do not make much disturbance. Stuff is quite polite and friendly (even absolutely not organised and helpless). Food is quite good in quality and taste with fair price

In pool of our villa were swimming ducks and in the morning cleaning guys were washing brooms after removing the poo exactly inside the pool! We notified management of risks to get cervicosis or gelmints or god know what (imagine for pregnant!). So they emptied the pool and were fulfilling it additional day - we lost to have normal rest we paid for! After this accident the cleaning stuff continued to clean their brooms in other villas pool avoiding coming close to us. After second and third notification management bought new broom which the cleaning guy just replaced instead of using different kits for poo and for water where people swim!

The island is gorgeous and the safari was incredible. The safari guide (I forgot his name) was EXCELLENT. He truly made this stay worth it. The buffet breakfast was impressive as well, good variety and decent quality.

The rooms don't have any privacy. We were first put in Villa 18 which has NO privacy at all. Anyone walking on the path or sitting (outdoors) at the restaurant can easily see in the villa if the shades are open and the entire back area is exposed from all directions (restaurant and path to one side, and other villa to the other side) - this is 100% unacceptable and needs to be fixed. We asked to change rooms and luckily enough, they were able to move us to villa 25, although it took around 1.5 hours for this move to happen. We weren't able to unpack and feel settled until around 6PM. Villa 25 was a bit better but the right side is fully exposed to the neighboring villa - I don't understand why there isn't something to block it - bushes, a fence... anything. There is zero privacy which defeats the purpose of getting a villa. Anyone can easily see everything in and around the villa. Customer service is SO slow... everything takes so much time to finish. A simple question takes 10-15 minutes to get answered. There is so much staff everywhere but they are all super slow and take forever to get anything done. From ordering water to the room, coffee at breakfast.. everything takes so much time to finish. Not a very premium experience for such a premium resort.

Great hotel overall, but not for the money I paid. rooms are comfortable and nice. overall facilities not up to the standard for what I paid. food was excellent. the animals around give a great atmosphere.

coordination and administration was chaotic. staff in Olio restaurant are very untrained and got many orders wrong. The lighting system is not working properly.

The staff is lovely. Food is decent.

This is not a 5 Stars hotel, the place is both overpriced and overrated. The beach is not a great deal, it is almost unswimmable. The island itself is a big disappointment: largerly overrated. Safari is underwhelming, it does not make any sense to spend money for it.

The island is nice, and the location is good. The original architecture is beautiful and fits with the environment. Most of the staff is making great efforts to provide the best service. Some of the activities on the island are very exciting

The infrastructure starts to show signs of wear and tear. The level of service is not what one would expect from an ANANTARA. The quality of the food was mediocre. Half of the island is under construction and you can watch the trucks and the bulldozers from the "serenity" of your expensively paid veranda - even on Christmas day !!!