“Darling, would you prefer to go to Santorini?”
“Ooh, sure! These attractive Cycladic sunsets watched from the hillside!”
“Um, type of…”
“And people lovely outdated windmills and blue-domed church buildings wreathed in bougainvillaea!”
“Sure, about these church buildings…”
“Bouzouki music, calamari contemporary from the ocean, that pretty laidback household life the Greek islanders dwell!”
“…”
“[sighs] You’re speaking about Abu Dhabi once more, aren’t you?”
This, improbably, is a dialog presently enjoying out in households all over the world, after final month’s information that the high-end Anantara chain of resorts is opening a Santorini department earlier than the top of the yr – however not opening it in Santorini.
As an alternative, the brand new resort is touchdown in Ghantoot. (What do you imply, you’ve by no means…? It’s that pretty little parcel of barren Abu Dhabi mud beside the NOMAC Gulf Coal Energy Plant and Dewa Hassyan 132 KV Substation, as any idiot with entry to Google Maps – although not, apparently, Anantara’s planning specialists – is aware of.) The Anantara Santorini Abu Dhabi Retreat has been designed to duplicate its namesake island in each manner, say its house owners, providing as examples its low-rise white-walled buildings, Greek meals in its restaurant and (maybe scraping the underside of the ouzo barrel only a bit) “an indoor cinema with non-public screenings on demand”.
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