The hotel has its own spit of land at Yanbu al-Bahr. A breakwater holds the water flat, and the city stays where it is.

The building runs long and low along the shore instead of standing above it, so the gardens, the pool and the sand read as one plane running out to the water.

A single approach connects it to the shore, and the gardens screen the rest of the way. Everything past that is the hotel's own ground, with water on either side of it.