"For a while now, the notion of Abu Dhabi as Dubai’s tame, eye-rolling neighbor has been an outdated one. For evidence of the Emirati capital’s taste for extravagance, the rhetorician might point to the arrival in 2010 of the world’s first gold-dispensing ATM, though most of us will probably be more interested in other 21st-century arrivals: outposts of the Louvre and Guggenheim, the Formula One World Championship, a litany of stunning places to eat and drink, and several of the world’s most ambitious hotels. Add to the list the Conrad Abu Dhabi Etihad Towers, a lofty project if ever there was one, occupying one of a set of five behemoth glass skyscrapers, of which one alone would have been a marvel, on Corniche Beach." - Tablet Hotels