Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah
The emirate’s longest private beach, wrapped in an ultra all-inclusive rate
Is Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah worth it?
Important: this hotel is no longer a Hilton. The management contract ended on 30 June 2024 and since 1 July 2024 the property has traded as Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah, under Accor. It is an ultra all-inclusive five-star resort on 1.5km of private beach on the Ras Al Khaimah city coast — the longest private beach frontage in the emirate — with seven pools behind it. Rates start around AED 475 per room per night. There is a significant caveat right now: the main hotel building is closed for renovation and scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026, so only the villa collection is currently bookable and the restaurant line-up is reduced. Check the renovation status before booking.
The rebrand matters more than a name change usually would, because it came with a full ultra all-inclusive conversion. Meals, most drinks and the majority of facilities now sit inside one price, which they did not under the previous brand.
The location is genuinely unusual for Ras Al Khaimah: you are about 450 metres from the city centre, so you can walk out to the souq and local restaurants rather than being marooned on an island resort strip.
What makes it special
1.5km of private beach
The longest private beach frontage in the emirate, running along the Ras Al Khaimah city coastline with seven pools set behind it.
Genuine ultra all-inclusive
Meals, selected drinks and most facilities are bundled; in-room dining, spa, water sports and cabanas remain chargeable.
Ottoman-inspired spa and kids club
The spa runs daily, and the kids club takes ages 4 to 12 in two sessions, with a separate teens club.
Walking distance to the city
Roughly 450 metres from the town centre, so unlike the Al Marjan resorts you can actually walk out to local life.
Which room should you book?
Views change the stay here more than square metres do — decide between sea, pool and fairway before you compare rates.
Two Bedroom Premium Villa
145 sqm with a sea-facing terrace, direct beach access and its own pool. With the main building closed for renovation, the villa collection is all that is bookable.
Deluxe Room
48 sqm with a king bed and a private balcony over city or garden. The base category — part of the main building, and unavailable until the refurbishment completes.
Premium Room, Sea View
50 sqm with a king bed and a spacious balcony giving uninterrupted Gulf views. Also in the main building, so not currently bookable.
Where will you eat?
Turquoise
The international buffet and the main all-inclusive venue. Note that several outlets are closed during the renovation — confirm what is actually operating before you book.
Orient
Turkish a la carte, dinner only. Guests report a two-consecutive-night minimum stay applies before you can book the a la carte venues.
SOL Seafood Grill
The beach grill and bar. L’Olivo for Italian, Toro Loco for steak, a swim-up pool bar and an adults-only cigar lounge complete the line-up.
What you’ll find on-site
- Swimming pool
- Restaurants & bars
- Free Wi-Fi
- On-site parking
A feel for the place
Placeholder photography via Pexels — final imagery to follow.
Where exactly is it?
The resort sits on Al Maareedh Street in Ras Al Khaimah city, directly on the Gulf, roughly 450 metres from the town centre and 300 metres from a public beach. Dubai International is about 100km, generally quoted at around 75 minutes. Ras Al Khaimah International is around 26km, roughly 20 to 25 minutes. The museum, souq and Al Manar Mall are all close.
- Transfers75 min from DXB
- Check-in / out15:00 / 12:00
- Best monthsOct – Apr
What it’s actually like
Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah is the emirate’s largest ultra all-inclusive resort, a 466-key property on 1.5 km of private beach just south of Ras Al Khaimah city. Until 1 July 2024 it traded as the Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort. If you are searching for that name, this is the hotel you are looking for — the building, the beach and much of the team are the same, but the operator, the brand and the commercial model have all changed.
That matters more than a normal rebrand, because Rixos does not run hotels the way Hilton did. The room rate now bundles nearly everything you would previously have paid for, and the resort has been repositioned around volume, families and long all-day dining. One further caveat applies to anyone booking for autumn 2026: a major refurbishment of the main building’s rooms and suites is under way and is scheduled to complete in Q4 2026. We cover what that means for a stay booked now in detail below.
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At a glance
- Official name: Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah (formerly Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort)
- Operator: Rixos, part of Accor
- Rebranded: 1 July 2024
- Keys: 466 rooms, suites and private villas
- Address: Al Maareedh Street, Ras Al Khaimah
- Beach: 1.5 km of private sand — the longest private beachfront of any hotel in the emirate
- Pools: seven
- Dining: ten venues in total — four restaurants and six bars, including Orient, L’Olivo and Toro Loco
- Board: ultra all-inclusive as standard
- Indicative rate: from around AED 1,045 per night, all-inclusive
- Drive from Dubai International (DXB): about 70 minutes
- Guest scores: 8.8 on Hotels.com; 4.4 from 10,461 reviews on TripAdvisor. These are guest scores, not RAKTraveller ratings.
The rebrand: what changed in 2024
On 1 July 2024 the Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort was handed over to Rixos, the Turkish-founded luxury brand now owned by Accor, and reopened as Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah. The Hilton name is gone from the property entirely. Honours points no longer apply; the relevant loyalty scheme is Accor’s ALL.
The substantive change is the board basis. As a Hilton, the resort sold rooms with breakfast and charged separately for almost everything else. Rixos sells ultra all-inclusive as the default, so the headline rate is higher but covers food, soft and alcoholic drinks, most activities and the kids’ clubs. Comparing a 2023 Hilton rate with a 2026 Rixos rate is not a like-for-like comparison, and a good deal of the negative commentary online about “price rises” ignores that.
Worth knowing: Ras Al Khaimah now has two Rixos properties, and they are constantly confused. This one is Rixos Al Mairid, on the mainland Al Mairid coast south of the city. The other is Rixos Bab Al Bahr, on Al Marjan Island, about 25 minutes further south. They are different hotels with different characters. Check which one your booking names before you travel.
Location
The resort sits on Al Maareedh Street on the Al Mairid stretch of coast, roughly ten minutes south of Ras Al Khaimah city centre and the Corniche. That is a genuinely useful position: you are close enough to the old town, the fish market and Al Hamra Mall to go out for an afternoon, but far enough from anything else that the resort feels self-contained.
Dubai International is about 70 minutes by car in clear traffic; allow longer on Thursday and Friday evenings. Ras Al Khaimah International is around 25 minutes. Jebel Jais is about an hour inland, though note that the mountain closes for the summer — see our guide to staying near Jebel Jais for the seasonal picture.
The trade-off against Al Marjan Island is walkability. Al Mairid is a residential and light-commercial district; there is no strip of independent restaurants or bars within walking distance. If you leave the resort in the evening you are taking a taxi.
Rooms and suites
There are 466 keys across low-rise blocks in the main resort plus a separate collection of private beachfront villas. Categories run from standard rooms through sea-view rooms and suites to the villas, some of which have private pools.
The important current caveat: rooms and suites in the main hotel building are temporarily out of service while they are refurbished. The operator has said the work is scheduled for completion in Q4 2026. Through the refurbishment period the resort has been trading on its villa inventory, with villa guests retaining access to the beach, pools, dining and spa. If you are booking for a date before the work completes, confirm in writing with the hotel which room type you are actually getting and whether any part of the resort is a live construction area during your stay. Do not assume a room category shown on a booking site is open.
We have not inspected the refurbished rooms — nobody has stayed in them yet — so this review does not make any claim about their finish.
The all-inclusive offer (what is actually included)
Rixos uses the phrase “ultra all-inclusive”, which in this group generally means the following is covered by the rate:
- All meals across the resort’s restaurants, including à la carte venues, not only the buffet
- Soft drinks, hot drinks, and local and international alcoholic drinks through the bars
- Snacks and beach or pool service during posted hours
- The Rixy Kids Club and Teens Club
- Pools, beach, loungers and the daily activities programme
What is normally excluded: spa treatments at Naturelife Spa, premium and vintage spirits, motorised watersports, excursions, and in-villa or in-room dining beyond a limited menu. Rixos does not publish a single definitive inclusions list that applies identically at every property, and inclusions can be adjusted seasonally. Ask for the current inclusions sheet at the time you book — that is the only reliable version.
Beach, pools and facilities
The beach is the strongest thing about this resort and the clearest reason to choose it. At 1.5 km it is the longest private beachfront of any hotel in Ras Al Khaimah, which means that even at high occupancy you can walk away from the crowd and find quiet sand. Very few UAE beach resorts can offer that; most are squeezed onto a few hundred metres.
There are seven swimming pools spread across the site, which sensibly separates families from adults looking for quiet. Facilities also include Naturelife Spa, a gym, tennis and the daily activities programme that Rixos runs at all its resorts — aqua aerobics, beach volleyball, evening entertainment. Whether that animation is a benefit or an irritation is a matter of temperament; it is loud and it is constant.
Dining
Ten venues in total: four restaurants and six bars. The named restaurants include Orient, L’Olivo and Toro Loco, covering broadly Middle Eastern, Italian and Latin American cooking, alongside the main buffet. Alcohol is served throughout, which is not universal in Ras Al Khaimah.
Set expectations at “good resort catering at scale” rather than destination dining. A 466-key all-inclusive kitchen is optimised for consistency and throughput. If you want a standout meal you will be leaving the property, and because the rate already covers your food, doing so costs you twice.
Family suitability
This is a family resort first. The Rixy Kids Club and a separate Teens Club are included, the beach is long and shallow-shelving, there are seven pools, and the all-inclusive model removes the running argument about whether the children can have another ice cream. For a week in the sun with children aged roughly four to fourteen, it is one of the more straightforward choices in the emirate. See our best family hotels in Ras Al Khaimah for how it sits against the alternatives.
Couples without children should think carefully. There are quieter corners, but this is not a quiet hotel.
What is good
- 1.5 km of private beach, comfortably the longest in the emirate, and the single best reason to book
- Genuinely inclusive board — à la carte restaurants and alcohol are covered, not just a buffet
- Seven pools and a large site, so it absorbs occupancy better than most
- Strong, well-run children’s provision across two age bands
- Close to Ras Al Khaimah city, so a half-day out is easy
What is not good
- The main building’s rooms are being refurbished with completion scheduled for Q4 2026. Anyone booking before then is buying into a live building site, with villa stock as the fallback.
- The rebrand has left stale information everywhere. Booking sites, maps and older guides still carry the Hilton name, old photography and old descriptions.
- Dining is competent rather than memorable, and the all-inclusive model penalises eating out.
- Constant organised entertainment. If you want silence, this is the wrong resort.
- Nothing within walking distance. Every trip off-site is a taxi.
- Easily confused with Rixos Bab Al Bahr, and mis-bookings do happen.
Value verdict
From around AED 1,045 a night all-inclusive, the arithmetic is favourable for a family. Four people eating three meals a day with drinks in a UAE beach resort on a room-only rate would spend a substantial share of that on food alone. Against a room-only five-star rate of AED 600 to 700 in the same area, the premium buys your entire food and drink bill plus the children’s clubs.
The calculation reverses for a couple who like to eat out, and it weakens sharply while the refurbishment is live, because you are paying a full rate for a property that is not fully open. If your dates fall before Q4 2026, treat any rate near the top of the range as poor value and negotiate or look elsewhere. From 2027 onward, with the rooms finished, this should be one of the better-value large all-inclusives on the coast — see our all-inclusive comparison.
Who should book it?
- Families with school-age children who want one bill and a long beach
- Travellers who want a large, busy, sociable resort with organised activity
- Anyone for whom beach length and space matter more than design or dining
- Guests travelling from 2027 onward, once the refurbished rooms are in service
Who should skip it?
- Couples wanting a calm, adult, design-led stay
- Anyone whose holiday is built around restaurants — you will pay twice
- Travellers with dates before Q4 2026 who are unwilling to risk refurbishment noise
- Guests who want to walk out to bars and shops in the evening
Nearby alternatives
Rixos Bab Al Bahr is the obvious comparison and the one people get wrong. Both are Rixos, both are ultra all-inclusive, both are family-heavy. Bab Al Bahr is on Al Marjan Island, so it is newer in feel, closer to the Wynn development and the island’s restaurant strip, and generally busier and pricier. Al Mairid has far more beach and more room to breathe, sits nearer the city, and — refurbishment aside — usually prices below it. Choose Bab Al Bahr for the island setting and the buzz; choose Al Mairid for space and sand.
Beyond that, Anantara Mina Al Arab is the quieter, more design-led alternative for couples, with overwater villas and no all-inclusive noise. Cove Rotana offers a similarly family-friendly bay setting at a lower price. The full list is in our Ras Al Khaimah hotels index.
FAQ
Is the Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort still open?
Not under that name. The hotel was rebranded as Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah on 1 July 2024 and is now operated by Rixos, part of Accor. The building and the beach are the same, but the Hilton affiliation has ended and Hilton Honors benefits no longer apply there.
Is Rixos Al Mairid the same as Rixos Bab Al Bahr?
No. They are two separate Rixos resorts in Ras Al Khaimah and they are frequently confused. Al Mairid is on the mainland coast south of the city; Bab Al Bahr is on Al Marjan Island, about 25 minutes further on. Check the exact hotel name on your confirmation before you travel.
Is the hotel being renovated right now?
Yes. Rooms and suites in the main building are being refurbished, with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026. Private villas have remained open throughout, with access to the beach, pools, dining and spa. Confirm directly with the hotel what is open on your dates.
Is alcohol served, and is it included?
Yes on both counts. The resort is licensed and has six bars. Local and international alcoholic drinks are covered by the ultra all-inclusive rate during service hours; premium and vintage spirits usually are not. Ask for the current inclusions sheet when you book, as the detail changes.
Bottom line
Rixos Al Mairid is a big, busy, straightforward family all-inclusive with one outstanding asset: 1.5 km of private beach that nothing else in Ras Al Khaimah can match. The switch from Hilton in 2024 made it better value for families and worse value for anyone who wanted to eat elsewhere. The honest qualification for autumn 2026 is the refurbishment: until the main building’s rooms return in Q4, you are booking a partially open resort at a full-resort price. Book it for 2027 with confidence; book it for this season only with written confirmation of what you are getting.
How this review was prepared
This page was rewritten in September 2026 after the property’s rebrand made the previous version obsolete. Property facts — the 1 July 2024 handover to Rixos, the 466 keys, the 1.5 km beach, the seven pools, the ten food and drink venues and the Q4 2026 refurbishment schedule — come from the operator and from UAE trade and regional press reporting. Guest scores are attributed to their sources: 8.8 on Hotels.com and 4.4 from 10,461 reviews on TripAdvisor. These are other travellers’ ratings, not RAKTraveller’s. We have not stayed in the refurbished rooms and make no claim about them. Rates move constantly and inclusions are adjusted seasonally, so treat the figures here as indicative and confirm with the hotel. Last checked: September 2026.
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Your questions, answered
Is this still the Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort?
No. The Hilton management contract ended on 30 June 2024 and the property has traded as Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah under Accor since 1 July 2024. If you are looking specifically for a Hilton-branded resort in the area, the DoubleTree and Hampton by Hilton properties on Al Marjan Island are the alternatives.
Can I actually book it right now?
Only partly. The main hotel building is closed for renovation and scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026, so just the villa collection is bookable and the restaurant line-up is reduced. Check the current renovation status directly before committing to any dates.
What is the beach like?
It runs 1.5km, the longest private beach frontage in the emirate. The resort itself warns that shells and a stony seabed mean you should wear sandals or beach shoes when walking on the sand and entering the sea. There are seven pools behind it.
What does the all-inclusive actually cover?
Meals in the buffet restaurant, selected soft and alcoholic drinks, and most facilities. Explicitly chargeable: 24-hour in-room dining, spa treatments, laundry, excursions, babysitting, water sports, beach cabanas and premium beverages. Bed-and-breakfast and room-only are also sold.
When is the best time to go?
June is typically the cheapest month, with rates dropping substantially. October to April is far more comfortable for a beach holiday. Whichever you pick, check the renovation status first — the main building is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026 and until then only villas are bookable.
So, is Rixos Al Mairid Ras Al Khaimah the right call?
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