The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh
The palace hotel of 2011, built as a royal guest palace, in its grounds in Al Hada beside the Diplomatic Quarter.
The Ritz-Carlton · Diplomatic Quarter, Al Hada & Via Riyadh · Riyadh
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because a building designed as a royal guest palace opened as a hotel in 2011 with 492 rooms in 52 acres of grounds beside the Diplomatic Quarter, an indoor pool under a painted sky and a bowling alley of its own – and The Ritz-Carlton holds it to five-star standing.
- 492 rooms in 52 acres of grounds in Al Hada, on Mecca Road, beside the Diplomatic Quarter; a Ritz-Carlton hotel.
- Designed as a royal guest palace and opened as a hotel in 2011; an indoor pool under a sky fresco; a six-lane bowling alley.
- Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star 2026 for the hotel; holds five-star standing.
The neighborhood
Diplomatic Quarter, Al Hada & Via Riyadh
The green west of the city – the Diplomatic Quarter, Al Hada and Via Riyadh, with three of the six hotels. The Diplomatic Quarter, the gated district of embassies, was laid out in the 1980s on the edge of Wadi Hanifah, with its parks, its walking trails and Tuwaiq Palace. Al Hada, the district of grounds and gardens, lies beside it on Mecca Road; Via Riyadh, the open-air quarter of restaurants, shops and cinemas, opened in 2023; and beyond them runs the road to Diriyah and At-Turaif.
- The Diplomatic Quarter and its parks, next door.
- Via Riyadh and The St. Regis Riyadh, a few minutes by car.
- Diriyah and At-Turaif, twenty minutes to the north-west.
“The palace hotel of 2011, built as a royal guest palace, in its grounds in Al Hada beside the Diplomatic Quarter.”
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