Getting money back from Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island.
Abu Dhabi · Four Seasons. This page is the routing, not a verdict: where a dispute should be sent, what you contracted for at this end of the market, and who hears it when the property stops replying.
Read this first
We have published no complaints about this hotel.
Nothing on this page says anything happened here. It exists because people who need to dispute a stay cannot find out who to write to, and that is a solvable problem whatever the hotel's record. Guest accounts live on the Wall of Shame, submitted by the guest it happened to and screened before publication under our content policy.
Where to send it
Start with the property, in writing
The published guest address for this property is reservations.abudhabi@fourseasons.com. Write rather than phone: a dispute that exists only as a conversation did not happen. Ask for a named person to own the case and give them a dated deadline in the first message, not the third.
Then go over their head, to Four Seasons
This property belongs to Four Seasons, and that is leverage. A group has a guest-relations function, standards it publishes, and a reputation that is not this one building's to spend. Send the group the property's own written words — a manager conceding a fault in an email is worth more at head office than any description you can write yourself.
And where you booked, if it was not direct
A booking platform has commercial power over a property that you do not, and its own mediation process. Run it at the same time as the other two. Simultaneous pressure is the whole method — a queue of polite sequential emails is what stonewalling is designed to survive.
What you contracted for
At this end of the market the gap between what was sold and what was delivered is measured in real money, and that is the only framing that travels well. You are not asking for a gesture of goodwill. You paid for a specific thing, some part of it was not provided, and you want the value of that part back. Name the nights affected, name the amount, and keep the adjectives out of it — a precise claim is far harder to refuse than an indignant one.
When they stop replying
The UAE regulates tourism at emirate level, and the tourism regulators do take hotel complaints directly — which makes this route stronger here than the European equivalents.
The tourism regulator for that emirate
Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism licenses and inspects hotels and accepts guest complaints about licensed properties; Abu Dhabi and Sharjah run their own equivalents. A licensed property takes a regulator's enquiry seriously because its licence is the thing at stake.
Your card issuer
Where you paid by card, services not as described is the most commonly upheld dispute ground there is. Deadlines are short and vary by scheme, so open this in parallel rather than after everything else has failed. If you paid cash or by bank transfer this route does not exist, and you should never write the word chargeback into a letter you cannot follow through on.
If you can name the problem
Now make them answer.
Tell us what happened in your own words. We write the letters, set the deadlines, and email each escalation on the day it is due.
Practical information, not legal advice. What you can claim depends on where the property is and how you paid — verify the specifics for your case. Contact details are the property's own published guest address and change without notice. Tell us if this routing is out of date, and if you are connected to this hotel and want to give guests a better address than the one above, that is the same form. Rubbish Hotels.