This Wellness Resort Brand Is Opening Its First-Ever International Property — on a Private Island
Miraval is expanding beyond the U.S. for the first time with a 180-key adults-only resort on Saudi Arabia's Shura Island, featuring the largest spa in the Red Sea development.
Miraval Resorts & Spas, best known for its wellness retreats in Arizona, Austin, and the Berkshires, is about to open its first international property. Miraval The Red Sea will debut on March 30, 2026, on Shura Island along Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast — marking a major milestone for both the brand and the region's growing luxury tourism ambitions.
The adults-only resort spans three million square feet of coastal landscape, framed by mangroves and lagoons. It will offer 180 keys across rooms, suites, and villas, with the centerpiece being the Life in Balance Spa — a 3,000-square-meter facility with 39 treatment rooms, vitality pools, hammams, salt rooms, and sensory showers. That makes it the largest spa on Shura Island.
Four dining venues round out the property, which is designed around Miraval's signature approach of blending physical wellness, mindfulness, and connection with nature.
Saudi Arabia's Resort Boom
The opening is part of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Global tourism development, one of the kingdom's flagship Vision 2030 megaprojects. The development is designed around regenerative tourism principles, with zero-carbon operations and renewable energy powering the properties.
Miraval operates under the Hyatt Inclusive Collection, which has been on an expansion tear over the past two years. While Miraval's U.S. properties operate as all-inclusive wellness retreats, the Red Sea location will be the brand's first test of whether its contemplative, screen-free ethos can translate outside its American comfort zone — and onto a remote island in the Middle East.
