Red Sea Global has confirmed the opening of Equinox Resort AMAALA at the Marina Village in Triple Bay, giving the American fitness brand its first address outside its home market and only its second hotel anywhere. The property carries across the performance principles the company has spent three decades refining in its clubs, applied this time to a stretch of coast on the northwestern edge of the Red Sea.
Foster + Partners handled the architecture, with Rockwell Group responsible for the interiors. Both drew on the physical character of the site, taking cues from the coastline, the marine environment and the mountains that rise behind the bay. The result houses 128 rooms and suites across six accommodation categories, two of them penthouse suites, alongside 21 branded residences.
What separates the property from its neighbours is the way movement, nutrition, regeneration and community are wired together as a single system. Guests are not left to assemble a wellness routine from a menu of unrelated services. The resort operates on the assumption that training, eating and sleeping form one continuous cycle, and it builds its facilities accordingly.
“The opening of Equinox Resort AMAALA introduces a distinctive new dimension to the destination’s wellness offering. Equinox has built a global reputation around high-performance living, and bringing that expertise to AMAALA reinforces our ambition to create a destination where wellness, sport and luxury come together in a truly differentiated way.”
John Pagano, Group CEO, Red Sea Global
Training on site
The resort dedicates 704 sqm to indoor and outdoor training, the largest such facility anywhere at AMAALA. The scale allows for the full spread of disciplines the brand is known for, from strength work and conditioning through to group formats and open-air sessions that make use of the climate and the water on the doorstep.
Positioning the gym at this size changes how a stay is structured. Training becomes a fixed point in the day, supported by the resort’s programming, and the surrounding facilities exist to service the recovery that follows. Guests arriving with an established routine will find little reason to break it.
Rest Engineered
Guest rooms have been conceived as recovery environments, informed by Equinox Hotels’ sleep science platform. Circadian lighting is calibrated to work with the body’s internal clock, useful for anyone arriving from a distant time zone with a schedule that will not wait for adjustment. Precision climate control holds the room at temperatures engineered for deep rest.
Advanced acoustic isolation completes the specification, minimising the interruptions that fragment a night’s sleep without the occupant registering them. The thinking treats the bedroom as a piece of equipment. Every element that touches rest has been specified with the same care usually reserved for the gym floor.
Seven circuits of regeneration
The 1,602 sqm spa is anchored by the proprietary Equinox X Circuit, a seven-circuit regeneration experience that moves guests through a progressive sequence of recovery and renewal. Cryotherapy, infrared sauna, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, hydrotherapy and contrast temperature therapies are all part of the offer, combined under a single high-tech, high-touch protocol.
Structuring recovery as a route through defined stations gives the session a shape. Practitioners can personalise the sequence around what a guest has done that day and what their body needs, keeping the approach science-led while remaining restorative in the more traditional sense.
Water features heavily across the property, with four outdoor swimming pools covering different purposes. A dedicated lap pool serves training, leisure pools handle the slower hours, and a rooftop magnesium salt pool sits above it all.
The rooftop position delivers views across Triple Bay, the AMAALA Marina and the AMAALA Yacht Club, the last of which is intended to become an international hub for luxury yachting. Magnesium salt water carries its own recovery credentials, making the rooftop a fitting close to a day that began on the gym floor.
Nutrition with flavour
Four venues operate on the principle of indulgently healthy nutrition, with menus tailored to support health, performance and wellbeing. Mint + Co, Soho Souk, Sama Ai and EQX Den each deliver a distinct experience, and each is built to sit within the resort’s wider philosophy rather than working against it.
The balance is a difficult one to strike, and the brand has been careful to avoid the austerity that often accompanies healthy hotel dining. Guests are given proper cooking with proper flavour, calibrated to what the rest of their stay demands of them.
AMAALA takes shape
AMAALA is being developed as a wellness, sports, culture and lifestyle destination, and it welcomed its first guests in 2026. When complete, it will hold more than 1,600 hotel rooms across nine resorts, supported by branded residences, wellness facilities, a marina and a curated mix of retail and dining. The Corallium Marine Life Institute, an educational and scientific research centre, sits alongside the yacht club as one of two hallmark features.
Red Sea Global operates as a vertically integrated developer with interests spanning tourism, residential, infrastructure, transport, healthcare and services. Its portfolio already includes The Red Sea, which opened to guests in 2023, and Thuwal Private Retreat, which followed in 2024. The company is a PIF subsidiary and a cornerstone of Saudi Arabia’s economic diversification programme, with regeneration written into the brief at every destination it builds.