[2] The hotel contains 598 rooms and suites, 19 beachfront villas, and 20 restaurants and bars.
Visitors to the hotel have a total of 33,800 square metres (364,000 sq ft) of beach for their use.
[6] The locale's name had its origins in the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which had floating oil storage tankers on the site long before Dubai started its current modernisation.
[7] When completed in 1997, the Jumeirah Beach Hotel was 93 metres high making it the 9th tallest building in Dubai.
[9] Despite its lower rankings, the hotel remains a Dubai landmark.