Dubai - 迪拜(阿拉伯联合酋长国的酋长国之一) 下面那个宾馆被认为是世界上唯一的七星级宾馆
Here’s a birds eye view of the construction and development work in Dubai…
You must have seen this picture…yes it is Burj Al Arab in Dubai - Supposedly the only 7 [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]Star [color=orange ! important]Hotel in the World!
It was built in only 18 months and completed in 2003…
Yes, it cost a lot of money. Contrary to popular opinion, Dubai is not oil rich
Just to go in and see the [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]hotel costs 60 Pounds. Can you imagine what it would cost to spend the entire night?
In a room like this one?
Let me tell you: A suite like this one can cost anything between $7500 and $15,000 a night!
This is the Panoromic Suite for $8,250 a night!
You have to add what it costs to dine in this restaurant.
You can have your business meeting in something like this…
And you can enjoy a drink in one of the numerous bars
Refresh yourself with a shower in a cozy & intimate place like this…
Or enjoy a swim in one of the numerous pools; if a bath is not enough.
If you are feeling bored you can choose to play a tennis match atop the hotel with Nadal (if he is around!)
Crazy isn’t it? For the price of an hours play you can buy hundreds of tennis balls!
Takea look a this indoor sky slope. You could enjoy freezing temperatureswhen others are sweating in 85 deg Fahrenheit or 45 deg centigrade!Don’t complain about the Sun in [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]Dubai. It’s also in Dubai in the “Mall of the Emirates”.
Is it nice?
The mall looked like this three years ago
Now finished; it looks like this (notice the size of the palm trees)
Friends, you are seeing Dubai - The city with one of the fastest growth rates in the world.
Compare the 2 pictures above…
Nowlook at some of the future projects. 15% of the tall buildings beingbuilt in the world are in Dubai. It is said that around 15% of themajor construction equipments like Cranes etc are in use at the momentin Dubai.
Thisis a virtual model of “Burj Dubai” which will be the tallest tower inthe world by end 2008. It will exceed 800 meters in height.
Compare it to the closest competitor…
Here is how the Burj Dubai currently looks like…
This is the biggest [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]theme [color=orange ! important]park in the world and it will be finished by 2010. Project has taken off. It will be called “Dubailand”
You can see Dinosaurs come to life - In real size!
The above is the “Jumeirah Beach Residences project” which was just completed. It is a block of 40 buildings.
Work is done day and night.
This is the design plan of the “Dubai Marina” zone showing views of 2 [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]PalmProjects - Palm Jumeirah and Palm Jebel Ali and third one “The World”project. The middle one, the Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and theisland is 5 kilometers by 5 kilometers and will add 78 kms to thecoastline.
These are the villas on the leaf of the palm.
AThird Palm Project called “Palm Deira” is also coming up. Palm Deirawill take 10-12 years to complete and will be bigger in size than thecity of Paris!
This is an aerial view of the [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]Burj [color=orange ! important]Al [color=orange ! important]Arab and the Palm.
Between the three islands there will be over 100 [color=orange ! important]luxury hotels,exclusive residential beach side villas and apartments, marinas, watertheme parks, restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities and healthspas.
The Palm Islands will add 520 kms of beaches to Dubai coastline. Indeed this is the “Eighth Wonder” of the World!
Thisis the “World Project” shaped like a world map, another man madearchipelago of 300 islands. The development will cover an area of 9 kmin length and 6 km in width, surrounded by an oval breakwater.Transport between the islands will be by boat and helicopter! Islandprices range from $15 million to $45 million! Think you can have one?
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