What's next for Dubai?
By Paul Johnson on Mar 02, 2006 in Accommodation, Hotels, Leisure Travel, Middle East, Regions, Resorts, Speciality Travel, United Arab Emirates
It seems Dubai has gone from strength to strength in recent years and Mobissimo Blog has a good summary of why this lavish location currently offers the best of the best when it comes to luxury travel. Let’s take a quick look:
- the world’s only 7-star (yes, S-E-V-E-N star!) hotel, Jumeirah’s Burj Al Arab, complete with underwater restaurant.
- a cluster of man-made islands depicting the various continents of the world in miniature, called The World (aka The Palm Islands).
- world-class shopping in the form of the BurJuman Centre and Mall of the Emirates.
- the largest snowdome in the world, with the the world’s third largest indoor ski slope (who’d have thought it… in Dubai?!)
It’s an impressive list that leaves you wondering just what could be coming next.
Burj Al Arab is officially a 5 star hotel, they market the hotel as a seven star experience.
I recently visited the newly opened Dubai Mall which like many of dubai’s malls is pretty impressive. It has a huge aquarium with a tank almost three floors high with glass sides so shoppers can look at the sealife. The Burj Dubai tower which is next door will host the new Armani Dubai hotel was fairly cracking on.
I always find with Dubai no matter how regularly you visit the landscape always changes – wonder when it will all end?