Burj Al Arab

Burj Al Arab: World's Most Luxurious Hotel

Standing proud on an artificial island in Dubai, the Burj Al Arab whose name means "the Arabian Tower" is known as the world’s tallest and most luxurious hotel. A structure designed to amaze and to impress.

Burj Al Arab Hotel

The hotel is officially rated Five-Star Deluxe. But when a British journalist who visited the hotel on a pre-opening press trip described the Burj al Arab in her article as above and beyond anything she had ever seen and called it a seven-star hotel thus the 7 star reputation.

With a design resembling a billowing sail, Burj Al Arab soars to a height of 321 meters, dominating the Dubai skyline.

This all-suite luxury hotel in Dubai reflects the very finest that the world has to offer. With a discreet in-suite check-in, private reception desk on every floor and a brigade of highly trained butlers, one can be assured of the ultimate in personal service throughout his stay.

Features:

202 spacious duplex suites ranging from 170 to 780 square metres

Six award-winning signature restaurants

World class conference and banqueting venues

In-suite check-in & check-out

Butler service around the clock

Assawan Spa & Health Club

Helicopter transfers and scenic tours

Majlis Al Bahar exclusive private beach

Unlimited access to Wild Wadi Waterpark

Yacht charter

Sinbad’s Kids Club

Infinity pools

Arrive with style

Drive your way to a luxurious welcome by either one of the world’s largest chauffeur-driven fleets of Rolls Royce’s or alternatively by a dedicated Augusta 109 Executive helicopter transfer service.

Dining

One of hotel's distinct restaurant is the Al Mahara,  a seven star seafood restaurant at the gaudy Burj Al Arab hotel at Jumeirha Beach, Dubai. Elevators to the restaurant take guests on an amazing underwater journey to a restaurant surrounding a 300,000 liters coral reef aquarium. If you’re planning to visit Al Mahara, you should wholeheartedly immerse yourself in all its folly to appreciate its true delights.

Al Mahara

Suites
Price starts at $1000 to $3000 per night
All luxurious suites at Burj Al Arab offers magnificent views of Dubai and the Arabian Gulf.

In-Suite Facilities:
- In addition to a dining and living area, each suite has an office area complete with laptop, Internet access, private fax, printer and copier
- Hidden network of advanced technology – lighting, curtains and air-conditioning at the touch of a button
- 42-inch plasma screen, video on demand, DVD, 93 cable channels and 2 hotel information channels
- Full range of men and ladies Hermes amenities (full size bottles)
- Dining table for in-suite dining
- A safe
- Pillow menu with a range of 13 pillows and quilts to choose from
- Walk-in shower and Jacuzzi / Spa bath, complimented by a decadent bath menu with music and
- Aromatherapy Associates bath oils, prepared by your butler
- Children’s amenities
- A private bar and in-suite mini-bar

Ultimate Relaxation

Spanning more than 5,000 square metres Burj Al Arab's exclusive spa offers the ultimate journey of relaxation and rejuvenation in completely separate male and female spa and health club facilities delivering unparalleled well-being treatments, fitness facilities and sublime personalized treatments using the finest products from around the world.

Villas For Holidays

Villas For Holidays Are Better Than Hotel Rooms

Are you packing your luggage for this weekend. Do you look for the holidays that made you realize the paradise on earth. Do you want to search the heaven on this earth. Are you looking for the place that might serve the delicious foods in front of you from various parts of the world.

Well if the answers of all the above questions is yes then here is your answer. Blanes is the place for which you may be looking. Its a quite fishing town that is now modernized and very beautiful in every aspects to provide a good quality holidays.

If you have never been to Spain then it may be quite difficult to ensure you that what you are missing, but its true that once if you entered on this land then you will automatically come to know what you are missing till now. Blanes has some special benevolence of nature on it.

I know that you will say that it may be quite expensive to stay in a foreign country. I must clear you that this is not true in case of Blanes. Blanes is a city that has a wide range of villas and they provide you the accommodation at very reasonable charges.

We know the value of your money and hence will guide you to spend it in a better way. Suppose that you are going to stay in a hotel room. Do you know how expensive it will be for you. These hotel rooms are not even conjusted but also you have to run around the clock of hotel.

Holiday villas will not only provide you the options of privacy but there are some other features also that you will hardly get in the hotel rooms. These villas are spacious and also very luxurious as you will get all the facilities of a comfortable life.

So go for staying in holiday villas and explore the nature more closer as these villas are located nearby the sea side where you will get all the scenic beauty to watch from the window pane. Go and get your beta deal now.

SALA Restaurant of Phuket

SALA Restaurant of Phuket in Thailand is a breathtaking open air restaurant designed by Department of Architecture.The volume of the restaurant and bar has been programmatically stretched horizontally to maximize overlooking beachfront view to all patrons. Contrary to the grid system which usually demarcates a clear boundary line, structural columns are re-positioned at an unconstrained rhythm, thus creating an ambiguous edge – a sense of borderless. Consequently, the inside space and surrounding environment is seamlessly merged into one.

Ark hotel project

The Ark hotel project was designed by Russian firm Remi-studio with the assistance of the International Union of Architects’ program Architecture for Disasters Relief. The dome-shaped hotel is constructed with wooden arches, steel cables and a “self-cleaning” plastic layer instead of glass. The slinky-like Ark hotel can be adapted to suit both land and water. It is built to stay afloat in the event of floods or rising seas. The 14,000 square meter shell-like construction of arches and cables distributes the weight evenly, meaning it can withstand earthquakes. Daylight is filtered through to internal rooms due to the hotel’s see-through structure, reducing the need for lighting. 09 More images after the break...


Designed as: “an integrated energy system with an uninterpretable power supply using alternative energy sources”, the hotel uses solar panels and a rainwater collection system to provide inhabitants with power and water. It would be built around a central pillar connecting to roof-top wind generators and heat pumps, as well as to energy storage and thermal conversion units below.There will also be a “tornado” energy generating spiral at the top of the pillar.

The Sand Hotel

The Sand Hotel

The sculpture took 1,000 tonnes of sand and a team of four sculptors working 14 hours a day for seven days to build the structure on Weymouth beach, Dorset, England.

Guests can book to stay in the hotel, which includes beds made out of sand, until the rain washes it away.

The structure was created by a hotel company to celebrate a resurgence of holidaymakers flocking to the seaside.

Research by Laterooms.com predicts 37 million people will enjoy British beaches this year.

The sand hotel offers a twin and double bedroom, while the roofless structure gives guests the chance to "star-gaze" at night, the firm said.

But there are no toilet facilities and people were warned the sand "gets everywhere".

Mark Anderson, creator of the sand hotel, said: "It is the biggest sandcastle-like structure ever in the UK.

"Four of us worked hard and with the help of a JCB we got it built.

"The beds are made of sand so it can get everywhere, especially between the toes.

"But the best thing is in the morning the tide laps through the door, what a great way to wake up."

Kathy Gwinnett, of Laterooms.com, said: "It's great that British beach holidays are enjoying a renaissance and that some of the less obvious resorts, such as Weymouth and Torquay, are getting rediscovered by a younger generation.

capsule hotel in japan

A capsule hotel in japan is a hotel system of extremely dense occupancy. Guest space is reduced in size to a modular plastic or fibreglass block roughly 2 m by 1 m by 1.25 m, providing room to sleep and little more, although facilities usually include a television and other electronic entertainment. These capsules are then grouped and stacked, two units high. Luggage is usually stored in a locker away from the capsule. Privacy is maintained by a curtain at the open end of the capsule but noise pollution can be high. Washing facilities are communal and there are often restaurants, or at least vending machines, and other entertainment facilities.

The benefit of these hotels is convenience and price, usually around $25-$ 34 a night
This style of hotel accommodation was developed in Japan and has not gained acceptance outside of the country. The Japanese capsule hotels vary widely in size, some having only fifty or so capsules and others over 700. They are often used primarily by men. There are also capsule hotels with separate male and female sleeping quarters.

The first capsule hotel was the Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in the Umeda district of Osaka.

These rooms can be seen in the movies The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Gung Ho. They were also used as a basis for sets in the film The Fifth Element.



Each capsule has a little control panel. There is an alarm clock, TV/Radio speaker, light and TV on/off switch, volume knob, and some panic button

Awazu Onsen

The world oldest hotel build in 717 in the Awazu Onsen area of Komatsu, in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Hoshi is a ryokan (Japanese traditional inn) in the Awazu Onsen area of Komatsu, in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 717, it is the world's oldest hotel still in operation according to the Guinness World Records and the world's oldest continuously operating company after the liquidation of Kongo Gumi in 2006.

Let's go to this World's Oldest Hotel in the Awazu Onsen area of Komatsu, in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Although ice hotels

Although ice hotels now exist in several cold countries, the Ice Hotel in Kiruna, Sweden is best known as the earliest. Since its creation in 1989, the hotel has featured in many television travel programmes, newspapers and magazines. With the exception of the beds, the entire hotel is made completely out of ice blocks - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The ice is made from water taken from the River Torne. The hotel features more than 60 rooms and suites, a bar, reception area and chapel.The hotel only exists between November and May.

The Pitcher Inn

The Pitcher Inn
Warren, Vt.

The nine rooms and two suites at The Pitcher Inn are designed on themes such as "School," "Trout" and "Calvin Coolidge." We're not just talking variations in wallpaper--the "Stable" suite has a hay chute opening into it. Guests don't rough it, however. The inn is a Relais and Chateaux property, and it includes a spa and dining room that uses fresh local and regional ingredients.



Library Hotel
New York City

Appropriately located near the New York Public Library, the hotel has 60 rooms on 10 floors. Each floor is designed after one of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal System, such as Math and Science and Religion, and each room houses part of the hotel's collection of 6,000 books.


Propeller Island City Lodge
Berlin, Germany

Would you rather sleep in a coffin or in a bed atop a castle? These are just a couple of options available when visiting the Propeller Island City Lodge, where each of the 31 rooms embrace a different theme. From the orange room to the symbol room--tiled entirely with wooden blocks painted with 300 different symbols--this gallery-esque spot gets those creative juices pumping.


Ice Hotel
Quebec, Canada

The Ice Hotel is created anew each year out of 15,000 pounds of snow and 500 pounds of ice. The 34-room hotel features an ice chapel, two art galleries and a host of outdoor activities. The temperature inside the hotel ranges from 23 to 28 degrees Fahrenheit, and the beds are carved from ice. You don't sleep directly on the ice, though--there's a wooden plank between the ice and a comfy mattress, plus you're insulated with a special sleeping bag that can withstand the harshest climes (-40 degrees Fahrenheit). Happily, the bathrooms are not frigid--the heated facilities are in the adjacent hotel.


Hydropalace
Qingdao, China

Scheduled to open in 2009, the Hydropalace in Qingdao, China, will be anchored in the Yellow Sea in water that is 16 to 20 meters deep at low tide. Guests will arrive at the hotel by yacht, which will also stop at a planned land-based hydrotower, scheduled to open for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.