Honeymoon Destinations - Burj Al Arab Hotel

Burj Al Arab Hotel from Dubai

Burj Al Arab Hotel from Dubai is probably the most famous luxurious hotel all over the world and the most advertised of all. Although it is no longer situated on the first position of the latest Top 100 Hotels, it is still among the most futuristic and sofisticaed hotels that have ever been built.

Located in the nearby of the dazzling Jumeirah Beach, the Burj Al Arab Hotel is the ideal honeymoon destination. Water, sand and a large shopping centre is everything you may desire on your vacation.

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The hotel measures a little over one thousand feet in height and has the shape of a billowing sail (Dhow). 202 suites are available at the Burj Al Arab Hotel all of them with marvellous view to the Arabian Gulf, plus other large living room always ready to host business meetings, conferences or weddings. The luxuriant hotel also provides butler services daytimes and nighttimes.

Nighttimes the hotel is lightened chorographically with colours that symbolise water and fire.

Burj Al Arab (the tower of the Arabs) has been designed by the famous British architect Tom Wright. It is the world’s tallest building that functions exclusively as a hotel. The hotel is situated on an artificial island and is connected to the Jumeirah Beach trough a private and curved bridge. The building process for the Burj Al Arab Hotel begun in 1994 and was completed in 1999 with its costs reaching 1.6 milliard dollars. It took around three years for the foundation only to be build; the entire rest of the building was finished in less than that.

Although the exterior of the hotel may look extremely futuristic and ultramodern, the luxurious interior designed by the famous Kwan Chew combines the oriental and occidental styles. The most impressive part of Burj Al Arab hotel are the eight thousand square meters covered in golden foil of 22 karats and 24 000 square meters of marble.

Burj Al Arab is the only hotel in the world that is considered to have seven stars rating instead of the maximum five stars. You can enjoy here a cappuccino topped with fine gold powder in a underwater level restaurant, you can sleep on a spinning canopy bed and experience many other extravagant pleasures.

All rooms at Burj Al Arab are duplexes with marble stairs, private butlers golden framed televisions, thirteen types of pillows and spa products worth hundreds of dollars. The royal suites have come with spinning canopy beds, leopard printed carpets and glass made ceiling.

One of the restaurants is 180 meters over the ocean and another one is under the ocean’s level, access can be made through a simulated submarine. All guests are transferred from the airport to the Burj Al Arab Hotel by private helicopters or by luxurious cars, depending on their preferences.

Other services available are an airport shuttle service, concierge, fitness room, high speed internet, valet parking services, special needs accessibility, 24-7 room service, restaurant and swimming pool. All services have been customer reviewed with five stars out of five, also the services, cleanliness, location and pricing, the only problem left is that after staying at the Burj Al Arab Hotel you will feel slightly disappointed by almost all other hotels you will stay at.

In case you are not one of the hotel’s guests, you are not allowed to simply enter in order to take a quick look. In order to reach the reception you need to pay; even at the ground floor you can admire the huge aquarium and the musical laser fantasies so after all it is worth paying for entrance only. If you cannot afford staying at the hotel for the night and you still want to enter, you need to have at least a reservation for one of the seven restaurants, and you must provide all your credit card’s details in order to prove that you are going to spend at least one hundred dollars.

Moreover, in order to enter the hotel you must provide at the main entrance the confirmation of your reservation that you will receive on your mobile phone. Afterwards, if the personnel approves that you are dressed appropriate you can finally enter the most luxuriant hotel ever.