Underwater hotel in Dubai

Underwater hotel in Dubai
Underwater hotel in Dubai
Dubai launches a new ambitious tourism project. After giant man-made islands and skyscraper hotels this emirate plans to offer tourists underwater travel. The concept of underwater hotels and floating cities will be realized near the Dubai coast.
 

Underwater hotels in Dubai will be constructed by Drydocks World - famous division of Dubai World. Drydocks World will closely cooperate with Big Invest Consult - consulting company from Switzerland. Agreement on cooperation between the two companies was signed on Wednesday May 2, 2012 at the annual Investment Summit held in international business center of Dubai.

Unique hotel will offer Dubai guests a very unusual travel experience. The hotel will include underwater residences, floating villas and bungalows. All of them will be united into a single complex. Above-water and underwater residences will be built in the form of discs (Above Water Discus and Underwater Discus respectively). The "Discs" of the above-water part of the hotel will be located at a height of 10m above the water. This area will include 21 rooms. In the underwater part of the hotel will be located bar, diving complex and panoramic area to watch the underwater world.

The concept of the underwater hotel provides for 7 different designer types. Depending on the type the cost of the project could range from 50 to 120 million dollars.

In this project BIG Invest acts as a representative of Deep Ocean Technology - the company that owns the idea and technological development of the underwater hotel.

The contract signed by Drydocks World and BIG Invest provides Dubai World unit with the exclusive right to implement projects for construction of underwater hotels in the whole Middle East region.

It is expected that the first underwater hotels will appear in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

In the case of successful implementation of the two pilot projects Big Invest Consult and Drydocks World plans to offer this unique solution for the hotel real estate business in other parts of the world.

Ilya Kalachev

Date: 05/05/2012

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