In the land of the Emirates, Dubai has reached yet another milestone: 100 000 hotel rooms.

Say whaaat?!

Although that’s not the record, with Las Vegas having more than 152 000 rooms, by the end of 2018 it is expected that the construction of an additional 30 000 rooms will be completed.

Deep, hey?

Of course, not all rooms are built equally. Many housed under the same roof range from the inexpensive to the utmost extravagant.

Like the selection below.

Whether you want to sleep with the fishes or awaken to a desert view, the Dubai desert landscape has been transformed into an “eye-popping line of extraordinary and extravagant hotels,” explains CNN.

Here are just a few that you should know about:

Burj Al Arab

At $24 000 (R300 000) a night, you can get a revolving four-poster bed in one richly colourful room. Located in the world’s first seven-star hotel, decadently furnished across 8,400 square feet, CNN rates it as “the most coveted place to lay your head in Dubai”.

Oh, and you get to choose from 14 types of pillows.

Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates

Celebrating its 10th year, the hotel has installed a range of “Aspen Chalets” which face the indoor artificial slopes of Ski Dubai – which has become a symbol of “the city’s geography-defying ambition”.

The Underwater Suite at Atlantis, The Palm

The underwater suite isn’t the first in the world to give you an underwater fish-viewing experience, but they sure are The Palms’ most famous feature going for approximately $12,250 (R160 000) a night. With around “65 000 sea creatures occupying a humongous aquarium,” a stingray or shark might pass you by.

The Rosemont Hotel in Dubai

Part of the 30 000 hotel rooms set to be completed by the end of 2018, The Rosemont Hotel in Dubai is a “verdant megaproject” which will sit within a “complex consisting of two 53-story towers, including 448 hotel rooms and 280 apartments”. It will also feature a “75,000 square-foot artificial rainforest”. Magical.

Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa

Take a 50-minute drive inland from Dubai City, and you will hit a “conservation zone which, among other things, reminds guests just from what the UAE arose: a vast swathe of hot, unforgiving desert”. Luckily you’ll hardly feel the heat with air-conditioned rooms fit for a king.

Too much extravagance? I might have to agree.

But it’s always good to see what’s going on in the world, and we have our own slice of luxury in the form of The Silo.

[source:cnn]