DUKES HOTEL

Hotel Features.
This luxury hotel opens to a monochrome-tiled lobby with antique-style furnishings and upright armchairs. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk and concierge desk can help book transport and tours. There is complimentary access to the Health Centre, featuring a selection of beauty treatments and massages, an Italian marble steam room, and 24-hour fitness centre. Wireless Internet access is available in public areas. The hotel provides 24-hour room service, while a porter/bellhop and a doorman/doorwoman will offer assistance. A limo/town car service is also available.

Traditional British dishes are the speciality of Dukes Hotel's restaurant, The Dining Room, which is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Furnished with barrel- backed velvet chairs and gold-framed portrait paintings, the hotel bar is renowned for its martinis.

Guests on business can take advantage of two meeting rooms and a conference room. Dukes Hotel also provides secretarial services and mobile phone rental.

Guestrooms. Decorated in neutral tones, the 90 air-conditioned guestrooms are fitted with ornate dark wooden furnishings and contemporary-style fabrics in earthy tones. All are equipped with flatscreen televisions offering satellite channels, wireless Internet access, and DVD players and MP3 player speakers (on request). Luxury features include a turndown service, in-room massages (on request), bathrobes slippers, and complimentary newspapers. All rooms offer minibars, hair dryers, and complimentary bottled water.

The Centaurs Hotel Islamabad

The $350 million, 7-Star Centaurus Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan will help to put this country on the map for international travellers once the project is completed around 2010.

Apeiron Hotel

Apeiron Hotel is a design concept for a new 7 star hotel in Dubai. Developer and construction schedule have not been announced as of October 2007. The Apeiron Hotel would be the second 7 star hotel to be built in Dubai (The Burj Al Arab hotel was the first 7 star hotel). Designed by UK’s Sybarite Architects, the hi-tech futuristic hotel would feature a two-storeyed jungle at the top of the 28-storeyed building. The seven star hotel is an US $350 million project that would be 300m from the coast of Dubai. Access to the hotel is restricted to water and air only.

HOTEL STATISTICS: total floors: 28 (above ground), total suites: 438, suite sizes: 180m² - 750m², building height: 185m, gross floor area: 300,000m², site footprint area:26,500m², passenger lifts: 14, service lifts: 8, distance off shore: 300m (Building design is equally as powerful within a landlocked site), wind load factor: 350km per hour, structure: steel, reinforced concrete.
The hotel also contains private cinemas, luxury boutiques, conference rooms and restaurants. Other features will include an art gallery, shops, underwater spa & gym, an underwater restaurant. The hotel’s internal facade has louvers to prevent direct sunlight and will made up of solar cells as is the ribbon that frames the building that can generate some energy for the entire hotel. The 28-storey hotel environs will have an artificial crescent-shaped beach, private lagoons and a central lagoon with colourful coral reefs surrounding it.

The Flower of the East, Iran

Resembling a Flower as its name suggest, the luxury Persian seven-star hotel, ‘The flower of the East’ is located on Kish Island in Iran and is due to be completed by 2010.

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It is clear that the demand for luxurious living while on the road is very high and we are sure that this trend will continue to be strong. The Economist reported on the rise of the Gulf states on how their property boom seems to just keep going. It is therefore no surprise to see much of these seven star hotels appear in these countries.

Tameer Towers - Abu Dhabi Get its 7-Star Hotel

The ultimate in luxurious living and prestige has just been signed by Tameer holdings, one of the leading real estate companies in the region. The cascading skyscraper development will contain 4 residential towers, stepped villas and townhouses, a commercial tower, a 7-star-luxury-business hotel, a private marina and a vibrant canal promenade.

Tameer has contracted Gensler to design this project which has been estimated to be worth some AED 100 million. The whole project is expected to reach some AED 13 billion (which is around $3.5 billion).

Tameer Towers in Shams Abu Dhabi is located on Reem island and considered to be one of the most significant real estate developments in the city.

The developments centerpiece will be the 73-story Commercial Tower which will be diamond shaped. It hugs the canal and a pedestrian walkway at base level, while built up terraces will cascade into the marina and the canal at the same time.

Separate driveways are assigned to each elevated villa with private garden, great views, a terrace and swimming pool.

The Morgan Plaza Beijng

The Morgan Plaza is a super-luxury 7 star hotel under construction in Beijing, China. Although it was set to be finished last month’s, there has been no official confirmation of it completion yet but it definitely going to be completed in time for the Beijing Olympics. When completed it is rumoured to be possibly more luxurious than the Burj Al Arab and has been considered to be the official landmark of China, still in competition with the Shanghai World Financial Center.

The plaza will contain two pavilions, a temple, the world’s best Japanese restaurant and a 600 meter long corridor.

The Poseidon Undersea Resort

Location: Fiji, The Poseidon Mystery Island

Designer: Bruce Jones

Estimated project cost: $105 million

Cost per person: $15,000 per week

Our pursuit of unique spaces now goes straight 1,200-square feet under the sea in the lap of Poseidon undersea resort. The world’s first underwater resort will be ready by the end of next year with breathtaking coral reefs where you can literally immerse yourself.

Surrounded by 5,000-acre lagoon, the Bruce Jones’ Poseidon Mystery Island offers luxurious 550 square feet large suites.

Not only this, the Poseidon Resorts website says, ‘the first 1,000 guests will have their names permanently inscribed on two monuments one on the island, and one on the floor of the lagoon.’ Now, that’s incredible!

Passing reference: The Diamond Ring Hotel

The Diamond Ring hotel is just a concept right now and all we’ve are these images for you to feed on. If anybody reading this has more info, please share with our readers