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.

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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.