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Fireworks and stars as Dubai hotel throws 20 million dollar bash
Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 – 22:24 | One Comment

Shrugging off the global financial crisis, Dubai overnight toasted a new luxury hotel with a 20 million dollar bash attended by film stars and sporting greats and marked by a spectacular fireworks display.
More than 2,000 …

The Atlantis Dubai – The Greatest Show on Earth
Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 – 10:34 | No Comment
The Atlantis Dubai – The Greatest Show on Earth

Call it what you will the opening of The Atlantis Dubai certainly did one thing put Dubai on the map, not that it wasn’t already there.
The highlight of all this was the fireworks display which …

The Atlantis is Now Open
Thursday, 20 Nov, 2008 – 23:16 | No Comment
The Atlantis is Now Open

The biggest party in Dubai is over , the invited guests are probably stone cold drunk or partying the night away as I write this, one just hopes there is no new sex on the …

The man behind the Atlantis
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 23:26 | No Comment
The man behind the Atlantis

For a man who escaped unpromising origins by seizing opportunity in the desert, Sol Kerzner was perhaps destined to turn up in Dubai.

Sol Kerzner invested Dh2.2 billion (US600 million) in the 1, 600 room-Atlantis, The …

Dubai’s Atlantis hotel opening marred by dolphin row
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 23:18 | No Comment
Dubai’s Atlantis hotel opening marred by dolphin row

The world’s most lavish hotel has been condemned by environmentalists for shipping dolphins from the South Pacific to the Middle East to stock a marine attraction.The £950 million Atlantis hotel, which officially opens on Thursday, …

Activists seek freedom for Dubai whale shark
Thursday, 9 Oct, 2008 – 22:43 | No Comment

Environmentalists on Thursday called on the managers of a massive new marine-themed resort in this Gulf boomtown to release a whale shark they are holding inside a giant fish tank.
The 13-foot long female whale shark wandered …