Worldwide Travel Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Picture courtesy of Tapir Travel Last month a spectacular opening ceremony, featuring some of the world’s top performers heralded the opening of the lavish Atlantis Palm hotel and resort in Dubai. Costing $1.5 billion to build, the Atlantis is located in the centre of the Palm Jumeirah Crescent in Dubai. The hotel boasts a total of 1,536 rooms and suites, and the exterior design...
A Luxury Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Last week I mentioned the extravagant firework display at the Atlantis Palm Jumeirah - the biggest of its kind in the world… ever! In case you didn’t get an invite to the ‘bash’, now you can see the event in its full glory. And, if that isn’t enough to whet your appetite, there’s a two-part video sequence totalling around 21 [...]
Peter J. Cooper's Weblog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The announcement of 500 redundancies at Dubai government-owned Nakheel, developer of the Palm Jumeirah and part owner of the newly opened glitzy Atlantis Hotel has underlined the very obvious fact that the property boom is over. There has been a string of lay-offs from the 200 to lose their jobs at the largest private [...]
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Meraas Development says new details on Jumeirah Gardens project revealed soon.
Luxury Property Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
[caption id="attachment_1929" align="alignright" width="145" caption="Trump Tower Delayed"][/caption] Work on the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, has been stopped and the project delayed indefinitely. (...)
Bollywood latest events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bollywood Superstar Shah Rukh Khan bagged the most exclusive suite at the opening party of Dubai’s Atlantis Palm Jumeirah, leaving behind a host of Hollywood celebrities. The over Rs 18 lakh-a night exclusive suite, suspended between the resort’s two towers, was initially slated for talk show queen Oprah Winfrey but when she pulled out from the party, it went to King Khan, the Daily...
Zawya.com - Top Regional News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Parts of the Dh350 billion Jumeirah Garden City, the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Palm Jumeirah and Nakheel's kilometre-tall tower are just three of Dubai's mega-developments that are delayed.
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Atlantis, The Palm resort rolls out Avaya network to provide superior customer service
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | yesterday
UAE - Atlantis, The Palm - the focal point of the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah, billed as the ultimate fantasy hotel and estimated to have cost around 1.5 billion dollars - launched itself ...
Bollywood latest events (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Rani Mukherjee at the official grand opening party for the Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. Here is a first look of Rani mukherjee at the launch of ‘Atlantis’ in Dubai who wore a cream colored sari with a royal blue blouse.
DailyStab (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... out the dress above. That was taken on November 27 at the launch of the new Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. A source said: “Mary-Kate has been looking a lot rounder recently. It is good she has put on weight, because she previously suffered from anorexia, but a lot of people think she could actually be attempting to hide her pregnancy.” Mary-Kate has been dating New...
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
The exchange of flags aboard the QE2 on Thursday sealed the vessel's new ownership under master-developer Nakheel. Following 39 years of service, the QE2 will start a new chapter as an ultra-luxury hotel in Dubai, on the Palm Jumeirah. The Cu
Peter J. Cooper's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Order my book online from this link How could anybody possibly proceed with a $2.4 billion building contract for the Pearl Dubai, an iconic multi-tower development opposite the Palm Jumeirah, in the current economic environment? Or has Abdul Majid Esmail Al Fahim lost his mind? Anybody who has read the story of how this remarkable Abu Dhabi [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Britain's most famous luxury cruise ship will become a floating hotel moored off an artificial palm-shaped island.
Celebslam (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Lindsay Lohan at the grand opening of “Atlantis The Palm” on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai (11/20) Lindsay Lohan was probably strip-searched last week at the airport in Dubai. A shitload of celebrities were “invited” (read: paid) last week to attend the grand opening of the Atlantis resort on the artificial Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai. Along [...]
