Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New 7 star hotel in Dubai

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.
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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.
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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.
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Whitepod Ski Resort

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The future of European ski resorts may well be found in five eight-foot-high white geodesic-dome tents perched 5,600 feet up a mountain in the Switzerland Alps. The tents are accessible only on foot or on skis. They have no plumbing or electricity, but each has a highly efficient wood stove and are grouped around a restored 19th-century farmhouse that has a solar shower and generator-powered electricity for just a few hours each day.

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In such a trip guests will sleep in their tents on full-size beds, snuggled into sheepskin rugs and brushed cotton blankets, and sated on local wines, cheeses and produce like hand-gathered morels. Each dome has a wide window with an unobstructed view south toward Mont Blanc.

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The right location of Whitepod is near Villars, an old-fashioned family-style ski resort southwest of Lake Geneva. Laced with streams, dotted with pines and ringed by the jagged tops of higher mountain ranges, it’s a quintessential Alpine ski spot.

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But this resort is also in the list of the climate change ecosystems throughout the mountain range. Some scientist suggest that resorts at this altitude of Villars will no longer be sustainable ski areas in as little as 30 years.

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Arriving at Whitepod means escaping your ordinary life in stages. The domes are surprisingly spacious inside, with room for an armchair and a bleached pine vanity, and pleasantly warm even as night falls. They’re also fully equipped with oil lamps, slippers, a neat stack of dry wood and an I-pod with tunes ranging from Britpop to Barry White.

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Rates at Whitepod, $474 a person a night, which features all meals, ski passes, guides and transfers to and from Geneva’s airport. Dinners at Whitepod are made of locally obtained meats, cheese and vegetables, and served in the candlelit farmhouse kitchen, at a table with other guests. They’re accompanied by local wines, which are a pleasant surprise.

No 1 in London -- The Milestone Hotel

Despite competing in the same arena as some of the most famous names in the hotel world, The Milestone Hotel is proud to have been ranked "No.1 in the world for service" by Travel and Leisure Magazine 2008. Other recent accolades include topping the 2007 Condé Nast Readers' Choice Award for British hotels as well as being Voted No. 1 in London in their traveller's Gold List 2008. Furthermore The Milestone Hotel was voted No. 1 in Travel and Leisure's 500 Worlds Best Hotels List. Above all else this reflects the efforts of every one of our staff, a team that has become a byword for impeccable service and attention to guests’ enjoyment.


You can be assured, however, that we aren't resting on our laurels, and are making every effort not just to match, but to exceed the standards that gained this recognition. At Red Carnation our philosophy is "no request too large, no detail too small", and this applies to every aspect of what we do. Our single aim is to make every guest's stay enjoyable and trouble free, addressing and putting right any problems they might encounter during their visit.












Score 93.06
Stats
57 rooms; 6 apartments; 1 restaurant; 1 bar.
Competitive Edge
A refined residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like English sweets at turndown.
Rooms to Book All are individually decorated; we prefer No. 301 for its cool, sophisticated look.
Don't Miss A self-guided yoga session using a mat and video provided by the hotel.
Cost Doubles from $730.

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