Last Thursday, Liz, the American Club coordinator and overall surrogate mom for all us study abroad students, arranged for a free tour of The Burj Al Arab: the world's most luxurious hotel. From the moment our taxis pulled up to the front doors we were treated like guests. A very classy Indian man, who's name now escapes me, guided our jaw dropping group through the main lobby, two resteraunts, and a typical suite.
The place is absolutely amazing. Every detail of this hotel is completely over the top. Like Allison said in her blog, we were talking afterwards about how boring life would be once luxury like this becomes old hat. After The Burj becomes mundane, what's left? Although the place was amazing, it was thankfully too much for me. I wouldn't feel comfortable staying there beyond some one in a life time splurge for some very special occasion. It was too gold guilded (everything was gold plated), too colorful, too extravagant. The Burj is like downing three consecutive peices of honey glazed Baklava: too rich.
The Group
Burj Lobby View
Lobby Looking UP!
Outside the Suites
Suite Entry
Suite Bathroom
Al Muntaha (The Ultimate) Resteraunt (delecately balanced 52 floors/200 meters above the sea opposite the helepad. See top photo.)
View from Al Muntaha to the Southwest. The AUD campus is nestled among the pictured buildings.
8 comments:
Awesome photos. The very thought of downing three consecutive pieces of honey glazed Baklava makes me kind of sick. So did the Burj, in a lot of ways, so I guess that's fair.
And I think our host's name was Cedric.
I was hoping you would get a chance to stay there. It sounds like a fantastic place.
You know, three pieces of honey coated baklava sound really good right now. Surely, you wouldn't pass up that opportunity just like you know you wouldn't pass up a free night in the Burj al Bling Bling, no matter what you say.
burj al bling bling haha awesome. That made me laugh. And the first picture looks amazing.
Wow! I noticed at first the colors, they are beauitful. I think we are often to afraid to use bold colors here in america.
Actually suppose we just don't use vibrant colors as much in our class.
OK, "The Burj Al Bling Bling" is so novel, and it made me smile, but just tell me how to say it, would you? Much appreciated!
Here's an example:
"So where were you this morning?"
"Me? oh, I was just over at the Berge-al-blingbling"
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