If there’s one place that knows how to do extra, it’s Dubai.
The United Arab Emirates city is famous for having too much money and can it give me some?
Anyway, it seems like every other day a new, outlandish hotel and/or building pops up in the high tech paradise.
Its latest luxury resort, though, is a little different.
It’s been dubbed ‘The Floating Venice‘, and it’s a miniature version of (you guessed it) Venice will be bobbing 2.5 miles off the city’s coast, set to be complete by 2020.
It’ll come complete with 12 restaurants, an underwater spa, and actual gondolas imported direct from actual Venice.
The mini-city will be proper yuge, with the capability to accommodate up to 3,000 filthy rich guests on the daily.
Visitors will have to travel by seaplane, boat or helicopter to get to the resort, and once those lucky fucks arrive, they’ll check in at an underwater lobby before being transported on a magic carpet* to a cabin. There are 414 cabins in total and 180 of those are submerged, offering uninterrupted views of the Arabian Sea.
*So there aren’t actually any magic carpets just yet but heck, it ain’t yet 2020 and I wouldn’t put it past these people.
The extra does not end there, folks.
There will be an on-site coral nursery with a whopping 400,000 square feet of coral. There will be floating beaches. There will be operas performed on those beaches.
The construction of the resort is costing hundreds of millions of dollars; to the tune of around AUD$853 million.
The resort isn’t just taking visual inspiration from Venice. They’ll be honouring the canal-ladden city by celebrating The Carnevale di Venezia (Italy’s famed festival of masks), along with the Regata Stoica di Venezia and the Festa del Redentore.
Cop a load of the place in gloriously rendered video form:
Now, don’t mind me while I rummage for some spare coins down the side of my couch slash log onto Sugar Daddy dot com…
