Dubai: The Most Luxurious City In The World

Just 50 years ago, Dubai was a little village in the middle of the desert. Today, it is the most affluent destination on the planet. Dubai is the most glamorous face of the Middle East and the most popular tourist destination in the region. The Burj Al Arab hotel, a crescent-shaped skyscraper built on a man-made island, is surely familiar to you. You’re presumably also aware that Dubai is home to the world’s tallest building, which you may have seen Tom Cruise scale in a Mission Impossible installment, The Burj Khalifa, which is 2,722 feet tall. Yes, I’m sure you’re familiar with some of the city’s attractions, but today I’d like to have the opportunity to tell you so much more.

So, here are all the outrageously costly items available in Dubai, but first, a brief history lesson. If you are tired of reading already, watch the video down below:

Dubai: The Most luxurious city in the world

How did Dubai transform from a modest desert town to the lavish oasis it is now? All of the other combined Arab immigrant cities became oil-rich in the same way. Abu Dhabi, approximately 90 miles from Dubai, is the richest city on the planet, with 10% of the world’s oil reserves. The United Arab Emirate’s oil production propelled them into the first world. Hundreds of millions of dollars flooded into Dubai, making it one of the most populous cities in the Middle East. However, oil only accounts for 5% of Dubai’s revenue because its reserves aren’t as profitable as those of its UAE neighbors. The majority of Dubai’s revenue comes from trade, real estate, and tourism. Since it can no longer rely only on oil production, Dubai has become the UAE’s economic capital, but this hasn’t stopped this tremendously wealthy metropolis from expanding. Dubai’s population is expanding at the same rate as its vertical growth; in fact, Dubai is home to one-fourth of all cranes. That’s correct, approximately a quarter of all cranes in the world are concentrated in just one UAE city. It appears that Dubai’s game plan is to keep developing skyscrapers, two of which are the four-star Burj Khalifa and the Burj Al-Arab hotel.

Burj Khalifa

The Burj Khalifa is more than half a mile tall, and its higher levels can swing several feet depending on the wind. The architects of this gigantic structure, on the other hand, did not overlook this. The wobble of the Burj Khalifa is too slow for the vestibular system in the inner ear to register. If you’re not bothered by interference, this is the part of the ear that offers balance. The Burj al-Arab is a stunning five-star hotel perched hundreds of feet above the ground. The hotel is 56 floors tall and is legally classified as a five-star hotel, but some have nicknamed it a seven-star hotel. The authority on the topic of luxury hotels has not been agreed upon, thus the seven-star title is up for question, but seven-star or not, this hotel is certainly amazing.

Burj Al Arab

The Burj Al Arab’s interior is embellished with around 1790 square meters of 24 karat gold leaf, but nothing compares to the breathtaking views of the beautiful city and the picture-perfect golf course. In addition to incredibly tall skyscrapers, the city is eager to construct man-made islands.

Several aspects of the hotel necessitated sophisticated engineering achievements. The hotel is located 280 meters (920 feet) offshore on an artificial island. The builders drilled 230 40-meter-long (130-foot) concrete piles into the sand to secure a foundation.

Engineers developed a layer of huge boulders on the ground surface that is encircled by a concrete honeycomb design to protect the foundation from erosion. The land was reclaimed from the water after three years, yet the construction was completed in less than three years. Over 70,000 m3 of concrete and 9,000 tons of steel are used in the structure, one of which is for the skeletal structural frames.

The atrium inside the building stands 180 meters (590 feet) tall. The north-facing façade of the 18-story atrium is surrounded by 12 independently tensioned two-layer membrane panels.

After the Gevora Hotel, JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, and Rose and Rayhaan by Rotana, the Burj Al Arab is the world’s fifth tallest hotel. If mixed-use buildings were removed from the equation, the Burj Al Arab would be the world’s third-highest hotel. The Rose Rayhaan, also in Dubai, stands at 333 meters (1,093 feet), 12 meters (39 feet) higher than the Burj Al Arab, which stands at 321 meters (1,053 feet).

Palm Jumeirah

The manmade offshore islands of Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are home to luxury houses and hotels. The archipelago appears to be a stylized palm tree within a circle from the air. The Palm Jumeirah was constructed in the early twenty-first century and was partly funded by Dubai’s enormous petroleum revenue.

The main sectors of Palm Jumeirah are known by the labels trunk, spine, fronds, and crescent. The development’s entry is the broad trunk, which is connected to the mainland by a bridge. Another bridge connects the trunk to the spine, which is a narrow central axis with 17 fronds protruding from it. The crescent acts as a breakwater that almost completely encircles the other parts. It is separated into three portions to allow for easier seawater circulation. A traffic tunnel connects the spine to the crescent, while a transportation monorail travels through the spine and trunk about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the mainland to the crescent. The crescent is about 10.5 miles (17 kilometers) long and 650 feet (200 meters) wide. A total of 1,380 acres (560 hectares) of new land were developed within a radius of 3.1 miles (5 kilometers).

Law Enforcement

Let us now turn our attention to law enforcement.

Isn’t something that generally springs to mind when thinking of luxury, but it certainly is in Dubai. Dubai’s police department uses supercars as patrol vehicles to entice tourists, including cars like the Ferrari FF, which sells for roughly half a million dollars, the Lamborghini Aventador, which costs roughly $400k, and the Aston Martin 177, which costs $1.79 million. Nothing makes a man feel more like James Bond than flooring an Aston Martin 177, believe me. Using these magnificent automobiles is simply Dubai being Dubai.

But, hey, Dubai is the world’s sixth safest city, so more power to them. This isn’t just because of the supercars; the UAE in general has strict laws due to the Islamic constitutional monarchies that run the emirate’s government. Sharia laws also exist in Dubai, so if you’re on vacation with your sweetheart checking out the bougie police force, make sure you don’t get caught smooching because you could be deported. However, because of the enormous volume of tourism in Dubai, other areas are significantly more permissive. In a conventional Middle Eastern atmosphere, serving alcohol would be prohibited, however, it is authorized in Dubai in select institutions such as hotels and nightclubs.

Around 15% of Dubai’s population are Emiratis, while the remaining 85% are from outside the city. About half of the population is made up of workers building hundreds of skyscrapers, which makes sense given the crane situation. The majority of these laborers are from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, which takes us to Dubai’s more sad side, where there is a significant class disparity. Many immigrant workers live and work in deplorable conditions, while Emiratis and upper-class foreigners make astronomically high wages. Between the class divide and Dubai, there isn’t much of a middle ground.

Sports

But, much like any country divided, there’s always a sport to bring people together, or so the theory goes, and in this case, that sport is camel racing. Camel racing in Dubai is similar to American football in the United States, except that instead of children jockeying the camels, they now use robots. You see, camel racing has a shady past in which small children were forced to ride the camels, which led to human trafficking in less developed areas of the Middle East. This still happens, but in Dubai, the children have been replaced with robots, and believe it or not, some of the robots are human. Let’s just move on from camel racing.

Climate-Controlled Area

Dubai has some fairly wild plans in the works. The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, unveiled plans to develop a completely temperature-controlled part of the city spanning 4.3 miles and announced plans for a 48 million square foot mall around the globe. This small city will have a retractable dome and will not only function as a giant pedestrian mall but will also house hotels and apartments, as well as roads and parks. When you think that Dubai often experiences temperatures of 115 degrees Fahrenheit, the idea starts to make sense, but it starts to make less sense when you consider the expense. The cost has not been officially estimated, but estimations in the tens of billions of dollars have been made, and keep in mind that the price tag would be much higher if the workers were not grossly underpaid.

A hundred hotels and service agencies totaling 20 000 rooms are planned for the dome. Due to the speed with which Dubai has grown, it never developed a standard address system. In fact, until 2015, instead of an address line on a mailing label, there was a space where residents could draw a map or write out specific instructions. Thankfully, they have established 10-digit Numbers that serve as addresses, and I’m sure it’s a whole lot easier to be a delivery driver in Dubai.

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