Wafi city is styled after Ancient Egypt. Every building in Wafi city is styled in Ancient Egypt theme like Raffles Hotel, small pyramids, walls are painted with images of pharaohs and colored in light brown stone etc.

Wafi city is always been a key sponsor for Dubai Shopping Festival every year. Last year in January Wafi City introduced spectacular Light and Sound Show to celebrate and entertain Dubai Shopping Festival visitors.

Wafi Light and Sound Show plays “Return of the Pharaohs” every evening at 9:30pm at Wafi Central Courtyard. Here we are going to show you a video which can give you an idea how exciting Light and Sound Show can be but still you can not experience such excitement sitting behind laptop or PC screen as you should visit the place in person.

Here i am listing 4 most luxurious hotels in Dubai. I have enjoyed staying here and i am sure you will love staying here. Let me know about your opinion.

Habtoor Grand Beach Resort And Spa

Habtoor Grand Beach Resort and spa is a five star hotel with 446 rooms distributed on 25 luxurious floors, located on the Al Sufouh Road, Dubai. It offers its worthy guests a Pleasant Arabian essence and is perfect lodging for Business travelers as well as for those on vacations. The lodging present magnificent sea views and garden views. The hotel treats its customers with exceptional luxuries featuring comfortable lounge areas, superb washrooms and outstanding furnishings. You can enjoy the warmth of Arabian culture with luxury at its best. The best thing about Habtoor is the combination of awesome landscapes and views. This lavish hotel offers two pools in the landscape and a third pool on the mezzanine level. The private beach of the hotel also provides the visitors with the beautiful clear view of warm sands, blue skies and clear waters of the Arabian Gulf.

The Address Downtown Burj Dubai

The Address Downtown Burj Dubai is located about 15 km from the airport in Downtown Burj Dubai. The luxurious accommodation has 196 rooms spread on 63 floors. It offers its worthy customers comfort with airy rooms and spacious features. The hotel is well illuminated with light colored interior to cast awesome impression with the dark elegant wood furniture. It’s indeed an ideal place for international travelers. Services the hotel offers comprises of AM/FM Alarm clock, coffee maker, city center, laundry/valet services, lounge, free newspaper, parking, fitness center, restaurants and bar, library, spa, children facilities, TV with cable, mini bar, pool, room service, telephone, 24-hour front desk, handicapped room facility and lots more.

Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City – Dubai

5-star Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City is located at the banks of Dubai Creek. It comprises of 316 rooms on 19 floors and is located at about 5 km from the Dubai airport. It offers a very healthy and clean environment as it is supports a no-smoking policy in all the rooms and public areas. It also supports an outdoor lap pool, 3 spa pools, a splash pool for children and a 24-hour gym. Some distance away from the hotel are located the two 18-hole championship golf courses. This very hotel enjoys a lot of visitors, especially during the Dubai shopping festival.

Raffles Dubai

The Raffles Dubai is located midway, between the Dubai international airport and Dubai international convention and exhibition center. The Lamcy plaza and the Wafi City mall are also located nearby. This hotel has 248 rooms and 17 floors, luxurious designed providing comfort and ease to the visitors. It features High speed internet, Jacuzzi, Nonsmoking areas, Parking, Room service, Dry cleaning, Business center, Data, port, Meeting room, Wheel chair access, Dining, Swimming pool and Fitness facility.

The Landmark Grand Hotel Dubai consists of 174 luxury rooms which includes 153 standard rooms, 7 executive suites and 14 junior suites. All rooms featured 24hrs room service, Flat-screen satellite TV, Wi-Fi access, Room Fridge, Electronic Safety Box. Transportation services are available to visit to the all Dubai’s shopping malls, beaches and tourist attractions all around in dubai. A swimming pool on rooftop and a luxury gym with a sauna is also available to all the vacant. Businessmen and Executives also can avail the facility of business centre and conference room at roof-top. From conference room you can have a bird’s eye view of dubai.

According to TradeArabia News Service The Landmark Grand Hotel is opened at a time when most dubai hotels have occupancy level as high as 85% and also average room rates are also increasing in 2011. This trend seems to be continue until the end of Dubai Shopping Festival. According to reports Dubai Hotel average room rates are increasing at the rate of 13.5% every year. In October the rate has touch the figure of $194, Which is 2nd highest in Middle East.

S M Sadique, managing director of Landmark Zenath Group, said, “The dynamism of Dubai’s hospitality sector and the growing global appeal of the UAE as a leisure and lifestyle hub inspired us to come up with a new development that harmonizes luxury and functionality to offer the perfect home away from home for holiday adventurers and business travellers alike.”

S M Sadique added: “To see is to believe, so I would like to invite Dubai’s guests to check out what The Landmark Grand Hotel – Rigga has to offer. We would also like to commend the wonderful, consistent, aggressive, creative and tireless efforts of the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in marketing and portraying Dubai as a world-class destination which has gone a long way towards enhancing the emirate’s reputation as a top class, safe tourist destination. This has in turn significantly contributed to the high occupancy enjoyed by Dubai hotels in 2011″.

For Reservation and further Information:

LANDMARK GRAND HOTEL
4-Star Deluxe Hotel in Deira
Riqqa Road, Deira. Dubai

Tel: +971 4 250 11 11
Fax. +971 4 250 20 20
Email: info@landmarkhotels.net

The tower’s architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.

The total cost for the project was about US $1.5 billion; and for the entire “Downtown Dubai” development, US $20 billion. In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project’s developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US $4,000 per sq ft (over US $43,000 per m2) and the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US $3,500 per sq ft (over US $37,500 per m2).

Burj Khalifa Opening Ceremony

The opening of Burj Khalifa was held on 4 January 2010. The ceremony featured a display of 10,000 fireworks, light beams projected on and around the tower, and further sound, light and water effects. The celebratory lighting was designed by UK lighting designers Speirs and Major. Using the 868 powerful stroboscope lights that are integrated into the facade and spire of the tower, different lighting sequences were choreographed, together with more than 50 different combinations of the other effects.

The event began with a short film which depicted the story of Dubai and the evolution of Burj Khalifa. The displays of sound, light, water and fireworks followed. The portion of the show consisting of the various pyrotechnic, lighting, water and sound effects was divided into three. The first part was primarily a light and sound show, which took as its theme the link between desert flowers and the new tower, and was co-ordinated with the Dubai Fountain and pyrotechnics. The second portion, called ‘Heart Beat’, represented the construction of the tower in a dynamic light show with the help of 300 projectors which generated a shadow-like image of the tower. In the third act, sky tracers and space cannons enveloped the tower in a halo of white light, which expanded as the lighting rig on the spire activated.

Burj Khalifa Full Ceremony – Pictures

The ceremony was relayed live on a giant screen on Burj Park Island, as well as several television screens placed across the Downtown Dubai development. Hundreds of media outlets from around the world reported live from the scene. In addition to the media presence, 6,000 guests were expected.

Burj Khalifa Full Ceremony Part – 01

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Over the last decade Dubai has established itself as a city of shopping malls, luxurious lifestyle destination and land of opportunities for retailers from all over the world. Now Dubai has become the number one global tourism destination.

In addition to a long list of luxury brands and a wide variety of retail choices, Dubai’s shopping centre’s have also been globally recognized for their distinctive amenities, such as the one-of-a-kind indoor ski slope at the Mall of the Emirates, and the majestic view of the iconic Burj Khalifa tower at the Dubai Mall, one of the largest shopping in the world.

Survery, which polled 2,900 people from Arab region, found that 32% of respondents voted Dubai as the number one shopping destination. Paris was ranked the second best shopping destination with 13% of the vote, followed by Beijing, Istanbul and London in joint third with 5%.

Eyad Ali Abdul Rahman, executive director media relation division & business development, Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), said: “Dubai has an exciting mix of amenities that give customers a truly unique and pleasurable shopping experience. Moreover, Dubai’s impressive collection of international brands and retail outlets rival those of any other shopping city in the world – a key attribute that gives the Emirate a distinctive edge as the best shopping destination in the Arab World. Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing will build on this distinction to develop more innovative campaigns and promotional activities that will further reinforce the reputation of Dubai as the world’s shopping capital”.

Shopping-oriented festivals such as the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) and Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) have likewise strengthened Dubai’s claim as a global shopping haven.

Below are the top 10 shopping destinations according to the survey:

According to reports The Ivy Dubai will offer an ideal place for lunch, dinner or simply a drink at the bar and will be able to accommodate 172 covers including up to 16 guests in the private dining room for a more intimate experience.

The new restaurant will offer a brasserie-style menu with a selection of The Ivy classics, such as its world famous shepherd’s pie and Scandinavian iced berries with hot white chocolate sauce. The Ivy in Dubai will share the same standards of food, ambiance and service as The Ivy in London, but will also take on board the best that Dubai has to offer.

The Ivy will be the first of the Caprice Holdings’ restaurants to open in Dubai. Caprice Holdings encompasses London’s favourite restaurants. From the glamour of Le Caprice to the elegance of Daphne’s, the informality of The Ivy to the excitement of Scott’s, these cover a wide variety of atmospheres and clienteles. Their cuisines, too, range far and wide, from the traditional British of Rivington to Tuscan and French and on to the South-East Asian of Bam-Bou.

Jumeirah Restaurants is a company of multiple and successful restaurant concepts developed and licensed globally. An important and strategic addition to the Jumeirah Group portfolio, the company’s mission is to set up and license innovative restaurants worldwide.

Indeed Dubai has been best tourism destination in world for last 6-7years now. It has so much to offer especially for tourists from all over the world. Dubai has almost everything for every one from Shopping Mall to Relax Beaches, From 5-star World class Hotels to Highest level of living standards.

Some people have misconception about Dubai is that you need to have a lot of money in your pocket or millions of dollars in your account. This is not true You can enjoy best standards of Dubai even if you are not that rich. Job opportunities are high even after world recession as most of world investors still love to invest in Dubai.

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Almost half of the investors who are planning to increase their investments in Dubai will reinvest in their current businesses. 29% of investors planning to start joint ventures with local partners and 14% planning to acquire shares in local companies to grow their presence in market.

Chief executive of Foreign Investment Office(FIO), Fahad Al Gergawi said: “The general rule that the current investor is essential to future investment flows appears to hold true in Dubai. This is especially important in times of global turbulence when many investors seek new opportunities”.

The report reveals that telecommunications and utilities are more attractive for investors than other sectors.

Dubai is also a top 10 choice amongst executives from the financial services industry, being the sixth-most important destination globally for future investments.

Non-financial service executives, representing companies from fields such as transportation, business services, health care, legal services and education, rank Dubai among the global top 20 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) destinations.