For example:
- Their "Eye" (i.e. London Eye) is under construction, and is set to beat the size of any existing ferris wheels in the world and to carry 1400 people at a time.
- 7 out of the 10 tallest residential buildings in the world are all in the one suburb in the Marina
- Obviously the Burj Khalifa is a record breaker, including that the steel beams used to build it, if put end to end, would stretch a quarter of the way around the earth
- The Burj Al Arab hotel ( The Sail) is (they claim), the only 7 star hotel in the world (at $24,000 per night)
- The Palm is a bold move with the creation of a man-made island (ie. reclaimed land, which seemed much more impressive to Gosia once she actually learnt that reclaimed didn't mean it used to belong to someone else)
If you buy an apartment on The Palm, you get two sets of keys - one for your new home and one for your new car as a small welcome gift. A modest apartment might get you a Mini Cooper. A standard apartment means a BMW, and a high end one - a Lamborghini Aventador (Kate and Liam - your house purchase gift of a seat bench all of a sudden seems quaint..)
- the next project is said to be a fully under water hotel...
...and all of this is rumoured to be only 10% of the vision of the ruler of Dubai - the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He apparently loves cars and owns 150 of them. He drives around Dubai himself with a simple rego: '1'. So, next time you're in Dubai, don't cut off a car with that number plate, or you might get something cut off yourself.
The investment in infrastructure seems excessive by any standards, but perhaps they are in a rush to get themselves set up before the oil runs out by 2040.
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