Palazzo Versace Hotel - World's First Refrigerated Beach Luxury Hotel to be built in Dubai

The new PALAZZO VERSACE HOTEL in Dubai wants to provide every luxury to its guests. The latest innovation plan is the world's first refrigerated beach so that the guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. Summer temperature in Dubai can reach up to 50 °C degrees. The guests at the Palazzo, however, will sunbathe comfortably thanks to a network of coolant-containing pipes beneath the hotel's beach.

The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface.

The swimming pool will be refrigerated and there are also proposals to install giant blowers to waft a gentle breeze over the beach.

Versace’s plans have shocked environmentalists. Rachel Noble, the campaigns officer at Tourism Concern, which promotes sustainable tourism, said that the carbon generated by such projects would contribute to climate change, whose worst effects would be felt by the poor.

“Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so that people can continue their destructive lifestyles,” she said.

The 10-storey hotel will have 213 rooms, several with their own internal swimming pools, plus 169 apartments. Fifteen more such hotels are planned. The hotel will open in late 2009 or early 2010.

Via: Timesonline