Emerates Palace

We took a walk to the Emerates Palace on Saturday. It is one of two 7 star hotels in the world. This huge complex with a concert arena, golf courses and a private beach only has 300 rooms, that start around 1500 US dollars per night up to $17,000 per night for the Royal suites. For valentines day week, they ran a special, for 1 Million Dollars US, a week at the hotel, a private jet to Oman for 1 day, Beruit for 1 day and Baharain for one day. One Russian businessman took the special.

The place is huge. It took us 1 hour to walk around the perimeter

There was another concert accross the street. Some Italian singer and a musical set. They set up an entire stage for the 3 hour concert. A member of the Royal family must have attended as they set up the above tent for them with all the golden chairs

The set up for the Triathelon this weekend

This is the stage that took a week to set up for a 3 hour concert, then the next day it was tore down for the Triathlon apparatus

This coming weekend is the Red Bull Air Plane races over the ocean/breakwater just outside our Apt. Art will go and take pictures of course ! Never a dull moment in Abu Dhabi.