Royale is the name that defines Dubai’s luxury credit card the best. For starters, this one is like a privilege available only to the very very rich. AS expected, this one is part of a limited edition from MasterCard with only nine pieces being handed out each day.

The Royale MasterCard come with highly exclusive benefits and offers. Yep, you can enjoy everything from shopping, fashion, restaurants, hotels, helicopters, yacht charters, polo, golf and much more. In fact, the very look of the credit card with its gold border and the genuine diamond embedded in it promises luxury at its very best. Well, we say this one is a real status symbol if you are looking for a new one.

Trust us, the new Royale MasterCard will be your ticket to the very best available in the world. Again, you cannot apply for this card. Apparently, it is offered to only those deemed worthy of it. So, all you can do is put a lot of money in the bank and then keep your fingers crossed!

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Sharp seems to be making plenty of waves these days with larger than life television models and the ones driven completely by solar energy. But that is not all Sharp is doing right now. The company has decided to give the ultra-lavish and luxury craving Middle East another reason to celebrate with its new 108-inch LCD Display that has been specifically designed keeping in mind the needs of the region. The large screen was unveiled at Gitex 2008 in Dubai and it surely stole the show with its sheer size.

This specially crafted 1080p (1920×1080) display has a fan-less design that reduces the intake of dust from the outside and is perfect for Middle East’s dusty weather. Apart from the obvious great picture display, this ensures that all the hassles of that come with the models with fan are avoided. The 108-inch LCD Display is priced at $150,000 and that would still surely interest many folk in Dubai to get one. Sharp might have just hit on a bit of a jackpot.

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Covering over 113 acres and offering 1539 rooms, The Palm Dubai features two hotel towers linked by an arch and is Dubai’s first truly integrated resort. A massive attraction is surely the 42 acres of water-themed amusement known as Aquaventure, the 11-acre Dolphin Bay, The Ambassador Lagoon with 100’s of marine species and the fascinating ‘Lost Chambers’. Accommodation is of the highest standard and restaurants are in abundance ensuring that this wonderland will surely delight and thrill world travellers for years to come.
The hotel’s top floor being the costliest, houses a 13,000-a-night three-bedroom, three-bathroom suite complete with gold-leaf 18-seat dining table. This being Dubai, a gaudy bauble of consumerism packaged in sweltering heat, is sure to have no dearth of affluent people.





Alongside the resort’s ocean-themed entertainment there will be a 1,800-seat theater nearby housing a permanent Cirque du Soleil show beginning in Summer 2011. There are also plans for the QE2 liner to become a hotel and tourist attraction docked next to the island. It is hoped that the Atlantis hotel, which is modeled on a sister resort in the Bahamas, will play a part in sustaining Dubai’s tourist industry after regional oil profits have run dry.
To stay or visit is to live out your dreams amidst warm Arabian seas here. So this one is sure to be a spiritual home away from home for the likes of the Beckhams – gaudy, brash, big and expensive.
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Right on its heels of inviting Tourists’ attraction, Dubai is all charged up to erect headstones and other monumental edifices in all possible shapes. Having heard about developer Nakheel neck-deep busy into designing Dubai Promenade, today there is a news about development of another next generation architectural design called ‘Strata Luxury Tower.’Designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote, work is already in process on the Al Raha Beach to contruct this forty story residential building by early 2011.

Standing 160 meters high, the tower would be the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct, positioned in the heart of Aldar Properties PJSC’s prestigious Al Raha Beach development. The showcasing of the project is exhibited at Cityscape Abu Dhabi till 15 May 2008. It stands high indicating the decorous future for the Abu Dhabi and the neighboring province.
Its corporeal existence is arresting as it encapsulates the meaning through conceptual form, which is drawn from both motifs and narrow cultural scenery along with forces of universal authority. Its blueprint employs the arithmetical means to attain a highly relevant construction for UAE.

This revolutionary erection would be the result of numerous influences together with state of the art sophisticated parametric modeling tools and factors counting economies of fabrication and ecological sustainability. The intelligent-loooking estate is due to the usage of computer modeling tools. This exoskeleton shrouds the entire tower in an iridescent curved form set against Abu Dhabi’s neighboring desert and sea.

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Update: Umm Kulthoum’s antique necklace fetched $1.3 mn, almost 10 times of its pre-estimated sales amount at Christie’s auction house.
An antique necklace embedded with around 1,888 pearls, a pricey possession of Egyptian Singer Umm Kulthoum is all set to go under hammer in Dubai on 29 April. The necklace was once gifted to Kultham by Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late president of the United Arab Emirates and is anticipated to fetch $80,000-$120,000 during the Jewels and Watches auction in Dubai.

Christie’s spokeswoman Clare Roberts said Umm Kulthoum received this nine-row necklace from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in 1970s. Born in 1904, Umm learnt singing from her father and debuted her first footage in the mid-1920s and by 1930s; she reached the top of Cairo’s composition panorama.

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The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has veteran volatile development in current years, up-and-coming as the region’s cultural and financial capital. It is simple to wear out superlatives when recitation Burj Al Arab, a hotel that has previously become an international attraction.

Burj Al Arab is the only 7 star hotel in the world, situated in Dubai. The stunning Burj Al Arab seems as sail shape, its flies to a height of 321 meters, leading the Dubai coastline. Also has become as greatly a peak of allusion in Dubai as the Eiffel Tower is in Paris.
Burj Al Arab Hotel has 202 luxurious suites; bars and lounges; eight restaurants, heli-pad; indoor and outdoor swimming pool; Health Club; private beach; internet access. One more thing about this luxury hotel, it is the most expensive hotel you have ever seen i.e., you will have to pay 770 Euro for the most modest room and 7700 Euro for royal apartments.

A blending of dissimilar cultures, where the traditions of Arabic warmth merge with the very most up-to-date technology to gives a new Middle East tombstone. Burj Al Arab has a status between comfort and service.