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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The very notion that the pricey commodity like gold is in trend only for jewelry and investment purpose needs a revision as it has led to the production of world’s most expensive food as well. The world’s priciest food list complied by Fortune Small Business, a group publication of business magazine Fortune features edible gold leaf as the most luxurious food demanding a price tag of $15,000 per pound. To erase all your doubts, likewise calcium and iron it is safe to eat gold. If you had a chance to make presence in hi-end parties then you must have noticed gold drops on Champagne glasses or signature martinis. If this seems too pricey to you then do consider a small shaker sprinkled with 23K gold and valued at $30 while the one carrying 25 small sheets of gold leaf demands $75.

Further, the second place is in the list of world’s most expensive foods is bagged by white truffles costing $6,000 a pound followed by caviar on third place at $1,500 a pound.

Fitted tight yet comfortable onto the seat, the concerned incumbent is then taken 35m above the ground, where he is served with champagne.

If you wish to throw a Dinner in the Sky kinda event for your upcoming party, then the group offers adapted bottom streamer to frenzied seats. Usually, the platform spreads across 1 x 5 meters work area, and comes outfitted with cooking prerequisites, including a stimulation oven. Their partner company Altitude Concepts Productions provides a host of turnkey offers for every nature of Dinner in the Sky events.

The service is available across the globe i.e. The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, UAE, South-Africa, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Bulgaria, Spain, India, Italy, Danemark and USA.



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Weighing 8-kilogram, the royal “Densuke” watermelon, full-grown at the northern island of Hokkaido lately got auctioned for 650,000 yen ($6,100) in Japan, making it the world’s most expensive watermelon ever sold. A nautical products dealer inked a neat deal with this black outsized watermelon, as an attempt to prop up local cultivation. The country is known for owning pricey melons and is often given as gifts.

Exemplifying this was another auction of “Yubari” cantaloupe melons that was held last month and generated a jaw-dropping price of $23,500. It was the first fortunate one out of the total 65 produced during season’s initial harvest.

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While doing a round-up of 80 world’s most expensive things beginning this yerar, I covered $1mn diamond ice cream cone and $25,000 dessert touting to be the worl’d most expensiv one by making up to Guinness record list. And I think its time to update the list.

The Three Twins Ice Cream shop located in the Oxbow Public Market in Napa claims to sell World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae priced at $3,333.33. The ingredients of this sundae includes a banana split formed using syrups from three rare dessert wines and they serve it beautifully with a spoon dating back to 1850s. If you happen to place an order for a day ahead then they assure an interesting ambience with a cellist performance while you eat.

Those who doubt it being world’s most expensive Ice Cream Sundae can cam down their taste over “The World’s More Expensive Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae”. Priced at $60,000, this ice cream is made from the disappearing glacier from Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa! But at such a hefty amount you can get a packaged deal. You can visit the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, where the Three Twins Ice Cream founder will make an ice cream for you using glacial ice. It includes your first class air ticket to Tanzania, five-star hotel accommodation, a guided climb, all the ice cream you can eat, and an organic T-shirt, of course. An additional spill of $25,000 would allow you to accompany your friend alongwith you. The sales generation via this trip would be donated towards an African environmental nonprofit.

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They say chocolate can make you feel to make love to your beloved. But my excuse of buying more and more is different from the one mentioned before. I feel much more energetic and it increases my work efficiency. I doubt if I can afford to place this world’s most chocolate in my refrigerator. The pun would be refrigerator costs less than the chocolate…lolz.

Touted as Valentine Diamond chocolate, it is retailed at $5million and was especially baked by a jeweler. Believe it or no but it is being baked solely by a Tokyo based jeweler. The seductive choco is studded with around 2000 sparkling diamonds in the mold of an African continent. Take a look at the bizarre map-py form of this diamond studded chocolate.

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Without mystifying, I would to introduce you to one of the exclusive creation by NYC baker Mark Randazzo. Unlike other ordinary cakes, it is a 3D cake. But is this reason enough to call it elite and talk about it at length. No it isn’t? But the extraordinary feature about this cake is that it resembles R2D2. Call it an edible sculpture or an excuse for celebration, but confess it’s an innovative creation. The impressive creation if can’t convince you for shelling money out then I think they are worth window shopping. What say?

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Even a thought of saving money on the occasion of Christmas is not less than a sin. And worse is when you can afford to celebrate it in a lavish manner. It’s a moment to eat, drink and be merry. And here we have identified the venue offering the world’s most expensive Christmas dinner. Its biting cost justifies the theme of season of benevolence that believes in ‘excess’. And the generous acme is the Bacchanalian feast, centered on turkey, sprouts and trimmings. David Lidgate, owner of Holland park believes in paying tribute to the occasion by offering pricey Christmas turkey dinner his uber-rich and demanding customers. The ambience for an elite dinner seems to be bathed in fine prerequisites ranging from tablecloth, napkins, cutlery, plates, serving dishes, glasses, candlesticks and others. On the very arrival of guests, they are offered with a flute of 1995 Krug Clos du Mesnil served complementary with Iranian beluga caviar, smoked salmon, sour cream and Russian blini pancakes.

And this setting calls for an exclusive dinner where the main course is turkey and not gobbler. Turkey seems more mouth-watering with the sliding slices of white truffle under its skin. And like icing on a cake, the course offers you a leg of the finest Iberico ham. And not to forget sprouts. Bedfordshire farmer Alastair Findlay, one-of-its-kind sprout breeder based in Britain took 15 years to produce the premier ‘MA Sprout.’ It is anticipated that to b up for sale this year in top city greengrocers.

The MA needs to be cooked in an elite saucepan likewise one designed by German cookware manufacturer Fissler, with a body of stainless steel and measuring 28cm-diameter and gold handles. Its lid and borders are adorned with around 200 diamonds. And this is complimented by the most precious wine–a 1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild costing a mere £9,270 a bottle. It is followed up by the Christmas pudding. Those who still have appetite to gulp more can eye cheese (a Stilton and truckle of cheddar) and nuts served on a handcrafted 24-carat-gold-plated, wooden Father Christmas nutcracker. The banquet is smoothed off with cigars and port or brandy, and a tray of William Curley’s chocolates. Having said a lot, are you ready to pay off its deserving cost that demands a silver sixpence or two, £400,029.91 for a table of 10?

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Picture this: You are standing surrounded by all haute babes in the leftovers of one of the US’s biggest scandals with a glass filled with overpriced liquor. Yah, it is possible as the featured above is a cargo plane called El Avion, now a restaurant cum bar built around a 1954 Model, Fairchild C-123. This is a clear indication of the available future prospects for ant cargo plane that is shot down. Good enough! Fairchild C-123 is been associated with one of the biggest scandals in the mid 1980’s when Reagan administration’s strange network for arms was sold to Iran. It met its end as a cargo plane on 5 October, 1986 on its way to deliver supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras.

Now in its new avatar, El Avion serves lavish food and drinks. Now you can think of wrapping your bag with $$$$$ and things of spending days under the wings of this 1954 Model. One of the attracting features besides its menu and unique accessibility is its scenic ambience wherein seacoast blends with mild reddishness during the evening sunset. This is an inspiration for to-be-retired planes.

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