December 13, 2007 Anywhere but Dubai, the idea of building a luxury hotel 66 feet underwater would sound far-fetched. But next to the Burj-al-arab, ... the Hydropolis will fit right in.

Touted as the world’s first luxury hotel to be constructed beneath the waves, Hydropolis will cost $500m to erect and is the brainchild of General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince ...

Dubai will have the world's first underwater hotel by 2006. Billed as the ultimate in luxury living, the Hydropolis Hotel will cost an estimated $500 million and feature over 200 suites.

The vision: a 220-suite hotel, off the coast of Dubai, totally submerged in the Persian Gulf. This was Hydropolis, a project conceived in 2006, delayed in 2008, and today nothing more than a pile ...

Hydropolis Dubai, once trumpeted as the world's first underwater hotel, is still very much on the table, its backers say – despite no concrete results four years after it was announced. The ...

The 220-suite, bubble-like Hydropolis Hotel is to float just below the waters off the coast of Dubai’s upscale Jumeirah area. The hotel, the brainchild of German investor, designer and architect ...

Hydropolis Hotel, proposed off the coast of Dubai at a cost of USD300-million at the height of the real estate frenzy in the mid-2000s, never went past the drawing-board stage. But the concept has ...

An underwater hotel is to be built in Dubai, costing some $500m and eclipsing the country's already ground-breaking sail-shaped hotel. The Hydropolis Hotel, designed by German architect Joachim ...

Ocean real estate: The next boom? With land getting so crowded, the age-old fantasy of sea-based living is becoming reality. Business 2.0 dives in.

Dubai had announced plans to construct a different underwater hotel, Hydropolis, in 2006. Projected to cost 300 million pounds to construct, it would have stood as one of the world’s most ...

A $500 million project was launched on 12 August to build an underwater hotel in Dubai. The 107,700 square-metre Hydropolis hotel development is the brainchild of German investor, Joachim Hauser, the ...

“Dubai has a history of rapid growth in its hotel sector, having increased its supply from 167 hotels with 9,383 rooms in 1993 to 272 hotels with 23,170 rooms in 2002, but today’s ‘giant ...