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World’s largest hotel with 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants to open in Mecca by 2017
The Indian Express ^ | August 4, 2016

Posted on 08/04/2016 12:39:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

The Abraj Kudai hotel reportedly costs a whopping $ 3.5 billion. (Source: dar.dargroup.com)

If all goes according to plan, by 2107 Mecca will be home to the largest hotel in the world with 10,000 rooms!

According to reports, the Abraj Kudai hotel, which is the labour of love and a lot of finance – around $3.5 billion of funds are in play – should be ready for visitors in 2017. Touted to be the largest hotel in the world, the project is owned by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance and is being designed by the Dar Al-Handasah group. It will be located in the Manafia area of Mecca’s central zone, which is about 2km from the Holy Haram in Mecca.

Tourists will be offered an unprecedented level of luxury, with more than 70 restaurants (we’re assuming you can fit in all the restaurants across several towns in there, and you may still not reach 70!), across 48 storeys, 12 towers (which will vary between 30 and 48 storeys) and there are plans of four helipads on the roof as well.

The hotel expects a lot of royal visits, so it’s being planned in such a manner that entire floors of the 1.4 million sq. m complex could be reserved for royal families. There will also be a convention centre built inside the hotel compound. The hotel’s podium will accommodate a bus station, shopping mall, restaurants, food courts, conference centre and car parks. A dome located on top of two mid towers will house a ballroom and the convention centre.

Not only will the Abraj Kudai boast of the most number of hotel rooms, but also house one of the world’s largest domes atop its tallest tower.

Due to its unparalleled size, height as well as location, exposure and architectural style, the building poses itself as a striking landmark with a profoundly modern multifunctional identity relating to both the Saudi locality and the Islamic universality of its expected users.

So far, the hotel is supposed to be functional by 2017, but according to a Forbes report, financial experts believe the construction could be delayed to 2018 as well. Nevertheless, the mammoth hotel has already left behind Malaysia’s First World Hotel (with 7,351 rooms) to become the largest hotel in the world by room count.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hospital; islam; mecca; saudiarabia
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To: Jimmy Valentine
But! Can I get a dry Martini at the bar?

Yes, but you have to slip a 100 Euro note and your drink will come in a coffee cup.
21 posted on 08/04/2016 4:21:17 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Lets see.......read back those 8 digit coordinates again to make sure I have this programmed correctly.


22 posted on 08/04/2016 4:25:00 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Fai Mao

I hope ISIS blows it up
God help me but I do.
If it happens I’ll laugh

Martin Luther King Jr. isn't the only one who can dream...


23 posted on 08/04/2016 4:26:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

One pass with a forest fire fighting tanker plane filled with bacon grease should provide some comical moments..........


24 posted on 08/04/2016 4:33:26 AM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: mosaicwolf

LOL!


25 posted on 08/04/2016 4:34:05 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Will the steerage class rooms have goat stalls?


26 posted on 08/04/2016 4:42:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

NUKE IT!


27 posted on 08/04/2016 4:47:14 AM PDT by angcat (TRUMP!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Ground Zero


28 posted on 08/04/2016 5:27:49 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
You can stick a lot of butts in the air in that building.

Nice place for a 757 hanger

29 posted on 08/04/2016 6:19:10 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Rebelbase
Will the steerage class rooms have goat stalls?

No goat stalls only come in first class.

30 posted on 08/04/2016 6:19:10 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: maddog55

Only when full


31 posted on 08/04/2016 6:39:13 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Insured by Lloyds?


32 posted on 08/04/2016 6:51:04 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I think I saw an ad for this on TV... ‘We’ll keep a knife out for you’...


33 posted on 08/04/2016 6:54:37 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: just me

+1


34 posted on 08/04/2016 7:23:10 AM PDT by Bigg Red (You're on fire, stupid!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Looks like a phallus surrounded by pillars.


35 posted on 08/04/2016 7:29:26 AM PDT by RichInOC ("In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible...")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Could you imagine the smell?

Will they at least offer toilet paper for their western guests?


36 posted on 08/04/2016 8:55:58 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They haven’t broke ground on it yet and they’re going to erect this monstrosity in a year’s time? NOT GONNA HAPPEN SAHIB. These people are so inclined to exaggeration and detached fantasy.


37 posted on 08/04/2016 9:01:22 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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