The Heavens Below
As the world’s most modern architectural wonders, aquatica resorts are truly heavens on earth. And under the sea.
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The Poseidon Resort
Location: Fiji
Price: $15,000 per person per week
Details: Scheduled to open in 2009, Poseidon will have 24 underwater suites, all decked out with flat screen televisions, marble bathrooms and a sitting room with a library. About 70 percent of each room will be glass. There will also be 48 beach bungalows in case you feel like being closer to sea level.
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The Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa
Location: Maldives
Price: Starting at $510 per night
Details: This hotel is spread over two islands and is famed for its over-water villas, which are each a whopping 1,600 square feet in size and come with their own private sun decks and outdoor Jacuzzis. But guests can get even closer to the underwater wonders by booking a table at Ithaa, the Hilton Maldives’ all glass, underwater restaurant.
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Huvafen Fushi
Location: Maldives
Price: Starting at $800 per night
Details: Huvafen Fushi is one of the most glamorous resorts in the Maldives, but it’s still casual. There are 43 bungalows and the room design is sleek and pared down. Sea lovers should book one of the over-water bungalows, but if you want to be totally enveloped by the ocean, Huvafen Fushi’s Lime Spa has two underwater treatment rooms.
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Hydropolis
Location: Qingdao, China
Price: The average room price will be about $600.
Details:The aptly-named Hydropolis Crescent Group is planning to roll out a series of luxury underwater hotels around the world. The first hotel, scheduled to open in 2008, will be the Hydropolis in Qingdao, China, located in a protected cove on the coast of the Yellow Sea.
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That’s China’s Hydropolis. Shown below is the view of Hydropolis at Dubai, United Arab Emirate.
Situated 66 feet below the surface of the Persian Gulf, Hydropolis Dubai will feature 220 guest suites. Reinforced by concrete and steel, its Plexiglas walls and bubble-shaped dome ceilings offer sights of fish and other sea creatures.
What’s next? Hollywood decides to do another Jaws movie.
Tips. Are you on a look-out for an ultra-luxury tropical destination in Indonesia? Visit Bali’s Bvlgari hotel, the most expensive beach resort on the island. The 59-villa resort is located on the southern tip of the Jimbaran Peninsula.
Details and price listings are mainly gathered from AOL reviews.
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Glad to know about these new holiday destinations. They appeal to the worst of my desires. But they also kind of provoke political connotations. It’s superb irony for instance you make me learn about it on the day the stock markets word wide are collapsing.
Heaven or Hell, who can tell the difference looking at these architectural tours the force? I tend to rate them negatively. No doubt these submarine extravaganza’s are not exactly compatible with what famous American blogger and economist Paul Krugman defines as an ideal:”I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit the extremes of wealth and poverty”.
To be honest: I agree with him. In my backpackers world these are examples of squandermania – on the part of the environmentally on the verge of criminality operating investors as well as on the part of the hedonistic brainless and fake-adventurous visitors.
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Ohhh, colson’s living in a backpackers world eh?
Very nice! Miraculous, even. Knowing that you’re much older than my dad.
Well, it’s okay if you don’t like those places, colson. If you don’t like it, then don’t go there. No biggie. Go to Africa and feed the elephants instead.
I am no hypocrite, given the choice I’d live there forever. Especially that Poseidon one.
I am no Jacques-Yves Costeau either, “hedonistic brainless and fake-adventurous” splendours are always easier to dream for rather than being a marine biologist.
It is pricey. D’oh, how can it not? It’s not just luxurious, it’s epic!
Anyways, yes the United Arab Emirate and China have been ambitious with its architectural and tourism projects, and if I’m not mistaken, the Netherlands is building a new island right? A human-made island? Called the Tulip Island or something. Wow.
Hope you enjoy the collapsing stock markets, colson. The rest of us will enjoy daydreaming about the undersea.
Chere Madame,
Did I notice some discontent with my comment? It must be due to the contrast between the moaning that goes with grouches of my age and the carefree joy of life that is typical of youth.
Alright, I admit the blasphemous rich must have their playgrounds too. But don’t you agree with me that it is outright injustice that I’m not one of them, for crying out loud? I have evil desires too, you know. I envy those bastards. Desperately. And for me time runs short. Especially because I’m probably the only backpacker left in the world who looks already like Bobby Fischer the day before he died.
Your Methusalem, a.k.a. colson.
(PS: I shall prevent in person the building of that ugly tulip on the shores of the North Sea. Fortunately there are some original, promising, creative alternatives for offshore islands which are really worthwhile).
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Whoa, Hydropolis is so beautiful. It’s like Atlantis for real!
So romantic and honeymoonish too… *aaaw ;)
@ colson
Goodness, colson. Your English vocabulary amazes me.
Chere Madame?
Okay, maybe I should say: Chill, colson dude. No offense taken.
All opinions are appreciated on this site. We don’t want sheeps, henceforth everyone is entitled to have a perspective of each own. I, as this site’s author, will try to balance it accordingly.
Much thanks for being fair and just.
By the way, you don’t need those resorts. You’re already living below sea level, right? Haha!, kidding.
@ LilyOfTheValley
Atlantis. Uhm, some say that myths are actually premonitions of the future.
If those Hydropolis engineers have successfully built a resort underwater, that means they have the technology to build an expansion of it, right? Resorts, villas, apartments, building blocks, same difference.
The ice is already melting anyways, cities are sinking.
So, should there be a city underwater in the future?
*Twilight Zone theme song playing in the background*
Lebay mode on.. :D
marisa, thanks for visiting my weblog. u are the first one who appear in my “bloglog recent reader”……. :D
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Looking at the price, I was a bit surprised to find out Bvlgari Hotel in Bali is more expensive :)
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These places are so incredibly cool. One day when I have a few extra dollars in my pocket I might have to go and spend a few days. :) Of course that day is a bit far off cause I have five children and two are currently going to college. The cost of books is killing me. :)
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Whoa! that is sweet!
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