Refrigerated Beach In Dubai Being Planned (PHOTOS)

"The world's first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel in Dubai so the filthy rich holidaymakers don't burn their feet on the scalding hot sand," the UK Mail reports.

The revolutionary beach will sit next to the new Palazzo Versace hotel and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes built under the sand and giant wind blowers, designed to keep tourists cool in the searing 40-50C heat.

The hotel, which is due to open late next year or early 2010, will be controlled by thermostats linked up to computers and feature a cooled swimming pool.

However, the plans have been criticised by campaigners who are infuriated by the potential impact on climate change.

Rachel Noble, of Tourism Concern, said: 'Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so people can continue destructive lifestyles.'

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Check out photos. Below, via the Mail, an artist's impression of the Palazzo Versace Hotel in Dubai.

Here's an image of the Palazzo Versace Hotel on the Gold Coast:

Comments

[GPI]

Lets have a poll.

1. What percentage of the readers here could afford to go here on their own money?

2. What percentage of the readers here would want to go here in the first place?

Your guess will be better than mine!

[bavb63]

what a weird place!

[Tatiana]

Who would go there? They randomly strip search arrivals at the airport and their court sentenced a british couple to 3 yrs in prison for having sex on a deserted beach. OMG! This place is Hell on Earth!

[Telemachus]

Can I point out how scandalously, scabrously, sacriligiously ridiculous this wretched excess is, while still remaining a card-carrying member of the "blame-Ame­rica-first crowd"?

??

[research]

YES! Because Halibuton Moved it's headquarters there!

[jaslyn]

How effed up are the people who go there when there's an entire 'real' world to be seen???

[hortonhearsawho2]

Which one is the AIG suite?

[hortonhearsawho2]

Which denomination do they use to wipe with ?

[AlwaysFairDem]

I won't put a penny in Dubai...it is going down. There are 800K locals and about 3 million residents some are now being asked to leave because everywhere you go construction is totally stopped, half the city is just big building with no one in it. A good example is an opening of a huge resort that cost over $20 Billion and about $30million in opening expenditure for lavish whatever you can think of including an amazing fireworks ever seen to only lay off about 500 people the next day.

You got money in Dubai, take your money and run. The ride is over before it is too late.

[mergina]

Feel cool while the sun gives you cancer.

[vietveter]

They ran out of stupid stuff to spend all
their / our money on.

So now they are on to REALLY stupid stuff.

I wonder if the cooling system will work when we make glazed tile out of all that hot sand.

[Venom5809]

I guess gas is going back up to $4 a gallon again.
Somebody has to pay for this crap.

[crazylikeafox]

Since the middle east will make the whole world with it's oil pushing, it's only fitting they experience the fires of hell on earth first.

What good is money in an inferno?

[andhakari]

What happened to that lady who may have said: "Let them eat cake"?

[hrhkat29]

Um I think she got her just deserts...­...get it, desert...n­ot dessert...­desert....

[Afarensis]

Yarr, it's like a play on words.

[Axekick]

That entire Dubai resort area is bound to become terrorist target number one.

It's the old problem of putting all of your eggs into one basket.

[LMPE]

Why don't they just go all the way and turn the whole country into a micro-climate?