This hotel will be built in 32 storeys in the coast of Karun river in Ahvaz.

Some Persian articles about this hotel:

http://news.moe.org.ir/shownews.asp?id=9192
http://hamvatansalam.com/news33513.html
http://www.baztab.com/news/25898.php
http://www.hamshahri.net/hamnews/1384/840409/Irshahr/tehransh.htm

Some key facts:

Will have 32 floors and 506 rooms. 9 floors will be used for official purposes and 23 floors will be used for housing tourists. Each floor will contain 22 rooms. The hotel will be built on an old bridge and will have glass liftes in order to get a good view over the city of Ahvaz and the Karoun river. A turning resturant on the top floor is another of the features it's planned to have. It's calculated to cost 20 billion Tomans.

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why are they building this hotel in ahvaz? I mean are there any tourists?

does anyone have any pictures?

why the hell would they build this in Ahvaz?!?!

exactlyy as siyavosh has said....

ahvazz is like HELLL!!!!

oohh btw, any threads on those two hotels being built (perhaps completed) in Shiraz?

Idk what's wrong with Iranians. We don't have any talent in business. even hear in U.S. so many Iranians have opened stores and restaurants, but they go and open it in some shity place, somewhere only Iranians would know so they only have Iranian customers. other nationalities open their stores and restaurants in the nicest places in the city so its visible to everyone and therefore they have more than just their native country's costumers. I guess this lack of talent is common in between all Iranians.
I mean I would understand if they wanted to build a hotel but why the "largest" hotel? who comes up with that kind of idea? is it private investment?
mahdial is right ahvaz is like hell.
I am from khuzestan and I lived in ahvaz for 9 years.
its close to 50 C degrees in summer.
There is nothing pretty about this city except the river Karun and white bridge (pol sefid). btw Karun is usually brown because it's the biggest river in Iran and it carries so much dirt and mud. so don't expect a nice, blue river.
Its sad to see money, either from private investment or government investment, being wasted this way.
Personally I believe for a city like Ahvaz an office tower is the best thing so they can fit related offices in the same building so people don't have to travel around the city in a hot summer. I remember my parents having to do that in summer hot days and it was really fucked up.

It's called mismanagement, lack of experience and education, and lack of common sense. The Islamic Republic is inflicted with all of these deficits. I'm amazed that the country is still in one piece considering the samads who are ruling it. I guess it's mostly due to a few capable people like Ghalibaf, Larijani, Mottaki, Khatami, and the likes. Otherwise God knows what would have happened to Iran by now. But guys, just imagine what Iran could be if we had a popular secular democratic government and parliament, voted in by the people (I'm not talking about the kind of "democracy" that the U.S. exports!) If we had a popular secular democracy, hundreds of thousands of Iranians, and perhaps even millions eventually, would gradually return to Iran with all their expertise, experiences, talents and multi-faceted and multi-cultural/lingual benefits. Together with the amazing human resources that today's Iran boasts of we could make Iran prosper and progress like never before in history. Iran would become like no other place in the world. We have the money, brains, expertise and resources to make it happen. When there is a true democratic government in place, voted in by the people for the people, then logic tells us that people will start to care and participate in the decision-making process concerning their country and future. Hence Iran will have not thousands of people working for her advancement and welfare, but millions!

But we have to walk this road alone - not with the "help" of the U.S. or Europe or anyone else. This road belongs to the Iranian people. It's there for us, waiting for us to open up our eyes and take action, mobilize and get moving! It doesn't have to be a violent revolution. If we start taking the first steps and start really caring for Iran's future in action instead of just in words, then everything else will gradually fall in place. Instead of a violent revolution a gradual revolution could take place. The aim has to be to gradually dismantle the sitting establishment - they do not care for Iran or Iranians. All they care for is to fill their pockets, and the pockets of their Arab friends. Islam is not the issue here - these people who are ruining the name of Islam and Iran are the issue! And Iran and its future is what are at stake!

It's a shame that we should have to put up with these loosers who are stealing and squandering tens of billions of dollars for every $ one billion that they spend on developing the country! We should be MUCH better off than we are today! 250,000 of our brightest citizens are leaving Iran every year! 250,000! That's the greatest brain drain in the history of mankind.

Iran is experiencing a scientific and cultural rennaissance, and it's beginning to recieve the attention of the world. But what are we really getting out of it? The regime is spending minimal amounts of money and resources on scientific research, and is instead busy just talking big about it. So what happens? Our extraordinary talented scientists are leaving Iran in scores to be able to work in peace with their passion and to make a decent living. Instead billions of dollars is being spent on building one mosque after the other, both in Iran and in other countries. And God knows how much of our money - yes OUR money! yours and mine - is being spent on Hezbollah, Hamas, Lebanese families who in their hearts perhaps even despise non-Arab Iran, and on shia Muslim institutions around the world! It's a shame! I hope things will turn around in our favor soon, and that we somehow will be able to present a promising and sound alternative to the aberoorizi-regime that we allow to rule one of the greatest nations of the world!

The first step we need to take to embark on the road that will lead to freedom, democracy and a new golden age for Iran, involves shaking off all the burdens of the past! The Shah, Mossadeq, Khomeini, Mojaheddin, Tudeh, etc, etc, - All that is history! It's the past. Done with. Now we need to start anew - A fresh beginning! If our people only could wake up!

Ahwaz needs to be developed, there's no doubt about that. It's a big mistake of the regime to have neglected such an economically vital area for so long, but to be building such a grand hotel there is out of proportion.

Why should the largest hotel in Iran get built in Ahvaz?:weird:

Hotels are not very big in Iran. I don't even know what Tehran's largest hotel is. This is a 506-room hotel and its going to be built outside Tehran. I hope a larger hotel in the 600-800 room range is built in Tehran soon.

Has this project begun already? I don't think, that it will be started/completed. First they must build hotels in Tehran, Isfahan ... . Ahvaz is in comparison to e.g. Isfahan very smaller and has much fewer tourists... . Even the the possibility of a resume of the "Flower of the East" project is higher than building such a big hotel in AHVAZ. However, I hope they build it.

However, I hope they build it.

It's ridiculous! Ahvaz has nothing to offer tourists. And it's hot as hell!

^^ Isn't kish hot? This might just be a new step to develop Ahvaz.

there is a trend to push regions which were neglegted in the past decades!
like kermanshah,kordestan,khuzestan region!cause there are ethnic minoritys in the regions who complain that the government has not do enough for them!
and some trouble makers say its because they are not persian!personaly i think thats bullshit but i admit that we have to invest more in this region that all iranian tribes live a good life!"

i would like to see some nice tourism projects in
isfahan(its known worldwide,already tourism hotspot),
shiraz(because of takhte jamshid),
tabriz(because of its history and famouse people,also many turks,azeris can come to visit the mainly turkish speaking city,and bring money into th city),
mashad (destination for shia pilgrims)
kordestanregion(because of its beatyfull nature)
and shomal region(also because its amazingnature)


but ahwaz will never be a tourism hot spot cause in summer time iranians prefer cooler regions like shomal!with forrest and mountains!
and in winter i would prefer kish cause it has a beach and is beatyfull!

thats why this project will never be build!

^^just a question..xD but isn't Ahwaz popular in the Arab nations? I always thought that...

Clearly this kind of a hotel built in a city like Ahvaz is not for regular tourists but rather people on business in the highest oil producing region of Iran.

This thread is from 2005, if anyone has any real information to post regarding this project/proposal please do so... If not then please stop spamming this thread and let it fall back into the archives!