It's already under construction - they started about 4 weeks ago.
I'm guessing you've never stayed at ANY of the beachfront hotels? Try and find any one of them for under $300USD per night and you will have been lucky.Their 2 year completion date is going to be more like 4, any why you need 163 extra rooms when by the end of 2011 their is going to be hundreds of hotel rooms empty across Dubai?
And the Ritz is very very pricy, Ive heard is starts around 300 usd a night and goes to the thousands for presidential rooms
You've done better than me then, which beachfront hotel can you get for 180 a night? The cheapest I've found recently is the Mina Seyahi but not at the rate you mentioned. In the past, ive only ever found this rate at the old oasis beach hotel. I've never found this rate at the Hilton, Sheraton, Royal Meridian, Mina Seyahi, Westin or Habtoor.not true at all,
I can go to a beachfront hotel in Dubai Marina starting at 180 a night ,
The Ritz has always been more expensive than other hotels and in my view also overpriced, especially in Dubai Marina where we have allot of luxury hotels now and upcoming.
That's a whole different ball game.^^dubai_gone is talking about DUBAI MARINA hotels at 180 per night, but they are NOT beach front. However they are CLOSE to the beach.
Book a package and you get 1 week at Jumeirah Beach Hotel at 999 EUR incl. flight! It has never been cheaper as now in the never ending Dubai crisis... never ask directly at the hotel... they give you the lousiest prices even if the hotel is nearly empty.That's a whole different ball game.