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Hotel Openings: Hilton's Arabian Palace

April 26, 2006 at 12:55 PM | 0 Comments

Hilton is set to open their first ever palace hotel in Saudia Arabia on May 15.

The Palace of the Orient, or Qasr Al Sharq, hotel will have only 46-suites (the largest guest suites in the region), personalized butler service and "unimaginable interior design aspects."

Facing the Red Sea on the main Corniche, the palace is a nine-storey triangular shaped granite building with oriental architectural design. The palace comprises of two palace suites - each covering half a floor with two master bedrooms, a private sitting room, a large formal majlis, large dining room and kitchen, and a private health club that includes a gym, sauna and Jacuzzi.

The ceiling is done Trump-style in 60kg of gold leaf which took some poor workers six months to apply. The floors of the hotel were done in different types and colors of marble across the world, and 1,200 crystal vases from Italy are placed throughout the hotel. Beds will have 600 thread count cotton linens from Venice and each duvet cover is stiched with one million threads of gold embroidery. As for the butlers, there will be 17 of them on call 24 hours a day.

If you can't afford all this opulence, then the regular Jeddah Hilton is just next door.

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