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Why, Oh Why, Put An Atlantis In Dubai?

Where: Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

If you're trekking all the way out to Dubai, we can't imagine why you'd choose to stay at a secluded resort on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree that offers a water park, aquarium and shopping mall. Aren't these the vacation experiences Orlando was built for?

Nonetheless, Atlantis, The Palm opens in Dubai next month, with 1,539 rooms and the aforementioned water park, aquarium and 27,000-square-feet of designer shopping, UrbanDaddy tells us.

Don't get us wrong, we're not knocking the Atlantis concept, as it certainly works in the Bahamas. It's just that Dubai has enough exoticism to render things like a 100-foot near-vertical plunge and an 11-acre dolphin bay utterly boring, making us question why anyone would spend the kind of money it takes to get to Dubai only to stay at a hotel resort that's not unlike SeaWorld.

Although, to be fair, the hotel does have one thing Orlando doesn't: a Nobu restaurant, just like its Bahamian predecessor. That's for if you're also tired of the other nearby outposts in LA, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, Dallas... eh, you get the idea.

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