DUBAI: Gevora Hotel, located on Shaikh Zayed Road and built by Majid AlAttar, is all set to open soon and overtake JW Marriott Marquis as thetallest hotel in Dubai.
It was under construction since 2008.
Consisting of 75 floors and measuring 356 metres in height, the hotel willhave 528 guest rooms and suites and four restaurants. It will also have apool, jacuzzi and health club as well as a luxury spa.
Interestingly, the Gevora Hotel is only a metre taller than JW MarriottMarquis, but has five more floors, as per media reports. JWMarriott Marquis is 1,165 feet in height and opened in 2012.
Further, the Gevora Hotel has six elevators that will operate at the speedof 26 km/hour and it also has the highest pools in the world.
The hotel has a total of 3,859 stairs. It is three times taller thanLondon’s Big Ben, 56 metres taller than Paris’s Eiffel Tower and 100 metresshorter than Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Twin Towers.