The spectacular Floating Palace with luxury villas is a world first and is scheduled to open in 2023.
Nothing seems impossible in the luxury metropolis of Dubai, and so the city of superlatives has another spectacular tourism project – a luxury hotel in the middle of the sea. The Kempinski Floating Palace, scheduled to open in 2023, is a floating building around which are grouped twelve floating luxury villas, which can also "float" to other anchorages.
The hotel is located on one of Dubai's most exclusive stretches of beach, Jumeirah Beach Road, popular with luxury travellers and locals alike for its vibrant hotel and restaurant scene. A speedboat will be available to transport guests who don't arrive by yacht to the floating hotel with 156 rooms and suites or to their villa. A floating helipad allows discerning guests to arrive in extra style.
Structured in four parts, the main building is connected in the middle by a glass pyramid and offers every luxury a five-star hotel guest might dream of, from exclusive gourmet restaurants and bars, to a spa and pools, fine boutiques and extensive banqueting areas. "We are delighted to be able to offer our guests in Dubai such a novelty from 2023 onwards, combining the destination's reputation as a high-tech city with the timeless European elegance of Kempinski hotels," enthuses Bernold Schroeder, CEO and chair of Kempinski AG – Europe's oldest luxury hotel group – about Seagate Shipyard's innovative project.
Some of the twelve luxury villas are for sale, the others are for hotel guests. The luxury houseboats have an elegant design, two floors with roof terrace, infinity pool, two to four bedrooms, plus rooms for staff as well as indoor and outdoor living rooms with panoramic windows. You can travel in the floating palaces at a maximum speed of six nautical miles. The solar technology on the roofs makes the travelling villas environmentally friendly.
