Whether you’re planning a wedding, rewarding your team or holding a conference for clients, this is the perfect venue for an event that will always linger in everyone’s memory. Atlantis, the majestic place has captured the world’s imagination with its magnificent scale and ingenuity. With offerings like a resort relaxation, a landmark hotel, unique marine habitats, an exhilarating water park, pristine white beaches, world-class cuisine, indulgent spa and cosmopolitan boutiques, this one sounds like a dazzling world of imagination, pleasure and luxury.

Covering over 113 acres and offering 1539 rooms, The Palm Dubai features two hotel towers linked by an arch and is Dubai’s first truly integrated resort. A massive attraction is surely the 42 acres of water-themed amusement known as Aquaventure, the 11-acre Dolphin Bay, The Ambassador Lagoon with 100’s of marine species and the fascinating ‘Lost Chambers’. Accommodation is of the highest standard and restaurants are in abundance ensuring that this wonderland will surely delight and thrill world travellers for years to come.
The hotel’s top floor being the costliest, houses a £13,000-a-night three-bedroom, three-bathroom suite complete with gold-leaf 18-seat dining table. This being Dubai, a gaudy bauble of consumerism packaged in sweltering heat, is sure to have no dearth of affluent people.





Alongside the resort’s ocean-themed entertainment there will be a 1,800-seat theater nearby housing a permanent Cirque du Soleil show beginning in Summer 2011. There are also plans for the QE2 liner to become a hotel and tourist attraction docked next to the island. It is hoped that the Atlantis hotel, which is modeled on a sister resort in the Bahamas, will play a part in sustaining Dubai’s tourist industry after regional oil profits have run dry.
To stay or visit is to live out your dreams amidst warm Arabian seas here. So this one is sure to be a spiritual home away from home for the likes of the Beckhams  -  gaudy, brash, big and expensive.
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Yes, it is the same world’s most expensive house on the French Riviera but a different buyer. Whilst last month, there was a news that Russian billionaire Roman Abarmovich inked a deal with the La Leopolda, priciest house ever by spilling over $500 million. But the rumor is lately proven to be false and here is a revision version. Another Russian billionaire became the fortunate buyer for the princely villa located on the French Mediterranean coast after shelling out £390 million. The Telegraph reports that a secrecy Russian billionaire who is not Abramovich gave over all his fortune for Villa Leopolda, a Belle Époque mansion in Villefrance on the Côte d’Azur.

The house is owned by Lily Safra, widow of Edmond Safra, a Lebanese banker who was killed by an arsonist’s fire in Monaco in 2003. Within few years, the news came that the house was bought by Bill Gates and became the worlds most prized estate. The estate is spread over two guest houses across 20 acres of grounds with countless olive, cypress and lemon trees taken care by 50 gardeners.

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UPDATE: Russian Billionaire inked deal with worlds most expensive house, Villa La Leopolda for £390 million.

Another update for realtors and a reason to be jealous for billionaires! The saga of worlds most expensive house started over at elitechoice with $180 mn Belgravia house (Britain’s most expensive), which got sidelined with then worlds most home for £80 million. Then the surge in the price of realty market was observed and an apartment got sold for $200 mn and during the same month news came about Mittal tagging a deal with $230 mn house touting it to be the worlds most expensive home once again.

But this time Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich overshadowed Mittals realty possessions by owning a $500 million La Leopolda. The latest worlds most expensive house now belongs to the owner of Chelsea Football Club. The regal summit villa overlooks the French Rivieraand Roman his heart to this beauty while he was visiting this along with his girlfriend Daria Zhukova.

Known to hold the best sea views in the south of France, the villa is spread across 10 acres of spotless grounds that run right downhill to the route of Villefranche. At first built for Belgian king Leopolds mistresses, the estate hold eternal value as it has been a den of big moguls i.e. late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli.

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Bringing across a new definition to the world of luxury stands this post capturing the pricey spirits that would make you feel high over a simple read. Those who wish to have their hard liquor seem really classy shall keep their fingers here. Let’s start with world’s most expensive cognac; the Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne that comes packed in a bejeweled crystal bottle bathed in 24K yellow gold and sterling platinum festooned with 6, 500 certified brilliant cut diamonds. Did I tell you it is retailed at $1,946,617 only? Moving on further, we have the world’s most expensive tequila, the La Ley del Diamante (the Diamond Sterling) Tequila that is available in a hand-blown glass covered with four kilograms of pure platinum and sterling silver .925 and 6,000 brilliant-cut diamond and is priced at $1,547,880. It carries around 42% alcohol.

Following the queue is the DIVA Premium Vodka, the priciest one retailed at $1,060,000. Produced using natural spring water and triple-distilled, each bottle holds a glass center packed with precious or semi-precious jewels, counting diamonds.

Starting with the world’s most expensive whiskies, we have Nun’s Island, Galway Distillery, 20-Year-Old Pure Pot Still Whisky and Nun’s Island, Galway Distillery and 25-Year-Old Pure Pot Still Whisky. Each one is retailed at nearly $194,661. And finally not to forget the “Ho Ho Ho and aa bottle of Rum”! Manufactured by Jamaican distillers Wray and Nephew, the Wray and Nephew Rum was bottled in the 1940s using diverse blends and you would be glad to know that counted four unopened bottles are available across the world and each one is priced at $50,638.

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Exhibiting around 200 lots, the highlight of the auction scheduled in Geneva for 11 May is the “Trossi Leggenda” Patek Philippe chronograph developed and designed by Patek Philippe in 1932. Earlier owned by Count Carlo Felice Trossi, the piece is anticipated to produce roughly $ 1.9 million. Measuring 46 millimetres in diameter, this unique over-sized single button chronograph wristwatch is touted as on eof the largest wristwatches ever made by the firm. It was picked by Count Trossi as a realistic timekeeper for use in motor racing and aviation to support with the precise duration of the proceedings in a highly noticeable arrangement.

The production of wristwatches by Patek Philippe was generally huge in size and les sin number. Other highlight of the auction remains a rock crystal crucifix watch (pictured above).

Signed by Fonnereau a la Rochelle in 1650, it is escorted by its innovative en suite silver case and is anticipated to fetch $ 81,000-$ 108,000 during Sotheby’s auction on 11 May.

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Call them coffins or couches; they very well deserve this tag. I somehow have a deep inclination for weird stuff especially furniture accessory. Days back, I put across alien furniture and now this Coffin Couch worth $4,500 each would surely compliment them.

Designed using recycled 18 gauge steel coffins; the raw material was gathered from local funeral homes based in Southern California. Against the health and safety law that doesn’t allow funeral homes to resell used coffins, these coffins were sold to public as the idea of recycling sound quite interesting.

These coffins cannot be used for burial purpose due to some aesthetic discrepancies. It was that recycled coffin that underwent a sm,all process of refining and the result is elegant coffin couches.

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Update: Umm Kulthoum’s antique necklace fetched $1.3 mn, almost 10 times of its pre-estimated sales amount at Christie’s auction house.
An antique necklace embedded with around 1,888 pearls, a pricey possession of Egyptian Singer Umm Kulthoum is all set to go under hammer in Dubai on 29 April. The necklace was once gifted to Kultham by Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late president of the United Arab Emirates and is anticipated to fetch $80,000-$120,000 during the Jewels and Watches auction in Dubai.

Christie’s spokeswoman Clare Roberts said Umm Kulthoum received this nine-row necklace from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in 1970s. Born in 1904, Umm learnt singing from her father and debuted her first footage in the mid-1920s and by 1930s; she reached the top of Cairo’s composition panorama.

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If your survival is dependent upon your nose, then I think you won’t compromise for it likewise Ilja Gort, 47, Dutch winemaker. I don’t know if you are aware that in wine making and tasty industry, nose reigns. This is the only reason why Ilja Gort, producer of Chateau de la Garde vineyard in the Bordeaux region of France inked a neat insurance deal for his nose at $8 million.

The covering body, Lloyd’s of London, is definitely habituated to lettering strategies for celebrities’ body parts i.e. America Ferrara’s smile ($10 million). Eyebrows are raised and one is forced to calculate factors that provoked him to go-ahead with this bizarre policy. Lately, when he came to know that a man had lost his sense of smell in a car accident, he couldn’t but rushed towards getting his nose insured as he couldn’t bear even the thought of undergoing the similar accident. FYI: Tasting wine is possible via nose and not mouth. The core of his business sustains on his capability to smell.

Policy disclaimer reads not practicing boxing classes, riding motorcycle and others. They say Gort isn’t the first wine tester having got such a coverage as Angela Mount got insured his senses of both taste and smell in 2003 by dropping a lavish sum of $20.1 million. This makes me wonder, does such a pricey deal counts ordinary cold and allergies under its terms?

Via AFP

Whilst yesterday, we introduced you to the bejeweled $176,400 Apple iPhone designed by Peter Aloisson, leaving your jaw drop deep down. And today the bling prince is in news for unveiling Nokia E90 Communicator that comes with a diamond loaded facelift. This E90 comes decked up with 408 diamonds and 18-carat white gold shell. Surprisingly, interesting and alluring diamonds weighing 9.86 carats of VVSI–IF (LC) add to the beauty of the rim of the phone. Truly, the Vertu collection from Nokia might be jealous of the Aloisson’s dazzling conception. Retailed at 52,000 Euros ($82,000), the diamond-studded Nokia E90 would not only turn heads but al,l set to break necks.

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