Dropping a Deuce 211 Meters Up
Posted onI’ve heard from my good friend Mike Perlish for years now about how great, shiny, rich, amazing, etc Dubai is and from the research I’ve done, in this case he is not embellishing. For instance, take this beautifully designed hotel, the Burj Al Arab, which looks like a giant white sail bursting up out of the sand. I think it’s the only 6 or 7 star hotel in the world, I know he stayed there and the cheapest room I could find just now was for $817. It’s also got a helipad jutting out from the side:
“Standing 321 meters high on a man made island, the Burj Al Arab has a helipad which is situated 211 meters high, covering a surface area of 415 square meters.
In case the picture above doesn’t say 1000 words, it was converted into a tennis court earlier this week for the Dubai Tennis Championships.
Andre Agassi and Roger Federer had a friendly volley on it and neither of them fell almost 900 feet to a grisly death below. The link above takes you to Fox Sports which has a 14 pic slide show. Check them out… they’re sick!
Via Chris