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Luxist Visits Ski Dubai, The World's Largest Indoor Ski Area

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg (RSS feed) —

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Luxist visits Ski Dubai, the largest indoor ski facility in the world.

Sipping a cup of hot chocolate beneath a heat lamp on the deck of the cozy mountainside Avalanche Café, it's easy to forget that you're in the middle of the desert in Dubai. That is, until you see a pack of bearded men gleefully whizzing down the slope, white tunics billowing like sails behind them.

Any excursion to Ski Dubai, which purports to be the world's largest indoor ski area, is filled with this sort of incongruity. Though the air outside routinely tops 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, the temperature inside the 22,500 square meter facility remains just below freezing all year round. The structure that encloses the ski slope is as tall as a 25-story building; its flagship trail, the first indoor black diamond ever built, is longer than three football fields. There are four other runs of varying difficulty, as well as a chairlift, a freestyle snowboarding zone, and of course, the aforementioned café.

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Kempinski To Open Ski Dubai Hotel

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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The Ski Dubai indoor ski resort is on one of the most unusual places in the world. A ski slope inside a mall, it's perhaps the most powerful symbol of the excess and over-the-top fantasy that is the Dubai. It's no surprise then that Kempinski, the company behind the epically posh Emirates hotel has created the Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates which is attached to the Ski Dubai indoor ski resort and the massive Mall of the Emirates which has over 400 shops. The hotel has 393 rooms and 15 ski chalets which have views of the indoor slopes. The hotel is also planning a spa with an ayurvedic center, beauty treatment rooms, fitness center and an infinity swimming pool with sun deck and tennis court. Guests can sunbathe and ski during the same day. The hotel opens next month.

[via Breaking Travel News]

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