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The helicopter rises with a thrum you feel more than hear, a vibration that organizes your nerves into attention. Below, Dubai loosens from the ground like a folded map being shaken open-roads slide into clean geometry, sand rinses into gold, and the Persian Gulf turns from steel to ink to a painter's pan of blue. The cabin is all glass and light, and the pilot's voice-calm, transactional, a string of coordinates-stitches human reason through this spectacle.


From above, the city's ambition is easier to understand. Everything has a deliberate line or a polished curve. The Burj Khalifa needles the sky as if measuring it; the Palm Jumeirah unfurls its symmetric leaves until they touch the sea; Dubai Marina folds into a canyon of glass where water holds mirrors to towers. Helicopter ride Dubai sky high views But what caught me, what kept pulling my eyes back like a magnet finding true north, was a circle: Ain Dubai, the great wheel sitting like a compass on the edge of the Gulf.


Ain, in Arabic, is an eye. It is also a spring. Both meanings fit. There it is on Bluewaters Island-an iris of steel and tension cables, rim catching the sun so cleanly it looks drawn with a compass against the water. As we pivot along the shoreline, the wheel flashes from different angles: at one moment, a watch gear laid on velvet; the next, a halo balancing on the horizon. Its shadow, thin as lace, skates over the turquoise shallows near the beach.


Seen from the ground, Ain Dubai is overpowering. You stand under it and your neck understands scale in a way your mind refuses to catalog. From the air, the scale is stranger still, because the wheel enters the same conversation as coastlines and freeways. Helicopter ride Dubai Atlantis . It's not just big; it's deliberate. An idea realized, an eye placed at the city's cheekbone to announce that this is a place meant to be looked at and to look back. The pods, which on land appear like small minimalist rooms with their own climate and calm, become pearls threaded on a perfect loop. They move-sometimes, they rest-but from above they read like seconds on a clock that belongs to the city.


The helicopter banks and Dubai redraws itself. The desert leans in from the interior, a pale infinity that once swallowed caravans and now tolerates golf greens and freshwater lakes. The pilot calls out landmarks like he's reading a poem in short lines: Creek. Frame. Jumeirah. World Islands. Below, a container ship nudges the port, a neighborhood pool glitters like a child's marble, and highways braid into an eight-lane knot then taper to a clean line. Inside the headset there's a hush, as if the air itself has agreed to be a museum.


I have never quite made peace with heights. But the strange thing about a helicopter is that it doesn't feel like height in the way a ladder or balcony does. It feels like possibility, like stepping into the margin of a page and realizing the notes there might be the real story. The rotors are a drumbeat, and you match your breathing to it without thinking. The ground stops being a place you fall toward; it becomes a story you read line by line. And Ain Dubai, in that story, is punctuation-an elegant period at the edge of the sentence where land meets sea.


We skim the shoreline, tracing the beach as it scrolls past kite surfers and umbrellas. JBR looks like a toy city in highly polished plastic, cheerful and precise. Then the wheel again, closer now, tilting into the window until it seems to rotate even when it doesn't. It gathers the city's fragments-retro futurism, maritime commerce, leisure, heat, glass, sand-and frames them without judgment.

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The wheel says: turn, look, return, look again.


It's tempting to call Dubai a city of surfaces, because the surfaces are so seductive: glass that looks like water, water that looks like jewels, sand that looks like silk. But from up here you can read the underlying text-how infrastructure knits far neighborhoods into one fabric, how the old creek still curves through memory, how the port is the quiet heartbeat, how the desert does not go away but simply stands back with a patient smile. The helicopter doesn't strip away illusion; it shows the craft. You can see the stitches.


I think about how a city tells its story. Old cities speak in layers, their stones doing the talking. Dubai speaks in gestures, in punctuation marks large enough to be seen from the sky. Helicopter ride Dubai private aerial tour A tower that says taller.

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An island that says impossible. A frame that says picture this. A wheel that says eye. And yet the bravado doesn't erase the human details. On the beach, a child holds a red bucket to her chest. On a balcony, someone waters a plant. On a pier, two fishermen test their luck with patient wrists. Up here, they're dots, but they pull the whole composition into focus.


We swing inland for a moment, and the sun hits the cockpit in a wash of heat, then softens. The pilot, both conductor and metronome, describes the approach as if we're landing in a thought rather than a place. I look one last time toward Bluewaters and try to store the image the way you store a scent: wheel bright as a coin; sea turning from blue to white where it breaks on the sand; Marina towers standing like a choir, silver voices angled toward the sky.


When we settle back onto the helipad, the ground feels newly invented. The rotors soften to a sigh. Headsets come off; the world rushes back in with its ordinary volume-car horns, seagulls, a joke shouted across the tarmac. My phone is full of photos I already know will fail to capture the scale, because the experience wasn't just visual; it was a geometry of feeling, a recalibration of distance, a moving line drawn around a moving city.


If a city could have a mirror in which to see itself whole, Ain Dubai would be one. And the helicopter ride is the act of lifting that mirror to the light. From above, Dubai's contradictions don't cancel; they converse. The wheel is both landmark and metaphor, entertainment and emblem. It watches, it frames, it nods to the idea that cities are built, unbuilt, and remade by the eyes that fall upon them.


Later, walking along the marina, the wheel slips between buildings, appearing and vanishing as if winking at a private joke. I feel taller in my step, not because I conquered a fear, but because the city unscrolled for me and I read it differently. Somewhere above the hum of traffic, a helicopter carves its arc, and for a second I hear that steady thrum again, the metronome of air. The circle at the water's edge remains perfect, patient, and bright-an eye that reminds you to keep looking.

 

Burj Al Arab
برج العرب
Jumeirah Burj Al Arab in 2007
Map
Interactive map of the Burj Al Arab
برج العرب area
General information
Status Completed
Type Luxury hotel
Architectural style Structural expressionism
Location Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Construction started 10 July 1994; 31 years ago (1994-07-10)
Completed 1999; 27 years ago (1999)
Opening 1 December 1999; 26 years ago (1999-12-01)[1]
Cost US$1 billion[2]
Management Jumeirah
Height
Architectural 321 m (1,053 ft)
Top floor 197.5 m (648 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 56 (3 below ground)[3]
Lifts/elevators 18[3]
Design and construction
Architect Tom Wright of WKA
Developer Jumeirah Group
Structural engineer Atkins
Main contractor Murray & Roberts / Concor
Other information
Number of rooms 202[3]
Website
www.jumeirah.com/en/stay/dubai/burj-al-arab-jumeirah Edit this at Wikidata
References
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The Jumeirah Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب, lit.'Arab Tower'), commonly known as Burj Al Arab, is a luxury hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[8] Developed and managed by Jumeirah, it is one of the tallest hotels in the world, although 39% of its total height is made up of non-occupiable space.[9][10][11] Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island that is 280 m (920 ft) from Jumeirah Beach and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. The shape of the structure is designed to resemble the sail of a dhow.[12] It has a helipad near the roof, at a height of 210 m (689 ft) above ground.

Site

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The beachfront area where Jumeirah Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel are located was previously called Chicago Beach.[13] The hotel is located on an island of reclaimed land, 280 m (920 ft) offshore of the beach of the former Chicago Beach Hotel. The former hotel was demolished during the construction of the Burj Al Arab.[14] The locale's name had its origins in the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, which at one time welded giant floating oil storage tanks, known locally as Kazzans, on the site.[13]

History

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The Burj Al Arab was designed by the British multidisciplinary consultancy Atkins, led by architect Tom Wright of WKA. He came up with the iconic design and signature translucent fiberglass facade that serves as a shield from the desert sun during the day and as a screen for illumination at night.[15] The design and construction were managed by Canadian engineer Rick Gregory, and construction managed by David Kirby also of WS Atkins. The Burj Al Arab's interior is by British-Chinese designer Khuan Chew. Construction of the island began in 1994 and involved up to 2,000 construction workers during peak construction. Two "wings" spread in a V to form a vast "mast", while the space between them is enclosed in a massive atrium. The setting of a high rise building on saturated soil and the novelty of the project required groundbreaking dynamic analysis and design to take into consideration soil-structure interaction, effect of water, high winds, and helipad among other loads, to help finalize the design and take the project into construction.[16][failed verification]

The hotel was built by South African construction contractor Murray & Roberts, now renamed Concor and Al Habtoor Engineering. The interior designs were led and created by Khuan Chew and John Carolan of KCA international and delivered by UAE based Depa Group.[17]

The building opened on 1 December 1999.[1] The New Year's Eve fireworks celebration originated in 2000 with the inauguration of the United Arab Emirates.

The hotel's helipad was designed by Irish architect Rebecca Gernon.[18] The helipad is at the building's 28th floor, and the helipad been used as a car race track, a boxing ring, has hosted a tennis match, and the jumping off point for the highest kite surfing jump in history.[19]

In 2017, the hotel hosted the wedding of Daniel Kinahan, head of the Kinahan Organized Crime Group.[20] The wedding was attended by several prominent drug traffickers, such as Ridouan Taghi, Edin Gačanin, 'Ricardo (El Rico) Riquelme Vega, and Raffaele Imperiale.[20]

Features

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An AgustaWestland A109E Power landing on the Burj Al Arab's helipad

Several features of the hotel required complex engineering feats to achieve. The hotel rests on an artificial island constructed 280 m (920 ft) offshore. To secure a foundation, the builders drove 230 40-metre-long (130 ft) concrete piles into the sand by drilling method.[21]

Engineers created a ground surface layer of large rocks, which is circled with a concrete honeycomb pattern, which serves to protect the foundation from erosion. It took three years to reclaim the land from the sea, while it took less than three years to construct the building itself. The building contains over 70,000 m3 (92,000 yd3) of concrete and 9,000 tons of steel.[21]

Inside the building, the atrium is 180 m (590 ft) tall.[22]

Given the height of the building, the Burj Al Arab is the world's fifth tallest hotel after Gevora Hotel, JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur and Rose and Rayhaan by Rotana. But if buildings with mixed use were stripped off the list, the Burj Al Arab would be the world's third tallest hotel. The structure of the Rose Rayhaan, also in Dubai, is 333 metres (1,093 ft) tall,[23] 12 m (39 ft) taller than the Burj Al Arab, which is 321 metres (1,053 ft) tall.[23]The Burj Al Arab's helipad, located 210 meters above ground, has been the site of several high-profile events, including a tennis match between Roger Federer and Andre Agassi, and stunts by Red Bull athletes.[citation needed]

Rooms and suites

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The hotel is managed by the Jumeirah Group. The hotel has 199 exclusive suites each allocated eight dedicated staff members and a 24-hour butler service.[24] The smallest suite occupies an area of 169 m2 (1,820 sq ft), the largest covers 780 m2 (8,400 sq ft).[25]

The Royal Suite, billed at US$24,000 per night, is listed at number 12 on World's 15 most expensive hotel suites compiled by CNN Go in 2012.[26]

The Burj Al Arab is very popular with the Chinese market, which made up 25 percent of all bookings at the hotel in 2011 and 2012.[27]

Restaurants

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Al Muntaha
Al Mahara

There are six restaurants in the hotel, including:

Al Muntaha ("The Ultimate"), is located 200 m (660 ft) above the Persian Gulf, offering a view of Dubai. It is supported by a full cantilever that extends 27 m (89 ft) from either side of the mast, and is accessed by a panoramic elevator.[citation needed]

Al Mahara ("Oyster"), which is accessed via a simulated submarine voyage, features a large seawater aquarium, holding roughly 990,000 L (260,000 US gal) of water. The wall of the tank, made of acrylic glass in order to withstand the water pressure, is about 18 cm (7.1 in) thick.[citation needed]

Rating

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While the hotel has sometimes been described as "the world's only 'seven-star' hotel", the hotel management claims never to have done so themselves. The term appeared due to a British journalist who had visited the hotel on a tour before it was officially opened. The journalist described Burj al Arab as "more than anything she has ever seen" and therefore referred to it as a seven-star hotel.[28] A Jumeirah Group spokesperson said "There's not a lot we can do to stop it. We're not encouraging the use of the term. We've never used it in our advertising."[29]

Reception

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Burj Al Arab has attracted criticism as "a contradiction of sorts, considering how well-designed and impressive the construction ultimately proves to be."[25] The contradiction here seems to be related to the hotel's decor. "This extraordinary investment in state-of-the-art construction technology stretches the limits of the ambitious urban imagination in an exercise that is largely due to the power of excessive wealth." Another critic includes negative critiques for the city of Dubai as well: "both the hotel and the city, after all, are monuments to the triumph of money over practicality. Both elevate style over substance."[25] Yet another: "Emulating the quality of palatial interiors, in an expression of wealth for the mainstream, a theater of opulence is created in Burj Al Arab ... The result is a baroque effect".[25]

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The last chapter of the espionage novel Performance Anomalies[30][31] takes place at the top of the Burj Al Arab,[32] where the spy protagonist Cono 7Q discovers that through deadly betrayal his spy nemesis Katerina has maneuvered herself into the top echelon of the government of Kazakhstan. The hotel can also be seen in Syriana and also some Bollywood movies.[which?]

Richard Hammond included the building in his television series Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections.

The Jumeirah Burj Al Arab serves as the cover image for the 2009 album Ocean Eyes by Owl City.

The Burj Al Arab was the site of the last task of the fifth episode of the first season of the Chinese edition of The Amazing Race, where teams had to clean up a room to the hotel's standards.[33][34]

The building is featured in Matthew Reilly's novel The Six Sacred Stones, where a kamikaze pilot crashes a plane into the hotel, destroying it in an attempt to kill the protagonist, Jack West Jr.

The building was the location of the main challenge of the ninth episode of the Canadian-American animated television series Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race,[35] where contestants were tasked to either return a serve from a tennis robot on the hotel's helipad, or squeegee an entire column of the hotel's windows.

See also

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  • W Barcelona (Hotel Vela) – skyscraper of similar appearance in Barcelona, Spain (sail)
  • Oman TiT – residential skyscraper of similar appearance in Taipei, Taiwan (sail)
  • Elite Plaza – a similar-shaped skyscraper in Yerevan, Armenia
  • JW Marriott Panama (Panama City) – similar structure
  • Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth – similar structure in Portsmouth, UK
  • Vasco da Gama Tower – a skyscraper of similar appearance in Lisbon, Portugal (sail)
  • Sail Tower – a skyscraper of similar appearance in Haifa, Israel (sail)
  • List of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates
  • List of buildings in Dubai
  • List of tallest buildings in Dubai

References

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Further reading

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  • Rose, Steve (28 November 2005). "Architecture: Sand and freedom". The Guardian.
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  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata

 

 

Dubai Marina
مرسى دبي
District
Marsa Dubai
Dubai Marina skyline
Dubai Marina skyline
Official logo of Dubai Marina
Map
Interactive map of Dubai Marina
Coordinates: 25°4′52.86″N 55°8′38.67″E / 25.0813500°N 55.1440750°E / 25.0813500; 55.1440750
Country United Arab Emirates
Emirate Dubai
City Dubai
Established 2003; 23 years ago (2003)
Area
 
 • Total
4.9 km2 (1.9 sq mi)
Population
 (2024)[1]
 • Total
70,550
 • Density 14,000/km2 (37,000/sq mi)
Community number 392
Website www.bayut.com/area-guides/dubai-marina/ Edit this at Wikidata
Dubai Marina skyline

Dubai Marina (Arabic: مرسى دبي), also known as Marsa Dubai, is a district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is built around an artificially constructed canal along a 3-kilometre (2 mi) stretch of the Persian Gulf shoreline. In 2024 it had a population of 70,550.[2][3]

The district can accommodate over 120,000 people,[4] and is located on Interchange 5 between Jebel Ali Port and the area which hosts Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City, and the American University in Dubai. The Dubai Marina was inspired by the Concord Pacific Place development along False Creek in Vancouver, Canada.[5] There have been many instances of marine wildlife, especially whales and sharks, entering the marina because of its proximity to the open sea.[6]

Development

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An aerial view of Dubai Marina towers, with Jumeirah Lake towers in the background

To create the marina, the developers brought the waters of the Persian Gulf into the site of the Dubai marina, creating a new waterfront. There is a large central waterway excavated from the desert and running the length of the 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) site.[4] More than 12% of the total land area on the site has been given over to this central public space.[4] Although much of this area is occupied by the marina water surface, it also includes almost 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of landscaped public walkways.[4]

The marina is entirely human-made and has been developed by the real estate development firm Emaar Properties of the United Arab Emirates and designed by HOK Canada.[4] There is a publicly accessible foreshore-way around the marina and some sections of public ocean way along the beach with views to Palm Jumeirah. Its largest development is the Jumeirah Beach Residence. In October 2013, Dubai Marina opened its first mosque, Masjid Al Rahim, which is situated at the southern end of the Marina; its second mosque, Mohammed Bin Ahmed Almulla Mosque, opened in December 2016.[citation needed][7]

Phase I

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The first phase of Dubai Marina covers 10 hectares (25 acres), which includes six freehold apartment buildings called the Dubai Marina towers. Phase I of Dubai Marina cost more than AED 1.2 billion.[4] Three of the towers are named after precious stones: Al Mass, Fairooz, and Murjan; the other three are named after Arabic scents: Mesk, Anbar, and Al Yass. The scheme was designed by HOK and the contractors were Al-Futtaim Carillion and Nasah Multiplex.[4]

Phase II

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Phase II of Dubai Marina consists of high rise buildings which are mainly clustered into a block, known as Tallest Block in the world,[8] with the majority of the skyscrapers ranging between 250 metres (820 ft) to 300 metres (984 ft) in height. This includes Cayan Tower,[9] Ocean Heights,[10] Marina Pinnacle,[11] Sulafa Tower,[12] and Ciel Dubai Marina which rises to 366 metres (1,201 ft).

Jumeirah Beach Residence

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The Walk at Jumeirah Beach Residence is a 1.7-kilometre (1.1 mi) strip at the ground and plaza level of the complex, developed by Dubai Properties. Completed in 2007, since opening officially in August 2008[13] it has become a tourist attraction.[14]

Al Sahab

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Al Sahab is a residential high-rise development that consists of two towers; the complex is on the waterfront and directly overlooks the largest bay of water at Dubai Marina.[15] The buildings are in the northern end of the marina across from the Al Majara towers near the Marina Quays.[16]

Marina Quays

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Marina Quays is a complex designed by Arif & Bintoak, also responsible for the Concorde Tower. As of 2016, luxury penthouses in the buildings have sold for more than 10 million Dirham.[relevant?][17] In 2018, 5 million tonnes (11 billion pounds) of rock was added to create a breakwater for Marina Quays.[18]

Dubai Marina Mall

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Interior view in the mall

Dubai Marina Mall is a shopping mall located in the centre of Dubai Marina. It features 140 retail outlets, spread over 3.6 hectares (9.0 acres) of gross leasable space. Opened in December 2008, the mall is linked to the 5-star JW Marriott Hotel Marina.[19][citation needed]

Transportation

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Sobha Realty (Dubai Metro)

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Sobha Realty

Sobha Realty (شوبا العقارية), originally called Dubai Marina, then Damac Station, is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Dubai Metro in Dubai. It was opened on 30 April 2010 as part of an extension to Ibn Battuta. Sobha Realty is located near Interchange 5 of Sheikh Zayed Road, around 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of downtown Dubai; to the east of the northern half of the Dubai Marina and the west of the northern portion of Jumeirah Lake Towers. The elevated station lies on a viaduct paralleling the eastern side of Sheikh Zayed Road.[20] Pedestrian access to the station is aided through walkways above Sheikh Zayed Road, connecting to developments on either side of the road. In September 2014, it was renamed to Damac Station.[21] The station's name was changed back to Dubai Marina in November 2020,[22] before it was renamed to Sobha Realty on August 9, 2021.[23]

Dubai Tram

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Al Sufouh Tram operates in Al Sufouh, Dubai Marina, running 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) along Al Sufouh Road from Dubai Marina to the Burj Al Arab and the Mall of the Emirates. It interchanges with two stations of Dubai Metro's Red Line. The Sufouh Tram also connects with the Palm Monorail at the entrance of the Palm from Sufouh Road. Since completing in 2014, it has served the residences of Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach.[24]

Attractions

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A zipline was installed which links Dubai Marina with the Dubai Marina Mall.[25] The take-off platform is located at the top of a Amwaj Tower and is 170 metres (560 ft) above ground level. It has a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). XLine is a two-row ride where two people can ride side by side at the same time.[26] There can only be one adult per row. XLine is located in the Dubai Marina Mall on level P. Another attraction is the Dubai Marina Walk, situated along the shoreline. The Dubai Marina Mall is a shopping and entertainment centre. In addition, Dubai Marina has a 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) long marina that is serviced by the Dubai Marina Yacht Club for yacht and dhow tours.[27][28] Another major attraction in Dubai Marina is Skydive Dubai,[29] which is arranged to give skydivers a bird's-eye view of Palm Jumeirah.[30][31]

Education

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Emirates International School is close to Dubai Marina.[32]

Incidents

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On 27 April 2006, a protest broke out among workers in Al Ahmadiya Contracting. During the protest, workers blocked the company's construction site at Dubai Marina and destroyed office property and documents. They also damaged eight cars and two buses and battered a site engineer. The crowd was later dispersed by the riot control wing of Dubai Police.[33]

In August 2015, people including police officers were arrested after they were caught with prostitutes and illegal alcohol on a boat in Dubai Marina.[34]

In 14 June 2025, a huge fire broke out in the 67-storey Marina Pinnacle, causing 4,000 people to flee.[35]

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See also

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  • Bluewaters Island
  • List of tallest buildings in Dubai
  • List of tallest residential buildings in Dubai

References

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Awesome Helicopter tour of Dubai and the world Islands. We got to see everything we wanted to see. Tour left on time and everything was very organized.

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We booked this as a surprise for my son's birthday and we nailed it - he loved the thrill of the helicopter ride itself, but also the spectacular views from above. The pilot was very friendly and knowledgeable. We learned so much more about Abu Dhabi than we would have ever done from walking around - and the views from above of the Mosque and of the palaces are unmatched.It is MUST experience in Abu Dhabi.

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Yes, valid government-issued ID or passport is required for Helicopter Ride Dubai check-in.

Comfortable clothing and dark colors are recommended for Helicopter Ride Dubai to reduce window reflections.

Most helicopters used for Helicopter Ride Dubai can accommodate up to five passengers.