Burj al-Arab

The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai is the tallest hotel in the world. The hotel has been given a 7-star rating and all rooms come with a personal butler... There is a $50 charge just to walk in the door... To secure the foundation, the builders drove 230 40-meter long concrete piles into the sand. The foundation is held in place not by bedrock, but by the friction of the sand and silt along the length of the piles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_al_arab



We also beached on the Persian Gulf today.