Dubai’s underwater hotel

 

Poseidon suite

The hotel’s Lost Chambers suites provide views from both the bedroom and the bathroom windows into a lagoon filled with 65,000 marine animals. So you can relax on your bed and watch giant manta rays float slowly by.

Grand lobby

Plato’s legend has Atlantis being submerged as a divine punishment for greed and decadence. We think it might have been for truly appalling taste…

The Leap of Faith waterslide

Atlantis’ waterpark is known as Aquaventure, and features high-tech waterslides built to look like ancient monuments. The highest of them, the Leap of Faith, is over 27 metres high.

Shark-infested lagoon (er, tank)

After being catapaulted down the Leap of Faith, Aquaventurers bob in inner tubes through a ‘shark-infested lagoon’. Fortunately the sharks are safely on the other side of a pane of glass.

Dolphin Bay

The resort’s Dolphin Bay allows ‘shallow-water interaction’ with some ever-obliging cetaeceans, flown in from the Solomon Islands for the purpose.

Ambassador Lagoon

The hotel’s Ambassador Lagoon is filled with 65,000 marine animals, looked after by nearly 200 marine experts.