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SKI Dubai!

http://www.skidxb.com/


22,500m² covered with real snow all year round – (equivalent to 3 football fields) Temperature maintained at a comfortable -1º to -2º

85 meters high (approximately 25 stories) and 80 meters wide

5 different runs of varying difficulty and length, longest run of 400 meters

Full capacity of 1500 guests

Freestyle zone

Corporate and group bookings

3,000m² Snow Park with a snow cavern

Quad chairlift, tow lift and flying carpets

Mountain resort theme

Rental of quality equipment and clothing included in the ticket price

Qualified professional instructors

State of the art ticketing system

Changing areas with locker rental

Private kids party rooms

Exclusive retail shop – Snow Pro

St Moritz Café and Avalanche Cafe



From the FAQ:
Q: How does it stay cold in Ski Dubai?

A: Our facility is specially designed as a massive cold box. The walls have numerous levels of insulation and the roof is 5 metres higher than the ceiling, providing very efficient insulation. This makes Ski Dubai one of the best refrigerators in the world! We have 23 blast coolers (air conditioner type machines) that chill the air and maintain a temperature of -1c during operating hours. There are also kilometres of glycol tubing running through the floor (similar to the back of your refrigerator) that chill the snow, keeping the base of the snow solid, 30 tonnes of fresh snow is made daily.




You want an Alpine Ski vacation? NO WAY! True SKI Nuts (ummm yeah) say the snow pack on Ski Dubai is better than the Alps, due to humidity and temperature controls amd method, the snow is *PERFECTLY MADE*!

They use "hyper cooled" water and inject miniscule ice Crystal in the air at the same time the water is misted into the air. Causing full fledged snow flakes.
New I'm just . . . . . whelmed..
Skied during a couple weeks in the French Alps (visiting a friend with a gig there, so got to share a room.) Rank amateur, but able to navigate a bit of the intermediate section, etc. Thought I'd captured the flavour of this obsession (but I hear that, "skiing is going downhill these days?") -- but THIS is beyond obsession and the conspicuous public burning of $100 bills. Because you CAN (and have no imagination abour what-Else you might have done instead.)

Now as to the Carbon Footprint: My analysis of BTU/plutocrat -- overall, including cost of the construction ÷ est.number of players: Maybe it's as if each one of these pampered (and some, Pampered) pusillanimous popinjays -- drives a Hummer, everywhere. Probably also one used just inside the house (in Texas, say.)


Am I right, sir? Am I right?

Extra Brownie points for source of that query, and the circumstances of its utterance ...
New Re: I'm just . . . . . whelmed..
The response from Abraham Nathan: I half believe you are.


So... what do I get?


1922 or 1931?
Expand Edited by folkert Dec. 6, 2009, 11:53:22 PM EST
New Sorry..
The 39 Steps

..as Mr. Memory lies dying on the stage.
     The Filthy-Rich (at play..) in Dubai - (Ashton) - (8)
         You forgot... - (folkert) - (3)
             I'm just . . . . . whelmed.. - (Ashton) - (2)
                 Re: I'm just . . . . . whelmed.. - (folkert) - (1)
                     Sorry.. - (Ashton)
         yabbut you cant have a heinie on the beach, either of them -NT - (boxley)
         Re: The Filthy-Rich (at play..) in Dubai - (dmcarls) - (1)
             A fine complement to today's NPR redux of I.F. Stone ... - (Ashton)
         Daniel Burnham redux? - (dmcarls)

There's no wraith like an Old wraith.
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