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UAE hotel erects 11-million-dollar Christmas tree
A bejewelled Christmas tree worth more than 11 million dollars was erected at Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE in celebration of Christmas. While the tree itself costs 10 million dollars, the jewellery which it holds has a value over 11 million dollars. This jewellery includes diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires and other precious stones as reported by the owner of Style Gallery, the shop which provided the jewellery. When the general manager of the hotel was asked whether such an action would offend the citizens (since the majority of them are Muslims), he denied that and said that the UAE is a very liberal country. He also said that this event is most likely going to enter the Guinness World Records, as the hotel seeks to contact the organisation to inform them of it.
Source: Yahoo! News Last edited by Shadow; December 17, 2010 at 01:03:11 AM. Reason: Adding a picture. |
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Exactly. The money could've brought joy to thousands of poor people in different places, which is what Christmas is all about. It's nice to hold records around the world and be unique in some ways, but such 'achievements' are excessively outside the boundaries of normal. |
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Oh look! It seems that the management in Abu Dhabi listened to us and regretted what the hotel had done. They even tried to distance themselves away from the event, saying that the tree was created by a hotel-based jeweler, and that the hotel was only a place for exhibiting the tree. The hotel's management also confessed that they had taken the holiday's spirit too far by this, saying that they overloaded the tree excessively with such expensive decorations.
Last edited by Shadow; December 20, 2010 at 09:13:43 AM. |
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But srsly I'm glad that they realized what they did. >_> |
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