Mall of the Emirates
Readers wanted to know, snow in the Emirates?
Well, since yesterday was a holiday, and it was 44c (112F) and 90% humidity, a trip to Dubai seemed in order.
The first destination was Mall of the Emirates which allowed a little shopping at Carrefoure (pork products), a meeting with a business colleague, and a refreshing look at snow.
Since it was a holiday the line up to go into the snow area was long so we simply gazed through the windows.
Mall of the Emirates is the worlds largest mall outside of North America (6.5 million sq ft), and includes shops, entertainment, 5 star hotel and an indoor ski area. The statistics for the ski area are as follows:
22,500m² covered with real snow all year round – (equivalent to 3 football fields)
Temperature maintained at a comfortable -1Cº to -2Cº
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
Snickers Freestyle zone
Permanent: 1/4 pipe snowboard area
3,000m² Snow Park with a snow cavern
Quad chairlift, tow lift and flying carpets
Of course they have full equipment rental including boots, coats, gloves, etc.
Change from your sandals and dishdash to alpine togs in minutes.
For the further curious here is their web link.
http://www.malloftheemirates.com/
Well, since yesterday was a holiday, and it was 44c (112F) and 90% humidity, a trip to Dubai seemed in order.
The first destination was Mall of the Emirates which allowed a little shopping at Carrefoure (pork products), a meeting with a business colleague, and a refreshing look at snow.
Since it was a holiday the line up to go into the snow area was long so we simply gazed through the windows.
Mall of the Emirates is the worlds largest mall outside of North America (6.5 million sq ft), and includes shops, entertainment, 5 star hotel and an indoor ski area. The statistics for the ski area are as follows:
22,500m² covered with real snow all year round – (equivalent to 3 football fields)
Temperature maintained at a comfortable -1Cº to -2Cº
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
Snickers Freestyle zone
Permanent: 1/4 pipe snowboard area
3,000m² Snow Park with a snow cavern
Quad chairlift, tow lift and flying carpets
Of course they have full equipment rental including boots, coats, gloves, etc.
Change from your sandals and dishdash to alpine togs in minutes.
For the further curious here is their web link.
http://www.malloftheemirates.com/
posted by Sand Land Dad at 11:08
3 Comments:
That is so awesome that words cannot describe...
I wonder what their energy consuption is like...
Wow. That's...CRAZY, but awesome!!
Last winter I worked at a ski club. It was an unusually warm winter (between Christmans and the beginning of Feburary it was above 0 degree celcius during the day)but there was still lots and lots of snow on most of the hills. There was a base (natural snow from November) and on the top was the "man made" snow, which of course wasn't as good as the natural.
I wonder what the snow at the mall is like...I mean, I'm assuming it should be pretty good if they keep the temperature the same all the time. That kind of snow is known to get pretty nasty to ski/snowboard on when it starts to melt...(although, again, I'm sure they do a good job keeping the temp. the same).
Still, that is so cool..."sibling" and I were thinking about how much it would cost to keep that place up....
I was telling someone at work about this ski hill last week and they couldn't/wouldn't believe me. It is beyond the imagination of most people. Now I can prove it to them.
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