Updated: January 30, 2013, 12:00 AM
In pictures: Dubai's underwater hotel idea treads water
The project was announced last year after BIG InvestConsult signed an agreement with Dubai’s Drydocks World, that the port developer would act as a contractor on developing the hotel.
But the company behind the project, Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult, believes it will not be long before the flying saucer-like structure lands off the coast of Dubai. “I think it will be within five years,� said Bogdan Gutkowski, the president of the co???
Connection to the land via a bridge was an issue, he said, and the Palm islands were being viewed as a possible location. However, a lot would depend on the final design, he added.