Your google-fu is weak young net-hopper

-the Palazzo Versace hotel-

go there for 820 square meters of cooled sand.

[Ed. note: Hi there. In re the issue of beaches, cooled or un- ... During a visit to Abu Dhabi in early April, I had a look at the Emirates Palace Hotel (http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/home/index.htm), and was told by my guide that the accompanying beach had an artificial cooling system for the sand. It's possible I was misinformed, and pending a clear resolution of the issue, I'm glad to make a correction: Abu Dhabi may or may not have any artificially cooled beaches, current or in the works. But it does have some gold-tipped minarets, and according to the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in 2007 it had a per capita GDP of $54,000, among the highest in the world, more than half of that from oil. Here's the link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eNAC-t7SQJoJ:www.abudhabichamber.ae/user/SectionView.aspx%3FPNodeId%3D1003+abu+dhabi+per+capita&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us .]