Abraj Kudai to be the biggest hotel in the world

The hotel aims to entirely reflect the definition of luxury and extravagance will have 70 restaurants, the largest number in the world and will become the biggest hotel in the world. $ 3.5 billion is the cost of the giant construction of the hotel with 10,000 rooms.

On an area of 1.4 million square meters, situated just a few kilometers from Makkah, Abraj Kudai will offer the ultimate luxury experience. It has 12 towers with the highest of them designed as the largest domes in the world. In the hotel there will be a mall, a huge area dedicated to gourmands worldwide with 70 restaurants, a conference center, a bus station and four heliports.

Five of its floors are reserved only for the members of the Saudi royal family. The hotel would be inaugurated in 2017, but the problems facing the Saudi economy, which has suffered from lower oil prices, could push the deadline until 2018.

“The city is turning into Mecca-hattan,” says Irfan Al-Alawi, director of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, which campaigns to try to save what little heritage is left in Saudi Arabia’s holy cities. “Everything has been swept away to make way for the incessant march of luxury hotels, which are destroying the sanctity of the place and pricing normal pilgrims out.”