Azerbaijani tycoon building Europe`s most expensive hotel
An Azerbaijani businessman is financing the
construction of Europe`s most expensive hotel. The Mardan Palace,
costing $1.4 billion, is being built by Telman Ismailov, president
of the Russian group AST, in the southern Turkish Mediterranean
resort of Antalya and is scheduled to open on June 1.
According to The Times, from the outside, the hotel has endless layers of white and gold. Inside, that Mardan touch means more than 10,000 square meters of gold leaf, complemented by 500,000 crystals and 23,000 square meters of Italian marble. The hotel`s serving dishes alone have been purchased for Ј1.35m.
The European rooms are crisp and contemporary, and the Anatolian wing is moodier, with walnut, gold and lush velvet. There are suites with price tags up to Ј13,000 a night and facilities including huge Ј45,000 TVs, grand pianos and private pools, which have glorious views over the Taurus Mountains and The Kremlin (the neighboring hotel), The Times said.
The hotel`s swimming pool is one of the largest in the Med: five acres of fresh water with a sunken aquarium stocked with 2,400 fish as its center-piece. The pool is spanned by bridges based on designs by Leonardo da Vinci and has gondolas to take guests from one end to the other, a trip that takes half an hour (though the boats do move slowly).
The hotel has fur coats on display in its version of Istanbul`s famous Grand Bazaar; the toothless sharks in its swimming reef; and the 9,000 tons of sand dredged from Egypt to ensure the private beach is silky soft.
There are also areas that, while jaw-droppingly lavish, are really quite beautiful. The lobby, for example, may be almost the size of a football pitch but it wears those vast proportions with a serene elegance. It`s design has been based on Istanbul`s 19th-century Dolmabahce Palace.
There are also wonderful baroque, rococo and neoclassical influences amid its Ottoman indulgences.
The concept is that, like Istanbul, the hotel provides a bridge between Europe and Asia. The lobby and the Dolmabahce bedrooms represent the Ottoman Empire, off to one side is the European wing, and to the other, the Anatolian. Each is decorated in keeping with their namesakes, so the Ottoman bedrooms are the most ornate - lots of mahogany, dark reds and intricate fittings.
There are 10 restaurants, from sleek Japanese to swanky Russian, headed by Michelin-trained chefs from the country of the cuisine`s origin.
According to The Times, from the outside, the hotel has endless layers of white and gold. Inside, that Mardan touch means more than 10,000 square meters of gold leaf, complemented by 500,000 crystals and 23,000 square meters of Italian marble. The hotel`s serving dishes alone have been purchased for Ј1.35m.
The European rooms are crisp and contemporary, and the Anatolian wing is moodier, with walnut, gold and lush velvet. There are suites with price tags up to Ј13,000 a night and facilities including huge Ј45,000 TVs, grand pianos and private pools, which have glorious views over the Taurus Mountains and The Kremlin (the neighboring hotel), The Times said.
The hotel`s swimming pool is one of the largest in the Med: five acres of fresh water with a sunken aquarium stocked with 2,400 fish as its center-piece. The pool is spanned by bridges based on designs by Leonardo da Vinci and has gondolas to take guests from one end to the other, a trip that takes half an hour (though the boats do move slowly).
The hotel has fur coats on display in its version of Istanbul`s famous Grand Bazaar; the toothless sharks in its swimming reef; and the 9,000 tons of sand dredged from Egypt to ensure the private beach is silky soft.
There are also areas that, while jaw-droppingly lavish, are really quite beautiful. The lobby, for example, may be almost the size of a football pitch but it wears those vast proportions with a serene elegance. It`s design has been based on Istanbul`s 19th-century Dolmabahce Palace.
There are also wonderful baroque, rococo and neoclassical influences amid its Ottoman indulgences.
The concept is that, like Istanbul, the hotel provides a bridge between Europe and Asia. The lobby and the Dolmabahce bedrooms represent the Ottoman Empire, off to one side is the European wing, and to the other, the Anatolian. Each is decorated in keeping with their namesakes, so the Ottoman bedrooms are the most ornate - lots of mahogany, dark reds and intricate fittings.
There are 10 restaurants, from sleek Japanese to swanky Russian, headed by Michelin-trained chefs from the country of the cuisine`s origin.
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