Posted on 11/27/2007 8:17:27 PM PST by freedom44
ran is scheduled to build its first seven-star hotel with a supplementary solar energy system on Kish Island over the next two years, Press TV reported.
Hossein Sabet, solar hotel investor
The two-year project with an estimated budget of 520,000,000 dollars is aimed at completing the hotel in Kish in the southern province of Hormozgan by 2009-10.
"Generating electricity from the sun is a very expensive project but I mean to bring this technology to Iran," said Hossein Sabet investor of the solar hotel.
"Now that other countries are imposing sanctions on Iran, building such a hotel is an important step in tourism development," concluded Sabet, manager of Kish Island's Dariush Grand Hotel.
Following are some pictures from the Dariush Grand Hotel:
There’s no such thing as a seven star hotel.
Five is it. No matter how good the hotel is.
Five.
It will make a nice target for the Israelis.
7 stars???
What is this, their own rating system?
Allah doesn’t believe in tourism.
Lifted from Wiki:
“Kish is an Iranian island and city in the Persian Gulf, and is part of the Hormozgan province. Due to its status as a free trade zone, it is touted as a consumer’s paradise, with numerous malls, shopping centres, tourist attractions, and resort hotels. It has an estimated population of 20,000 residents and about 1.5 million people visit the island annually. The area of the island is 91 km². Kish Island is the purported to be the third most visited western-oriented cities in the Middle East, after Sharm El Sheik and Dubai
Kish Island has been mentioned in history variously as Kamtina, Arakia, Arakata, and Ghiss. In 325 BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Niarkus to set off an expedition voyage into the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf. Niarkus’s writings on Arakata is the first known mention of Kish Island in antiquity.[1] When Marco Polo visited the Imperial court in China, he commented on the Emperor’s wife pearls, he was told that they were from Kish.[2] In the 1970s the last Shah of Iran turned the island into a luxury resort for the international elite complete with a Grand Casino (now known as the Shayan International Hotel) and an airport designed to handle the Concorde. After the Islamic Revolution, Kish Island became a duty-free shopping center.
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Since the mid-1990s the Iranian government has embarked on an aggressive promotional and developmental campaign to tailor Kish as a rival to Dubai but mainly a big rival to Doha. Steps taken in order to accomplish this include launching massive construction projects and programs designed to attract foreign investment and trade. Within the area of the Kish Free Zone, as it is known, the standard laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran are far more relaxed than on the mainland, which has resulted in significant increases in mostly domestic tourist population over the years, as well as in international trade on the island. However, alcohol is not available on the island, just like the rest of Iran. The population of the island includes significant numbers of both Muslims and Christians.”
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Sin City in other words, but no booze. Hossain Sabet is described as a “European-Iranian hotel tycoon.”
Exactly :/ We all remember that the regime doesn’t believe in the Zoroastrian Heathen Cyrus the Great, Dariush the Great and Xerxes ....*unless* wallets come into the picture.
Seven stars includes daily adultery stonings and immodesty hangings for entertainment.
How pagan of them.
I’ve been in the luxury hotel business for almost 30 years. I’ve never heard of a 7-Star hotel.
Who rates this? Mohammed?
It'll never fly.
Mohammed doesn’t rate anything anymore, except eternal fire!/:)
I think Dubai claims to have a couple “7 stars.”
Let’s see.
No booze.
A bunch of hairy, smelly men in beards, running things like dictators.
I’d call that, the Mother of all Three Star Motels.
If that.
It will make a nice HQ for our forces.
You know what would really accent the architecture? Naugahyde covered furniture and velvet paintings on the walls.
The hotel will be the Shariaton.
Thanks freedom44.
Five stars is for the “average people” seven is for.... well you can answer that!
Just who in their right freaking mind would want to take a vacation in the nut job central that is Iran?
Staying in a 7-star hotel might be kinda pricey, but getting stoned to death would be a complimentary “service” if you get caught sinning or otherwise annoying the Mad Mullahs.
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