World's Tallest Hotel With Staggering Rooms at 1,000 ft Nears Completion

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15-07-2025

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The Ciel in Dubai—which will be the world's tallest hotel once it is fully built, reaching over 1,197 feet high—is set to open its doors later this year as its construction nears completion.
The Ciel will be set in the world's largest human-made marina—the Dubai Marina—offering 360-degree views of the Persian Gulf, including the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai's archipelago of human-made islands, and the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
Boasting 1,004 rooms, including 147 suites, across 82 floors, guests at the Ciel can soak in panoramic views through floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
The hotel will also feature the world's highest infinity swimming pool set around 1,004 feet in the sky, as well as a 1,158 feet-high "sky restaurant" and an "atrium sky garden" spanning 12 levels. This was according to a statement from the China Railway 18th Bureau Group of Dubai (CR18BG), the contractor behind the hotel, according to local media.
The construction of the hotel, which is slated to open at the end of this year, has reached different stages.
A rendering of an aerial view of Ciel in Dubai, which will be the world's tallest hotel once completed
A rendering of an aerial view of Ciel in Dubai, which will be the world's tallest hotel once completed
Courtesy The First Group
The lobby fit-out works have reached at least 65 percent completion and parts of the dining areas are 50 percent complete. The installation of guest room furniture was also said to be 45 percent completed, while the fit-out of the leisure deck has seen at least 40 percent progress, according to April-May updates shared by the developer.
Designed by NORR—the architectural firm behind the Atlantis The Palm hotel complex located at the heart of the Palm Jumeirah—once completed, the Ciel will usurp the current tallest hotel in the world, the 1,169 foot-high Gevora hotel, which is also in Dubai.
Set on the 76th floor of Ciel will be the infinity pool—the Tattu Sky Pool. This forms part of the Tattu Dubai restaurant, bar and lounge complex spanning three floors of the hotel. The Tattu restaurant will be housed on the 74th level, while the Tattu Sky Lounge is found at the 81st floor, according to the venue's website.
A rendering of the infinity pool at the Ciel in Dubai.
A rendering of the infinity pool at the Ciel in Dubai.
Courtesy The First Group
Reaching around 984 feet high, the hotel's imposing communal atrium space will feature "vertically stacked landscaped and naturally ventilated terraces," noted The First Group, the developer of the hotel.
The Ciel is not the only major skyscraper in the works. Last week, over in North America, Canada welcomed its first ever "supertall" building in Toronto.
Supertall skyscrapers are buildings that stand 300 meters (around 984 feet) or higher, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
The construction of Canada's One Bloor West building, which is designed by Foster + Partners, the architectural firm founded by British architect Norman Foster, hit the 300-meter mark, officially becoming the country's first supertall building.
Once it is finished, the skyscraper will be Canada's tallest residential building and its second-tallest human-made structure after the CN Tower.
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