In December of 2006, according to the hotel’s site, you will be able to live out your deepest
James Bondian fantasies if you have the wherewithal (that is, the dough) to travel to Dubai to stay at the
Hydropolis Undersea Resort hotel. The resort will be
the first underwater luxury hotel in the world (well, this world) and, like so many of the odd, extravagant
things being built in Dubai these days, will be very expensive, very garish, and yet intensely alluring. My reference
to James Bond comes from my fantasy that I might stay in such a place and, with a white cat on my lap and a monocle,
plot the end of the world from my underwater lair…uh, hotel room.