Talk about a “glampground”! Dubai-based designer, Ardh Architects, is taking glamping to new heights with their “Floating Retreat.”
The project is still in its conceptual phase but is being developed with the Investment and Development Authority of Sharjah. As long as funding, resources, and permits come through, the project is expected to be built in the coming years.
The Floating Retreat
Tents would be strung between two mountains about an hour from Dubai, and rates will start around $300 per night.
The Floating Retreat will operate between November and May when the weather has cooled. During the summer, it will be open to day guests for spa visits and sightseeing.
Yes, we said spa visits. Along with 10 two-person tents, the property will also have a spa, organized tours and other activities, and a restaurant.
Each tent will use a system like a suspension bridge with cables and will be motorized to bring each structure up and down. If wind conditions are good, guests can expect to sleep up to 330 feet in the air. The tents will be lined with see-through material at the front so guests can look out at the scenery. The material will be light and fire-resistant, waterproof, breathable and UV stable. Each tent will have a bed, bathroom, room service options, entertainment systems, and Wi-Fi.
While the Floating Retreat certainly isn’t for anyone with a fear of heights, it’s still an impressive concept.
Would you stay here?
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I will keep my feet on the ground
You people didn’t read carefully enough — it SAID that each tent HAS a bathroom. No matter — you would never find me in one of them — NEVER!
Another 2 minute out of my life, reading that ridiculous article. Some engineering genius hasn’t got enough to do.
Heres your full body harness, but don’t go too close to the edge. Our facilities are safety inspected weekly( weakly)
If you fall, Try not to scream. It upsets the other guests.
Thats what dude is doing in the picture standing there peeing and if you have to poop there is a small hole cut out in the floor to sit over and do your poopooing thats what them people do in their trucks cut hole in floor to poopoo threw hole in floor and it goes onto the roads and freeways just dont fallow to closely you will get poopoo on your car and windshield hahaha
So very dumb. So much to say but won’t. Can I please see the hold harmless issued at check in and the insurance coverage for guests. Click bait for sure.
Oh. 0400 in the morning. Gotta pee
Clearly not for me. 🙂
Travel to Dubai? Nope
Pay $300/night to stay in a tent? Nope
Sit in something with clear sides as much as 330 feet above the ground? Nope
Yes, I would. What a view!
Looks like a problem getting up in the middle of the night to walk outside to take a pee.
Only for the people below.
Not a problem for us guys.
Cables and equipment made by(cheapest bidder). NFW!!!!!!
Nope
You couldn’t pay me enough to spend a night in one of those things…
Talk about idiocy! Great camping experience: Stay in your tent through your whole stay!
Sleepwalkers beware
That’s what I was thinking!!!!
Not in my lifetime would I go back to a tent, in ANY fashion!
Since I don’t leave the USA of my own free will I can safely say I’ll never use this, even if I did lose my senses and got on one of those crowd killers and accidentally flew into the desert I still wouldn’t use it. Can you imagine that first step getting up in the night to use the bathroom?
“Spaceship Earth” and floating cities. Science fiction becomes reality. The view of the sunset now clouded with glampers.
Glampers glamping up in the clouds and cant see their own hand infront of theyre faceeeeeesssssssssssssss (SPLAT) IT MADE TV NEWS REPORT GLPERS FALLING FROM THE SKY LIKE FLIES FROM THEYRE TENTS UP ABOVE AT 330 FEET TO THEIR DEATHS AND NOTHING LEFT OF THEIR BODYS WHEN THEY HIT THE GROUND FROM WAY UP THAT FRIGGEN HIGH UP THEYRE BODYS WAS LIKE A WATERMELLON WHEN HITS THE GROUND AND SPLATTERS ALL OVER THE GROUND AND NOW THEY BECAME FOOD FOR THE WILD ANIMALES
Darwinism at work, thin the herd with the weakest (mentally?) activities. This particular venture holds no interest for me when considering the wow vs risks