Architectural design: W.S. Atkins architectural planning room
Interior Design: Kuanchu Joint Office
The sailboat has 56 floors and the height is 32 1 m.
The Sailing Hotel looks like a sailing boat-shaped building from a distance, with 56 floors and 32 1 m high. Because the hotel is modeled by sails, there are water-related themes everywhere in the hotel. As soon as you enter the hotel door, there will be different water spraying methods from time to time, each of which is carefully designed. It takes about 15 ~ 20 minutes to change the water spraying method.
Hotel rooms are all composed of duplex suites, the smallest room is 170 square meter presidential suite, with a total of 202 suites. The most luxurious suite is the 780m2 Royal Suite, located on the 25th floor of the hotel. There is a cinema, two bedrooms, two living rooms and a dining room. There is a dedicated elevator in and out, and all the paintings hanging on the wall are original. Every time I enter the room, a housekeeper explains how to use all the high-tech facilities in the room.
Only 40 tons of gold was used when the hotel was renovated, and the degree of luxury was amazing. The interior of the hotel is full of "gold", not to mention furniture, even door handles, toilet pipes and even a post-it note.
Going to the hotel restaurant can "go to the sea"
The restaurant in the hotel is even more incredible: the seafood ingredients used in the AI-Mahara seafood restaurant are the freshest seafood captured by the hotel for customers in the deep sea. It's really an unforgettable experience for guests to eat here-they have to be picked up by submarine. From the hotel lobby to the AI-Mahara seafood restaurant, although the voyage is only 3 minutes, it has entered a magical underwater world, with bright tropical fish swimming around on both sides of the submarine. Sitting in a comfortable dining room chair, looking around the glass window, corals and marine fish form a flowing scene. There is also a restaurant in the air. Guests only need to take the express elevator to reach the AI-Mahara restaurant, which stands 200 meters above the Arabian Gulf, in 33 seconds. This restaurant adopts a space-like design, which makes people feel like entering the space world.
Outside the building, there is an apron for helicopters to take off and land. Guests can even ask the hotel to send a helicopter to pick them up. During the 15 minute flight, the guests took the lead to have a bird's eye view of Dubai, and then the helicopter landed slowly on the helipad of the hotel.
Hotel prices are also "luxurious"
Of course, the price of the sailing hotel can also be called "luxury": the lowest is $65,438 +0.600, and the highest is $65,438 +0.800. Even tourists have to pay $200 each.
China employees in Sailing Hotel actually account for 10% to 20% of the total employees. Johnny, Senior Sales Manager of Jumeirah Group, explained that since China is one of the top ten tourist countries of Sailing Hotel, China employees can provide better service to guests from China. The source also revealed that many tourists from Europe and America will spend $200 to visit the whole hotel, but relatively few China guests visit the hotel, and China guests often stay directly.
China people are employed in sailing hotels with a minimum of $65,438+￡ 0,500 per night, because China VIPs often stay.
In May this year, more than a dozen young people from China who graduated from hotel management flew to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to work for the world's most luxurious and only seven-star hotel, the Sailing Hotel.
China waiter didn't recruit to save money.
Sun Jing, who has just turned 20, works as a waiter in Sky Restaurant on the 54th floor of this hotel. The reporter asked him if it was because the manpower in China was cheaper that the hotel recruited employees from China. He said that this was not the case. "Sailing Hotel is an international hotel. At present, there are more and more China people coming to the UAE, and China VIPs often stay in sailing hotels, so they need China employees to provide services. " At present, there are waiters from about 90 different countries and regions in restaurants in Sun Jing alone.
In terms of adaptation, Sun Jing thinks that it mainly depends on language ability and personality. "It is very important to communicate with others. In daily life, the tasks assigned by the manager before going to work should be basically understood. "
Sun Jing believes that personality is also very important for this job. "If you are introverted and unwilling to communicate with others, it will be more troublesome." He said that the foreigners he worked with were very warm and polite. "China people used to give people the impression that people here were more introverted, but now they are much better." .
The school strengthens foreign language skills and the sailing hotel is satisfied.
Sun Jing graduated from Hubei Tourism School. He said that compared with migrant workers in other countries, China people have greater language difficulties. "Here, China people's foreign languages are the worst, while others like Filipinos, Indians and Europeans and Americans have good English. They come here to work, and language is not a problem. "
Before going abroad, Hubei Tourism School also conducted intensive training for these students, focusing on language and professional knowledge. But Sun Jing said, what I feel now is the biggest gain of my internship in Beijing this year. During that time, I mastered a lot of professional vocabulary, mainly the names of dishes. "I learned a lot here, such as all kinds of juices, sauces and seasonings. Because eating western food is very particular, there are many ingredients. If there is no internship in Beijing, it will be very difficult to work abroad. "
Zhang Wenjie is one of the directors of the Employment Department of Hubei Tourism School, and is also the specific agent for these students to go abroad. He told reporters that before the students in Sun Jing, three graduates from their school had worked in the Navigation Hotel. "In the second half of last year, people from the sailing hotel came to the school to have a look. I was very cautious at first, and now the relationship is relatively stable. "
Zhang Wenjie said, "The people from the Sailing Hotel will come back in June+10, 5438. They are considering listing in our school, which means setting up a training base in our school. "
The income from working is considerable. China guests don't tip.
Wang Jing and Sun Jing, who live in Wuhan, serve in the same restaurant. Speaking of income, Wang Jing said that before she came, the teacher told them that she earned a lot of money here, but her expectations were not high at first, because the higher the expectations, the easier it was to be disappointed. "I never thought that the salary given here would be as high as the teacher said, so I feel ok now."
Sun Jing said that although the current income is not comparable to that of Europe and America, it is much higher than that of China. "But every department is different. A restaurant like ours can earn more than 2,500 dirhams (about 5,000 yuan) a month. "
In Jing Wong's income, tips account for a large proportion. Wang Jing said: "It is customary to tip people when spending here, usually 5% to 10% of the consumption. In addition, after all, this is a seven-star high-end hotel, and guests who come here usually give tips. "
"But not every guest tips. Generally, Europeans and Americans give them in proportion, but China people who come to eat often don't. We are sad sometimes. They will tell us that we are all from China, so they will give us a discount. I don't know what to say in this case. " Wang Jing's words made the reporter a little embarrassed.
Among the young people in China in the Sailing Hotel, Ji Xu from Wuhan is the only floor housekeeper. He didn't disclose his salary to the reporter, but the reporter found from the side that the salary of a position like him is much higher than that of Jing Wong and others.
The accommodation is very good. Visiting relatives costs nothing.
Sun Jing told reporters that they lived in an apartment provided by the hotel, with three people in one room. The neighborhood where the apartment is located is particularly green. It's 0/5 minutes' drive from the hotel/KLOC-and there are two shuttle buses every hour. "Conditions are ok. There is a wardrobe and a writing desk in the room, and there are public toilets and toilets on each floor, as well as laundry rooms and dryers. They are all free, and there is air conditioning in the building. "
Speaking of contacts with relatives and friends in China, Sun Jing said that they all bought mobile phones, which were very cheap and answered for free. In addition, there is an internet cafe on the first floor of the apartment, but unfortunately there is no Chinese input method. He usually goes to China City in Dubai to send emails online. "It is impossible to surf the Internet every day. Generally speaking, I only go on my rest days. I am very tired after work, so I will not go to the Internet cafe. "
According to the employment contract, Sun Jing and Wang Jing can renew their contracts, usually for two years; After working for two years, the hotel will provide them with free air tickets to visit relatives in China; You can resign after one year; After two years, I will have a month's holiday every year; If it is renewed, the hotel will also provide air tickets to Dubai.
Dubai is not much younger than a good city in Beijing.
"We work very fast every day and have no rest time at all. We have been working. People here make full use of us. " Sun Jing told reporters that there were few domestic students and they were often lonely. They don't know where to play after work. Now that there are more students, everyone is very lively together.
Sun Jing said that the Sailing Hotel is really great, not much different from what I expected. Speaking of Dubai, he thinks it is a very young city. "It's a bit like Shenzhen in China. It used to be a small fishing village, but later it dug up oil and made money, "he said." "But compared with Beijing and Shanghai, it doesn't feel much better."
Wang Jing said that people from China often come to eat and stay now, and there will be many more during the Spring Festival this year. "This hotel belongs to the King of Dubai, and there are many big shots. The whole of Dubai can now be said to regard this hotel as a symbol of the city, just like the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall in Beijing. "