Underwater is all the rage for luxury resorts

We not only have Crescent Hydropolis Resorts building whole resorts underwater (the first one due to open in Dubai and the second in Quingdoa China) but it seems that things underwater are becoming the latest buzz in the luxury resort’s effort to distinguish itself.

The Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo is a former marine biology lab where guests scuba dive 21 feet beneath the surface to enter via a “wet dock”.

Hufaven Fushi in the Maldives have an underwater spa.  The Burj al Arab in Dubai has an underwater themed restaurant, admittedly based around a giant glass aquarium rather than the real thing.
Poseidon Resort in Fiji will be opening in 2008 with 24 underwater suites perched atop a tropical reef about 40 feet below the surface with 70% of the room being glass.

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