860 million invested in the Dubai Healthcare City luxury hotel project

Announcing details of the project, Saeed Al Muntafiq, Chairman of Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), stated that the premium hotel will be built at an estimated cost of AED 860 million and will be a twin-tower project with one of the towers being a five-star hotel and the other an apartment tower.

The development will open doors to visitors by September 2007. The hotel and apartments would be connected with glass air-conditioned tunnel to the 425 beds teaching hospital and the on-campus Harvard Medical School Dubai Center.

It will be located along the northeastern edge of the DHCC Phase 1 Development, which is located in Oud Metha area of Dubai behind Wafi City.

"The hotel and apartment complex will cater to the accommodation and hospitality needs of our patients and their families, those who would come to DHCC for check-up or for treatment with relatives, or for visiting doctors and faculty," Al Muntafiq pointed out.

"Dubai Healthcare City is committed to total quality in all spheres of its activities. The luxury hotel will be no exception to that rule. We are creating the region's centre of excellence in medical, wellness and healthcare practices and we will ensure that all aspects of our work - including the twin-tower hotel project - reflect that,"

the DHCC Chairman added.

Al Muntafiq said both the luxury 5-star hotel will house 439 rooms and the apartment tower would have 406 units. Two floors in the hotel will be dedicated to a medical centre equipped with special provisions for patients and nurse stations.

The hotel will host medical and pharmaceutical events and has banqueting halls, a business centre, conference rooms as well as restaurants, spas, two swimming pools and a rooftop fine dinning restaurant.

The short-term serviced apartments will cater for families and will have suites, 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms units. The complex will have parking for over 1,200 cars.

"The hotel will be enhanced by the double-height public spaces with a feature that would have the potential to be a lively space offering guests and nearby residential communities a warm and inviting place to visit," added Al Muntafiq