Abu Dhabi hotel regrets $11 m Christmas 'overload'

ABU DHABI, U.A.E. - an Abu Dhabi luxury hotel that boasted a height of Christmas 11 million US dollars tree with Sunday approved decorated gold and precious stones, the holiday spirit may have taken a little too far.

A statement by Emirates Palace Hotel said it regretted the Christmas tree tradition "trying to overloaded" by decorating it with premium bling, including gold, rubies, diamonds and other precious stones from a hotel jeweler.

The statement was a rarely something of reflection on the Gulf of ethos of the surplus. The tree was presented last week with full fanfare in a hotel, which has its own gold bar vending machines and a one-week $1 million-package, private jet jaunts around the Middle East contains.

But the hotel management had apparently second thoughts, after questions arose, the opulent tree was innocent good cheer or unfortunate bad taste.

The hotel regrets "attempting the tradition, followed by most hotels in the country with meanings and connotations, in accordance with the (hotel's) professional standards fall too cluttered", a statement said on the State News Agency WAM, performed.

The hotel even trying distance themselves from the 43 foot (13 M) faux FIR in one his rotundas, say, a hotel-based jeweler solely responsible for creating and decorate the tree was.

"The hotel is just a place for the display of the tree," said the statement.

The hotel also claimed that the tree was no trick, but rather seek increase the holiday atmosphere for its guests to the basis of the United Arab Emirates "values of openness and tolerance."

Although officially Muslim the UAE has many signs of Christmas for its huge foreign population. Lights, carolers and Santas are devices in every Mall.

By news.yahoo.com

A Christmas tree decorated with $ 11 million US (EUR 14.3 million) in the value of gold and precious stones, has been available under the dome of the hotel Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Thursday December 16, 2010. The hotel's general manager, Hans Olbertz, was quoted in local newspapers Thursday of 43 feet (13 M)-faux FIR has 131 ornaments, gold and precious stones including diamonds and sapphires. The 11 million US-dollars symbol of the season has the latest extravaganza at the Emirates Palace Hotel, has its own Marina, helipad and a vending machine small bars pops out.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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House for Christmas…. and sick as A dog

A quick update to explain where I have been lately...

The last week of the trip was brutal. I went from Bangkok to Tokyo to Honolulu to Seattle to San Francisco, Las Vegas, to Minneapolis to Green Bay.

The two longest legs of those flights (Tokyo, Honolulu and Honolulu to Seattle) were both night red eye flights, where did I get any sleep. Throw in Jet lag on top of that, and I was exhausted.

Las Vegas cancelled my flight to Minneapolis, and I had to sit for 3 hours in the baggage claim area of the cancelled flight waiting my bag taken get.

When I woke up in Las Vegas the next morning, my body ruled that it had had enough and I was sick.

Just to give you an idea, I spent almost all Christmas day in bed to sleep. I have a headache, sore muscles sore throat very, and I am tired all the time.

I'm glad I could it go back to Wisconsin for Christmas to make. This is the first Christmas without my father and I am really glad I could be here for it, even if I was sick.

As all these trips and disease can result you have noticed a serious lack of activity on the website. I have some very cool announcements and stories come to publish in 2011. Until then will I probably only Hibernate will try to beat what made me sick.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with I to take some more NyQuil'm going and go back to bed.

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