Few places do luxury like Dubai, so begin with your hotel. Five star is not luxury enough here, the Burj Al Arab hotel boasts several tallests and firsts, and was one of the initial landmark buildings marking Dubai’s recent tower boom on it’s completion in 1999. The Burj is a seven star hotel sitting 280 metres offshore on it’s own man made island, and the seven star treatment begins as soon as you leave the airport where you can be picked up by one of a fleet of thirty Rolls Royce’s, or maybe just a helicopter transfer.