Atlantis - The Palm

This guide to Atlantis, The Palm opens three days before its lavish 2008 opening, when fire broke out in the still-unfinished grand lobby with a hundred thousand fireworks already staged outside. It follows the scramble to ready the hotel in time, and the September night when Kylie Minogue took the stage in front of two thousand guests. Along the way it traces how Palm Jumeirah, the artificial island the hotel sits on, was dredged from the floor of the Gulf.