Go for the Wild Experience

Ready for an amazing experience? Try the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. Another crazy find in my search for cool hotel spaces, this one is so over the top, I just had to share with you.
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The building exterior is
"designed to resemble a billowing sail, the hotel soars to a height of 321 meters (1,053 ft), dominating the Dubai coastline. At night, it offers an unforgettable sight, surrounded by choreographed colour sculptures of water and fire. The all-suite hotel reflects the finest that the world has to offer."(source)

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Part of the night light display.
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Another view of the lights at night. Shall we step inside?

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The worlds' tallest atrium. (590 ft) From the bottom, you can see the lower levels have ocean-blue undersides that fade to a light green as they get closer to the atrium's ceiling. Kind of a neat effect.

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This shot is taken from the top, looking back down. I'm dizzy just looking at the photo...
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Let's check in at the front desk. Like a giant roulette wheel. Care to gamble away your savings account? No problem; it is one of the most expensive hotels in the world. A suite begins at $1,000 per night and goes up to over $15,000 per night; the Royal Suite is the most expensive, at $28,000 per night. Red to make your heart race as you give them all your green.

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Can we say, go big or go home? The combination of highly contrasting black and yellow is really hard on the eyes, especially at this large scale. While its listed as a deluxe 5 star accommodation, the hotel has taken the liberty of self-declaring it a 7 star destination.
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Khuan Chew, Design Principal of KCA International, was responsible for the interior design. I would love to have been a fly on the wall during those initial concept meetings. What were they thinking?
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A critic noted, "this extraordinary investment in state-of-the-art construction technology stretches the limits of the ambitious urban imagination in an exercise that is largely due to the power of excessive wealth."(source) Yeah, I think it's rather excessive, too...
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I don't believe the term "soothing" was included in the design plans, do you? Really overwhelming, visually.
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A suite. Is there such a term as "Maximalism"? If so, this would be the definition.

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Hungry to be impressed? The Al Mahara (or "The Oyster") restaurant comes complete with its own aquarium. But not just any aquarium. This seawater aquarium, with 7.5" thick acrylic glass (to reduce the magnification effect), holds roughly 35,000 cubic feet (over one million liters) of water.

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One of 8 on site restaurants, one more insane than the next. I do like the cool blues and greens against the warmth of the chairs, floor, walls, etc. Makes for a striking palette.
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Quite an experience that would be, don't you think?
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Taking one last look on our way out.
Look at the attention to detail/color overload everywhere. Even the individually-lit wells in this fountain are a rainbow of fruit flavors.

Well, I have to say, this hotel tops my list for most colorful, fabulously gaudy, Las Vegas on steroids hotel I have ever seen! Any other contenders out there you'd like to nominate?