With its state-of-the art skyscrapers, extravagant hotels, glamorous bars and designer-filled malls, Dubai is a five-star metropolis in the Arabian desert.
After reading this, you might still feel like moving back in with the folks will suffocate your glamorous bar-hopping social life, or you might feel like a big fat failure.
GALAPAGOS: "OPERA ON TAP" An irreverent evening of Christmas classical will be offered at Williamsburg's slacker-glamorous bar and performance venue, where the freewheeling group of singers — featuring three antlered Valkyries — offers some holiday favorites.
GALAPAGOS: "OPERA ON TAP" An irreverent evening of Christmas classical will be offered at Williamsburg's slacker-glamorous bar and performance venue, where the freewheeling group of singers featuring three antlered Valkyries offers some holiday favorites.
Start with a cocktail at a glamorous rooftop bar - Mikla, X Bar and Leb-i Derya are three of the best - and then make your way to the streets around Sofyali and Nevizade Sokaks for dinner.
Despite a glamorous raised bar and sculptural light installation, the room has a stolid, municipal feel.
Doubles from €120, contefederico.com This groovy boutique hotel near the marina is built around a high atrium and has a glamorous rooftop bar.
One story tells that Gösta sailed to Stockholm, walked into the most glamorous downtown bar - Café Opera - and offered his hunting rifle to a panicked coat-check girl; another, that as a boy he disrupted the Midsummer dances by flinging live snakes at the prettiest girls.
Meanwhile, glamorous subterranean bars and edgy Asian restaurants are giving the city a cosmopolitan aura.
If you want glamorous cocktail bars and fancy menus with flowery descriptions, you're better off staying in Rio.
