Here's our hotel residence tower; the round one on the right with the steering wheel on top. Fifty five floors according to the website. We are on the 39th floor by Middle Eastern/European/Asian reckoning, but on the 40th floor by North American reckoning. What we in North America call the 1st floor, everyone else in the world calls the ground floor or the zero floor. So then, the next level up that we would call the 2nd floor is called the 1st floor here, and so on...which has the potential to get confusing.
Our bedroom takes up half the long strip of windows on the sunny left side. The kids bedroom next, then a strip of kitchen windows and finally a stretch of dining room glass. We take up one fifth of a whole floor!!
Our tower is five years old and the first one to go up of all the towers visible in this photo, which gives an idea of how incredibly fast new construction has been happening here in Dubai...planned in the morning, built in the afternoon, and occupied by evening...that's Dubai!
