Live Life Kingsize In A Floating Villa With Undersea Bedrooms

The Floating Seahorse, Dubai’s newest realty wonder offers the chance of owning a floating luxury villa with an unrestricted undersea view of the Persian Gulf.
 
Living in the lap of luxury with unrestricted views of the marine life at the bottom of the sea, might seem like a dream, but it’s a dream that has just become a reality in Dubai. Welcome to The Floating Seahorse, Dubai’s newest real estate wonder and floating luxury villa project.

A part of a larger hotel development called the Heart of Europe project which will be developed on reclaimed islands the Floating Seahorse features plush villas with submerged bedrooms surrounded by 300 man-made islands to boot.

Open the curtains and get ready for the magic to unfold, for beyond the 15 cm-thick acrylic windows you are greeted with the magical view of the pristine waters of the Persian Gulf in all their glory – complete with the transplanted coral and schools of colorful fish swimming right past your windows.

Weighing 240 tons, the Floating Seahorse villa on the sea is adorned with Myanmar teak on it walls. A wet bar with a hot tub is the main attraction on the top floor offering the option of both open-air and air-conditioned comfort. Down below, the glass enclosed living room and dining room open out to blue beach chairs and a safety netting that allows a up close look at the pristine waters down below.

Automated curtains in the bedroom open to a jaw-dropping undersea view of the waters below deck. Translucent coral specially transplanted from the iconic Burj Al Arab, sits on the lip of the Seahorse attracting all kinds of marine life to its shade.
The Seahorse project forms a small part of the larger effort to save The World, the unfinished, Earth-shaped island project right of Dubai’s coast that was a victim of the Emirate’s 2009 financial crisis. The promoters hope that projects like the Seahorse will provide the much-needed impetus for more projects on its other deserted islands.
Sadly while other mega-projects have since recommenced driven by improved investor confidence and the news of Dubai hosting the upcoming World Expo 2020, The World project has continued to flounder with only two of its 300 islands being used. While one island is being used to operate a day-use resort, another host a luxury villa and a helipad said to be used by Dubai’s ruling family.

However the project’s promoters, Nakheel continue to be optimistic with regard to the project’s future stating that they have reached several financial deals with third-party developers in their efforts to revive the project.

To be sure, some construction material and machinery can be seen entering The World by boat from Dubai's coastline, but a majority of the islands continue to look deserted until you see the docks used by the promoters of the Seahorse project.
So far, Kleindienst, a former Austrian police officer who runs the development claims his organization has sold Floating Seahorse villas which come with a list price of approx AED 12-mn (USD3.2 mn) to both end users and others who plan to rent them out as part of the planned hotels onsite.

For now the area is powered by a generator and the lone floating villa model sits alone with a steady stream of curious customers for company. As part of its plans the company intends to open the heart-shaped St. Petersburg Island by October this year, with dozens of floating Seahorse villas connected to essential utilities on the island via gangplanks.