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Temperature-controlled sand

Vicky Baker

Hotfoot it to Dubai for the coolest sand

LONDON: What could be more disastrous for holiday posing than hot sand? You do your best to catch eyes as you massage in your suncream. You shake your hair as you slowly lift yourself off your lounger for a swim. But then your feet touch down on what feels like hot embers and you find yourself doing an embarrassing fast hop down to the water, trying not to mouth `Ow, ow, ow' all the way.

Versace's latest venture in the luxury hotel market will put paid to this unsightly hotfooting. Guests at the Palazzo Versace Dubai will be able to step on to their private, man-made beach and have their feet protected by temperature-controlled sand.

"The temperature the whole year will be 22C," says Soheil Adedian, joint managing director of Sunland Group Limited, the property developer which previously partnered Versace for its first hotel on Australia's Gold Coast in 2000. Details have yet to be released.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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