From high-end luxury hotels that soar into the clouds to floating villas, Dubai has big plans for those who like the finer ...

if you're a luxury traveler who star-gazes when it comes to choosing hotels, five stars may not be enough; and six stars might not even do since the world's first seven-star hotel is drawing raves.

Before I first visited Dubai two decades ago, I imagined it to be little more than Disneyland in the desert. How wrong I was.