Dubai is known for its luxuries and making world records and another one to be intercalary to Dubai’s list of achievements is that the world’s largest floating nightclub that has opened onboard the retired Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in Dubai. The luxury Float Dubai venue, which can accommodate 1,000 people, hosted an opening party on Thursday ahead of its first weekend.
Outstanding faces like American actress Lindsay Lohan, rapper DaBaby and British boxer Amir Khan are expected to seem aboard the ship this weekend, that once hosted the likes of Hollywood stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. However, because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic protocols, the partying are going to be limited, and tables need to be reserved earlier for the same. Throughout the party, security guards can prevent individuals from standing up and dancing, and plainclothes cops will patrol the venue to forestall contraventions.
In August this year, Dubai relaxed the extended strictest anti-COVID-19 measures within the UAE, with seating rules in several welcome venues. Several are currently allowed to stay open till three AM, however social distancing measures stay in place. The majestic QE2 was bought by Dubai government entity DP World, controlled by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, in 2008 for around $88 million. Some components of the vessel were then born-again into a building in 2018, with plans to base it off the Palm Jumeirah island resort.
The club was purported to open means back, however, due to the pandemic, the club’s gap was delayed with rooms left vacant and therefore the QE2 later on resettled to Rashid Port. The QE2 was originally launched in 1967 by the Queen of England in Scotland. At 963 feet, it’s calculable to own carried over 2.5 million passengers over its lifetime, cosmopolitan around half-dozen million transport miles, circumnavigated the world twenty five times, and even served as a British ship throughout the Falklands War in 1982.