World’s biggest hotel to open in Mecca

Jack Linshi has a Time article about yet another big hotel, and an even bigger target:

The world’s biggest hotel (illustration) is set to open in Mecca in 2017, offering an unprecedented level of luxury to travelers and royalty alike in Saudi Arabia.
The Abraj Kudai will cost about four billion dollars, featuring ten thousand bedrooms, seventy restaurants, and four helipads, the Guardian reported. At forty-five stories tall, the desert fortress-style hotel boasts twelve towers atop a ten-story podium, which contains a bus station, food courts, a shopping mall, and an extravagant ballroom. But five floors will be off limits to the most guests— they’re reserved exclusively for the Saudi royal family.
The Abraj Kudai was funded by the Saudi Ministry of Finance and designed by the Dar al-Handasah group.

Rico says that a cruise missile wouldn't be nice, but might be appropriate... (And if you wonder where the money goes when you buy gas, there it is)

And the latest craze in Mecca? Selfies...