DEJAVU DESTINATION

Breakfast at the #dusitThani Dubai , intense dejavu from 5 years ago: breakfast at the 24^th floor, #DusitThani Dubai thinking about a promising future ahead of a 2008 pre-crisis offer while zipping my coffee overlooking The Dubai Mall construction site which was being finished and the Burj Tower .

I was looking to the birth of a new destination that savvy has combined dream brand mix shopping + a unique of a kind attraction. No more to say. Today, late 2013 the Dubai Mall has over 65Mvisitors and it is expanding in preparation to welcome over 100 million annualvisitors to the mall. The destination will be completed with an opera theatre. My sincere congratulations to such vision and accomplished destination that has raised the bar for the shopping experience, attraction and lifestyle.

To the ones that we are building new destinations the bar has been raised and the inspirational challenge is embraced.

Congratulations #thedubaimall

Welcome #mallofqatar

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