Mardan Palace

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Mardan Palace
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Mardan Palace is located in Turkey
Mardan Palace
Location within Turkey
General information
Location Lara, Antalya, Turkey
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Opening 23 May 2009
Cost $1.4 billion [1][2]
Owner Telman Ismailov (as of 2016)[3]
Design and construction
Architect Unknown
Other information
Number of rooms 560[3]
Website
mardanpalace.com

Mardan Palace is a luxury hotel in Lara, Antalya, Turkey, built by Azerbaijani businessman Telman Ismailov.[4] It has been called Europe's and the Mediterranean's most expensive luxury resort.[3]

History

It was opened on 23 May 2009 and attended by Mariah Carey, Kendall Jenner, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Paris Hilton, Seal, Tom Jones, and the Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[5] Some football clubs like Shakhtar Donetsk and Steaua Bucharest, 2011 and respectively 2012, were guests of honor. The teams held their training camps in Antalya at the invitation of Telman Ismailov, who supported all the costs.[6] The corporate identity and website for the hotel was created by Brash Brands in Dubai, winning it an International Design Award.[7]

Cost

Mardan Palace's reported cost is $1.4 billion.[8] It has the Mediterranean's largest swimming pool[1] within which is a sunken aquarium containing 2,400 fish.[9] The hotel has 560 rooms,[10] a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m2) spa, and its own beach containing 9,000 tons of sand imported from Egypt.[4] 10,000 m2 of gold, 500,000 crystals, 23,000 m2 of Italian marble were used in the construction of the hotel.[11]

The hotel was sold to Halkbank for just $124 million in late 2015.[12]

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