Eat dinner at the top of a skyscraper

“Thanks to a minimum spend request of Dh450 per person, I knew, even before I had stepped into the sleek, high-speed lift, ready to be whooshed up to the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, that dinner at At.mosphere Grill, the world's highest restaurant, was going to be expensive. What I'd also expected, though, was that it would impress. And yes, the floor-to-ceiling windows offer jaw-dropping views of Dubai. But as for the rest of the room - all plush red hues and carpeted floors - it's really not that special. Through luck alone, we were given a window table. I couldn't help feeling sorry for the diners at the back of the room; they were paying the same prices as us, but without the view to compensate for it. When you're paying this amount of money to dine in the tallest building in the world, expectations are immediately raised; unfortunately, here they were simply not met.”