Egypt Project to Feature World's Largest Swimming Pool

  • March 16, 2009
Egypt Project to Feature World's Largest Swimming Pool
Published: March 16, 2009 / LuxuryTravelMagazine.com

Crystal Lagoons, creators of the world's largest swimming pools, is working with local investors in a $5.5 billion real estate development at Sharm El Sheikh that includes the construction of 12 giant lagoons, 30,000 home units, five-star hotels, a museum and a shopping center.

Crystal Lagoons plans the world's largest pool in the middle of the Egyptian desert. The company is working with its local partners, Pyramids Plaza and Citystar Holding, on the project, to be named City of Stars. The project includes 12 giant crystal clear lagoons at the Sharm El Sheik beach, the biggest of them measuring 8.8 hectares in size.

The world's largest pool is currently in San Alfonso del Mar, Chile, and has an area of 8 hectares. This one-kilometer-in-length behemoth -- also built by Crystal Lagoons -- will soon be surpassed by its Egyptian relative, which is expected to be finished around July 2009. The project, located at three kilometers from the Red Sea, involves a master plan of 30,000 home units, hotels, a museum and a shopping center. This will be the first of four tourist projects that Crystal Lagoons has formally agreed with its Egyptian partner and that will be emplaced in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Alexandria.

By the end of 2009, Crystal Lagoons and its Egyptian partners will venture into a new real estate project located on Soma Bay in the Red Sea, approximately 500 kilometers south of Cairo and just below the Abu Soma peninsula. The new project will double the size and investment of Sharm El Sheikh.

With a total investment of $12 billion, the Soma Bay project involves the construction of 18 giant lagoons, 10 hotels, 50,000 residential units, a commercial area, a waterpark and two 18-hole golf courses. The following projects are currently under construction around the world: City of Stars (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt); Playa Blanca (Coronado, Panama); Guitar Project (Red Sea, Jordan); Lagoa dos Ingleses (Minas Gerais, Brazil); Asia del Mar (Lima, Peru); Las Brisas de Santo Domingo (V Region, Chile); and Laguna Vista de Algarrobo (V Region, Chile).

For more information, visit www.sanalfonso.cl or www.crystal-lagoons.com.