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00:00A $2 billion clubhouse, 119 berths built for superyachts over 130 meters, a $13.6 billion
00:08first phase, and a crown prince who bought a 500 million euro yacht in under 48 hours.
00:14Here's inside the most exclusive yacht club on earth, the club that refuses to name its price.
00:22There is a particular kind of luxury that announces itself with a price tag,
00:26and then there is the far rarer kind of luxury that refuses to tell you the price at all,
00:31because if you have to ask, the whole thing was never built for you in the first place.
00:34On the 14th of September, 2026, on a raw and almost untouched stretch of the northwestern Red Sea
00:41coast, Saudi Arabia opened the doors on exactly that second kind of place. The Amala Yacht Club
00:46officially began operations that day, and almost immediately the world's press slapped a single
00:51glittering number onto it, $2 billion. Here's the first thing you need to understand about that
00:56number, because it tells you almost everything about how this club is meant to make you feel.
00:59Nobody official has ever actually said it. The developer behind the project, Red Sea Global,
01:04has never published a construction cost for the Yacht Club. The figure of $2 billion simply appeared
01:09in the trade press back in 2022, roughly a week after the design was first revealed, with no source
01:15attached to it, and from there, it spread the way expensive rumors always spread, repeated,
01:19tidied up, and eventually printed as though it were a fact carved in marble. Later coverage would
01:23describe the club as being estimated to be worth $2 billion, without ever naming who exactly did the
01:29estimating. So keep that in the back of your mind as we walk through these doors together. The $2
01:33billion price is reported, not confirmed. And yet, honestly, once you see what they actually built,
01:39the argument stops being about whether the number is real, and starts being about whether any number
01:43could possibly capture it. Because what they built is genuinely, almost aggressively, spectacular.
01:48The centerpiece is a clubhouse designed by the global architecture firm HKS, and it is not a
01:54building so much as a slow, deliberate seduction spread across 7,900 square meters and four separate
02:00levels. That is roughly 85,000 square feet of curated, choreographed indulgence. The architects
02:05didn't reach for the usual glassbox vocabulary of the super-rich. Instead, they looked at the wind-carved
02:11cliffs and the eroded rock formations of the Red Sea coastline, and they tried to make a building that
02:16looked as though the sea and the desert had shaped it themselves, over thousands of years on purpose
02:21for you, and getting the building to look effortless was anything but. The interiors were shaped by Rome
02:26interior design, while the raw physics of the thing, the twisting geometry, the inclined columns,
02:31the enormous column-free spaces stretching up to around 20 meters across, and a long-spanning arch
02:36system holding up the upper zones including the rooftop pool, leaned on structural engineers including
02:41the Robert Byrd group, who had to wrestle with eccentric cores and cantilevered terraces that appear,
02:46to the naked eye, to defy gravity entirely. It's the kind of engineering the guests will never notice
02:51and never think about, which is precisely the point. Real luxury is the illusion of ease,
02:56the sense that all of this simply grew here, that nobody sweated over a single beam. Even the climate
03:01is quietly designed away. Sliding doors let the building breathe and cut the air conditioning in
03:06milder weather. Sloped glazing and those projecting terraces fend off the relentless sun,
03:11and the whole 360-degree layout is arranged, so the servicing and the machinery are buried at
03:17basement level, out of sight, leaving the guest journey unblemished by anything so vulgar as
03:22function. Every single detail is engineered to produce a feeling. Consider the arrival. You come
03:26in, whether you've arrived by land across the desert or slid in from the water aboard something with a
03:31helipad on it, and you pass beneath a dramatic entrance archway that frames the Red Sea and casts a
03:37shaded plaza in front of you, a deliberate theatrical pause before the real performance begins,
03:41and then the ceiling does something that, frankly, most billionaires have never seen before.
03:45Above the arrival area, there is a mirrored, vaulted ceiling suspended over a floor lit like a field of
03:51stars, and in the evening, the two surfaces conspire to create the illusion of a private,
03:56artificial night sky held indoors, with water features in the corners sending soft ripples of
04:01reflected light crawling across the mirror above your head. It is, in the most literal sense,
04:06luxury designed to make grown adults look up. From there, the building unfolds like a story that
04:11never quite lets you sit still. There is a grand staircase described in the design as a Venetian-style
04:17grand stair, sweeping you upward from the arrival level toward the lounges, the bars, and the
04:22restaurants. The interiors abandon cold minimalism entirely in favor of warmth. A rich brass and
04:28champagne color scheme washes through the social spaces, and the materials are deliberately grounded
04:33in the region. Stone, timber, leather, and metal. Chosen to keep all this global money tethered to
04:39a specific patch of Arabian coast. The whole guest journey is laid out in a kind of infinity loop,
04:44so that no matter where you wander, bar, lounge, signature restaurant, terrace, the landscape outside
04:50is always turning to meet you, and the amenities are exactly what you'd expect when discretion is the
04:54only currency that matters. Across those four levels, there are bars and restaurants, private business
04:59suites, retail outlets, tucked away meeting rooms for the kind of conversations that don't happen
05:04over email, and social and event spaces built for a very particular guest list. Operational coverage of
05:10the opening namechecks venues, with names like Amala Lounge, Angkwa, 27 Degrees, and the Deck,
05:16crowned by a rooftop pool and cabana lounge, where the whole point is to be somewhere the rest of the
05:20world simply cannot follow you. Broad, sinuous, cantilevered terraces reach out over the water,
05:26like the natural cliffs they're imitating, throwing shade, defeating the heat, and quietly
05:30guaranteeing 360 degrees of uninterrupted sea view, which is, when you strip away the poetry,
05:36the single most expensive thing money can buy, a horizon with nobody else in it. Now let's talk
05:41about the boats, because this is a yacht club, and the boats are the entire reason the room falls
05:45silent. The marina holds 119 berths, and these are not berths for the weekend sailor with a modest
05:51cruiser and a dream. The official language talks about superyachts of more than 100 meters.
05:56The developers' own destination pages have described capacity for vessels of up to around
06:01130 meters, while some yachting outlets have gone further and cited figures in the 120 to 140 meter
06:08range, with 8 meters of depth beneath the keel. To hold monsters like these, the marina comes with an
06:1380-meter event berth and a floating fuel dock, and the entire basin was carved out of a 10-hectare
06:19footprint before it was flooded and handed over to the sea. But a marina for the world's largest
06:24private vessels is useless if it can't actually serve them, and so the club has been built as a
06:29full international port of entry, meaning a superyacht can clear customs and immigration
06:34right here rather than fighting through paperwork elsewhere. On offer is fueling and bunkerage,
06:39provisioning, full crew services, power, water, and even high-speed fiber internet on request,
06:45all wrapped in around-the-clock security, with maintenance and repair facilities promised in the
06:50coming years. And it is not marooned in the middle of nowhere, either. The club sits roughly
06:5445 minutes from Alwaj International Airport, which reopened in the spring of 2026 specifically to feed
07:00guests into this new coastline. There is even an on-site academy offering internationally
07:05recognized Royal Yachting Association certified sailing programs so that the culture of the sea can be
07:11grown here rather than merely imported. A detail that hints at just how permanent this project
07:16intends to be. Which brings us, at last, to the question everyone actually wants answered,
07:20and to the most elegant power move in this entire project. What does it cost to belong here? What is
07:25the membership fee? The joining fee? The price of a permanent berth for your 130-meter statement of
07:31intent? And the answer, the deliberate, cultivated, maddening answer, is that they will not tell you.
07:36Nothing has been published. There is no price list. The developer has said only that the fees are
07:41comparable to leading European yachting destinations, and that yacht owners who secure
07:45permanent moorings unlock a range of exclusive privileges through the surrounding resort partners.
07:49The club is described as welcoming founding members, with memberships sorted into tiers.
07:54Full, family, resident, and beside every single one of those tiers. Where a number should be,
07:59there is only silence. If you want even a rough sense of what comparable to leading European yachting
08:04destinations might mean, you have to reach for the one benchmark everyone in this world already
08:08knows. The yacht club de Monaco, whose entry fee has been reported at somewhere around 27,000 euros,
08:13with the annual dues kept naturally unpublished. Whether a mala charge is more or less than that,
08:18nobody outside the founding circle can currently say. And the whole thing is wrapped in a further
08:22layer of quiet flex. The clubhouse targets the highest tier of green building certification,
08:27lead platinum, and the entire operation is fed by renewable power. Because at this altitude of wealth,
08:32even your carbon footprint is supposed to look expensive and deliberate. In the world this club is built for,
08:37that silence around the price isn't an oversight, it's the product. The prince, the empire, and the
08:43yacht that beat Bill Gates. To understand why a single yacht club can carry a reported $2 billion
08:50mystique, you have to stop looking at the clubhouse and start looking at the empire it sits inside,
08:56and at the man whose name is written across the land itself. Because that gorgeous four-level clubhouse
09:01we just toured is not a standalone trophy. It is one jewel in a far larger crown called Amala. And
09:07Amala is one of the flagship pieces of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, the crown prince's sweeping
09:13campaign to remake the kingdom's economy and its image. And the money that surrounds this yacht club
09:18dwarfs the club's own disputed price by an order of magnitude. Here is the number the developer
09:22actually will confirm, and it is staggering. Red Sea Global says it poured $13.6 billion,
09:29around 51 billion Saudi rials, into the first phase of Amala alone. That first phase is anchored
09:35on a master plan called Triple Bay, three natural bays cupped by the coastline and backed by mountains.
09:41And by late 2024, the developer had already announced more than 600 contracts worth close
09:46to $6.13 billion across the destination. Independent trackers of Saudi Giga projects have since put the
09:52contracts awarded for Triple Bay at roughly $7.51 billion as awards kept rolling out. So when you
09:58hear $2 billion yacht club, understand the truth is stranger and grander. The club is a comparatively
10:04small ornament sitting inside a multi-billion dollar luxury machine, and the sheer physical scale of that
10:10machine is difficult to hold in your head. Amala sprawls across roughly 4,200 square kilometers of
10:16coast and desert, with something like 68 kilometers of pristine shoreline, an area often compared to a
10:22small country on the order of Luxembourg. It sits inside a reserve that runs from volcanic plains and
10:27the Hejaz Mountains all the way down to the Red Sea, a protected wilderness said to host more than half
10:32of all of Saudi Arabia's species across 15 distinct ecosystems. And the yacht club and its first phase are
10:38only the opening move. The full build-out, targeted for around 2030, envisions roughly 4,000 hotel rooms
10:45spread across some 30 resorts, plus more than 1,200 luxury residences, all threaded together with wellness
10:51routes, cultural programming, a championship golf course, and a marine research institute called
10:56Coralium, tasked with coral restoration. This is not a resort. It is an attempt to conjure an entire
11:01luxury civilization onto an empty coast, and the yacht club is merely its most photogenic front door,
11:07and what a machine it is. The resorts opening around this marina read like a fantasy wishlist of the
11:12hospitality world, each one a brand that ordinarily makes you pay handsomely just to breathe its air.
11:18There is a Four Seasons, a Six Senses, a Rosewood, an Equinox, and a Namos, that last one being the
11:23famous Mecanos Beach Club brand, opening its very first resort anywhere outside Greece right here on the
11:29Red Sea. Alongside them sit specialist wellness names like Clinique La Prairie and Jiasum, plus a Ritz-Carlton
11:36together pushing the first phase toward nine resorts and more than 1,600 keys. The Equinox,
11:41to give you a sense of the register we're operating in, isn't just a gym with a bed attached. It
11:46comes
11:46stocked with magnesium recovery pools and hyperbaric chambers, because apparently even resting is a
11:52competitive sport now. The prices, where they've slipped into public view, confirm exactly who is
11:57expected to show up. Room rates listed for the Six Senses have run from around $934 a night,
12:03at the low end all the way up to $2,669, with suites starting near $1,335, and that is
12:10the
12:11nightly rate. And if you'd prefer to own rather than rent, the residences are priced across an
12:15almost comically wide chasm, from roughly $1.2 million for an apartment to around $107 million
12:22for the most exclusive villas. The appetite, at least at launch, was real. The developer reported
12:27that half of the Namos apartments sold within two weeks of going on the market. This is a place
12:31engineered from the ground up to separate the ultra-wealthy from truly historic amounts of
12:36money, and to make them feel privileged for the opportunity. There's a delicious irony buried in
12:41the pedigree here, too. The star architecture firm Foster & Partners shaped the wider Triple Bay
12:46master plan and several of its marquee resorts, but the Yacht Club itself was designed by HKS,
12:51not Foster. Why does that matter? Because Foster & Partners is the very firm that designed the
12:56clubhouse for the Yacht Club de Monaco back in 2014. The exact institution Amala is quietly
13:01measuring itself against, so Saudi Arabia went out and hired a different world-class firm to build a
13:06rival to a building Foster had already perfected, then brought in the Monegasque establishment itself
13:11to lend the operation credibility. Because in 2023, at the Monaco Yacht Show of All Places,
13:17the club signed on Monaco Marina Management as its operating partner, with the stated goal of reaching
13:22the same elite service standard, the Labelle-class benchmark, that governs Monaco's own harbor.
13:28It is a strategy of flattery and conquest at once, study the master, hire the master's neighbors,
13:33and then try to beat him at his own game on your own turf. Now, about the name over the
13:37door,
13:37and this is where we have to be precise. The Yacht Club sits inside the Prince Mohammed bin Salman
13:42Royal Reserve, a protected expanse of around 24,500 square kilometers established by royal decree
13:48in June of 2018. That reserve is named for, and formerly overseen by, Crown Prince Mohammed bin
13:54Salman, the man most of the world knows simply as MBS. It's worth pausing on the title here,
13:59because Prince Salman would traditionally refer to his father, King Salman, the figure whose vision,
14:04whose name, and whose leadership sit behind this project is the son, the Crown Prince. And his
14:09connection isn't merely symbolic branding. MBS chairs the Royal Reserves Council that oversees the
14:14reserve, and he chairs its development board as well. So the Yacht Club doesn't just happen to be
14:18near his name. It rises out of land placed under his direct patronage and strategic control.
14:23And if you want proof that this Crown Prince's fascination with the sea is personal and not
14:28just political, you don't have to speculate. You can simply look at the yacht he bought for himself,
14:32in one of the most audacious luxury purchases of the last decade. The vessel is called Serene,
14:37a 134-meter Fincantieri-built superyacht originally commissioned for a Russian vodka billionaire.
14:43And the story of how MBS came to own it is the single best illustration of how this kind of
14:48wealth
14:48actually behaves in the wild. In the summer of 2014, Bill Gates, yes, that Bill Gates had chartered
14:54Serene for a family holiday off the south of France, reportedly paying something on the order
14:58of $5 million a week for the privilege. And by several accounts, he was so taken with the boat
15:03that he was exploring buying it outright. And then MBS saw it. According to reporting that traces back to
15:08the New York Times, the young prince spotted the yacht, dispatched an aide, and closed the entire
15:13deal within a matter of hours. Some accounts say a day or two at most, for a figure widely cited
15:18at
15:18near 500 million euros. The transaction is often retold as a single breathtaking wire transfer,
15:24after which the previous owner was politely required to pack up and clear off almost immediately.
15:28Whatever interest Bill Gates may have had never stood a chance, and the boat itself is a floating
15:33catalog of excess. Two helipads, multiple swimming pools, a spa, a cinema, a climbing wall, an underwater
15:40viewing lounge, and room for 24 guests plus a small army of crew. The exact price, fittingly for this
15:46whole story, is a moving target. Different accounts have put the sum anywhere from an early estimate of
15:52around 350 million euros, to figures near 420 million from leaked documents, to roughly 458 million
15:59dollars in yachting industry tallies, all orbiting that headline, near 500 million euros. For perspective,
16:05the vessel was reportedly built for something like 330 million dollars in the first place, which means
16:11the prince paid a substantial premium for the privilege of not waiting. And the boat has collected
16:16its own legends along the way, including a persistent and unconfirmed claim that it once housed the world's
16:21most expensive painting, the Salvatore Mundi. To put the scale of these toys in ordinary terms,
16:27another famous super yacht of this class, the sailing giant Black Pearl, has reportedly chartered
16:32for around 1.2 million dollars a week, the kind of number that makes Bill Gates' 5 million dollar
16:37fortnight look almost restrained. When you understand that the man behind Amala once bought a half
16:43billion euro yacht, faster than most people buy a car, the ambition of building an entire coastline for
16:48boats exactly like it suddenly makes perfect, ruthless sense. The bet against Monaco and the cracks beneath it
16:57So here is the audacious idea at the heart of this entire enterprise. The wager that makes the 2
17:03billion dollar mystique and the 13.6 billion dollar first phase, and the prince's own half billion
17:08euro yacht, all click into a single strategy. Saudi Arabia is not simply building a nice marina,
17:14it is trying to steal the winter. It is aiming, quite openly, at the throat of Monaco, the French Riviera,
17:20and the Caribbean, the traditional playgrounds of the global super yacht fleet, and it wants to become
17:24where all those beautiful boats go when the Mediterranean turns cold and gray. The geography
17:29is the opening argument, and it's a clever one. Amalala sits roughly 2,000 nautical miles from
17:35Monaco, and only about 200 nautical miles south of the Suez Canal, which positions it as a natural
17:40gateway between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean. When the season winds down in Europe
17:46each autumn, a yacht owner faces a choice. Make the long, exhausting Atlantic crossing to the Caribbean,
17:51or slip down through Suez to warm, calm, almost empty water in a fraction of the distance.
17:57The climate seals it, average seasonal temperatures hovering around 26 degrees Celsius while Europe
18:02shivers. The developer's own commercial chief has pitched Amala in exactly those terms, describing it
18:08as a cost-effective alternative to the Caribbean for the winter months. The promise is pristine,
18:12uncrowded coral reefs, dramatic desert mountain backdrops, and a brand new exclusivity in a world where
18:18the old glamour capitals have grown congested and familiar. And to buy legitimacy fast,
18:23Saudi Arabia is doing what it does best, writing enormous checks for prestige. The club is set to
18:29host the 2026 World Match Racing Tour Finals in a historic doubleheader, the first time that tour has
18:35ever come to the Middle East, with the men's and women's finals each carrying equal prize purses of
18:39$200,000. The women's event billed as a record for an all-female sailing competition. And in an even
18:45bigger coup, Amala will host the grand finale of the ocean race in 2027, marking the first time that
18:52grueling round-the-world race will ever finish in the Middle East, and the first time it will race on
18:57Red Sea waters at all. The fleet will transit the Suez Canal together for a final sprint of roughly
19:02135 nautical miles to a finish line just off the coast. You cannot manufacture heritage overnight,
19:09but you can, apparently, rent the world's most prestigious races until the heritage starts to
19:15feel real. Then there's the green halo, which is either genuinely visionary or the most expensive
19:20marketing exercise in the history of tourism, depending entirely on who you ask. The entire
19:24destination, Yacht Club included, is designed to run on 100% renewable energy as an off-grid system,
19:31drawing on a roughly 250 megawatt solar park, backed by around 700 megawatt hours of battery storage,
19:37infrastructure built by a consortium at a financial close of about $1.5 billion,
19:42projected to avoid something like 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. The developer insists that
19:48fewer than 5% of the vast reserve will ever be built on, that annual visitors will be capped at
19:53around 500,000 to protect the ecosystems, and that the project targets a 30% net conservation benefit to
19:59local habitats by 2040. The green machinery runs deeper than solar panels, too. There is a desalination
20:05plant capable of producing something like 37 million liters of drinking water a day.
20:10Wastewater treatment, a pledge of zero single-use plastics and zero waste sent to landfill,
20:15electric mobility across the site, and even dark sky policies to keep the desert nights properly black.
20:21On paper, it is one of the most elaborate sustainability apparatuses ever bolted onto a
20:25leisure destination. And yet it is wrapped unavoidably around a marina purpose-built for the
20:30single most carbon-intensive toys on the planet. Attention critics have not been shy about pointing out,
20:35A large superyacht can burn through thousands of tons of carbon dioxide in a single year all by
20:40itself, and the entire commercial logic of this club is to gather as many of those vessels in
20:44one place as possible, then fly their owners in from around the world to enjoy them.
20:49Skeptics argue that no amount of on-site solar power meaningfully offsets a business model built on
20:55ultra-high-emission luxury, and that grand regenerative and net-positive promises stretched
21:00across decades are extraordinarily difficult to verify independently, which makes them,
21:04conveniently, extraordinarily difficult to disprove while the marketing does its work.
21:08It's worth stepping back here to ask what that reported $2 billion aura actually buys,
21:14because a couple of comparisons put it in a strange light. Take Porto Montenegro,
21:18one of the Mediterranean's premier marinas, with around 450 berths, nearly four times the size of
21:24Amala's marina. When it changed hands back in 2016, the price was never officially confirmed,
21:30but was rumored at around 200 million euros, a sale that even threw in a $60 million regent hotel.
21:36In other words, a marina several times larger traded for roughly a tenth of the number the
21:40press keeps hanging on the Saudi club. Or consider a sister project along the same coast,
21:45the opening party alone for Neom's yacht island, Sindala, reportedly cost at least $45 million,
21:51according to internal documents that surfaced in the press. When a single launch party runs to tens
21:56of millions, a $2 billion headline for an entire club starts to feel less like an accounting figure
22:01and more like a mood, a number chosen to signal a class of ambition rather than to describe a receipt.
22:07But the most revealing crack in the gleaming surface is the money story, and it is not the
22:11splurge you'd assume. It is, quietly a squeeze, because behind the champagne-colored lounges,
22:16Saudi Arabia's gigaproject spending has been tightening hard. Reporting on the Sovereign
22:21Wealth Fund's plans described a mandate for a minimum 20% reduction in spending across more
22:26than a hundred of its companies, with some budgets cut far deeper, and the developers of
22:30the Red Sea projects reported to have borne the brunt of the spending cuts precisely because they
22:35are so ambitious, so costly, and so slow to pay their money back. The strain isn't new either.
22:40Back in December of 2022, an industry speaker told reporters that Amala had at that point
22:46only around 4% of its planned budget and needed roughly $2 billion a year flowing in just to
22:52finish anywhere near on time, a sobering figure for a project that would then run into a spending
22:57crackdown. By the end of 2024, the Sovereign Wealth Fund's own gigaproject portfolio had been marked
23:03down in value by more than 12% year-on-year, a rare public admission that the era of limitless,
23:08no-questions-asked spending had cooled. Amala still opened, but roughly two years later than its
23:13original target, and it got there in part by leaning on tools that pure prestige projects
23:18rarely need to touch. For its part, the developer has pushed back firmly on any suggestion of trouble,
23:23insisting that its funding from its sovereign owner is secured, that its projects are unaffected by the
23:28wider spending reviews, and that it sits, in the words of its leadership, in a very good place.
23:33Both things can be true at once. A project can be genuinely well-funded and strategically prioritized,
23:38and also be quietly restructuring how it pays for itself, which is exactly what appears to have
23:42happened next. It borrowed. In October of 2025, the developer secured a credit facility worth about
23:48$1.73 billion, 6.5 billion rials for Amala, a mix of conventional and Islamic financing arranged
23:56through Saudi banks. And it sold the future in advance, funding construction partly through
24:01pre-sales of those very residences, apartments and villas ranging from around $1.2 million up to
24:08roughly $107 million, collecting buyers' money before the concrete had fully cured. The picture
24:14that emerges is not a prince carelessly throwing cash into the sea. It's a project that survived the
24:19budget knife, specifically because it was close enough to earning revenue to justify keeping alive,
24:25propped up increasingly by commercial debt and by the deposits of the wealthy people it was built to
24:29serve. There's a certain symmetry to all of this that's hard to miss. The crown prince famously
24:34acquired his half-billion-euro serene right around the time the kingdom was beginning a serious austerity
24:40drive, a juxtaposition that reporting at the time flagged as strikingly insensitive. A decade on,
24:46the pattern rhymes, an ultra-luxury coastline for the world's billionaires, unveiled to global fanfare
24:51in the very same season that budgets across the Giga projects were being trimmed and lenders were being
24:56called in. The champagne and the spreadsheet have always traveled together on this coast,
25:01And that is the real story of this reported $2 billion yacht club, stripped of the headline
25:06number that can't quite be verified. It is a genuinely breathtaking piece of architecture and
25:11ambition. 119 berths, a star-lit ceiling, a coastline reserved for the richest fleet on earth,
25:17sitting inside a $13.6 billion first phase, carrying a crown prince's name, echoing the same
25:23decisive appetite that once led him buy a half-billion-euro superyacht out from under Bill Gates in an
25:28afternoon. It promises up to 50,000 jobs and around $3 billion a year to the national economy
25:34once it's fully complete. Whether it becomes the winter capital of the superyacht world or an
25:38exquisitely expensive monument to a moment when the money was still flowing freely, is the one price
25:43on this entire project that nobody, not the developer, not the critics, not the founding
25:47members gliding in on their 130-meter yachts can yet name. Thank you for watching. If you enjoyed
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