If like me, your heart sinks to new depths every time the weather app states “feels like 49 degrees”, we’ve got news that’ll cheer you up. This Dubai restaurant is once again filling up its outdoor pool with 500kgs of ice blocks every weekend. I’ll just leave that there so you can let that information sink in.
We’ve long been fans of the artistic beachfront restaurant Gallery 7/40 at The Club Palm West Beach for its beautiful interiors and innovative beverages, and last year it made a splash its ‘Cool Splash Saturdays’ concept.
500 kg of ice blocks in the pool thrice a week
They’ve brought back that concept for 2024 but with a fun twist – instead of once a week, it’s thrice a week!
The weekend pool day concept transforms the swimming pool at this swish restaurant into an ice bath ever Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Giant blocks of ice weighing a total of 500kg are hurled into the pool once a day between 12pm and 3pm.
This is as close as you’ll come to floating lazily on ice chunks like a polar bear. And don’t mind if we do! It’s a steady forecast of highs of 40 °C and more for the next month, phew! Will the ice blocks have a snowball’s chance in, well, Dubai’s infernal heat? For that first hour at least, I hope. It’s a win-win situation either way – once the ice melts into the water, it’ll fix the temperature of the outdoor pool to just the right side of chilly.
Yes, temperature-controlled pools exist everywhere. But can they ever compare to the power of an epic tale of chilling around in a pool with 500kg of ice blocks? Now that’s what you call an icebreaker.
The ice pool days cost AED300 per person with AED 200 redeemable on F&B; call 058 550 0740 for bookings.