Dubai hotel goes overboard with iPads: Hands out $10,000, gold-plated tablets

Natalie Paris

May 20th, 2013 at 2:44 PM EDT

Photo Credit: The back of the Burj al Dubai's gold-plated iPad. Burj al Dubai

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Oh good. Because non-gold plated iPads are for the poors.

Guests at the self-proclaimed world’s most-luxurious hotel, the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, are being bestowed with a new privilege on arrival – a gold-plated iPad. As lesser hotels struggle to provide free wi-fi, guests at the Burj Al Arab, one the world’s tallest hotels, are being offered one of the 24-c

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