Rooney heads to Dubai’s Burj Al Arab

Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen have secretly jetted off to Dubai, for a stay at the luxury Burj Al Arab, voted “World’s Leading Hotel” by the World Travel Awards.

The Manchester United player postponed his 25th birthday party at his home in Cheshire, despite already spending over £90,000 on food and beverages.

The trip to the beyond-luxurious Burj Al Arab follows a fraught week that saw Rooney engaged in a very public spat with manager Sir Alex Ferguson in which he criticised the quality of fellow players and the ambitions of the club. But the pair patched up their differencing as the England strike signed a new five-year deal, doubling his weekly salary to £200,000 and making the world’s highest paid player.

Rooney was then forced to apologise to his team and the fans.

Wife Coleen, 24, rang around the 100 guests they had invited to his birthday to cancel and they packed their bags for a last-minute holiday.

Height

Current records

• Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m/1,671 ft)
• Tallest structure ever built: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m/2,121 ft)
• Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m/2,063 ft)
• Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m/1,815 ft)
• Building with most floors: 160 (previously Willis Tower – 108)
• World's highest elevator installation,situated inside a rod at the very top of the building
• World's fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)[19] (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m/1,474 ft
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft) (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant – 532 m/1,745 ft[
• The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world (124th floor) at 442 m (1,450 ft)
• World's highest mosque (located on the 158th floor)
• World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)[
• World's highest swimming pool (76th floor) (previously Shanghai World Financial Center – 85th floor)