My Burj Khalifa experience

My family and I entered the Burj Khalifa through the Dubai Mall. We followed the directions given on the direction board for the words, “At the Top, Burj Khalifa” to find the lift.

When we reached the elevator area, we saw a sheikh give some explanation about the Burj Khalifa to all the tourists (including us). The sheikh’s explanation did not interest me that time as I was completely interested in seeing the Burj Khalifa and was not interested in listening to anything.

When the sheikh neared towards the end of his explanation, he said, “We’re going to the 144th floor. We’ll go to the remaining floors in a lift from the 144th floor. It takes approximately 66 seconds to get to the 144th floor of the Burj Khalifa. Enjoy!” and told us to get in the elevator. As soon as the sheikh said the “It takes one minute to get to the 144th floor”, a sudden excitement to enjoy this 66 second elevator ride came into me as I walked into the elevator. When the lift door closed, I saw some moving objects or animatory pictures around the lift. I was interested in seeing the floor numbers instead of those animatory effects so I don’t know what those pictures were about. When the lift door opened again, my family and I went through the revolving door to the observation deck and saw the view of Burj-Khalifa.

The view was amazing at that particular moment. I saw the shadow of the Burj-Khalifa, cars going here and there, tons of skyscrapers and many more.

I saw some telescopes kept here and there in the observation deck. When I had looked through the telescope in the observation deck, I felt that the view from the Burj Khalifa had become bigger.

Once we finished seeing the amazing views from the 144th floor, we asked a security guard if we can go till the last floor in the lift. The security guard said that we cannot go in the lift and that we can only go in the stairs. He also said that we have to pay extra additional money if we want to go till the 163rd floor. My mom and dad thought about the extra additional money and decided not to go. After this conversation, we just exited the Burj-Khalifa and went back to the hotel.

This experience was really fun!! I just wish that we had gone till the 163rd floor.