<b>Nakheel</b> 's long-awaited Dh2.1bn Palm Jumeirah Monorail opened on May 1. Xpress . It's Dh15 for a single ride. The trains take nine minutes to get from Gateway Towers on the trunk of the island to Atlantis, stopping at two other stops along the way. So far, it sounds like the train is a bit empty, but then again the tourists may not have heard about it yet. <b>Amlak Finance</b> is , Reuters reports. <b>Max Hamidi</b> , the chief financial officer of Amlak, said the company was experiencing "more" of these and said he expected the issue to get even worse. And, as usual, someone said the Government was making a decision "in weeks" about Amlak's merger with <b>Tamweel</b> . <b>Emirates Airlines</b> for a US$490m hotel with 1,614 rooms in Dubai, Arabian Business reports. <b>Marriot</b> will be the operator and the hotel will be located on Sheikh Zayed Road, near Business Bay. In other hospitality news, <b>TDIC</b> 's Sir Bani Yas Island - the nature preserve West of Abu Dhabi - , Jen Gerson reports in The National. The developer of the 501-metre tall <b>Burj Al Alam </b> tower in Business Bay . The project has been cut down to Dh1bn from Dh3bn "primarily due to lower costs of building materials", the <b>Fortune Group</b> said.