Gold vending machine in UAE.

There’s no mistaking what’s in this vending machine. The well-heeled in the gulf can now grab ‘gold to go’ from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates, when the need for a quick ingot strikes.
    On Thursday, a day after it inauguration the shiny machine attracted spectators of many different nationalities who gathered to watch whenever and enthusiast was struck with the urge to splurge on a bar of the precious metal. “Abu Dhabi’s Emirates palace hotel became the first place outside Germany to install’ gold to go’, the world’s first gold vending machine,” said a statement from ex Oriente lux AG, the German company behind the vending machine. “In addition to one-gramme, five grammes and 10-grammes bars of gold, the machine also dispenses gold coins,” It added. Gold rates are constantly updated inside the shiny machine- itself gold plated- in the hotel’s lobby, courtesy of a built in computer connected to a dealer which sells gold online. “this eliminates the risk premiums usually associated with precious metal trading,” the German company said. Hotel general manager Hans Olbertz said they wanted the hotel to be the first in the world to offer guests what he called “this golden service.”

Hotel at UAE installs gold vending machine.

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