Posted on 09/22/2021 12:03:42 PM PDT by algore
Renderings have been released of an eye-opening Las Vegas resort that takes the form of a giant moon. Its name? 'Moon', naturally.
According to the Canadian entrepreneurs behind it, it would cost £3.6billion ($5billion) to build and, with a height of 224 metres (735ft), would become the joint-second-tallest building in Sin City with the JW Marriott, which is currently the second-loftiest structure behind the 350m- (1,149ft) tall Strat Observation Tower.
The celestial retreat – which would be the world's largest sphere - features 4,000 hotel rooms, a 'crater café', a spa, a casino, a lagoon and guests seeking a space-age adventure will be able to take a moon shuttle to a 'lunar colony'.
Designed to replicate the surface of the moon, the 'active lunar colony' is the unique selling point for the ambitious resort.
To access the colony, which would be in the upper half of the sphere, guests would head to shuttle stations, to waiting moon shuttles. Designed like cars on a roller coaster ride, the shuttles, it's explained, will snake around the exterior of the hotel suites as they ferry guests upwards.
Once there, guests will spend 90 minutes exploring the 10-acre (4-hectare) space, whizzing over craters in a 'moon buggy'. The colony promises to 'precisely mimic those [lunar colonies] now under serious active planning by Nasa, ESA and many others'. Tickets would cost £361 ($500) a pop.
'Without question, when guests venture onto the lunar surface, for the first time in their lives, they will believe they are on the Moon,' explains Michael Henderson, who founded Moon World Resorts (MWR) with his business partner Sandra Matthews.
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And this will mean more water usage.
They have a cheese tasting area?
To the moon Alice!!!
Modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
Who is going to have the money to stay there?
Hunter Thompson had it right about Lost Wages. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
And if Martin Landau weren’t dead, it would have had a heck of a floor show!
sounds luny.
My first thought is desert winds rolling it off its little pedestal, seen the moon roll down the street would be quite interesting
If we could get around to kicking out all of the illegals from Vegas and elsewhere throughout the south west in California, we’d have plenty of water for Americans.
Damn. I worked there for a month back in 1975 when places like Caesar’s Palace was still the new and HUGE thing there (built 1966). I was a young whippersnapper and didn’t make much money. I remember taking a date to a show and slipped the maître d’hôtel a couple of bucks as he was taking us to some good seats. He promptly made a U-turn and took us to crummy seats. LOL.
But before reaching any rooms, the shuttle would stop at each of the resort's 2,498 slot machines....
Hotels used to have smoking and non-smoking rooms.
This will probably have vaccinated and non-vaccinated rooms.
The need to discriminate is innate.
You couldn’t pay me to go to Vegas anymore.
No doubt.
I met him at the last Dragocon I went to long ago.
He drew a very big room and was pleasure to listen to.
I visited his table later for an autograph plus I always loved Space 1999 despite it not aging well and the plot problems.
He might have been an older guy but a grip like iron and a very likable guy.
Glad I got to meet him.
There could be replica moon buggies. I liked them.
Willard Whyte speaking…..
it is the moon remember?
you will have to have your own full body suit and be in costume at all times (except your pressurized room, and the gambling pits of course
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