Developers plan 735ft-high Vegas resort in shape of the MOON that has 4,000 hotel rooms, a lagoon and its very own 'lunar colony'

Daily Mail ^

[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.

[MikelTackNailer]

"If you folks look out the right side window you'll see the vacuum-preserved remains of Tommy Lee Jones propped on that boulder over there. Let's all give him a big hand."

[dangus]

As in, “You may never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

Obi Wan had obviously never been to the Washington area.

[sheana]

I go to Vegas a couple of times a month. I have friends there. We never go near the strip. You don’t have to anymore. There are casinos scattered all over Vegas now. When I visit one friend we go to Red Rock. Another friend lives in North Vegas so we go to Aliante. We will also hit the neighborhood Dotty’s down the street for a free lunch and drinks while we put a few bucks in their machines. lol

[StAnDeliver]

Moon house for the moon-god ‘lite’ worshippers, who love to gamble and drink on the sly in Lost Wagers...