Las Vegas, which already has hotels that mimic the Eiffel Tower, New York’s skyline, the canals of Venice, King Arthur’s Court and more will soon have a hotel featuring a scale model of the moon.
The $5 billion plan by Moon World Resorts is planned to open in 2026 or 2027, one of four it is developing. The others are planned for the Middle East, China and Spain. The Canada-based company has not named an operator, but promises it will be a ‘five-star’ operation.
The 5.5-million-square-foot hotel’s plans are full of big numbers: 4,000 rooms, 2,500-seat theater, 5,000-seat ‘event center,’ 10,000-seat arena and a 130,000-square-foot casino. More thousands of square feet are promised for retail, dining and drinking and spa treatments.
Inside the 1/75,000-scale moon, the hotel will have an ‘active lunar colony,’ a 10-acre space reached by ‘moon shuttles’ which will snake around the exterior. Inside, those who pay for a $500 90-minute visit will get to see what the hotel’s planners say will “precisely mimic those [lunar colonies] now under serious active planning by Nasa, ESA and many others.”
The question, of course, is: can a project this big by a company with so far no completed projects, actually get off the ground?
