Giant ‘Moon’ Containing A Casino, Resort & More Could Inhabit Las Vegas
A rendering of Moon World Resorts as envisioned in Dubai. Image via Moon World Resorts
What happens in Las Vegas orbits in Las Vegas. This may be true if a proposal for the Moon Resorts Las Vegas project—worth about US$5 billion—takes flight, allowing dreamers of space to step into a captivating simulation without the microgravity or homesickness.
As a matter of fact, ‘Moon’, as it is more familiarly called, will first appeal to earthly pleasures. Dreamed up by entrepreneurs of Moon World Resorts, it would hold an incredible 4,000 hotel rooms, a casino, myriad event and performance spaces, a 75,000 square-foot spa, and moon-inspired dining establishments.
It can accommodate this much because—although only measuring 1/75,000 of the actual moon—the sphere would span 735 feet tall and 650 feet wide, while the entire attraction would stretch 5.5 million square feet. Still, that height would only make the moon replica one of the two second-tallest buildings in Las Vegas (the JW Marriott also stands at 735 feet), bowing down to the Strat Observation Tower, per My Modern Met.
Interestingly, Moon promises to be a lower-cost option for space tourism. Moon World Resorts co-founder Michael Henderson emphasized in a statement sent to the New York Post that, with the six-figure price tags of actual spaceflights, “the masses just can’t participate.” Meanwhile, “with Moon, for US$500 they can walk on an authentic lunar surface and enjoy exploring a lunar colony in a spectacular way.”
When you’re bored of what Earth has to offer, there’ll even be a moon shuttle to a ‘Lunar Colony’ similar to those planned by the likes of NASA.
To get there, the rollercoaster-like shuttle swivels and speeds visitors around areas of the sphere before ascending to its top, where guests will spend 90 minutes navigating a 10-acre artificial cratered moon surface.
Unfortunately, as of now, this concept is as mythical as the man on the moon from nursery rhymes, since there are no official plans to go with it yet. This means that, even if the ambitious plan gets greenlit, it would take years before you get to travel to Moon horizontally via a flat-Earth route.
[via My Modern Met, New York Post, Travel + Leisure, images via Moon World Resorts]
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