You may want to start a Mecca savings fund.
The world’s biggest hotel – Abraj Kudai – is set to open in the holy city in 2017 – and it’s going to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
Towering 45-stories above deserts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the structure will be more like a luxurious city in the sky rather than a hotel. I mean, its features include four helipads, 10,000 bedrooms, 70 restaurants, and a sprawling convention centre, stretching across 1.4 million square metres.
Oh, and five floors will be reserved for the sole use of the Saudi royal family.
The desert fortress-style hotel will feature 12 towers on top of a 10-story podium that houses a bus station, food courts, a shopping mall, and an extravagant ballroom fit for royalty.
The hotel will be built in the Manafia district, just south of the Grand Mosque, and will cost about $3.6 billion dollars.
Once it’s completed, it will replace Las Vegas’ MGM Hotel as the largest hotel (in terms of number of guest rooms) in the world.