Take A Floating Hotel Across the Ocean

Designer Nick Talbot, who worked on Virgin Galactic projects, is proposing a floating hotel he's calling "Aircruise" which would take a leisurely 37 hour journey between London and New York.

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July 10, 2010, 9:00 AM PDT

By Tim Halbur


The design is purely theoretical at the moment, but Talbot's designs make the Aircruise very attractive.

Interviewed in the Brisbane Times, Talbot said, ""There is a three-level cocktail bar at the bottom of the ship, with a thing that we call a Moon Pool - effectively it's a transparent floor - so on sunset you can sit there with your chums, sip a cocktail and look at the earth passing by underneath you, like [you're] a goddess."

The Aircruise would carry 100 passengers and 20 crewmembers.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 in The Brisbane Times

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