First World Hotel

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First World Hotel & Plaza
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address First World Hotel, 69000 Genting Highlands , Pahang , Malaysia
Website www.rwgenting.com
Hotel information
opening 2006
owner Genting Group
Classification 3 stars
Furnishing
room 7351
Photo of the hotel

Coordinates: 3 ° 25 ′ 31.4 ″  N , 101 ° 47 ′ 39.1 ″  E

The First World Hotel is a hotel in Genting Highlands , a hill station in the Malaysian province of Pahang . With a total of 7351 rooms, it currently (2015) holds the world record for the hotel with the most rooms . It already held this title when it opened in 2006, when it still had 6118 rooms. Then, in January 2008, The Palazzo in Las Vegas , an extension of the Venetian , opened, making the Venetian the new record holder with 7,128 rooms. In June 2015, the First World Hotel regained the title when it opened a large extension itself. Since 2006, the hotel has received 35.5 million guests.

Furnishing

First World Plaza

The hotel consists of two 28-story complexes, Tower 1 and Tower 2 . The rooms are divided into 3164 so-called Standard Rooms, 2922 Deluxe Rooms, 649 Deluxe Triple Rooms, 480 Superior Deluxe Rooms and 136 World Club Rooms. The extension, which opened in 2015, has a total of 1,286 rooms with an average area of ​​16.7 square meters. For the 4,000 guests who check in daily, 32 machines are available that independently identify the visitor and assign the room.

Under the hotel there is a 46,000 square meter shopping center , the First World Plaza , with shops, restaurants , a cinema , a bowling alley and a so-called "Odditorium" by Ripley's Believe It or Not! . In addition, Malaysia's only casino is located under the hotel , which is why the hotel has an annual occupancy rate of 90%.

Web links

Commons : First World Hotel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : First World Plaza  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ryan Rudnansky: First World Hotel Reclaims Title of World's Largest Hotel. Travel Pulse, August 20, 2015, accessed September 15, 2015 .
  2. First World Hotel is verified as World's Largest Hotel By Guinness World Records ™. (No longer available online.) In: Blog of the Genting Group. September 2, 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 15, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / resortsworldgenting.blogspot.de  
  3. Holger Karkheck: The “First World Hotel” in Malaysia: Hell is going on in heaven. Image on Sunday , accessed September 15, 2015 .
  4. ^ First World Hotel: Self Check-In Kiosk. (No longer available online.) In: Blog of the Genting Group. June 22, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 15, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / resortsworldgenting.blogspot.de  
  5. ^ First World Plaza. In: gentinghighlands.info. June 22, 2009, accessed September 15, 2015 .
  6. Galileo: In the middle of the jungle: Colorful hotel complex Article from June 8, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2016.