First World Hotel
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 |
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
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ryan Rudnansky: First World Hotel Reclaims Title of World's Largest Hotel. Travel Pulse, August 20, 2015, accessed September 15, 2015 .
- ↑ 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 archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Holger Karkheck: The “First World Hotel” in Malaysia: Hell is going on in heaven. Image on Sunday , accessed September 15, 2015 .
- ^ 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 archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ First World Plaza. In: gentinghighlands.info. June 22, 2009, accessed September 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Galileo: In the middle of the jungle: Colorful hotel complex Article from June 8, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2016.