The World's First Flying Hotel

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    Hotelicopter - The World's First Flying Hotel.

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    Wow, the flying hotel and largest helicopter in the world, Cool! The Hotelicopter is modeled on the Soviet-made Mil V-12, of which there were only two prototypes ever made. The Hotelicopter Company purchased one of these prototypes from the Mikhail Leontyevich Mil helicopter plant in Panki-Tomilino, Russia in 2004 and have been engineering the world's first flying hotel ever since."The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously- appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience. Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel.. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing.." The Hotelicopter is due to fly maiden journey this summer(June 26th) with an undisclosed price...

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    There is three fly tour.

    Inaugural Summer Tour - 14 days (Friday, June 26th, 2009 - Friday, July 10th, 2009)

    California Tour - 14 days (Friday, July 17th, 2009 to Friday, July 24rd, 2009)

    Bay/Jamaica, European Tour - 16 days (Friday, July 31st, 2009 to Sunday, August 16th, 2009)

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    Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
    Height: 28m (91 ft)
    Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
    Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
    Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
    Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
    Augmented Mi Range - 1,296 km (700 mi)


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    anudis

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    This is a lie

    The "Hotelicopter" was in fact an April Fools Day prank launched by a hotel search engine company. In a clever marketing ploy, the company used the prank as a promotional tool for a new hotel search engine website, hotelicopter.com. An article about the prank on m-Travel.com notes:
    A company, after being in news for its "flying-hotel joke", has launched a new brand for its hotel search engine, hotelicopter.

    hotelicopter, which was previously known as VibeAgent, searches 30 travel sites in real-time, aggregating hotel room rates, availability, photos and video to instantly reveal where to find the best hotel deals. It has access to more than 65 travel partners and 150,000 hotels.
    Hotelicopter.com owns up to the prank on its site blog:
    "Oh, and yes, we’re the folks behind the flying hotel of the same name. We were just having some fun, and had no idea it was going to blow up like it did - we've gotten about 1.5 million page and video views just in the last week - so thank you very much for all the attention and support - and hopefully we made you smile"
    A copy of the original flying hotel prank website is still available on the hotelicopter.com website.

    The photographs of the supposed cabin interiors on the Hotelicopter were in fact taken from the Yotel website, apparently with Yotel's full compliance and knowledge. Yotel offers tiny but very well appointed hotel rooms inside airports.

    For the record, only two Mil V-12 helicopters were ever built. The first prototype was destroyed in a crash in 1969. The one remaining Mil V-12 is now displayed at the Monino air force museum in Moscow.

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