An Abandoned Aircraft Is Now a Luxurious Bali Villa with an Infinity Pool
The cliffside villa is the world's first luxury hotel to open inside of a commercial airplane.
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If the idea of spending the night on a grounded airplane gives you pause, this luxurious new villa might have you reconsidering.
On a clifftop overlooking Bali's Nyang Nyang beach, an abandoned Boeing 737 airliner is being turned into a luxury private villa, complete with two bedrooms, an infinity pool with Indian Ocean views, and a terrace. According to Business Insider, entrepreneur Felix Demin purchased the retired aircraft, previously belonging to the shuttered Mandala Airlines, and envisioned a new life for it as a two-bedroom villa.
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The property, which is called Private Jet Villa by Hanging Gardens, is set to open in March 2023. In fact, it's already available to book on Expedia, costing roughly $7,300 a night for the whole plane. (There's also a helipad on site for those who don't like to travel without their helicopter.)
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"Externally and structurally, this is a jet aircraft that we have turned into a luxury hotel," Demin told Business Insider. He transported the plane to the top of the beachside cliff in 2021.
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This isn't the first time a plane has been repurposed into a luxury, non-airborne experience. There have been a handful of restaurant pop-up concepts in grounded planes, including recently on Singapore Airline's double-decker aircraft, the world's largest passenger plane. In 2017, a permanent airplane restaurant called Lily Airways opened in China.
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For people who feel claustrophobic on planes, the Private Jet Villa experience might be a tough sell, but with so many luxurious amenities (and without the turbulence and tiny seats), it seems like it would be easy to forget you're on a plane at all. The former cockpit is now a gorgeous circular tub, after all.
